There's a lot of candles on that cake...She's 14

Shautel is 14 years old on this day....April 8th.

Again, as on every birthday, the siblings line up for the cake and ice cream.

Shautel is thrilled to be here and that all the attention is on her.

Mother's Day 2008

What more could a mother want than a flower and a beautiful family?


Neikelle 2.5

Brinya 4

Connor 6

Taylor 8

Coleson 10

Kashée 12

Shautel 14

Connor the six year old

The crowd anxiously awaits the party....

Ya gotta wonder "whose birthday is this anyway?"

Well, it's January 31st, so I think it's Connor's birthday!

Justin came over for the party and also to be attacked by Brinya!

Here we have Shautel, Kashée, Coleson, Taylor, and Connor.

And the happy birthday boy, Connor.

The three Amigos

Daddy actually gets in the picture this time.

Of course Connor wants a picture of Mom and her boy.

And there he is! With his Transformers, Hotwheels, and Ninja Turtles.

Look who turned 2!!

That's right, as of January 27, 2008, Niekelle Anij Child is now 2 years old!

She gets a birthday cake...

And some clothes...

And pink shoes...

And lots of love and attention from Mom

And her family.

Her favorite part was when we sang Happy Birthday! We had to sing it to her several times to make her happy. Then she started singing it to herself. You couldn't make out all the words, but it was definitely the birthday song.

Thanksgiving 2007

The anticipation of a yummy Thanksgiving meal!

This year it was just Steve (he's manning the camera), me and eight of our children. Justin had already moved out on his own, but he came home for Thanksgiving.

We had a nice day although, I couldn't help but wish we where able to have more people over. To me, Thanksgiving means uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins. Both Steve and I's families are getting so large that everyone just does there own thing. My family gets together on New Years Day and Steve's Family gets together for Christmas. I was feeling very lonely this year until I thought about how in the near future, we will have daughter-in-laws and grandchildren of our own.

Check-out how much my first-born son, Justin, loves me! It's so great to have him home from his mission! As we went around the table expressing what we where grateful for, Justin mentioned that next Thanksgiving Jared will be with us too. What a great day that will be to have our two missionaries home.

Colesons 10 year old birthday-- Nov 2007

What a handsome man on his tenth birthday. He is growing way too fast!

No, he does not have a black eye, it is a lovely pink-eye/eye-infection that he got for his birthday.

Plus, he got everything he needs to be an official "air-soft gun guy"; the gun, the holster, the eye protection, and the BB's.

BTW, the whole family got the same gift that Coleson got: Pink-eye!

Halloween 2007

Our little trick-or treaters: Shautel and Kashée where too grown-up for costumes this year, so they just dyed their hair. Coleson, Taylor, and Connor where Ninjas; Brinya was a Japenese princess again this year; and Niekelle was a cute little pink poodle. I found the poodle costume at a yard sale for a quarter and everyone loved it!

Here's a few pictures of us at our Stake trunk-or-treat. It was the largest trunk-or-treat we have ever attended. There must have been 50 or more trunks. We had no idea how many people would be there and we ran out of candy about half way through.