Family Pictures

Been a long time. I just wanted to post some family pictures that we took recently. Hope everyone is well and had a very Merry Christmas and we hope you have a great New Year. We love you all.

Averys 1st Day of School

Avery started school this last Monday August 10th, 2009. She was so excited and had no problem being left with her teacher Mrs. Janowski. and her classmates. When I picked her up from school she told me she loved her new school. She can't wait to go again today.

It is crazy my little girl is going to school but I am so happy for her and can't wait to see what she is going to learn. She is so ready to learn anything they have to teach her. I didn't really have anytime to be sad that she was going to school because my cars battery was dead and I had to call Brandon to tell me how to get it started. I had been cleaning it out the night before and I must have left something on or didn't close a door all the way anyways we barely made it to the school on time. It was a good thing we were ready early to leave when that happend or we would have been really late. I was trying to be early to ease Avery into to it and take all the picture I could but that didn't happen so I took the pictures I could as quick as I could...so here are the pictures I grabbed of her first day of school.

Brewer Family Reunion July 2009

Our little Cherry family was in charge of our Brewer Family Reunion this year. Our reunion consists of My Dad and Mom their children and their children’s children. We had a total of 27 people show up this year. The reunion was held in Clay Spring Arizona and was held from July 2-5. We had a great time visiting each other and enjoying the holiday. I love my family. Thanks to all who showed up and for all who helped. For those who couldn’t make it we love you and missed you and hope to see you next year. Warren will be in charge next year. In the family meeting we decided that the reunion next year will be held in Oregon and will be on the weekend after the Fourth of July. For anyone who need information please contact Warren. We had a great time and we can’t wait until next year... until then we'll miss you and love you all.

July 3

All the kids had a great time playing with their cousins. They definitely were not lacking in fun. Otter pops were a great hit.

(Ambers sons Jacob, Lucas. Michelle’s daughter Brooke. Amber’s daughters Natalie, Hailey and then my daughter Avery.)

(Aiden)
Kyle said he didn’t like his picture taken. I ended up getting one of him hiding. After this the rest of the reunion he was sick with an ear infection... I now don’t blame him for not wanting his picture taken. We hope you’re feeling better : ).

(Amber's son Klye)

(Amber's daughter Natalie)

(Amber's sons Lucas and Cody.)

(Amber's son Jacob)

(Amber's daughter Hailey)

(Aiden)

Kids Crafts

(Jacob and Lucas)

(Michelle's daughter Brooke. Chantry's daughter Amary. Amber's daughter Natalie.)

(Avery)

Men's Activity. The men had a contest to see who could make the best thing out of newspaper and duct tape. They were judged on likeness and creativity. They also had a contest to see who could make the best hat out of aluminum foil. Can you tell what they are making?

(Warren. Amber's husband Randy. Chantry.)

Nice dreadlocks Chancho.

Team Two.

(Michelle's Husband Kevin. Brian. Marshall.

(My Dad)

He's single ladies : ).

(Brian)

(Kevin)

(Warren)

(Randy) Chantry won the hat prize.

(Chantry)

All the men and their aluminum foil hats.

What the two teams made.

The canoe, paddle and fish won. The log cabin was pretty cool too though.

The kids loved the canoe.

(Natalie)

(Hailey and Lucas)

(Lucas)

(Hailey)

Water Balloon Fight.

(Marshall and Aiden)

(Chantry's wife Margaret. Michelle's daughter Maren. Marshall and Aiden.)

Cotton Wood Wash.

We used to come here when I was little for holidays and to have picnics. We had dinner there, kids played on the rope swing and we went for a hike. We made good memories.

Waiting in line for the rope swing.

(Chantry's daughter Abigail)

(Chantry's son Kayden)

(Lucas)

(Natalie)

(Cody and Randy)

(Avery)

(Abbey)

(Brooke)

(Aiden and Chantry)

(Michelle's daughter Krystal)

(Aiden after eating watermelon.)

(Lucas)

(Hailey)

(Jenny and Warren)

(Brian)

(Brooke)

July 4th

Clay Springs Fourth Of July Parade.

(Hailey)

(Abbey and Avery)

(Kayden and Aiden)

(Krystal)

(Sharon...My Mom and Aiden)

Avery on the train ride at the Clay Springs Celebration.

My awesome crazy aunt Nita.

My Grandma and Grandpa Davis Fourth Of July Luncheon.

(My Dad)

(My Grandma Hope Davis)

(Chantry's daughter Amary)

(Jenny and Warren)

Slip-n-Slide at Grandma and Grandpa Davis.

The salamander the kids found.

Pool at Grandma and Grandpa Davis.

Trampoline at Grandma and Grandpa Davis house. (I think this is the same one we jumped on when we were little.)

Maren loved the trampoline.

(Michelle's daughter Maren)

So did Avery.

Rodeo and Fireworks in Taylor Arizona.

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day! We would like to wish a very Happy Fathers Day to Brandon, Marshall and (in remembrance) to Kay as well. We couldn't have asked for better men in our life’s and wouldn't be the same without you. We love you all.

For Fathers Day we started the day off by waking Brandon up in bed with a hand made card the kids made and he also got a gift (the gift wasn’t hand made). Then we had breakfast and got ready for the day. We ended up going to the park. We had lunch there and then the kids had a ton of fun playing. Then we came home and had fun goofing off and playing silly games for the rest of the evening (which we had to eventually stop because our goofing off got a little out of control and I ended up getting a fat lip from Avery... : ). We had a great day just hanging out as a family. We are so thankful for Brandon and all he is and does for our family. Happy Fathers Day Brandon!

Shara's Birthday

I had a great birthday with my family. Me and the kiddos went to a movie while Brandon was at work. When Brandon got home we went out to dinner and then came home and had GF cake and icecream. Then Brandon suprised me with a gift. He had a real vintage piece made for me. I love it. It is just my style. All and all I had a great day and I'm another year older. I can't complain to much... life it pretty decent to me. Thanks to everyone for all of the birthday wishes. I love you all : ). Here are the pictures from my birthday day.

Getting ready for birthday dinner.

Birthday Dinner.

Happy Birthday song and GF cake... Yummy!

Real vintage piece Brandon had made just for me. LOVE IT : ).

Willow Tree

Playing under a Willow Tree
Written By: Shara Cherry

Oh Willow Tree,
Like a mothers arm your branches surround.
Two children of mine I have found.

Two children I do see.
So happy they must be.
Laughing, playing, happily underneath a willow tree.

Round and round the children dance.
Their tiny bare feet skip and prance.

Whispers and giggles is what I hear.
I can only guess what is imagined there.

Two children I do see.
So happy they must be.
Laughing, playing, happily underneath a willow tree.

These are some pictures I took of the kids playing under the Willow Tree in our front yard. They were having a ton of fun and it brought back memories of me and the Willow Trees I played in when I was little.

Oh, and yes, Avery is wearing a pink skirt under her long coat even though it doesn't really look like it.

Camping Memorial Day Weekend

We went camping this last weekend and for Memorial Day. We sure had a hard time getting started. We started early in the afternoon and got everything ready to go and then went to go buy groceries a new tent and anything else that we needed for camping. After we got home we decided that we should probably go look around to make sure that there was a place to camp. We didn’t take anything with us because we weren’t fully ready yet and wanted to make sure we could find a place to camp first. So we drove around for a while until we found a place at the Wolf Creek Campground south of Prescott. Then we went back home to get our things and then we headed out to go camping. When we got to the camp ground it was almost dark (not to mention that it started raining but luckily stopped after 15 minutes). We started getting things out and then started putting the tent up and guess what? The tent we bought had no poles and as you know there isn’t no putting up a tent without poles... sooooo we packed everything up and we were determined that we were still going to go camping because of the full day that we had already had put into getting everything ready and prepared to going camping. So we headed to Walmart where we had bought the tent and returned it for a different one. Know you would think that this would be about the end of the story but not quite yet. So as we are heading back to the campground now after dark... guess what happens? We get pulled over by a cop. We weren’t planning on being out at dark and the trailer that we where pulling with our quads on it had no lights so a cop gets behind us and pulls us over. Luckily after a few minutes we just got an order to fix the lights and where able to be on our way. Finally we made it back to the campground well after dark and put up our tent, got the kids ready for bed (which the kids had already been sleeping in the car for quite a while by this point) and went to sleep. Some may have just given up and probably thought there must be a reason why we were having such a hard time but I guess we were all bound and determined stubborn crazies. All and all the rest of our weekend of camping, riding quads, hiking and hanging out was nice and relaxing... and I would say it was all worth it and full of great memories.

O, one more thing check out the picture of Aiden in the backpack on Brandons back. We went for a hike and Aiden fell asleep half way through the hike. He was a tired little guy.