We Love to See the Temple

Starting out the New Year with the Temple! This is the beautiful San Diego Temple where a very special family was being sealed. What a wonderful day this was.
Forever Friends! Cook, Jess, Trish, and Bryce

New Year's Eve Campouts

Breven the Lizard Whisperer.
Sunsets in the desert......Ahhhhhhh!
The Minnie Winnie took us to the fun once again. We met up with great friends to ring in the New Year right! We love spending time in this beautiful place! Here's to the New Year! 2010!

Rock N' Roll Cody Christmas

This year's Cody Christmas theme was:

"The family that talks together, Rocks together!"

We drove out to Uncle Gerry's house for the annual Cody Christmas where we found yummy food all packed in an ice chest (thanks Am) our polar bear express van parked out front, complete with Christmas tunes to Rock out to, and all the fam gathering for the fun to begin. We piled in and headed toward PCH. Malibu here we come! When we got out of the van to breath taking views we meet a man that we called the Guide Dog. He had buckets of rock climbing equipment and was there to give us our own private lessons in rock climbing! Unbelievable! We were so excited! The boys are pros and all, but REAL rock climbing overlooking the ocean? What a day! We chalked up, strapped in, and held on for the climb of our lives!
Posin' for a pic after our climb.
Views from the top!
That's the face of the rock that we climbed! Wow!
Look at Brad's tiny little foot hold.
I made it to the top to Brad's amazement and with our guide dog's help!
Uncle's stood by to watch the spider boy scale the rock!
Bryce's face after he came back down to the ground.

After our amazing day at the beach we drove around and checked out Christmas lights and nativity scenes, rocked out to more Christmas songs, and drove home to eat a yummy Christmas dinner together. The next morning was a fog, literally. The fog machine started up, the kids ran out to open stockings and presents, and of course.........Rock Band! Woo Hoo! The boys were so excited! We rocked out together the rest of the day in candy cane pajay-jays! Is there really anymore to say?!
Then came the Rockin' around the Christmas Tree.
If you like the beard, you should've seen Uncle Scott dance!
Bike rides on high wheels wearing candy cane pajay-jays.
Family Fun! Bryce, Trish, Brad, Pops, Am, Uncle Scott, Breven, Gram, and Uncle Gerry

Another year of fun family traditions Cody style. Love you!

Christmas Morning

Christmas isn't complete without new sleds!
Abra-Cadabra! Ala-Kazam! Every boy needs a magic set!
Brad got his flip cam! B and B stunt shows coming right up!
Santa brought Brad a weight bench and Breven a drafting table for his artwork!
He was "re-gifting"

Merry Christmas Morning! I love the magic of it all. Even as the kids get bigger, there's still magic in running out of the bedroom full speed toward a pile of gifts and stockings! We are so blessed! We had a wonderful Christmas!

My Favorite Reindeer

How cute is he?
I love school Christmas Programs! Breven's class did such a great job playing jingle bells on the boom whackers and singing festive tunes! These days pass by soooooooo quickly! Stay little forever Breven!

These are a Few of My Favorite Things

Out to a Beautiful Breakfast complete with my mom, lovely gifts, and my favorite breakfast......eggs benedict! Does it get any better?
My girls came over for yummy homemade pizza and peppermint ice cream dessert!
Thank you Mom and Dad for...........my life!
29! Happy Birthday to me! What a wonderful day spent with wonderful people who love and spoil me rotten. Despite the sheets of rain, I had an awesome birthday filled with all of my favorite things! Not to mention the birthday week that I had before hand celebrating with my Blythe girls and New Moon! Thanks for all the fun! Watch out 30 here I come!

HOMEless FOR THE HOLIDAYS

This was our Family Christmas Picture this year! Complete with our newsletter filled with all of our most important yearly updates like the swine flu, livin' in our rv, Breven losin' his teeth faster than that hen he's holdin' can lay eggs, and our scout son Brad tyin' up the tightest knots in town keepin' that tarp down so our leak in the roof won't drip! Sadly, some of that is true! We couldn't help but monopolize on the opportunity to send a Christmas card like that! If we can laugh at it we can live with it right? Merry Christmas from our rv to yours!

You Spin Me Right Round, Baby Right Round!

Twelve years and you still spin my wheels!
Our first date was here almost 15 years ago!
Showing off his Mad Skills!
Oh......I know........I missed my calling!

So fourteen years ago I got a phone call from "Coach Bryce" inviting me to Fiesta Village for some mini golf and go cart races. Of course the butterflies in my stomach began to fly. He told me that there were going to be a couple of other friends joining in. I said yes immediately and began to obsess over the details of my first date! The other friends called it off and so it was official........just the two of us! Oh if I'd only known! We had a great night of competition and lots of laughs. We went to the gas station on the way home and I leaned over to unlock his truck door for him........that's when he knew...........I was his girl! Is that too funny? A few minutes later he drove me up the hill to "a place where you can see all the lights in the city." (A.K.A. a lookout spot) I was soooooo naive! That's where we had our first smooch! And the rest is history!

So for our 12 year anniversary Bryce surprised me with a remake of our first date! We had so much fun laughing and trying not to brake our necks! Roller skating was actually something we had never done after all these years. We headed over to a beautiful Italian restaurant for dinner, which didn't exactly replicate our trip to Baker's years ago, but I made an exception! Of course we had to end the night with one more smooch at our lookout spot! Best surprise of the night........we had a perfect view of the Redlands Temple! We laughed and thought that maybe it should have been there years ago as a reminder to CTR! Here's to many more years of laughing and smooching! Love you Babe!

Love Oak Glen

Keepin' Warm!

Brad and Brev with cousin Emma
Trish and Aunt Terry
Candy Apple's are his FAVE!

Terry and Emma came out for the day and we talked them into a quick trip to the snow. Yay for Emma......poor Terry! What a fun time we had. Fried apple doughnuts, hot cider, candy apples, and snow ball fights!

Another trip to Disneyland!

He really has become like an uncle. He makes it in many family albums.
It's not everyday you get to climb on a playground of skulls!
Posing for a picture on the suspension bridge. (one of their favorite places)

Breven was so happy to be tall enough to ride Indiana Jones!

Thankful for Family

BTBB Fam

Thankful for this porch and the many memories made there.
Thankful for these boys.
Thankful to be an Auntie.......and for olive fingers!
Thankful for Breven.

This year's Thanksgiving was EVENTFUL! We had planned a trip to Utah to play in the colorful leaves and hike the red rocks............WRONG! Breven, Brad and Mom had H1N1 instead! Good thing Dad was off of work for the week! Once we recovered, our moms made a light turkey dinner for us and we finally felt like normal. We were thankful for our daily health after that awful sickness all weekend!

Halloween and Pumpkin Patch Fun

Hobos for Halloween! My friend Judy and Breven were lookin' good. Breven carried around a cardboard sign that said "Blythe or bust!"
Go Big Blue! I always thought that I'd save these for my daughter........oh well! Might as well use them! Bodie and Brad were too cute!
Posing at the Pumpkin Patch
Cute as a Pumpkin

Endure to the End

After a grueling finish at Mt. Sac Invitational! Did I mention it was over 100 degrees?
Always finished strong!

Way to go bud! Brad joined the Cross Country team and wowed us all! He ran hard and finished strong every time! It was so great to watch him in his first school sport. Looking forward to many more x country meets to come!