Cherene's Blog: One Long Post! May

This is on Cheyanna's 11th Birthday: May 4, 2015. We went to Joe's Farm Grill to celebrate.

Cade had an awesome year in 7th grade at Smith Jr High.

Cheyanna and Mom went to the Red Mountain Park to enjoy the beautiful weather and feed the ducks in May 2015

This is Charlie's Seminary Graduation.

Cheyanna's 5th grade awards ceremony at Noah Webster. May 2015

Carly, Cheyanna, and Sachi

Aunt Dina sent Charlie an Edible Arrangement for his High School Graduation.

The Gaduate! Charles Howard Watkin III graduated from Skyline High School in May 2015. Granddad and Sandra came over to watch the graduation and to help celebrate.

Granddad being silly! :D

Granddad and Sandra

It was a windy day at the Skyline football field, where Graduation was held.

Carson is practicing for his big day in a couple of years.

Charlie with some basketball friends: Isaiah, Matt and Mike

Colleen Mather, Janae Gomez, Julie Bennett, me and Melissa Naef

I got to go to girls camp with these awesome ladies! I love being in the Young Women's Presidency of our ward!!

Natalie Janes: one of my Mia Maids

Abigail Mather, Alea Hofeling, Lyric Jensen, and Jessica Richards

Panda is the sweetest hamster ever! He will just curl up on Cheyanna's shoulder and take a nap. So cute!

Sleeping Beauty

A girl and her hamster June 2015

Charlie went to North Dakota with his girlfriend, Lindsey. They did lots of hunting and fishing.

Charlie playing around with crazy beard styles before he shaves. 18 years old. June 2015

We visit the Roberts family in Florida! June 2015. Here are some pics of their gorgeous home.

Cousin time! Logan, Zac and Cheyanna

Carson and Zac

Cade and Eric

Carson and Charlie holding Pepper the bunny

Carson and Pepper

Charlie and Pepper

Here are the kids playing in the backyard.

Dina and Cherene June 2015

Dina took me to get my hair cut and highlighted

Devon Rash came to FL with us to visit Rebecca

When we visited Uncle Hussein, he had lots of pictures of my father, Saad El-Hawary. I took pictures of some of the pics.

We went to Sea World! Here are Cade, Eric and Zac

Sea World

Saad, Dina and Uncle Hussein 1973

Saad El-Din El-Hawary

My parents

Me and my Mom 1975

Dr. El-Hawary

My parents: Saad and Marie

Cousins at I-HOP.

Zac is too cute!

The whole crew at I-HOP

Our visit with my Uncle Hussein and Aunt Zizi. Zizi is holding Mariam's son, Noah. Cade is seconds away from throwing up in their yard. :)

Logan and Charlie

A lazy day on the lake

Cheyanna

These guys had so much fun tubing!

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My new hairdo

Flying home to AZ, we had a long delay because there was a dust storm hitting the valley. Chuck got these pics of the storm from the plane. June 2015

Holy Haboob!

My boy Charlie

Charlie decided to play basketball for the Tohono O'odham Jegos this fall. Tohono O'odham is a community college in Sells, AZ. Charlie's friend Jordan decided to play there, so Charlie wanted to join him. Charlie signed up without even seeing the campus! The team was about to start practicing the following week, so he jumped in and decided to join them.

We decided to go to Colorado Springs to visit Granny and Lindsey for the 4th of July 2015. Ivy and Betty are at fun ages!

Chuck and Lindsey are the oldest and youngest children in their family

Chuck and Cherene on the 4th of July 2015

On the fourth of July we went to a parade, which was really long and a little hot! Very patriotic though.

Cute Sibling moment

Another random picture of Saad El-Hawary

Home, Sweet Home. After our journeys, we spent the rest of the summer at home. The kids hung out with friends and Cheyanna spent some quality time with Panda.

First day of 6th grade for Cheyanna! She is the only one going to Noah Webster again this year, but now she is the top dog in the highest grade level there.

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Breana Richards, Cheyanna, Chloe Hildebrand, Avery Stephens, Savannah Speelmon, and Emma Janes

Cheyanna had a fun time at Chloe Hildebrand's birthday party with these cute girls from church.

Panda sleeping on Cheyanna's lap. <3

Cade's first day of 8th grade at Smith Junior High in Mesa, AZ

Carson's first day of 11th grade at Skyline High School

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Can you guess what concert we went to in August 2015? Taylor Swift's 1989 tour! We went with the Speelmons and had such a really fun night! This is Cheyanna's first concert, and it was a great show.

Savannah and Cheyanna BFFs

We went to a chicken and waffle restaurant for dinner.

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These two have been friends since they were in diapers! They have grown up together and have always loved each other.

Everyone had glow bracelets that blinked in time to the music and changed colors.

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Carson's 16th Birthday!! We took him to Joe's Farm Grill, Joe's Real BBQ and Liberty Market to get lots of free treats.

Cute macaron at Liberty Market

Carson loves Skor Cake

August 26, 2015

Carson is a YouTube star, but we are not allowed to tell anyone that, so keep it a secret! He spends lots of time recording, editing, and uploading videos for his 10,000 subscribers.

Cade has the most beautiful eyes. Pictures cannot do them justice. I love this sweet kid.

Cheyanna and I got to go see Wicked with Laurie and Chloe Hildebrand at the Gammage theatre at ASU.

Girl's Night Out!

Love!

This hard-working man of mine sometimes just needs a little shut eye! I couldn't help but snap this pic of him peacefully catching a few Zzzzs. He's my favorite cutie in the world!

Back to WICKED!

I think we documented the event really well!

Cheyanna and Chloe

We went to visit Charlie at TOCC in September 2015. We were surprised at how VERY small the campus is, and it is literally out in the middle of nowhere! Here are some pics of Charlie's dorm.