A Winter Wonderland!!!

We spent 6 days this past week in Island Park at our family cabin and had a great time.  We took our snowmobiles and the kids were out in the snow 24 hrs. a day!  We did a lot of snowmobiling, reading, playing games, watching movies, doing a very hard puzzle, and just relaxing.  We love to go to the cabin and enjoy the beautiful setting.  We have such great memories each time we go and spend time there.  

The river was almost all the way frozen over.  There were a ton of swan that

 we were able to watch each day on the river.  We also were able to watch the 

eagle fly around the cabin a few days. 

Here are the kids all ready to go to church.  It started snowing Sunday

 morning and didn't stop until Monday night.

Jon and I went on a ride one day up the Bishop Mountain trail and we were the first ones who had been on the trail!  It was great to be the first to plow right thru the fresh snow.

Jack loved to be outside with the kids and had a smile on his face the 

whole time!  He also thought that every time you come in you have to have hot chocolate!  Needless to say we went thru a lot of hot chocolate the few days we were up there. 

 

Decorating For Christmas!

The kids love every year to help me decorate the tree in our family room.  I let them put all the decorations on this tree.  Each of them get a new ornament each year and they get to hang all their own ornaments wherever they want on this tree.

We had our ward Christmas party and we all dressed up!  It was a night in Bethlehem and we went back in time to where Christ was born.  It was a nice night and the ward did a great job.

Thanksgiving at the Robisons!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving week with all of the Smith family here.  We were able to have everyone come to Logan and spend sometime at our house.  It was so fun to let the cousins get together and spend 24 hours a day playing!  The adults did their share of late night games and movies also.  

Jack and Kathryn were the best of cousins all week long!

One afternoon we were able to go to the Logan Temple and do baptisms for the dead.  It was such a great experience to have all the kids with their parents and their Grandparents in the temple together. 

Steve and Alan took the kids ice skating the day before Thanksgiving so the rest of us could get some of the baking and cooking done without all the kids around.  They had a great time and didn't want to leave when we came to pick them up!

One day we went up Blacksmith Fork Canyon and did some geocaching.  It was fun to find some treasures right here in our backyard!

Caleb found this box for everyone!

We got all the older kids and adult men and they had a great time playing football!  They had so  much fun that most of them had to come in and shower again before we could have our Thanksgiving dinner!

Once again we tried to get a family picture, but thanks to Jack we couldn't get a very good one!  He was keeping everyone else laughing but his own family!

Thanks to all of you who traveled to come to Logan.  We had a great week playing games, eating and shopping!  Our kids are still talking about how much fun they have with their cousins.  

Finally Twilight is Here!

November 21, 2008 

Brianna and her friends have been so excited for the movie to start.  They all went and made shirts to wear.  They all went together the day it came out.  I went to the midnight showing with my friends so I would know if it was ok for Brianna to go and see it.  The things we do for our kids!  I sacrificed my sleep to preview the movie so she could go and see it.

Carrie Underwood Concert!

November 19, 2008

Brianna, Heidi & I got tickets with a bunch of their friends to go see Carrie Underwood.  It was a fun night and a great concert.  I really don't know why I went, except that I was the chaperon for the concert.  

I drove down earlier in the day with three of my friends that got tickets also.  We spent the afternoon shopping and going out to eat.  Brianna and Heidi came with all their friends when school was out.  I only saw them as they came into the concert and then they were even too embarrassed to sit by me so they sat on the other end of the row!  

It was a fun night and fun too see my two girls having a great time at their first concert.

Happy Halloween!

We started celebrating Halloween last week.  Caleb and Mallory were out of school on Thursday and Friday for parent teacher conference so we made our sugar cookies.  The kids always love to help me make them and it seems to take twice as long and twice the mess!  I guess that is why I only make them once a year! 

We had a Halloween Carnival to go to last Friday night for Mallory's school.  The kids got to dress up and go around to all the booths and play the games.  They love to go each year and play the games and then they have pizza there for dinner.  Mallory this year is a cave girl!   Our neighbor sprayed her hair and did her make-up for her.

Jack is our "1" eyed beaver!  I found the costume for him but didn't realize that it was missing an eye until I got it home!  So we just tell people he got in a fight!

Caleb is our scary vampire this year!!

Does anyone know this guy?????

Jon and I had a costume party to go to on Saturday night.  Some friends of ours went all out and did a huge party.  We played fear factor and that was a lot of fun.  As soon as I get some pictures of that I will post them.  Both Jon and I competed for our team and it was pretty scary some of the stuff they had us eating and doing!

We were lucky enough to have beautiful weather here all week so we carved our pumpkins outside this year. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  

We hope you all have a fun  and safe night.  It is sad as your kids get older they start going out with their friends instead of their parents.  Jon and I are both home tonight and our kids are out with friends.   

Heidi & Mallory Do The Red Ribbon Run

On October 11th Heidi and Mallory braved the freezing weather and did a 5K red ribbon run.  We woke up to snow and a temperature of about 30 degrees!  They were determined to do the run though and put all the warm clothes on they could find and did a great job!

Here we are braving the snowstorm

 (that the picture does not show, 

but it was snowing!) 

We were freezing waiting for them to come across the finish line.

Mallory, Heidi and Lexie (Heidi's friend) having a fun time running together.

The finish line with their medals.  Great job girls we are proud of you!