Christmas 2010

Christmas Eve Family Picture!

We had a wonderful evening eating and ready the scripture account of our Savior's birth while the kids did the nativity. They did a great job putting all the costumes together and acting it out.

New Christmas Pajamas

We had a wonderful Christmas just spending time together as a family. We feel so blessed once again. We are so grateful for all that we have and for this time of year that we have to reflect on our Savior's birth.

Christmas Concerts

Mallory's orchestra concert for school

Piano Recital for Heidi, Mallory & Caleb. They all did an amazing job on their songs. This was Caleb's first recital and he did really good.

Christmas Holiday Fun!

The kids love to help decorate the tree for Christmas. This is the one that I let them do all the decorating so most of the ornaments are down low where they can reach. They do fight over who gets to stand on the ladder

and put some up higher!

It's not Christmas without a visit to the mall to sit on Santas lap! Some of our kids thought they were too old to sit so they just jumped in for the picture.

For family night one week we decided to go to Temple Square and see the lights. Jon had a great idea that we should add some adventure to the night so we took the frontrunner train from Ogden to Salt Lake. It was fun on the way there, but on the way home there were way too many screaming out of control kids that got on when we did and it made it a very long ride back to Ogden! But we still enjoyed the lights and Temple Square.

Thanksgiving at the Robisons!

This year we stayed home for Thanksgiving and had part of the Smith family here for the holiday. We had a fun time with lots of snow! The kids had a great time sledding each day and playing in our backyard on the snowmobiles.

We took a drive to hardware ranch one day to see the Elk. We tried this a few years ago and there were no Elk, so we were grateful to see some this year! It was freezing cold so we stayed only long enough to get a couple of pictures.

Thanksgiving Day

We had a great time just relaxing and enjoying one anothers company. It is always nice to get together with the family. The kids and adults all had a great time!

Brianna's First Job

Brianna started her first job at Chic Fila. Here she is on her first day of work!

Brianna sometimes gets to dress up in the cow costume for work!

Halloween

What a cute bunch of kids all dressed up for Halloween!

We decided this year to carve pumpkins in the garage. It was the best thing we have ever done! No mess in the house and very easy clean up.

Pumpkin Walk 2010

We got talked into heading up a scene at our cities Pumpkin Walk this year, so Jon has been busy painting pumpkins for the past few weeks. There were about seven other families that each had a part they had to do and then we all met and set it up this week. The theme for the Pumpkin Walk this year was "The Power of Animation". We chose (or was told by a good friend, who volunteered us for this!) that we would be doing Toy Story! Another set of families in our neighborhood did "A Bugs Life". It was a lot of work to get it to come together but to watch the kids and parents as they walk thru and get so excited about the scene is great. It was worth all the work. It is free to anyone who wants to walk thru and they have 1000's of people come for the five days it is open. Schools come clear from Ogden to see it. I was able to walk with Jack's kindergarten class thru it and he was so excited to tell all his friends what we did to help with it. The scenes were amazing this year.

Our family was in charge of the pig and slink the dog. Jon did a great job on them! He worked hard and as with anything he does they were perfect. He is such a perfectionist, I think he painted them a hundred times to get them to look just like the ones from the movie.

Each morning I have to go over and make sure all the pieces are still on and withstanding the winter weather we have been having. We also have music playing all day that I turn on. At night it is all lit up and amazing to see all the scenes.

Tennis 2010

Brianna & Heidi both made the high school girls tennis team this year. It has been a fun couple of months watching both of them play and improve. It was hard at times to choose who to watch, as they played at the same time at different courts, but we made it work. They both had a great year and did well. This was Briannas last year and she was able to place 1st in the Region for 2nd jv singles. We are proud of both of them and the hard work they put forth to improve their game.

Red Ribbon Run 2010

Mallory, Caleb and Jack wanted to do the Red Ribbon Run again this year so Jon and I signed up to do it with them. Jack and I did the 1 mile and the rest of them did the 3 mile. It was a fun activity to do with the kids on a Saturday morning. They all did great and finished the run.

Family Pictures!

It was that time of year again to try and get a family picture! Oh I hate this! It is so stressful for me to try and get everyone ready and looking at least halfway decent. It is getting a little easier as the kids get older. We had someone take our picture this time, instead of us setting up our own camera and running to get back in the picture. It was so nice! She did a great job and it was fast. We were only there for about 30 minutes and we were done.