Christmas Time

We had our Robison family Christmas party last week. It's always fun to see everyone and get caught up again! This year, Santa was able to stop by for a visit!

When I got home I was telling Cord I needed a new camera because all my pictures were blurry! He looked at the camera and said "well, it helps if the lens is clean," and wiped a big smudge mark off! So I'm bummed about the blurry pictures, some of them were so cute!

Coy has been telling us for a couple of months that she wants a beagle puppy for Christmas. We told her we just weren't ready for another puppy right now so she should ask for something else! So what does she say when Santa asks what she wants? "A beagle puppy."
Sage changes her mind from day to day what she wants. Just before coming to this party we were at the store and she was playing with a Hanna Montana camera by the check out. So that's what she asked Santa to bring her!

Dane was very cute sitting with Santa! He wasn't afraid to climb on his lap but he wouldn't look at Santa. He just said over and over "truck . . .truck . . .truck!"

We had a talent show and Coy and Sage sang "Don't ever forget to Pray"

They did a girl cousins dance!

Spencer showed off some of his cool dance moves!

Then Dane helped Grandpa clean up!

Sage got to visit Santa again at pre-school. She still asked for the camera but she also added that she wanted a new bike! (she got a new bike for Christmas last year!)

More fun at the pre-school party!

And . . . We had snow!!!

They even cancelled school on Thursday and we had a snow day! Most of the snow came Wednesday and it was melting fast by Thursday!

But we had fun while it lasted!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Deck The Halls!

We had fun getting everything ready for Christmas this year! (It was fun, right Cord?) When Coy sees the first lights of Christmas go up in the neighborhood, she thinks we're going to miss everything and pushes us every day to get the lights up! Every year when we're putting up the outside lights, Cord says "I am NOT doing this again next year." But there he is, year after year, hanging from the rafters and sliding down the tiles to get them up! We love you for it!

We still can't resist a fresh cut tree from the mountains! We like to make it a family trip to go find one, but this year Cord picked it out on his own while on a hunting trip!

Our ward had an Enrichment progressive dinner on December 4th and dessert was at our house! This was a big motivator to get everything ready for Christmas! It was a great night, all the homes we went to were in our neighborhood so that everyone could walk from house to house. I wish I had taken pictures when there was about 50 women crammed in my house! It was great!

On a Tai Pan trip a while back I found these cool lanterns for Cord to hang in my kitchen (he's such a great sport with all my projects, I just have to lock the children in another room while he's doing the project to protect their ears from the profanity). Anyway, my Mom had this great idea to hang these big ornaments from it (and I was able to do that on my own, no profanity involved). It turned out great, lots of fun!

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we went to Kim & Derek's new home. They just moved in and there was plenty of room for everyone to cook, eat and roam around! For the past 2 years, Cord has taken over the role of making the pies that his Mom always made. This year he made 2 Pecans, 2 pumpkins and 1 cherry, all with crust from scratch! I took these pictures last year when he made his first pecan pies! They are absolutely the best pies ever! I have to also add that he bought a wheat grinder and makes his Mom's wheat bread all the time! We rarely have to buy bread from the store! I say all this knowing it makes me look terrible! I'm the one that should be doing this, right? But he's great at it and he loves it. I only do things in the kitchen because I have to, there's no love there!

Kim & Derek's new home!

We took the rhino up to play!

Sage is a farm girl at heart! She loves riding the horses and playing with the kitties!

Thanks for having us Hafen family, can't wait to come back!

November 21, 2008 Big Day!

OK, I'm playing catch up now! Better late then never, right? November 21st was a great day for quite a few reasons! The fun began with a midnight showing of Twilight! I am so glad I have friends and family that are always ready for a crazy adventure! Even though we had bought our tickets early the line was out the door to get into the theater. We had to hang out in the cold for a while but we made the most of it with some good laughs! And it was late enough that just about everything was funny! Thanks girls for this memorable night! I don't have as many good things to say about the movie itself but at least the company was good! New Moon should be better, they have a new director! Ya wanna do it again?!!


After catching a few hours sleep I got up to get ready for more fun and excitement! Cord and I were celebrating our 10 year anniversary! Nadene stayed in town to be our babysitter so we had the whole day to ourselves! Another big event of the day was that Sportsman's Warehouse opened up on our side of town! I unfortunately didn't get a picture of us at this joyous event! So Cord had Sportsman's Warehouse to be excited about, I had Twilight and our anniversary to top it all! What a day!

This picture was taken by Sage standing on the counter! It's our prom pose!

10 years earlier! I love you Cord, more now then ever before!

The day ended with a stay at Mt. Charleston.