Month: April 2015

    Silly Millie

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    Really I would more often be caught saying “crazy Millie” or “Beast” or “psycho baby” but this girl has personality and she can be quite Silly.

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    lets go on a walk

    figuring out shadows

    figuring out shadows

    come jump with me!

    come jump with me!

    playing marbles

    playing marbles

    put a circle on the carpet and the kids play for days

    put a circle on the carpet and the kids play for days

    still trying to roller skate!

    still trying to roller skate!

    she ran a whole lap - just trying to stay ahead of mom

    she ran a whole lap – just trying to stay ahead of mom

    you following me? I'm not coming back

    you following me? I’m not coming back

    under the blankets with brother

    under the blankets with brother

    That is our Silly and Head Strong Millie! She is full of energy and loves her independence. She has also been giving big hugs lately and even teasing Ray by giving him head hugs when he doesn’t want them. She is getting fast on the Wiggle Bikes and is her happiest when she is just being one of the big kids. She loves her aunts and uncles… whenever Brady comes home she follows him around, She likes to go find “Chelle” and play at her house, If I drop the kids off at Amanda or Jamie’s she screams and screams to go with. She also loves attention from her daddy and gives him the cutest good bye’s every morning: she is usually at the breakfast table and anticipates him leaving and tells him goodbye even before he has everything ready. She also loves when Dad showers cause he cranks up the shower music and she dances outside his door. This weeks drama is that she bit through all of her bottles and I won’y buy her anymore… so she is missing the baba and we are trying to find a sippy that she “likes”. She has been using a cup a lot more also which is great.

    Categories: Millie

    Random

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    Keeping warm at Benji’s soccer game

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    Uncle Brady letting us try his “moon Shoes”

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    Ben still loves coaching. The games are getting more intense as the boys get older.

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    STRAWBERRIES!!

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    Fun in that Circle of tape!

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    Cutting Down a tree at the old house!

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    The kids loved the tire swing.

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    Cali and Mia – cute little soccer players!

    Categories: General

    Packer is 8!

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    Packer had a birthday on Saturday! I can’t believe he is 8 years old! He is a fun and goofy kid. He gets something in his mind and he finds a way to make it happen…. anything from an art project idea to inviting his friends over to play right at 4:00 and they have to play a certain game a certain way or he will not be satisfied. It was fun to celebrate his life during the weekend. We had a cousin party on Friday night and a family day/ play whatever he wants on Saturday. It was fun. Now he gets to be in cub scouts and he gets to be baptized next Saturday. EXCITING to be 8 YEARS OLD!

    these kids helped me make the cake and then played with the extra fondant for hours!

    these kids helped me make the cake and then played with the extra fondant for hours!

    Packer took a lot of time deciding where each mine craft character should be on the cake!

    Packer took a lot of time deciding where each mine craft character should be on the cake!

    Ben made a fun mine craft game - 4 teams, find your 20 blocks and build your structure first...

    Ben made a fun mine craft game – 4 teams, find your 20 blocks and build your structure first…

    The kids seemed to have a lot of fun searching for the blocks and even messing with the other teams.

    The kids seemed to have a lot of  fun searching for the blocks and even messing with the other teams.

    The PIG TEAM tower

    The PIG TEAM tower

    The Wolves

    The Wolves

    Presents from the cousins!

    Presents from the cousins!

    The older cousins still like to come and hang out - it's pretty cool that they enjoy being with each other and with the cousins.

    The older cousins still like to come and hang out – it’s pretty cool that they enjoy being with each other and with the cousins.

    BIRTHDAY BOY

    BIRTHDAY BOY

    the finished product

    the finished product

    singing to the birthday boy

    singing to the birthday boy

    Cake and Ice Cream

    Cake and Ice Cream

    He was determined not to talk while eating his cake- no tricky cousins got to him this year.

    He was determined not to talk while eating his cake- no tricky cousins got to him this year.

    Lalo even came with his bum leg!

    Lalo even came with his bum leg!

    Ben messing with him while he plays mine craft

    Ben messing with him while he plays mine craft

    mine craft on the tablet, on the big screen

    mine craft on the tablet, on the big screen

    On Saturday we had 9am soccer games so we waited until after the games to give Packer his presents from us: He had his heart set on one present and luckily we had it covered. He spied the XBOX game size gift and saved it for last – Yes it was MineCraft for Xbox, Yes he is obsessed.

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    and we had to get him a bike to balance out the computer nerdiness of this family:

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    By that night he was TIRED. EXHAUSTED. If it is 8pm his body just shuts down. Literally. On Thursday night he was up late and out of bed and fully collapsed twice before we got him back in bed. Tonight he came out of his room again in Zombie mode. He has to go to bed on time.

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    We love Packer. He is really growing up this year. Learning responsibility and developing his own personality. He still doesn’t mind being a loner but he also likes to be the silly man. He makes us smile often and we love him tons.

    Categories: Nettesheim, Packer

    Robertson’s in town for the Week!!

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    We got home from St. George and had family already at the house!! SO we jumped right into the Robertson Family Week:

    Monday the 13th – we hung out with Tracie and Kelsey and Bren and Cedar. We had a pizza party that evening with mom and the grandparents and some extended family.

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    Tuesday – we played all morning and then went down to grandma and grandpa great’s house for a stairwell picnic.

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    Wednesday – Josh and Mal came to visit! We added their 4 kids to the fun and kept on playing! We got to meet baby Laynie! She is so cute and snuggly.

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    Mom said goodbye to her parents and came and spent the last night with us and made us some homemade ice cream!

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    We all stayed up until 1am waiting to see Kelsey come home with Dreads in her hair!! She got professional dreads – and she loves them!

    Thursday: we said goodbye to Grandma and Kelsey and Tracie and Bren and Cedar. And the party continued with Scar, Payton, Kins and Baby Gus… That night I went to dinner with Josh and Joel and Megan and Cousin Luke.

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    On Friday Josh and Mal went up to Logan for a wedding so we made the kids go to bed and catch up on some sleep.

    Saturday April 18th was our first soccer Saturday for the season. The kids had games at 10, 1, and 2 and then Ben and I went to the RSL game that night at 7:30.

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    Sunday after church we had a bunch of family over again! Ryan and his kids, Josh and kids, Joel and kid, Brady, Shannon, and Sean.

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    Millie wanted to be a baby like Gus and Laynie 🙂

    Monday was the cousins last day with us. We played hard and held the baby and chilled with Mal while Josh was sick on the couch.

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    It was a fun and exhausting week. I fully admit to crashing the next day and doing nothing. Having a big family has kept us super busy this year. I love that everyone loves to be together and everyone makes the effort to come and hang out if anyone is in town or wanting to get together.

    Categories: Robertson

    Cub Scouts

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    I’ve been a cub scout wolf Den leader for the past 4 years! I’ve had half a dozen different partners throughout this time. I got to be Benji’s leader and now starting this week I get to be Packer’s Den Leader. I have the wolf book memorized. I enjoy getting to know the 8 year old boys. I enjoy this calling when my kids cooperate and nap/chill out during den meetings.
    They are changing the curriculum in a month. I don’t like change but I hope it is a good change. Hopefully I can figure out the new adventures quickly and how to help the boys achieve them.

    Categories: Jana

    St. George / Spring Break

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    We had a week of vacation this year during the kids spring break!

    We went to St. George on Monday and didn’t come home until Sunday! It was a ton of fun!

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    An hour and a half into the trip we picked up the Falabella kids and let their parents get towed back and figure out what to do with  a broken van! 2nd road trip (already) that we’ve had a FULL 12 passenger van 🙂 On Monday we got to stay at the new Condo! We ate McDonald’s and watched the NCAA basketball championship game.

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    TUESDAY – we swam and then swam some more!! My kids were so excited. They loved the pool. I had fun swimming with them and trying to help them learn how to swim.

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    WEDNESDAY we went on a hike to the Lava Tubes. We found some neat caves. The hike wasn’t too far but we did not come prepared… I honestly came prepared to be 8 months pregnant and sit around by the pool BUT… the cousins had some fun things planned so we had to go check them out. I’m glad we did. We ended our hikes a little earlier than most but the kids did pretty well.

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    THURSDAY – we hiked again! Millie loved the cold water and thought she was big enough to walk!! All of our kids jumped in the cold water.

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    FRIDAY – my favorite day, we went down to the river and let the kids play and dig and explore. The older people played water baseball all day and the pregnant lady sat on the beach, counting kids and enjoying the weather.

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    SATURDAY – last day of vacation! Play ground, pool, and BBQ. Packer learned to survive in the deep end of the pool. I’m not convinced that he was fully swimming but he was doing really well. Cali is close also. Ray and Rose learned to trust their life jackets and we just had fun.

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    SUNDAY – after church we headed for home. All of the kids chilled out with their tablets. I slept.

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    The Spring Break St. George trip is always one of our favorites. We love being with family and we love all of the ‘summer time activities’ when it’s still spring.

    Categories: Nettesheim

    Easter Week/Conference Weekend

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    We dyed Easter eggs! This is always so much fun. Our kids cranked through the eggs in minutes but we got some pretty neat ones.

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    Ryan came down on Friday night. We got the kids to bed at a decent time and played Agricola. It’s one of those 2 hour, lots of strategy, not for beginner types – I finally won a game so now I like it 🙂

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    Shannon also came down and we watched conference on Saturday and hung out with family.

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    On Sunday the kids searched and searched for their Easter baskets!

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    Then we went over to Joel and Megan’s and ate waffles and watched conference with a bunch of my siblings.

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    And after the last session of conference we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa’s house for dinner and an Easter Egg hunt.

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    It was a busy weekend – we did enough to cover 3 weekends of fun, but… I love Easter and I love Conference and I love Family so it was Great.

    Categories: General, Nettesheim, Robertson

    And now April is almost OVER!! ahhh!

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    I really think time should SLOW down. I feel like I have a long day here and there but never long weeks and NEVER long months. April has gone by so quickly – really all of 2015 seems like a blurrr. I haven’t even set my new year resolutions yet!

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    April Fools, pinewood derby prep, youth missionary dinner, color Easter Eggs! Games with Ryan – Agricola, Saturday CONFERENCE with Ryan and Shannon, EASTER Sunday, conference at Joel’s, Easter dinner at Gp’s, Easter Egg Hunt, pack and drive to St George, Finish march madness, Vacation – SWIM, SWIM, SWIM, hike, play, and eat custard.  Play with cousins, scouts, pizza party, Late nights with Siblings, visit with mom and grandparents, dreadlocks!, find new renters, soccer, LaNell, more siblings, more cousins, more soccer, Sunday dinner.

    Those are the things that filled my month.

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    Categories: General

    March went rather Quickly…

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    we had lots of warm weather

    we had lots of warm weather this month

    Awesome Underwear

    Awesome Underwear

    Who knew the pet store could be so fun...

    Who knew the pet store could be so fun…

    these kids loved it all - even the mice

    these kids loved it all – even the mice

    McDonald's after being good for family pictures.

    McDonald’s after being good for family pictures.

    Corn Beef and Cabbage

    Corn Beef and Cabbage

    St. Patty's Day

    St. Patty’s Day

    this girl BEGS to go outside all day

    this girl BEGS to go outside all day

    Love this smile

    Love this smile

    A trip to the park in Lehi

    A trip to the park in Lehi

    Rose got a new backpack because she had let Cali use hers for school.

    Rose got a new backpack because she had let Cali use hers for school.

    New Lego's for mastering the toilet!

    New Lego’s for mastering the toilet!

    tallest marble tower

    tallest marble tower

    why are Dads so Fun

    why are Dads so Fun?

    Ben can entertain all 6 easily.

    Ben can entertain all 6 easily.

    The Shower Obsession - clean and happy kids.

    The Shower Obsession – clean and happy kids.

    sometimes you just have to nap

    sometimes you just have to nap

    sometimes we read lots of books

    sometimes we read lots of books

    spring cleaning/nesting

    spring cleaning/nesting

    more nice weather - cheer leading practice!

    more nice weather – cheer leading practice!

    Ray and Rose time  :)

    Ray and Rose time 🙂

    babysitting Bennett

    babysitting Bennett

    America's Funniest Home Videos before bedtime.

    America’s Funniest Home Videos before bedtime.

    Categories: General

    Cali Award

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    Cali is a major go getter. If she wants something she finds out a way to make it happen. Mostly if she wants to do something she just practices until she can do it… jump rope, skipping, whistling, shoe tying, splits, singing, reading, writing, bike riding, pumping on swings, …. those are the ones off the top of my head. She sets her mind to it and gets it done. LOVE HER.

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    Categories: Cali