The Robertson Family: October 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Poor Princess P!

Paizlie got sick last week and had to start doing breathing treatments. She is so funny because the first couple of times I put the mask on her to do her treatment she would smile and goo. She thought it was pretty entertaining, which of course, I did too. We would exchange smiles and I would laugh watching her. A week later, it's not so fun anymore. She hates them. Poor Princess P! We hope she gets better soon!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Conference weekend cabin tradition.....

My uncle Dave reserves his companies work cabin every fall for conference weekend. When we were younger we used to sleep over Saturday night then watch conference with the whole family on Sunday. Now that we all have kids, we go up Sunday morning and have lunch together then watch conference. This year it was raining. The rain made all of the leaves more brilliant then ever. You could see about every color on a paint pallet as you looked out over the valley of Midway from the cabin. It was beautiful.

The kids all had a wonderful time. They got a little muddy and they found this HUGE chocolate lab that was wandering up on the mountain side. Of course they all wanted to find its owner. They brought the dog up on the deck and the thing was as big as a bear.

The kids also enjoyed catching wasps that were in the window seals of the cabin. My cousins little boy has a bee catcher gun that sucks the bees into the barrel of the gun then it spits them back out into little storage hive. It's pretty interesting and the kids are fasinated with it. It comes to the cabin EVERY year. Hadlie, of course, was enjoying the toy and got stung. They caught well over 20 wasps....CRAZY KIDS!

Happy 57th Nanny!...October 1st

We celebrated Nanny Birthday on October 3rd. We all went to Spanish and we had a special birthday dinner for Nanny... We had Swiss Cheese Fondue!!! It was really good. Me, Dave, Meagan, and Grandpa made the meal while Nanny watched Tage and Paiz. Sam went to Salt Lake with his dad and brother to the Priesthood session, so he missed out. Grandpa bought these cool candles that burned different colors, he always finds something fun to light up the party. I think Nanny like the sparkling candles just as much as the kids did.

MIDWAY.....NEEDED weekend cont'd

On our overnight trip to Midway we went to see the Crater at the Homestead. We went inside the crater to check it out. The water in there is 90 degrees all year long. The Crater goes straight down 65 feet. Many people scuba certify there or just go to soak in the warm waters. It was pretty neat. Then, we were able to see some deer and caterpillars. The trees were beautiful and the colors were brilliant. We had an enjoyable time.

Monday, October 5, 2009

NEEDED....Weekend Getaway!

Sam and I decided to take the kids on a NEEDED vacation since we haven't been able to do one all summer. We surprized them with a nights stay at the Zermatt in Midway, thanks to my uncle. The kids had a lot of fun, they swam till their hearts were content. Thanks uncle Glen, we had a wonderful time.
Here's some of the highlights....

We Are The Robertson's....

Sam and I are products of the Spanish Fork Singles Ward. When we met, Sam was the ward mission leader and I was a stake missionary. We dated for 3 months then I served a mission. After I returned home we married in November 1999. We have four beautiful children: Hadlie, Daxton, Tage, and Paizlie. Our family is growing bigger and better everyday. Since we don't live close to our immediate families we hope this blog will capture our memories we are making and allow our families and friends to watch us grow and progress everyday.

Daxton

Daxton is 7 years old. He is our perfectionist. He works on something until it looks just so. He runs on his own time schedule. He is very anaylitical. We think he'll follow in his Grandpa Owen's and Uncle Dave's footsteps one day and become an Engineer. Daxton loves to play with his friends, play baseball, and play piano. He loves playing the Wii. He's very good at it. Daxton knows how to do things right: he starts out slow until he figures all the in's and out's then he cruises through the task. Daxton loves his mom. He and Jen have a strong bond. He loves school. He's a good listener and a great big brother to Tage.

Paizlie

Paizlie is 2 years old. She is our peacemaker. She has brought alot of happiness and joy into our lives. She is always happy. She loves to play with her stuff dogs, her babies, and her brothers and sister. She mimic's her siblings all the time. She wants to be a big kid too.Paizllie is a 100% grandpa girl. She LOVES, and I mean, LOVES her two grandpa's. She makes me open up our blog almost everyday so she can see pictures of her two grandpa's. She has a very sweet spirit and nature about her. We are so glad she came to our family.

My Dad's A Hero

I, Jen, illustrated this book for two friends of mine, Jewel Armstrong and Rebecca Christensen, whom wrote the book. Together, we self published it in 2007. We have been sending it to military families and military schools around the nation to help children with deployed parents. Our book perviously won the 2007 Golden Quill Award from the American Authors Association and the 2007 Don Hanson Award for Creativity from the Military Writers Society of America. We now have learned that Scholastic Books is now going to carry it for the next 7 years in their book order magazines. We are very excited about it. It's so awesome! So watch for it when your kids bring home their book orders from school. You can also get it on Amazon.com.