The Robertson Family: Zion's.....June 25-27, 2011

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Zion's.....June 25-27, 2011

One of our families FAVORITE places to go is Zion's National Park. My parents took me and my brothers there every fall when we were growing up. We would go with my cousins, the Chandler's. It became a tradition to every year to climb Angel's Landing. Every year you climbed the great hike you got an angel "star". My family bases what kind of hiker you are off how many angel "stars" you have.

Sam and I love that tradition and we've started it with our children as well. Hadlie and Daxton are officially a one star hiker from last year and half star from this year. Tage is a two half stars from last year and this year.

This year we took the kids just to Scout Overlook, which is a little more that half way up Angel's Landing. Angel's Landing is a dangerous hike, we didn't feel like it would be a good idea to go all the way to the top with Tage and Paizlie. They are too small still. Tage will be ready to do it in the next few upcoming years.

We also hiked Emerald Pools while we were there. Before we headed to Emerald Pools we stopped in the Lodge and bought the kids an ice cream cone. Then we headed off again. We ran into our neighbors, the Larsen's, on the trail to Emerald Pools. They live two house south of us. It was fun seeing them there. We had a really fun time and I KNOW we wore the kids out. Poor Tage fell asleep on the tram ride down the canyon. He was wasted.

The kids are already asking when we are going back. Hopefully soon, hopefully soon...

Here is our trip:

Tage, Hadlie, and Daxton starting Angel's Landing to Scout Overlook...

Larsen family and us....

Tage and Sam on Walter's Wiggles, part of Angel's hike....

Hadlie, Daxton, Tage, and me at Scout Overlook...

Sam, Paizlie, and me at Scout Overlook....

"Hold that rock up for me, Dax. Don't let it fall...."

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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.