Happy New Year 2014!!

Happy New year from the Robinson's in CALIFORNIA!!!!  we brought in the new year in our favorite place (well, my favorite place)...California!!

we actually drove to california new years eve and we were super exhausted....so we ended up celebrating on actual new years day!  after going through our goals and year reviews, we realized this last year really was a great one!  the biggest highlight was BUYING A HOUSE!!!  we will be moving in early february!  but we made lots of fun new friends, visited new places, visited family, welcomed new nieces and nephews, started (and kept) a new job...and much more.  we sure hope this year is as great as last!  here's to 2014 being AWESOME!!!  happy new year!

Mind, Body, Spirit Health Challenge...

alright...so i decided to participate in a 6 week "Health Challenge" with a group of friends and it started yesterday.  it focuses not only on eating/exercising type health, but also your mind and spirit.  i really liked this idea, plus the pay out for the winner is a nice incentive too!  (we all put $10 in the pot and there are 18 of us...$180!!!!)  anyway, this whole challenge is on a point system, so we get points every day for things we do, for example: working out, eating fruits and veggies, drinking water....but we also get points for reading scriptures, daily prayer and writing in our journal.  i've decided that blogging will be my journaling and i will take this opportunity to catch up on my blog.  there will be a LOT of back dating, so posts may not show up if you follow in google reader, but they will be there.  i'm super behind, so this will help me get caught up...and i also want to get my blog organized into books to print off by year, and that is a HUGE project.  so wish me luck and enjoy catching up on that last several months of the Robinsons happenings!

CouSiNS

we are so blessed to live so close to so many cousins!  and it is always better when grandma comes to visit!  we love our awesome, wonderful, crazy FAMILY!!!

Happy Halloween 2013

we love this time of year and dressing up in costumes!  Blaine decided to be Ash (a pokemon trainer) from pokemon...he had fun helping me put together his costume.  he even designed and painted his hat.  

 i have this purple wig that i just wanted to wear, so i was a pop, diva, something girl.

 and Blaine's cousin joey was Pikachu which was perfect (since Pikachu is Ash's pokemon)...so the kids had fun hanging out together

 the kids also had their annual costume parade at school!

 and Halloween Night was so much fun.  for the last month, Ty had been so excited to be Peter Pan for Halloween, but he had a last minute change of heart, and went as Woody.  this kid loves to dress up, so everyday is like Halloween to him anyway!

  

 Jake decided to have a "little" fire pit on the drive way and pass out candy....well, things got a little out of hand when he threw an entire PALLET on the fire.  the flames were HUGE....we could see it from across the neighborhood!  NO JOKE!  this picture does not do justice...but he manages to get things back under control.  it sure makes for a memorable Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

Monday Night before halloween is designated family night pumpkin carving!! 

 Ty actually picked out all the pumpkins...and he did a great job on his pumpkin.  i love the tongue action!

 ty wanted to carve a silly face

 and blaine wanted to carve a ninja turtle

so here they all are light up on Halloween...ninja turtle, mustache man, goofy and silly face!

DaTe NiGHT....

 ...with this kid!  Blaine and i had a mommy/son date night and it was a blast!  we went shopping for his costume, and then ended up going out for dinner.  we split a yummy dinner, to make sure we had room for DESSERT!!!!!

this is what 9 year old heaven looks like!!!!

...and the after math, or what we like to call "chocolate coma!"  he didn't even finish half of that bad boy...but took it home and finished it with Ty the next day!  thanks for a fun night kido!

Pirates and Princess Playgroup!

we have the funnest group of kids for playgroup and one day we decided to have a dress up day!  all the kids were invited to wear either a pirate or princess costime. and they were so cute!  we had so much fun

 Ty and Sydney!  so cute together

 here are all the kidos...we made "sky scopes" to help us find treasure!

they did a great job following the map and finding the treasure!  cute kids!