Getting Shown Up By My Mother

Because there were so many of us together this last weekend, we decided to all go bowling. I haven't been in over a year and, to top that off, I stink anyway. So, you can imagine how great my game is. My parents came along, and because they normally just watch instead of participating, we were all surprised when my mom came walking over with bowling shoes in hand. :0)

Want to know a secret? I'm pretty sure my mom is a closet bowler. Because seriously....she's got game. Two strikes, a few spares.....and the whole time she's telling us how horrible she is. Yeah right! My score? 69. Her score? 113. Sad, isn't it? I got shown up by my mother. Sigh. Actually, the kids beat me too. Sure, they used the bumper, but still! I think next time I need to bowl on their lane. I might at least have a fighting chance. :0)

Getting Our Sassy On!

Yesterday was going to be a day full of Robinson family fun as my brother's family and my sister's family were in town. I went out in the morning before the fun began because I had promised my neices that we could do make-overs. So, I showed up with nail polish, curling iron and make-up bag in hand and got down to business. We were going bowling and we needed to make sure we were the cutest bowlers there!

We started out with the polish and Greta, Genea, Alina, Mackenzee, and even Riley ended up with colorful nails.

Next it was important that their lips were sparkly and their cheeks were rosy. When I was done with their make-up Genea and Greta were sure that they needed to put make-up on me, so I let them doll me up too. Amazingly, I did not end up looking like a hooker. :0) They did a super good job don't you think?Since we had just enough time to get their hair done, I hurried and gave each girl the same sassy hairdo. This is one of Kenzee's signature looks. :0) All four girls even let me curl their hair...and let me tell you....they were four of the prettiest princesses I have ever seen!

Burnham Family 2008

I haven't finished editing these babies, but I thought I'd share them before too much time passes. For those in the Burnham family that are wanting copies, I was planning on making a disc for each of the families in the pictures here. So, don't stress it. :0) I got you covered. Jodie...will you share your copies with me too? The pictures of the grandkids taken upstairs didn't turn out so good on my camera. Thanks so much!

These are the only two individual family pictures that we got taken that day. I think everyone was pretty much done with saying cheese at this point. :0)

Thanks Burnhams for being such good sports on such short notice. I am SO happy to finally have a family picture that includes ALL of us. {And I'm not pregnant!} Now I just need to work on my family......

Christmas Cheer

Did you all have a fabulous Christmas? I hope so. Ours was busy and full of good family memories. Here's a quick recap....
We spent Christmas Eve in Jerome this year with the Burnham's.
Mackenzee wasn't feeling too chipper, and though she was heavily drugged with Tylenol :0) she was still able to sing her "La La" song for everyone. I'm mad I didn't think to record it because she did such a good job. The song she sang is actually called "When Christmas Comes to Town" from the Polar Express movie, and the reason she calls it the La La song is because that's what you sing at the beginning of the song. All December long she has been having me play it OVER AND OVER again in the car and eventually she was singing along. She was sure that she needed to sing it for everyone. :0)
And why the angel costume you ask? Aunt Jodie called and asked if Mackenzee would be the angel in the nativity story and it just so happened that we had the halo and wings in our dress up bin. Humorously, Mackenzee was sure that meant she was supposed to wear it ALL night.
After eating and playing games, the grandkids all opened up their Christmas jammies from Grandma Burnham. Such a handsome group, don't you think?
Christmas morning came...which means that Santa came. Unfortunately, Mackenzee was feeling even worse and I'm not sure she even remembers Christmas Day. She was almost zombie-like and could barely open her presents. We did get a smile out of her when she opened up her Abby Cadabby blanket from Nana. :0)
Christmas Day is also my neice, Breanna's birthday. She is a crazy teenager now, which is hard to believe.
The day after Christmas Landon finally came home to us. It's just not Christmas without him. His first stop was Nana and Papa's house where he made sure to pour some loving on his Papa. Of course, additional hugs were given to Nana, especially after he opened up his new Wii game. :0)
Amazingly, my brother-in-law, Stephen's birthday is Christmas Day as well, though we celebrated it the day after Christmas.
On Saturday we got to spend some more time with the Burnhams eating Thai food {yum!} and going to watch the movie "Bedtime Stories", which was super cute. It was just us {my nephew Talon included}, the Buxton's and Gage that saw the flick and we headed back to Grandma Burnham's house afterwards. Rachel and Aubrey showered Mackenzee with attention and did a little makeover on her. She totally ate it up and was able to fully enjoy it as her fever had gone away.
Sunday we had to say goodbye to everyone as my sister and her family were leaving that night and the Buxton's were leaving early the next morning. BUT! Stay tuned for some wicked awesome Burnham family photos. We did a quick photo shoot on Sunday in Jerome. I'll share more soon!

Today is the BIG day!

No, I am not referring to the BSU bowl game that is on tonight....

Today....my baby is OFFICIALLY nine years old. I know I already had his birthday party. We celebrated, we opened presents, we ate the cake....

But, he wasn't really nine yet.

What happened to my baby? :0(

What's even worse....is that this year...my first born child no longer BELIEVES. You know...the "magic" of the season? Yeah....he is officially too "old" and is no longer fooled by the promise of magnificent things as long as he "behaves".

I worry he will start getting too old to want to hang out with his "old" mom. How long before I start becoming "uncool"? If the last nine years has gone by this quickly...will the next nine be quick too? He's halfway to being an "adult"!

I'm going to continue having my little pity party for a while longer....

Just take my advice....

Don't let your kids get OLD like this! Mackenzee isn't allowed. She's been officially grounded from growing up.

Sigh.

Happy Birthday Landon! I love you to the sky! We miss you so much already and hope you have a great day!

Not A Creature Was Stirring...

SH! Be very, very quiet. Jaysen is exhausted from keeping up with all of the football games.

It can be pretty tiring sitting on the couch like that. I don't see how he does it.....

:0)

Snow?

So, it snowed on Saturday. And...it snowed some more yesterday. As most of you know...I am not a huge fan of the white, wet stuff. It's cold, it's hard to drive in, and it makes it really hard to walk when you are wearing sassy heels.

Since I do not enjoy the weather, I tend to stick to the indoors. Jaysen...he feels the same way as I do. But, he's way nicer than me about it. :0) Let me explain.

Mackenzee has been dying to play in the snow since Saturday. Well, Saturday was landon's birthday party and then by Sunday the snow had turned icy and hard, which makes it no fun to play in. With the new soft snow covering the ground, there was no denying her the opportunity to jump right in. {Unless you are me of course}. Jaysen came home early today so that he could shovel the sidewalk and driveway before it got dark. He told Mackenzee that she could go out front and play in the snow while he worked. She was elated! Thankfully, Landon's old snow pants fit her this year, so I bundled her up and sent her out with her dad.

I stayed inside nice and warm. :0) Hey! dinner DID need to be cooked! It definitely wasn't going to cook itself! :0)

Landon...he stuck with me. He's not a huge fan of the snow either. Smart boy.

Well, not long after I sent Mackenzee out Jaysen popped his head in the door and told me that I needed to go outside and take some pictures of Mackenzee. Why you ask? Jaysen built a little snow "hill" in the front yard for Mackenzee to ride the sled down. What? I thought he hated snow? And...after Landon saw what was going on, he couldn't resist going out to play too. As for me? I took some pictures and happily went back inside to finish cooking dinner where it was nice and warm.

Of course, the second it was dark outside Jaysen closed up shop and made everyone come in. Apparently you can catch pneumonia after dark. :0) Or something like that anyway...

Jaysen said so.

After the kids warmed up with hot chocolate and some homemade soup, we broke out the gingerbread house kit. Normally we decorate these with the Burnham cousins at Grandma and Grandpa Burnham's house. This year the gingerbread house was just dropped off to us as there wasn't going to be a time when we could all get together to do it. :0( We still had fun though. I thought they did a great job on it, and added a little touch to it myself. Can you tell what my addition was?

We are getting closer and closer to the big day! So much is going on it makes it so much fun for the kids. I've posted a few more things today, so don't forget to keep scrolling down to see what Landon has been up to! :0)