Team Robison: December 2015

Trampoline

The other big hit at Grandma's house was the trampoline. I love Hannah's hair.

When Mark was little, Diane used to dress all the kids up in nativity costumes every Christmas. She still has all the costumes, and she really really wanted us to take pictures since we had the perfect grouping for Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. I'm saving the pictures for closer to Christmas, but to take the pictures, we visited her friend Sue Kandel, Mark's old seminary teacher. Her house was amazing. I had heard about this awesome house they had, but this was my first time seeing it. They used to run a daycare/summer camp on the property, and I wish I had gone to summer camp there. They had lakes, and a pool, donkeys. It was just beautiful.

Hannah with the donkeys

Mark and Henry

Watching the ducks

Hannah

Getting ready for our nativity pictures

The donkeys

The play house

Inside the playhouse

Matthew

On the bridge

Kent, Ohio

We had a wonderful week in Kent, Ohio. It was only my third visit since we've been married. The last time we were there was Christmas 2010. We spent most of the week hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa's house. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins. We did do some Halloween activities. We went to a local farm and got some pumpkins and then later we carved them. I did do a bit of shopping with Sara, went on a few bike rides with Mark, and Mark and I went and saw The Martian, which was great. Mostly, we just had a chill week hanging out with the cousins.

With our pumpkins

Mark, Amy and Henry

Henry

Matthew, Amy and Christopher

The carved pumpkins

Christopher - death star

Garrett - Daniel Tiger

Hannah - pumpkin with no nose

Amy - silly pumpkin

Matthew - traditional jack o'lantern

Christopher, Garrett, Matthew, Amy and Hannah

Watching Star Wars

Twin Lakes

After we arrived at Mark's parents' house, the first item on our checklist was to go visit the lake. Mark's parents live in an area outside Kent called Twin Lakes. Their lake has a small beach, a playground and pavilion. Since Mark's brother Stephen lives just down the street from their parents, their oldest three came down to the lake with us. The kids had fun playing in the sand, and then Mark and Elwin pulled out the canoes and we got to go for a ride around the lake while Grandma watched Henry. It was so nice being back in Ohio. I loved seeing all the trees.