Team Robison

Diana's Visit

My best friend Diana Corder came to visit me the weekend before last. She currently lives in Colorado, but they just bought a house in Indiana - about an hour away from where I grew up - and they are moving there this summer. Consequently, they decided to do one last visit to Utah to say goodbye to all their friends here. They stayed at our house, and we had so much fun. Matthew loved having Cameron and Abby here. Whenever Cameron had to leave to go somewhere, or when we left the Air Force museum a few minutes before they did, he just cried and cried, "I want Cameron." On Saturday morning, we went to the Air Force museum, and the kids had a blast seeing the airplanes. Though since we visited, everytime Matthew goes to bed, he asks me, "The airplanes aren't getting me?"

On Sunday they went to church with us, which worked because there were no other children in Matthew's sunbeam class that day. The headed out to visit friends Sunday evening, so they missed Mark's 30th birthday dinner. We had Mark's siblings and his cousin Matt over and it was a super fun evening. On Monday, Chad went snowboarding and Diana and I just hung out at the house with the kids. It was such a fun weekend, and I was so excited to see them again. The nice part of them moving to Indiana, is that I'm basically guaranteed to see them every time I go home.

Hannah, Matthew, Abby and Cameron

Hannah and Abby

Cameron and Hannah

Abby Corder

Cameron Corder

Hannah

Matthew

Matthew, Hannah, Abby and Cameron

Mark's 30th Birthday

Abby

Cameron

Super Bunny Hannah

Matthew, Hannah, Abby, and Cameron

Bunk bed

On President's Day, we decided to move Matthew and Hannah into a bunk bed. The week before, Matthew had broken a support slat on his bed from jumping on it. I was afraid they would damage the crib from jumping on that, too, so we figured a bunk bed would stop the jumping. We originally put Matthew into his room because it was already painted blue and the other room was a horrid pale pink. However, the other room is larger, so I explained to Matthew that his room was too small for a bunk bed. He seemed to take this in stride, and since he really wanted a bunk bed, he was fine switching bedrooms. Mark and I put together the bunk bed without much trouble, and Matthew absolutely loves it. He and Hannah played on it all day. Even though it's been two weeks, yesterday Matthew asked Mark, "Do you want to come play on my bunk bed?" And Hannah has adjusted just fine to her new bed. She wanted to climb the ladder at first, but now she'll only go up one or two steps to look out the window and then she decides to come back down.

Hannah saying goodbye to her old bed

Mathew's side of the room

Saying goodbye to his bed

I still need to move his airplane into the new room

Bunk Bed

Mark, Hannah and Matthew on the top bunk

Robison snowshoeing expedition

Mark's dad, Elwin, started working on the Historical Site Review of the Salt Lake Temple, so he came in town for a week in January and another week in February and got to stay with us both weeks. He'll be come back basically every month for the next couple of months, so we are excited to be able to see a lot of him this spring. While he was here, he took Mark, Anna and Michael snowshoeing at Alta. I had to decline the invitation because of Katherine's birthday party, which worked out because I had a terrible sinus infection at the time. Mark had so much fun that he decided to get a pair of snowshoes for his birthday. He took me out the weekend before his birthday, and we had fun, even though since we stayed local and since it hadn't snowed in over a month, the snow was super packed on the trail we used. Looks like next winter we'll be in for more snowshoeing adventures.

Mark, Anna and Michael

Elwin, Michael, Anna and Mark

Michael and Anna

Mark, Anna, Michael and Elwin

View from the top

Apparently they hike Wolverine Peak, and,

of course, had to salute Ohio

Mark, Michael and Anna

The Race

Katherine's First Birthday

My niece Katherine had her first birthday at the end of January. Melissa and Aaron weren't sure if they wanted to host a party in their apartment, so I offered them the use of my house. I ended up being terribly sick at the time, but it worked out well. Since Mark was snowshoeing with his family, if it hadn't been at my house, I would not have gone. The kids had so much fun playing with each other and the balloons. It's nice that we live close enough to some of the cousins to celebrate birthdays together.

Hannah's First Haircut

During Christmas, Hannah's hair was driving me crazy. It wasn't exactly a mullet, but the back was so long in the center but not at the sides. My mom and everyone else kept insisting it was fine, but I decided it was time to take her in for a professional haircut. To even out the back, the basically had to cut all the length off. The trimmed up her bangs so they weren't in her face. The actually styled her hair in a little twisted ponytail, but I haven't been able to replicate it since. It took a bit getting used to her new cut, but I'm glad I did it. Even though now I get a lot of compliments on my two cute boys when Hannah's clothing isn't pink. Her hair is slowly growing out, and now it's nice and even all around.

New dress up clothes: Matthew as Superman

Hannah the cheerleader

Go, Ohio State!

Pre-haircut

My last ponytail for a while

Post haircut (with a top twisted ponytail)

We'll call it a bob

Christmas 2014

Overall, we had a wonderful Christmas last year. It was fun to have all the cousins together. And since they are all so close in age. Except for our few outings, mostly we just hung out at the house. The kids ran around playing and watched plenty of Christmas movies, and the adults played tons of board games. And I should mention that I was the winner of the annual Ticket to Ride tournament. Who knows how many grandkids there will be when we get together next.