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Thanksgiving!

December 1, 2008 admin No Comments

We had the Thanksgiving party at our house this year and it was fun. We have always gone to be with my parents or Ben’s parents but we decided it would be best to stay close to Dr and hospital so this was our first Utah Thanksgiving. Of course the baby didn’t come so we could have travelled but…Â luckily we had a lot of family around, the turkey turned out, and we just really enjoyed the holiday. Throughout the week we got to play with my siblings: Shannon, Sean, Joel, and Tracie (and husband John). We also had the Carters over for Thanksgiving dinner and some of the week – they are friends of the family that came from Oroville to hang out with the college kids. And we got to spend some time with Bens siblings: Pete and Matt and Michelle – our local Nettesheim families, ( being local they get taken for granted and not mentioned as much on the blog but we LOVE having all of them close by.)

On Wednesday night we stayed up late playing cards and more Settlers.

On Thursday, Ben got up early and worked on his first Turkey dinner – he said that he highly underestimated the nastinness of a “pre cooked, needing to be cleaned out and prepared for the oven turkey”! but he got it in the oven and by 9am the house was smelling so good but it was an 18 pounder and on slow cook mode so we wouldn’t be ready to eat until 3:30. In the mean time we had plenty of time to make the potatoes and veggies and salads and… the rest of the Thanksgiving Feast. Luckily everyone pitched in on the cooking – I think they knew that a “Jana” dinner might not be up to par 🙂 . And Uncle Sean pretended to cook the “Benji Turkey” so everyone was happy.

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This was our Thanksgiving Dinner group. Packer fell asleep before dinner but he got plenty of leftovers. Actually we all got plenty of leftovers – 4 days later we are still going strong on potatoes and turkey! And I have successfully eaten Pumpkin and Chocolate Pie everyday since! We are Thankful for friends and family and health and strength. For the Gospel and testimonies and a Savior. Ben and I feel that we are very blessed and are grateful for all that we have. What a great holiday!

Categories: Nettesheim, Robertson

Board Game Geeks…

November 24, 2008 admin 1 Comment

My brothers Ryan and Sean came over on Saturday so we made time for a combined game of Settlers, Sea Farers, and Cities and Knights. Anyone familiar with Settlers of Catan knows how intense this is. Ryan came away with a lucky win, Ben held his own, Sean was a first timer but hung in there and I got whooped.

You can always count on Robertsons for pulling lame faces in pictures and devouring a bag of M&M’s at some point during the game. For those that know the game I am displaying my two LAME Progress Cards – both Intrigue cards! The lamest in the whole game. No wonder I couldn’t pull off the win.

I’m excited for the holiday week. We’ve always gone out of state for Thanksgiving but with my due date being so close we’ll be home this year. A few of the Robertson clan will be here onÂ Thursday so hopefully Ben gone pull off a yummy turkey! And I am craving some pumpkin Pie! yum. I can’t wait.

Categories: Ben, Jana, Robertson

Baby Shower!

November 18, 2008 admin 5 Comments

The baby shower was last Saturday and it was soo much fun:

Have you seen so much pink? we haven’t

Here’s the LOOT!

The Pleasant Grove Sister-in-laws (that planned everything and are awesome! – thanks!) Everyone is holding their youngest daughter as I wait for mine.

The Orovillians. We needed to post this to make Erica feel bad for not comingÂ 🙂 .Â We’ll forgive her this time (only because she made the invitations and got other people to come instead!)

Proof that there were other people that came besides my family! I just forgot to get my camera out until the party was over 🙁 .Â We love our ward family!

The Johnson family – that’s my mom’s mom and her two sisters andÂ two of my cousins and their kids! Thanks to everyone that came to the shower. I had a great time and am feeling better prepared for this little one to be born. 17 more days!! who’s counting?

Categories: Jana, Nettesheim

The 9th Month

November 14, 2008 admin 6 Comments

You know you are in your last month of pregnancy when…

you willingly get out of bed at 5am because no matter how tired you are you just can’t get comfortable.Â

your back aches!

you crave “Maceys Farm Bread” every time you walk by the kitchen.

you find yourself making a new ” things I need to clean list” everyday!Â

you start waddling more than walking.

you are exhausted, ie. can’t lift your arms, after a day of shopping at the mall.

your inny becomes an outy.

you are out of breath after carrying your 18 month old up the stairs (there are only 6 stairs!)

you experience lovely leg crampsÂ ( from doing nothing – the cramps just come and muscles tighten and you feel like you just played an intense basketball game and the muscle stays tight for a week – but really you were just lying in bed.)

you are excited for your baby shower!

you have to wrap up your blog entry because your baby is sitting on your bladder again!

Categories: Jana

Leaves, Lots of Leaves!

November 10, 2008 admin 2 Comments

Benji getting burried in the big pile of leaves! He loved it!

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Packers turn to get burried! Not so fun. But finding dad was fun!

Some of the cousins came and played with us! After living here for 4 years we’ve finally figured out the best way to clean up the leaves of our humongous tree. We wait for all the leaves to fall – we spend one hour raking – we play in the leaves for an hour – and then we hall them out on a tarp to a truck and let the Elders Quorum hall them away 🙂

And last night we watched “Polar Express” – in 3D!!

Categories: Ben, Benji, Packer

Ninja Halloween!

November 3, 2008 admin 2 Comments

Our Ninja and Our Ninja Turtle all dressed up, with no naps because they were too excited to sleep! We went to the PG City Park with Benji’s friend AveryÂ and then came home to eat pizza – because that’s what Ninja Turtles eat! – and wait for Dad so that we could go trick or treating!

Batman took the boys trick or treating around our neighborhood. Raphael wanted to come home after a little while but you can see that our other little Ninja begged to go back out and get more treats! After trick or treating all of the cousins came to our house to play – we forgot to ge our annual picture but we had a lot of fun.

Benji is already asking when Turkey Day is! and Ben has already found opportunities to play Christmas Music and re-introduce the story of The Grinch to Benji! These Nettys Love the Holidays!

Categories: Benji, Packer

Names, names, names…

October 28, 2008 admin 10 Comments

Just over a month out and we’re still undecided. Ben and I have been having fun with this little widget though:Â

Popularity of names starting with PHILOMENA

Categories: General

The Great Pumpkin Party

October 27, 2008 admin 3 Comments

Saturday Night was our 4th Annual Great Pumpkin Party. Ever since we moved into our house here we have invited family and neighbors over for an outdoor showing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. Each year has gotten better and better. You can see that our little backyard was pretty full this year…

We played pin the bow tie on the skeleton while we waited for the sun to go down…

We had a “Best Seat in the House” Raffle – the winner got to sit in the Giant Bean Bag and consolation prize was the blue movie chair. Then we enjoyed Hot Chocolate and Popcorn and watched the show! Thanks to everyone who came and enjoyed the perfect weather with us!

Categories: Ben, Nettesheim

Nursery

October 26, 2008 admin No Comments

Today was Packers first day of Nursery! and the first day that I’m released from nursery! so Ben took both of the boys to nursey and we got to actually open our scriptures and listen to the lessons in Sunday School and Relief Society! It was a nice change for me. I am recommitted to do my personal history and inspired by the relationship between Joseph Smith and Emma. On a lesser note I realized that a pregnant woman in my state should not be trying to wear nylons – way too tight and uncomfortable! and on anotherÂ note -Â why in the world do people think it is OK to clip your fingernails at church??? Today marks the second time that I have been disgusted that one would find this to be the right time to take care of their personal hygiene! Come on people!

Benji had a hard time going to nursery without his mom today… When it was time to go he said, “Today is a bad day Mom.” With the grumpiest and most sincere face 🙁 And Dad reported that he left benji in the teachers arms screaming that he didn’t want to stay… but he made it through the whole time and even had a smile on his face when I picked him up. Thank you to great teachers for letting him be a special helper and babying him through this hard time. We gave high 5’s for being a big boy and look forward to good results next week.

I wanted a picture of Packer on his first day of nursery but his older brother was determined to be in the pictures… I love my boys.

Categories: Jana, Nettesheim

More Pumpkins

October 25, 2008 admin 3 Comments

I just looked through my October pictures and all i see are pumpkins – I guess its that time of year with farms and pumpkin patches and our garden and…. I now know why that is one of Packers first words. We are in love with pumpkins this year! We had a few pumpkins in our garden still so we picked the last of them this week and we got some fun pictures with Grandma and Grandpa.

Grandma and Grandpa Nettesheim are on their way home today 🙁 but we had a great time while they were here. Our favorites were playing Candyland, Sheepshead, and O’shucks with them.

LaNell, Mikila and Katie came over to carve pumpkins last night – – we had fun and we think our pumpkins turned out pretty good. Mine is the “wicked” one in honor of seeing the show on broadway. You mightÂ be ableÂ to guess who wanted a Ninja Turtle and Packer and Ben came through with some good Jack o Lantern faces for us.

Categories: General