Category: Robertson

    Table Mountain

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    On Sunday the 29th of April I drove to Oroville with Packer, Cali, Rose, Raymond and 3 of my siblings. Joel, Brady and Kelsey convinced me to leave early and spend some time at the parents house and let Ben and Benji come with Ryan and his family so… that’s what we did 🙂 We drove on Sunday and then played for 2 days.

    On Monday we hung out with Liz and her kids and Tracie and her high school friends. That evening we went up to Table Mountain for a picnic and hike for family night. Table Mountain is simply beautiful. Check it out:

    even the cows are pretty

    picnic by the big tree

    look how cute Rose is these days

    hiking to the water

    Grandpa. Kids. and a Cow.

    Tommy, Kelsey, Mom

    Cedar, Tracie, Cali, Mom

    we found the water

    Cali and Packer with the salamanders.

    slimy little guys

    hiking back

    a bonkey tree! we loved to find trees to bounce on when we were kids so now we are teaching our children the fun.

    good night Table Mountain!

    Categories: General, Robertson

    Baby Cedar!

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    Baby Cedar came to Utah to meet us! She lives in Alaska with her mom (my sister, Tracie) and her dad (John Lewis). That’s why I am giving her her own blog post – – this might be the only time we see her before she is 5! 🙂

    On Sunday April 22nd we went to her blessing and spent the day with family in Murray? (i think)

    John, Cedar and Tracie

    family picture after church

    Rose and Uncle Joelie

    us

    i love being mom

    a little sunday race ???

    guess which brother wouldn't stop until the top?

    cousins at the luncheon

    the cute babies

    Aunt Carol and Cedar

    Aunt Di and Cedar

    After Cedars party we went straight to Amanda’s birthday party. No pictures of Amanda but Great Grandma Nettesheim was there and listened to the kids play in the corner. It was neat just having her there with us.

    Ray, Cali, Rose and Grandma in the toy corner

    Rose and Ellie playing nicely

    dad and Ray after a busy Sunday

    Categories: General, Raymond, Robertson

    Kevin and Conference

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    My brother Kevin brought his family out to Utah this past weekend so we got to spend the weekend with his family and the college kids over at Ryan’s place. We had a good time hanging out during and between conference sessions. We ate lots of good food and played a few games. We stayed up way too late and the kids played hard with all the cousins. Come Sunday night we were all exhausted but I loved it. Liz and Kevin are great and their kids are super cute and fun. Mostly I just got pictures of the babies…

    Thomas was not a happy camper - so we decided to try again later...

    Tommy was born in December and Ray in February so they are 2 months apart - when you are this little that makes a big difference.

    cousin buddies

    Saturday Night Sleepover - our kids were SOO excited to stay the night.

    Categories: Raymond, Robertson

    20 PICTURES

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    Here are a bunch of pictures from our Sunday get together. It was fun to have so much family in our little house. Luckily the weather cooperated and the kids were able to run around outside. Here’s a little bit of what you would have seen if you had been a fly on our walls…

    Great Grandma Nettesheim is visiting from Wisconsin!

    me and my baby boy

    Kelsey and Joel (Brady must have had the camera)

    Casey Calloway was here...

    LaNell was also here.

    Christian had fun with the cars.

    Cousins please eat outside on the grass.

    Joel showing he could handle the INSANITY sauce

    Red Light, Green Light. Cali, Sam, Packer, Luca.

    Rose trying to take over the tire swing. Marlee, Brinlee, Kiah.

    Raymond chillin in his car seat while we all ate.

    Matt and Dad

    Mom and Ben

    All the kids watching the neighbor's race their cars. (thank you Warner's for the entertainment)

    Cali pushing Mia on the swing.

    Robertson Rook Game - Kelsey, Sean, Casey, Ryan, Joel and Brady.

    Michelle, Kris and Emily.

    Kelsey trying out the toddler skates.

    Ellie trying to make it out the front door.

    THE END.

    Categories: Nettesheim, Raymond, Robertson

    Raymond’s Blessing Day

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    Sunday March 25th at 11am in the Northfield 4th Ward – Raymond was given a name and a blessing by his Father. Others that participated in giving the blessing were his Grandpa Nettesheim, seven of his uncles; Pete, Matt, Udine, Ryan, Joel, Brady and Sean, and his namesake, Great Grandpa Ray Becker.

    6 weeks

    Ray

    happy mom and dad

    After church we had a bunch of family come over and we just spent the rest of the day visiting and eating and having a great family day.

    family picture

    thats a lot of little people

    Our first family of 7 pictures, no one is looking and I forgot to suck in but I LOVE IT

    I have a lot more family hanging out, spending the day together pictures but I was supposed to have pictures of Raymond posted yesterday for my mom so I am posting now and will post more later.

    Categories: Nettesheim, Raymond, Robertson

    Sunday Night

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    Almost Every Sunday Night we have some of my family over for dinner and games. If everyone can make it then it is Ryan, Tara and 4 girls, Joel, Brady, Sean and Kelsey. So we have 8 adults and 9 kids and whatever friend Brady brings along (Usually Casey these days). I love that they all take the time to play with the kids. This last Sunday Kelsey and Brady got a hold of the camera so we got some fun pictures:

    Kelsey and my babies

    Rose is finally warming up to everyone - she used to roll her eyes and pretend not to look at you - now she begs to be thrown on the bean bag

    Sean taking a homework break, trying to beat Ben's score on Whale Trail

    Kelsey is 12 years younger than I am so she was only 6 yrs old when I left for College! I'm glad they come to college out here so I can see them.

    Rose Loves her Baby - she even does baby talk when she says Baby

    More play time - Benji seems to be eluding my camera lately - he disappears when there are cousins to play with.

    Prayers, hugs and the kids to bed!

    I love having so much family! that must be why I keep going through these pregnancies and adding to my own chaos. Family is my favorite!

    This last Sunday was Rose’s first time going to Nursery! She technically still had 2 weeks until she is 18 months but our nursery leaders are WONDERFUL and they let her in, and let her cry for 20 minutes and then when they pulled out the bubbles she forgot about crying and had a great time at nursery. We will see how she does this Sunday. Raymond had his first full 3 hours of church and he slept threw the entire thing in his car seat.

    glad my babies had a good Sunday

    PS – Rose even added the word “bubble” to her vocabulary! baby, mom, baba (bottle), more, please. This week she has been saying “sorry” to Cali a lot and she really tries to say the word. She also just started trying to say the kids names and started playing the “Rosie say… (pick a word)” game. She can also do the face game – show me your eyes, ears, mouth, tongue, nose, teeth, hair… and she tries to say each of those words! I’m excited. It makes a world of difference when a child can tell you what they want 🙂

    Categories: General, Robertson, Rose

    California Trip, December 26 – January 2

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    Our Oroville trip: Monday – 7:00am leave PG – 4:30pm get to Oroville! Eat Dinner with EVERYONE and have our Robertson gift exchange and presents from and to my mom and dad! Josh and Mal were there but had to leave that evening. Christy and Rob had just gotten there and all of the singles were home (missing Ryans fam and Tracies fam).

     

    picture taken later in the week BUT we did meet THOMAS JETT! you think we are ready for one this little!!!

    Tuesday – games in the morning and Erica and her kids came to play with us! That afternoon we went to the Park for ultimate and football and pizza. That night mom made her Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup and we played more games and watched BYU basketball.

     

    Cali and Gabriella are just one month apart - I love how they are wrestling here.

    Wednesday – all of the kids went to Kevin and Liz’s in the morning to play on their new swing set, We played more games at Gmas – TwinkleBear, Nertz, Dominion, Ticket, and Small World were some of the regulars. The Eggers left that afternoon and that evening my mom watched the kids so Ben and I could go to dinner with some Friends! and we played games before bed 🙂

     

    I still hadn't unpacked my camera at this point in the trip - Angelee took this one of the girls at Righteous Burger.

    Thursday – We went over to say bye to Than and Erica, played games, Brittney came over, I shopped with mom and then at 4:00 we left for the Kings game in Sacramento. We met up with Josh and Payton and the Eggers so we had 20 of us at the game and we all cheered for Jimmer. And again my mom stayed home and watched my kids! We got home late and watched the recorded byu basketball game before crashing.

     

    Pre-game - purpled Out

    at the game

    Friday– the engine light in the van had come on so I took it to the shop, spark plug did the trick!, BYU football at 9am, Power wheels in the back yard, spaghetti and games.

     

    Cruisin in the John Deers! We did this last year but this year we were in Grandpas's back yard and now these kids know how to DRIVE!

    learning to drive

    Rose stood up in this front seat for an hour - she would not get off - LOVED IT

    Saturday – play games! (yes, that is a daily occurence) 1:00 go to Hulas, run errands in Chico, 5:00 home, Ben to get treats, Lumpia!! games, nap, liars dice, New Years! Cousins taking turns throwing up.

     

    we LOVE the Mongolian Barbeque - Shannon was shoing us that she has graduated into a true fill the bowl Hula's Girl! 🙂

    Pinata for New Year's!

    Happy New Year!

    Kevin and Liz - we love that these guys live right by the parents so we can spend lots of time with them when we visit.

    look who made it to midnight for the 1st time! he and Jaydn and Maddie!

    Sunday – 9:00 church, games, pack, games, ham and potatoes, pack, play, chat:

     

    during the last 2 hours of the trip Rose decided to be friendly finally! she loved the spinning chair!

    High Fives for Uncle Michael

    High Fives for Uncle Sean

    Packer and Grandpa Robertson on our last night.

    Monday- 7:30 leave (already 8:30 Utah time), Nevada City = Speeding Ticket! ok – we were speeding but you were camped out 5 ft before the speed limit increases by 10 and we would have been fine – not cool. The most not cool part was that all of the kids were asleep – awoken abruptly by the police man 🙁 and Ben rolled down his window for the cop MOMENTARILY FORGETTING that our windows are broken! So we got a ticket, had 4 wide awake kids and then played freeze-out for the next 2 hours while we tried to crank on the window and get it all the way up!! not fun. Next time I’ll keep driving and mail you the 300$! From there we only stopped in Lovelock and then Wendover at 4:00, grabbed Mcdonalds for tha too many-eth time that month. Another successful 11 hour trip!

     

    headed home! DVD player(check), PSP(check), Tablet(check), Laptop(check), MP3 player(check), Dads Phone(check), Moms Nook(check) and a few toys and snacks!

     

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    The Ultimate Update

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    I haven’t blogged since November 3rd and that happens to be the day that Ryan and Tara found a place to live and started moving to the house in American Fork. They moved most everything on that Wednesday and Thursday. I had sick kids so I stayed home and helped with kids and cleaned what I could here. It was an adventure having another FULL SIZE family living with us 🙂 We have had several live ins and we love it. It is like extended family vacation and that is how I feel now. I feel like I am trying to RECOVER from vacation. Lots of late nights and games and kids running around and non stop playing and toys and traffic and double the cleaning and dishes and mess. It was a Fun but Crazy 4 months. The good news is… we now know that this house can be home to 12 people! If you had asked us 5 months ago we were a little worried about squeezing the 7th member of our family in, but now we have no worries 🙂 I have a bad case of the cleaning nesting organizing bug, wanting to get all of my closets and book shelves de-cluttered and usable, so that’s what I’ll be doing in my FREE time for the rest of the year.

    Now on to the pictures… what we’ve been doing in the last 2 weeks without our live in house mates to entertain us…

    November 3, 2011

    We are still obsessed with Plants Vs Zombies – the kids have spent hours playing with these cones. It’s one of those natural toys that I know I should go hide them back in the garage but they are played with daily by all of the kids so I keep leaving them out.

    November 6, 2011

    This is where I found Cali on a Sunday night after I had sent her up to get her pajamas on. When you zoom out you will see that she took off her church clothes, pulled out her jammies, removed her diaper and then somehow ended up asleep in the nude, in the closet. This is not a normal occurrence – she and Rose both got thrush under their tongues from the amoxicillin so they didn’t eat while we waited for it to go away = hungry, grumpy, tired girls for a few days.

    Zoomed Out

    November 7, 2011

    Rose has found her voice and is constantly yelling and grunting and trying to get us to read her mind and do what SHE WANTS. The girls finally got over their tongue issues and that same night Packer claimed that his tongue was hurting. He had not been on antibiotics so I knew it couldn’t be the same thing that Cali and Rose had but he was worse off than the girls. He stopped Eating and Drinking Completely and then he stopped talking because it hurt to open his mouth. I finally took him to the Dr and he was diagnosed with canker sores – yep, regular old canker sores right on the tip of his tongue so we just had to wait it out again. We forced him to eat and drink enough to keep his energy up but he was out for almost a week.

    November 7, 2011

    Sicky Boy Packer

    November 8, 2011Hide and Go Seek Time
    When the cousins moved out I had to give Benji a big lecture about not getting to play with a cousin EVERY day and that he would need to play with his brother and sister and have more family time. He didn’t love that news BUT he had a good attitude about it and we have had some fun family time and I have enjoyed watching them have brother and sister time again.

    Brother Time

    Sister Time

    Daddy Time

    I Found Him

    November 9, 2011

    Still Recovering from the Sore Tongue

    Every November we get to clean up the leaves from our massive tree. We usually pick a night and invite some cousins over and have a big leaf jumping party BUT this year we were heading out of town on Friday and our ward was doing a pickup that Saturday morning so we had to do a quick Friday afternoon clean up. Packer and Cali still got to enjoy the leaves but Benji actually cried when he realized that he would not be leaf jumping this year.

    November 11, 2011

    Packer Flying into the LEAVES

    Cali getting some Air

    Ben's turn!

    Jana's turn!

    I did not do any leaf jumping this year. I was exhausted after doing my part of the raking. Baby number 5, or Clyde as we have been calling him, is due to be born in 3 months from this day. I feel like that is still far away but it is also coming fast. After Benji got home from school on Friday we loaded up the Dodge Grand Caravan and headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon to spend the night at a cabin with the Nettesheim Cousins!! It has become tradition to kick off the holiday season with family and plan our Christmas Traditions and just enjoy each others company. This year we stayed at Bear Trap and it was AWESOME! I have a few pictures from that so I think I’ll post those separately.

    November 13, 2011

    Marlee and Rose!

    We had our weekly Robertson Family Sunday Dinner… Marlee was excited to play with Rosie, she carries her around and takes her wherever she goes. She and Rose are buddies. We ate Pizza and actually got a few games in after the 49er game (can’t believe they are having a killer season). Than and Sam Hancock stopped by so that was fun and My siblings were being crazy and wouldn’t go home until after midnight – I kept telling then that this pregnant sister can’t stay up all night but they didn’t care 🙂  and… Benji was up all night throwing up. The first one was bad and it was dark so he missed the toilet but after that he was a perfect sick guy. He counted 6 times that he threw up, a few of those he handled completely on his own. We kept him home from school on Monday but he felt fine all day and just played with his siblings. In fact everyone was full of energy so we headed to the park for the afternoon.

    November 14, 2011

    perfect park day

    Monday night we invited Ben’s parents over to watch the Green Bay Packers beat up the Vikings. The Packers are amazing this year and it was fun to watch with Grandma and Grandpa and eat some Pumpkin Pie at halftime. I love November just for the pumpkin Pie! Today is a good, normal Tuesday. We are healthy. I went on my morning walk. Ben is working. The boys had school. The Girls had cousins over to play and I am finally blogging 🙂 “Vacation” is over and now I think the hangover from the 4 month “vacation” is also over 🙂

    November 15, 2011

    She Can Stand Up Now - only about 20 seconds on her own but she is definitely in stand up mode.

    Cali wanted to invite Anna and Mia over to play. When I signed Packer up for afternoon preschool I was thinking that would be the perfect nap time for the girls BUT Rose takes 2 naps still and is never napping when Packer has school. So it has turned in to Cali’s play time. She often gets to play with her cousins for those hours during the week and they seem to love it.

    Anna, Cali and Mia

    Christian came to play today also and he and Rose followed the big girls all over the house.

    Categories: General, Nettesheim, Robertson

    October is Over

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    Another month has flown by… Here is the last of our Halloween and October happenings…

    Spider Packer! he loves school on days they do projects

    Pumpkin CARVING!! We did all 8 pumpkins. Tara helped her girls and Ben and I 'helped' our kids.

    Posing with their pumpkins!! Brinlee and Rose did get pumpkins but they weren't quite finished at picture/bedtime

    Packer, Luca and Sam at the end of their preschool party

    Ready for School! Mar, Ky, Tay and Benji on their way out the door

    We made it over to the school costume parade! It was fun to see Benji, and lots of cousins and get ideas for future costumes

    Categories: Nettesheim, Robertson

    Fall Break!

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    A Perfect Park Day!

    everyone racing to the top of the slides

    The kids didn’t have school yesterday or today and they are loving it. We are just taking it easy at home for the break but the kids are all playing hard. Yesterday I took them to the park in the afternoon for a couple of hours and they had a blast…

    Packer, Cali and Brinlee in the berry bush

    Brinlee posing by the FAST slide

    Packer showing me his rock

    Packer and a berry

    Benji Posing for a pic

    Packer wanted to pose by this slide like we did with family this summer

    Cali getting her hair out of her face for the picture

    Ta Da!

    the big kids spent most of their time exploring the hill

    Rose spent her time EATING

    This weather has been awesome. It is perfectly warm and cool at the same time!

    Categories: General, Nettesheim, Robertson