Look Who's 3...

I can hardly believe it, my baby just turned 3!!!!!!!!! Wow, does time fly or what!!! Paige had a tinkerbell birthday this year for her party!!! She loves tink. It was a really fun day, we got up and went to an Easter egg hunt first thing that morning, then we came home and had a little birthday party for her. We had some purple and green cup cakes that the kids got to decorate, then they decorated some tinkerbell wands and played pin the star on the wand and last but not least did a pinata!!! Paige had a great time with her family and friends!!!




My cute little tinkerbell!!!

Looking good Paige, delicious!!!
Yummy frosting and cupcakes!!!Yes, that is an easter bunny pinata!

Paige and her new bike!!!

Spring Break 2009

This year for spring break we were trying to decide what to do, since the kids had the whole week off. One of my friends was heading up to Bear Lake to stay in a condo for a few days with some friends, so we (me and the kids) decided to tag along. We had a lot of fun. We went up Tuesday morning, got there by lunch time, had some lunch and the kids went swimming for a few hours!!! Then since it was a sunny day, we headed down to the lake and the kids were finding sea shells on the beach and walking through the puddles. It wasn't quite warm enough to go swimming!!!! Then we headed back for dinner and went swiming again at the pool and then put the kids to bed. Wednesday was a pretty cold day. We hung out that morning, went on a little drive, then had some lunch and went swimming for the afternoon. That night we had a movie night and then put the kids to bed and the mom's stayed up and watched a movie. Thursday morning we got up ate breakfast, packed up and headed home. Halley and Cole were begging to go swimming one last time, but it was time to go. We all had a really fun time but we missed Greg! It was good to come home to our own beds again. (4/7/09-4/9/09)

Look how cute my little fishes are!!!

Me and my girls!!!

Tired from all that swimming!!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

This year for St. Patrick's Day, Louie the Leprechaun came for another visit. He wasn't quite as creative as last year but the kids loved it all the same. They woke up that morning (sorry I didn't get any pic's this year, oh well), With green kisses from Louie all over there face. The kids wouldn't wash there faces before school that morning because they were afraid that they would wash off. Halley said that Louie had come into her room in the night and thrown her play clothes all over her room. Crazy how that happens... Then the kids were off to school in there green attire. I put Halley's hair in the shape of a three leaf clover for the occasion, again no pic. Then while Cole was at school Louie went and decorated his back pack with stickers and left him a green apple to eat since they are his favorite. Meanwhile at home, Louie did random stuff all day, like turn the milk green and the eggs green in the waffles for breakfast, then the lemonade turned green and he put stickers on the kids doors and hid some gold coins around for the kids to find. The kids thought this was super fantastic!!! It ended with some green tunafish casserole for dinner, (is that disgusting or what)!!! And that was our St. Patrick's day!!! Fun tradition to have Louie visit, sometimes a lot of work!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls Weekend Out!!!

I don't even know where to begin!!! I mean a picture is worth a thousand words right! Me and my sis in laws went on a fabulous get away to sunny St. George. Ok, it might not have been the warmest weekend but it was sunny and nice. We had a good time just being together and being GIRLS and not mom's for a whole weekend. We did lots of...

1- shopping (almost every store in the St. George Valley)

2- eating (lots of snacks, breakfast around 1pm and dinner around 9pm)

3- exercising (walking hills, hiking)

4- getting pampered (massages)

5- strolling down memory lane (old highschool yearbooks)

6- dressing like diva's (loved the beautiful flower sequinn dress and sweet mullet wig, Adrien)

7- laughing our guts out!!!

I just don't think a girls weekend can get much better than this!!!!! Thanks to all the hubby's for letting us go, you are the best!!! (3/5-3/8)

Now it is March!!!

Well, yet another month has come and gone and I am still thinking to myself where does the time go. I have had another busy month. I haven't been painting this time, but I have been busy trying to get all organized and I am almost there. Greg built a closet organizer in my room!!! Hallelujah!!! Now my room is finally clean! You can see the floor and the dresser and even under the bed is nice and clean. What a great feeling!!! (I do need to put in a plug for my great assistant!!! My sister in law Brooke has been helping my get organized, because I learned that I just can't do it by myself, it is too overwhelming. So I have Brooke come over and we get stuff nice and organized and it is great, and nice to have someone to talk to while I work away! So thanks Brooke, I couldn't do it without you...) After I got my room done, I moved to the coat closet. Greg put in a nice organizer in there, so now I have lots of room to keep all my stuff and have it organized. Seriously the best feeling! I am hoping to have the top floor all done and organized by the time the baby comes, so I have to keep plugging away I still have so much to do. Next I am hoping to move to the hall closet and just get that cleaned out and organized and then move on to the kitchen... Oh, I can't even imagine having a nice CLEAN, ORGANIZED house. I don't know what I will even do. I know most of you are already there, but I am not, so this is really exciting for me... The kids are all doing well, and ready for spring to arrive! On the warm and sunny days they play outside most of the time and it is great. Paige is getting ready for her birthday and she asks me about every day if she is 3 yet. Halley is enjoying Kindergarten and doing well with reading and all that stuff. She is a little bit of a day dreamer and in her own world a lot, but she loves to gigle and she enjoys life and is my social butterfly. Cole is flying through First grade. He is doing some advanced classes during the day and is loving having a bit more of a challenge. Greg is busy at work. Bidding, Bidding, and Bidding more jobs. But, the good thing is it is good job security. And as for me, just doing the usual day to day stuff, growing bigger by the day, and getting my house organized as mentioned above.

Bye Bye January!!!

January has come and gone and can I just say that I am so glad. I have had a busy month to say the least, but I am feeling so fulfilled to have gotten so much accomplished for the worst month of the year!!! What have I been doing you ask, well, let me tell you! I decided that it was well past time to get my house under control so that I can actually stand to live here and maybe even enjoy this little home of ours. Since finding out that we are having yet another girl, which is great, I decided that it was time to move Cole out of the big room that he's in and move the girls in there. So, with my major nesting bug (or so everyone says I'm nesting) I decided to paint the girls room (Chocolate Brown and Pink) then I had Greg build me some closet organizers so that I can finally get some organization around here! It turned out super cute and now I have just oodles of space and I love it. I even made room for the new baby in there! So, with doing all of that, I needed to make Cole a new room and so that is what I did. I decided to paint Cole's room tan and red. Let me tell you how fun it is to paint red when no ones bothers to tell you how to do it right the first time around. I put on the first coat of red (over my yellow paint) and it looked horrible!!! I mean bad, but I thought OK, the second coat will look better. So I painted the second coat and that only looked slightly better... so on the the third coat it looked a little bit better... but I thought it for sure needed another coat and MAYBE just maybe it might turn out. Fourth coat, it looked decent but still not quite as good as I would have liked. So, at this point, I decided that it was time to start over and do it right. First a word of advise for all of you who are going to paint a red wall. START with Grey Primer on your wall!!!!!!!!! This makes the red paint coat like it should the first time around. Then the second/seventh coat goes on GREAT!!! I could have saved myself 4 coats, so 7 coats later Cole's room is finally done (except for the touch up that now needs to be done on the trim), but I think that it turned out really cute. I also had Greg build me a closet organizer in his room which allowed me to take out a dresser from his room so all he has in there is a book shelf and bed. It is so nice having some space and to actually have a place for everything. I almost don't know what to do! Almost!!!!!! It was so great to keep myself busy to help me not get the winter blues... Now February is here and it is almost spring like weather today, nice and sunny and kind of warm. Gotta love that... Here are some pictures, I don't have all the decorating all done in the rooms, but you get the general idea of how cute it will be!

The Girls Room!!!!

Another view...

Girls Room once it get's curtains up (Paige is up on the bed holding the one end!)

The Closet with it's organizers, and pretty organized! (for me anyway)

Coles Room!!!

Another view...

And his closet!!! You get the jist of it!

Robinson Family Christmas Party!!!

This year for the Robinson family Christmas party, we decided to go sledding, have hot coco, and just spend some good quality time together. We did our gift exchange and played some basketball, and had some games and lots of treats for the kids. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed getting together and spending some fun quality time together!!! (Dec. 26, 2008)