Christmas came to me and Chet at 3:30 this morning! Our poor son was whimpering in the hallway with a temperature of 104.2! We did all the standards to help bring the fever down,(Motrin, cooler jammies, blessing) but nothing helped. I finally made Chet call his doctor after an hour of no change. Dr. Knorr reassured us (mostly me) that everything was ok and that it was probably his ears again. (Harris is notorious for ear infections) I finally let Chet go sleep in Harris' room and put Harris in bed with me so I could monitor him. I eventually fell back to sleep around 6. At 7:01 Livvy came in and said "Let's go, let's go!" I sent her back to her room until Harris woke up. (poor girl) She was very understanding though and patiently waited until Harris went and got her at about 8. Harris was kind of a bump though. He sat on my lap most of the morning and only played with his toys for a minute. :( After the opening of gifts at home, we headed to the Robinson's. About 5 minutes after we got there Harris started throwing up. Lucky me caught most of it in my hands. We stayed for a bit and enjoyed watching them open the gifts we got for them, and their gifts to the kids. Before we left, Chet and Chet Sr. gave Harris a blessing to feel better and to be able to enjoy the rest of the day. We then headed to my sister Jann's house for prime rib. (It was an amazing dinner by they way. Thanks, Jann!) Harris sat for a while and then felt well enough to play. He even ate a little. Yay! All in all we had a great day! Great presents, great food, amazing family! Thanks everyone! Merry Christmas!
We thought we would share a short video of when the kids came down the stairs on Christmas morning, enjoy!
Note: at 1:43 in the video you have GOT to check out Harris' reaction to his toy dinosaur, it is hilarious!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
2 in a row, Happy Birthday J-mo!
Well, well, 2 blog posts in a row for Chet...hot dog!
Anyway, I just wanted to post a short blog entry to wish my dear wife and friend, Jaime, a very happy birthday. I can't believe you are 29, I am sure this will be the first of many happy 29th birthdays!
I have seen this done in other blogs and thought I would copy. On Jaime's 29th birthday I thought I would share 29 things about my dear wife that you may (or may not) know.
Here it goes:
1. She is hilarious, especially when she doesn't mean to be. This one time she was trying to do her Severus Snape impression from the last Harry Potter movie. He says, "Obviously..." when it was mentioned that he didn't get the post of Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts, well Jaime was trying to do her impression of that voice and it came out unnaturally high-pitched. I thought it was hilarious, but reading this it doesn't sound quite so funny...
2. Sometimes she laughs so hard and uncontrollably that she starts bawling. Now, THAT is hilarious.
3. She has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen. Some may even call them, "stumbling"...
4. She is a natural blonde...that has to have her hair colored to look it's natural color...
5. When we met she had a scrapbook of Keanu Reeves.
6. She also had a scrapbook of the Mazda Miata.
7. She is obsessed with Disneyland (most of you probably knew that one)
8. She loves Christmas (not too original, I know, but she really really does.)
9. She is an "animal person", meaning that she sometimes relates to animals easier than people.
10. She can be painfully shy.
11. She is an amazing homemaker.
12. She is a fantastic chef and cook. Almost every new recipe she has tried out on the family has been a success (the only real misfire would be the Polenta from last week...)
13. She is a big fan of high fashion and has greatly expanded my vocabulary with strange french and Italian designer names (Louboutin, Dior, Ferragamo etc.)
14. Her favorite Christmas movie is "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas", look it up it is awesome.
15. Her favorite Halloween movie is "The Great Bear Scare", look it up it is soooooo lame.
16. She is most scared of Michael Myers, not Mike Myers from SNL but the scary mask-dude from the Halloween movies. Every year I threaten to purchase a Michael Meyers costume and wake her in the middle of the night while wearing the costume and brandishing a knife and every year she threatens to leave me if I do that...
17. She has an awesome talent where she can somehow lift a cup of ice cream by biting the side of the cup and raising her head...ask her about it some time, it is quite impressive.
18. She loves socks and slippers.
19. She would wear pajamas all day if it were socially acceptable.
20. She does not sleep well at night.
21. She is addicted to Pepsi, not to caffeine, mind you, but to Pepsi. (I know this because I used to substitute her regular fountain Pepsi with the caffeine-free version and she would never notice and it would seem to satisfy whatever weird cola craving she would be having)
22. She is soooo accident prone. I now have to supervise her when she uses sharp objects in the kitchen.
23. She is an expert gift-wrapper. It is probably hereditary.
24. She used to think that being a bastard meant that you didn't have a mom.
25. She also used to think that the Calvin Klein cologne, CK One, was a "bi-sexual" cologne. (She meant unisex, but in reality she probably wasn't that far off...)
26. She is a great gift-giver. She cares more than anyone I know about what gifts she gives to others at birthdays and Christmas.
27. She thinks that Pittsburgh is a state.
28. She sometimes suffers from "short-term memory". I think that is just when she remembers things that just recently happened...
29. She is the most intelligent, caring and beautiful person I have every met and I am honored and privileged to call her my trophy wife.
Happy Birthday Jaime, I love you always and forever.
Chet M.
Anyway, I just wanted to post a short blog entry to wish my dear wife and friend, Jaime, a very happy birthday. I can't believe you are 29, I am sure this will be the first of many happy 29th birthdays!
I have seen this done in other blogs and thought I would copy. On Jaime's 29th birthday I thought I would share 29 things about my dear wife that you may (or may not) know.
Here it goes:
1. She is hilarious, especially when she doesn't mean to be. This one time she was trying to do her Severus Snape impression from the last Harry Potter movie. He says, "Obviously..." when it was mentioned that he didn't get the post of Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts, well Jaime was trying to do her impression of that voice and it came out unnaturally high-pitched. I thought it was hilarious, but reading this it doesn't sound quite so funny...
2. Sometimes she laughs so hard and uncontrollably that she starts bawling. Now, THAT is hilarious.
3. She has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen. Some may even call them, "stumbling"...
4. She is a natural blonde...that has to have her hair colored to look it's natural color...
5. When we met she had a scrapbook of Keanu Reeves.
6. She also had a scrapbook of the Mazda Miata.
7. She is obsessed with Disneyland (most of you probably knew that one)
8. She loves Christmas (not too original, I know, but she really really does.)
9. She is an "animal person", meaning that she sometimes relates to animals easier than people.
10. She can be painfully shy.
11. She is an amazing homemaker.
12. She is a fantastic chef and cook. Almost every new recipe she has tried out on the family has been a success (the only real misfire would be the Polenta from last week...)
13. She is a big fan of high fashion and has greatly expanded my vocabulary with strange french and Italian designer names (Louboutin, Dior, Ferragamo etc.)
14. Her favorite Christmas movie is "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas", look it up it is awesome.
15. Her favorite Halloween movie is "The Great Bear Scare", look it up it is soooooo lame.
16. She is most scared of Michael Myers, not Mike Myers from SNL but the scary mask-dude from the Halloween movies. Every year I threaten to purchase a Michael Meyers costume and wake her in the middle of the night while wearing the costume and brandishing a knife and every year she threatens to leave me if I do that...
17. She has an awesome talent where she can somehow lift a cup of ice cream by biting the side of the cup and raising her head...ask her about it some time, it is quite impressive.
18. She loves socks and slippers.
19. She would wear pajamas all day if it were socially acceptable.
20. She does not sleep well at night.
21. She is addicted to Pepsi, not to caffeine, mind you, but to Pepsi. (I know this because I used to substitute her regular fountain Pepsi with the caffeine-free version and she would never notice and it would seem to satisfy whatever weird cola craving she would be having)
22. She is soooo accident prone. I now have to supervise her when she uses sharp objects in the kitchen.
23. She is an expert gift-wrapper. It is probably hereditary.
24. She used to think that being a bastard meant that you didn't have a mom.
25. She also used to think that the Calvin Klein cologne, CK One, was a "bi-sexual" cologne. (She meant unisex, but in reality she probably wasn't that far off...)
26. She is a great gift-giver. She cares more than anyone I know about what gifts she gives to others at birthdays and Christmas.
27. She thinks that Pittsburgh is a state.
28. She sometimes suffers from "short-term memory". I think that is just when she remembers things that just recently happened...
29. She is the most intelligent, caring and beautiful person I have every met and I am honored and privileged to call her my trophy wife.
Happy Birthday Jaime, I love you always and forever.
Chet M.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Chet's 2nd Post, My favorite Christmas decorations?
Yes, that is right. I am going to blog on my very favorite Christmas decorations. Some of you may be asking if Jaime is putting me up to this and the answer is NO. In all honesty, I love the Christmas season and one of my favorite things is the various decorations we put around the house. It is a yearly tradition and I thought I would share with the world some of my favorite things. (As a side note, for those of you concerned by the un-manly nature of this post, I just have to go on record by saying that I have never been all that concerned about appearing manly. Those of you that know me know of my love for goth-girl rock; Garbage, Evanescence and Paramore, as well as my love of the Twilight series of books, yep that's right I said it and I have no issues with it, so there.)
So, let's start with the outside of the house. We have a 2-story home and I do not own a ladder so we actually pay someone to put lights on the roofline and above the porch. Lining the walkway are some really cool tiny Christmas trees that Jaime and I purchased during an after-Christmas sale at Target a number of years ago. It takes me many hours every year to get all that stuff up, but I like the way it makes the house look and am considering keeping it up year round...
There are a number of Christmas ornaments that mean a lot to me. The first one is an ornament that my father and I made when I was like 3. We made them out of some sort of flour and water mix and 27 years later they are still around. I don't have a lot of things from that era of my life and I think it is cool to haul these out every year. My dad has always been a really influential part of my life and I feel like I get to honor that relationship every year when I hang up our ornaments (there are 3 from this era, I have 2 and my dad has 1)
Ah yes, this one is super cool. When I was smaller I remember Wendy taking me to a Christmas craft fair at Provo high. There I found this awesome home-made Ghostbusters ornament. To this day I am the only person I know of with unlicensed Ghostbuster merchandise...
So, one of my favorite movies, Christmas or otherwise, is A Christmas Story. This year Jaime purchased for me a leg lamp ornament. Yep, that's right, the soft glow of electric sex right on my tree...(it's a quote from the movie, BTW, I know that at some point I will be asked to explain myself)
So, I have this pet peeve about Nativity Scenes. I find it absolutely ridiculous when those cheesy gift stores that sell all sorts of nick-knacks put out Nativity Scenes that feature non-human characters. Knowing this, Jaime purchased for me an ornament that features the traditional Nativity Scene but with Mooses (Meese?). Yep, moose baby Jesus...
This one is especially awesome because I made it. When I was younger we decided to make our own ornaments one year. For some reason I decided to purchase a pair of wooded birds and paint them and then highlight their feathers in glitter-glue. This is the extent of my artistic talent...
OK, last ornament. This one was a gift from a family that I baptised when I was a missionary in Russia. The Russians didn't have much and it meant a lot that they would spare some of what they did have to give me a gift.
I bought this Nativity Scene for Jaime last year. Jaime is into these weird Willow Tree figurines and I thought that this made for a cool decoration but I am always way freaked out by the fact that nothing has a face. Oh well, at least they are human...I think...
One of my favorite traditions we had as kids was the Christmas countdown tree. There are little pockets for treats and each day someone gets to hang an ornament and eat a treat. I used to always love it when it was finally my turn. Wendy was gracious enough to make one for our family when Olivia was born. One of my favorite recent memories of this tradition is explaining to Liv that when the last ornament was hung we knew it was Christmas Eve. When we weren't watching her she tried to hang all the ornaments up to "hurry" Christmas along...I love the logic of kids...
This is my Christmas stocking. I remember buying it at the mall when I was a kid. We all had some sort of bear-looking stockings. It brings lots of fun memories about trying to wake my parents up at 4AM so we could open presents and them saying NO until about 5:30 AM or so. Most of our really cool gifts would not be wrapped and would be sitting out around our stockings. We would play with the gifts that were out until the parental units would finally awaken and we could begin. While technically we were probably lower middle-class growing up,
So, my very favorite Christmas movie is absolutely the Rankin-Bass classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I will have to do a separate blog post about the myriad ways and reasons I love this movie. Anyway, when Jaime and I were first married, she saw an advertisement for this really cool Christmas village and at the rock-bottom price of $49.95. Well, what Jaime didn't realize was that it was actually 8 easy installments of $49.95...
Anyway, this is my monster-sized Christmas post. I hope it was as fun for you as it was for me.
Cheers and Merry Christmas!
Chet
Anyway, here we go.
So, let's start with the outside of the house. We have a 2-story home and I do not own a ladder so we actually pay someone to put lights on the roofline and above the porch. Lining the walkway are some really cool tiny Christmas trees that Jaime and I purchased during an after-Christmas sale at Target a number of years ago. It takes me many hours every year to get all that stuff up, but I like the way it makes the house look and am considering keeping it up year round...There are a number of Christmas ornaments that mean a lot to me. The first one is an ornament that my father and I made when I was like 3. We made them out of some sort of flour and water mix and 27 years later they are still around. I don't have a lot of things from that era of my life and I think it is cool to haul these out every year. My dad has always been a really influential part of my life and I feel like I get to honor that relationship every year when I hang up our ornaments (there are 3 from this era, I have 2 and my dad has 1)This is the 2nd of the ornaments. It is Santa, in case you can't tell...
Ah yes, this one is super cool. When I was smaller I remember Wendy taking me to a Christmas craft fair at Provo high. There I found this awesome home-made Ghostbusters ornament. To this day I am the only person I know of with unlicensed Ghostbuster merchandise...So, one of my favorite movies, Christmas or otherwise, is A Christmas Story. This year Jaime purchased for me a leg lamp ornament. Yep, that's right, the soft glow of electric sex right on my tree...(it's a quote from the movie, BTW, I know that at some point I will be asked to explain myself)So, I have this pet peeve about Nativity Scenes. I find it absolutely ridiculous when those cheesy gift stores that sell all sorts of nick-knacks put out Nativity Scenes that feature non-human characters. Knowing this, Jaime purchased for me an ornament that features the traditional Nativity Scene but with Mooses (Meese?). Yep, moose baby Jesus... This one is especially awesome because I made it. When I was younger we decided to make our own ornaments one year. For some reason I decided to purchase a pair of wooded birds and paint them and then highlight their feathers in glitter-glue. This is the extent of my artistic talent...OK, last ornament. This one was a gift from a family that I baptised when I was a missionary in Russia. The Russians didn't have much and it meant a lot that they would spare some of what they did have to give me a gift.There are a couple non-ornament decorations I wanted to bring attention to as well:
I bought this Nativity Scene for Jaime last year. Jaime is into these weird Willow Tree figurines and I thought that this made for a cool decoration but I am always way freaked out by the fact that nothing has a face. Oh well, at least they are human...I think...One of my favorite traditions we had as kids was the Christmas countdown tree. There are little pockets for treats and each day someone gets to hang an ornament and eat a treat. I used to always love it when it was finally my turn. Wendy was gracious enough to make one for our family when Olivia was born. One of my favorite recent memories of this tradition is explaining to Liv that when the last ornament was hung we knew it was Christmas Eve. When we weren't watching her she tried to hang all the ornaments up to "hurry" Christmas along...I love the logic of kids...This is my Christmas stocking. I remember buying it at the mall when I was a kid. We all had some sort of bear-looking stockings. It brings lots of fun memories about trying to wake my parents up at 4AM so we could open presents and them saying NO until about 5:30 AM or so. Most of our really cool gifts would not be wrapped and would be sitting out around our stockings. We would play with the gifts that were out until the parental units would finally awaken and we could begin. While technically we were probably lower middle-class growing up,Dad and Wendy always provided an incredible Christmas for us. I can only imagine how long it took to pay off :)
OK, so for the finale:
So, my very favorite Christmas movie is absolutely the Rankin-Bass classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I will have to do a separate blog post about the myriad ways and reasons I love this movie. Anyway, when Jaime and I were first married, she saw an advertisement for this really cool Christmas village and at the rock-bottom price of $49.95. Well, what Jaime didn't realize was that it was actually 8 easy installments of $49.95...Yeah, so as an indigent married couple I ended up paying over $400 USD for a Christmas village! I told Jaime that I forgive her but to this day I am still not sure...
Anyway, I absolutely love this Christmas village and take great joy from my ownership thereof. Here are some extra shots of said village:
Anyway, this is my monster-sized Christmas post. I hope it was as fun for you as it was for me.
Cheers and Merry Christmas!
Chet
Monday, December 8, 2008
Disneyland Recap
I didn't think that Disneyland could be a more magical place than it already is but I was wrong. In fact, Chet and I decided that if we only went to Disneyland once a year it would be during the Christmas season.
It's a Small World
Liv and Chrys being weird on Autopia.
Harris in Pixie Hollow sat down and said "take a picture". OK. (Cute shirt huh Ben? It's his favorite. Thanks again.)
Chet (the jerk) got to go to Disneyland one night and stay after hours for an HP event. I have always wanted to be at Disneyland without anyone else there. What an amazing experience for Chet. He said it was "surreal" to be there without hardly anyone else. He took this picture on Main Street as he was leaving the event. (notice the absence of people, awesome!) We later found out that price for such an experience is about 350k!!!
We also got to see lots of new characters! So check out the "Our Hobby" slide show.
The decorations alone are worth the trip. They are amazing and adorn everything! Even the tiny houses on "Storybook" have wreaths on the doors and tiny pots of poinsettias! Each land has decorations that match that area. My favorite is Sleeping Beauty Castle. Every night there is a little ceremony when they turn the lights on the castle, and after they are turned on it snows! It is pure magic.
They have lots of fun events that they do as well, like Santa's Reindeer Round Up (you get to meet Santa and his reindeer. Yep, real reindeer), Haunted Mansion Holiday (which is decorated with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme), and "It's a Small World" Holiday (with so many Christmas lights it's unbelievable).
It's a Small WorldThey finally reopened Sleeping Beauty Castle, it has been closed since 9/11.
Liv and Chrys being weird on Autopia.Harris in Pixie Hollow sat down and said "take a picture". OK. (Cute shirt huh Ben? It's his favorite. Thanks again.)Ahhh, we love Uncle Chrys. (at the giant tree in California Adventure)
Chet (the jerk) got to go to Disneyland one night and stay after hours for an HP event. I have always wanted to be at Disneyland without anyone else there. What an amazing experience for Chet. He said it was "surreal" to be there without hardly anyone else. He took this picture on Main Street as he was leaving the event. (notice the absence of people, awesome!) We later found out that price for such an experience is about 350k!!!
We also got to see lots of new characters! So check out the "Our Hobby" slide show.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Santa and Talkin' Turkey
Today was another fabulous day at Disneyland! Chet had a break in his meetings and actually got to spend most of the afternoon with us. I was happy about that because I really wanted to take the kids to see Santa today. I think that tomorrow, being Friday, would have been too busy. As it was the wait was only about 20 minutes. It was great! Livvy was very excited that it was the "real" Santa not the fake one like at the mall. Harris was hesitant at first but Livvy took his had and walked up to Santa with him. When they sat down Santa asked them what they wanted, of course. Harris immediately said, "Spike the Dinosaur!". Liv was more reserved and told him Rollerblades. When I asked her, "Why Rollerblades?" she said because Santa won't know what a Juicy purse is. (which is what she really wants) It was really fun. After we saw Santa, Harris had to show Chet the "chicken". When we got to the turkey there was a whole bunch of people standing around trying to get the turkey's attention. Harris went right up to the cage and started screaming at the bird like he did yesterday. (such a boy) Sure enough the turkey started gobbling back. It was hilarious! I did feel bad for the bird though so I made Harris stop, but that didn't stop other kids from trying the same thing. However, he did not gobble at any of them. Just call Harris "The Turkey Whisperer".Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Presidential Pardon
Every year on Thanksgiving The President "pardons" a turkey. Do any of you know what happens to the turkey after he is "pardoned"? No, he doesn't get eaten anyway. He gets to live at Disneyland! We happen to be at Disneyland right now and got to see him. He is so cute!("and delicious," says Chet) Harris was fascinated and started making gobbling noises at him. They turkey responded by gobbling right back and scaring Harris to death! Needless to say Harris was done looking at the turkey after that.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Happy Birthday Mom!!!
So, today would have been my mom's 53 birthday. It was a melancholy day. In honor of our birthday lunch tradition, my dad, sisters and I all went to lunch at the Red Lobster, one of my mom's fave places. When our waiter came to get our orders, he asked what the special occasion was. We all sat there in an awkward moment of silence before I told him, then he had his awkward moment not knowing what to say to that. It was a nice but weird lunch. She should have been there with us.
My good friend Jana gave me a framed quote that says "If I had a flower for each time I thought of my mother, I could walk in my garden forever." Not all of you knew my mom so to remember her on her birthday I wanted to share some thoughts of her:
She was beautiful
She was an amazing listener, and would listen with genuine interest
She had more friends than anyone I know
She had a green thumb, she won yard of the week 3 years in a row
She was the fastest walker on the planet, none of us could ever keep up with her
She was an efficiency expert "if you are going up take something up if you are going down take something down"
She was FFA queen
My good friend Jana gave me a framed quote that says "If I had a flower for each time I thought of my mother, I could walk in my garden forever." Not all of you knew my mom so to remember her on her birthday I wanted to share some thoughts of her:
She was beautiful
She was an amazing listener, and would listen with genuine interest
She had more friends than anyone I know
She had a green thumb, she won yard of the week 3 years in a row
She was the fastest walker on the planet, none of us could ever keep up with her
She was an efficiency expert "if you are going up take something up if you are going down take something down"
She was FFA queen
She loved to get her nails done, OPI Bogota Blackberry was her favorite nail polish color
She never had her cell phone with her
She loved animals, and had good animal aura
She loved animals, and had good animal aura
She loved to go on criuses, Alaska was her favorite
We always knew when she had a migraine because she would do "the eyebrow thing"
She was always "on the up and up"
She loved to make up useful sayings
We always knew when she had a migraine because she would do "the eyebrow thing"
She was always "on the up and up"
She loved to make up useful sayings
She loved jammy time
She always gave the best gifts
Her house was decorated with grapes
She was obsessed with Africa and always wanted to go on a safari
She thought she was a doctor in a former life and would often prescribe "cocktails"
She was fascinated by forensics
She loved Ralph Lauren clothing
She always and only wore Eternity perfume, every time I smell it I cry
She always stood when she ate
She could eat her body weight in lime sherbet (all 100 pounds of her)
She was a hard worker, she managed Musicland and Sam Goody in the mall for 25 years
She knew anything an everything about all kinds of music
Elton John and any smooth jazz were her favorite
Even though she worked full time she still made me breakfast every morning
She was an immaculate cleaner, her house was always spotless
She loved Pepsi, I have a picture of me with a bottle filled with the stuff
Her favorite breakfast was a can of Pepsi and a bowl of dry Shredded Wheat
She loved to eat ice but she had to let it "breathe" first
She would put a bag inside her garbage bag
She broke several teeth eating sour candy (another fave)
She was an amazing chef and always cooked like there were 500 people coming over
Her grandkids were her world! I know that Olivia loved her more than me...
Most of all she was my best friend! I miss her everyday and hope she knows that I love her "forever, forever".
Happy Birthday Mommy! I love you!!!
She always gave the best gifts
Her house was decorated with grapes
She was obsessed with Africa and always wanted to go on a safari
She thought she was a doctor in a former life and would often prescribe "cocktails"
She was fascinated by forensics
She loved Ralph Lauren clothing
She always and only wore Eternity perfume, every time I smell it I cry
She always stood when she ate
She could eat her body weight in lime sherbet (all 100 pounds of her)
She was a hard worker, she managed Musicland and Sam Goody in the mall for 25 years
She knew anything an everything about all kinds of music
Elton John and any smooth jazz were her favorite
Even though she worked full time she still made me breakfast every morning
She was an immaculate cleaner, her house was always spotless
She loved Pepsi, I have a picture of me with a bottle filled with the stuff
Her favorite breakfast was a can of Pepsi and a bowl of dry Shredded Wheat
She loved to eat ice but she had to let it "breathe" first
She would put a bag inside her garbage bag
She broke several teeth eating sour candy (another fave)
She was an amazing chef and always cooked like there were 500 people coming over
Her grandkids were her world! I know that Olivia loved her more than me...
Most of all she was my best friend! I miss her everyday and hope she knows that I love her "forever, forever".
Happy Birthday Mommy! I love you!!!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Robinson Men
On Monday we went to the Robinson's new house for family dinner and Family Home Evening. We had a really good time. The kids were in heaven! The new house has a full size basketball court and full size pool. Too bad that it is winter and not summer! They did brave the cold, however, and play basketball for about 45 minutes before they were frozen. The picture is of the guys playing Harris's new favorite game Hungry Hippos. I bought it for him after his dentist appointment. He was so good getting his cleaning and (unfortunately) first filling. He did it all without sedation or gas! So he deserved a "prize". What handsome guys!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Trevor's Birthday
Today was my nephew, Trevor's, birthday. We had a great family birthday dinner at Jann's house.(as always) Yesterday he had a bowling party with his friends. Liv and Harris had a blast. Liv was winning until she dropped a bowling ball on her fingers. She couldn't bend them after that. But the best bowler of the afternoon was Ryan, Jann's 2 year old. He got 7 strikes! All the kids thought it was great, they would cheer like crazy for him. He was so proud of himself. It was cute. Anyway, Happy Birthday Trev! We love you!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween!!!
Tonight we went "trunk-or-treating" at Chet's parents' ward. There was a big ward party with dinner, games and then the "trunk-or-treat". I think that is the way to go. Fifty cars all in one place; no doorbells, no crossing busy streats, and you are done in like 20 minutes! The weather was amazing tonight. It was warm! I remember last Halloween it was snowing, so we nixed the "trick-or-treating" and watched Rudolph. Tonight when we were done Harris said, "this was the best "trick-or-treat" day ever!" I think he was right.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Johnson's and Rock Band
So tonight the fam went to the Johnson's for authentic Navajo Tacos and to play Rock Band. Jeff Johnson has been Chet's best friend since sophomore year in high school, and Whitney his wife is Navajo. Since Chet and I started dating in high school, I have also been friends with Jeff, he's the brother that I never had. I remember in high school there were times when Jeff and I would hang out while Chet was working. After hanging out a couple of times we had to tell people that we were brother and sister because there were several people that told Chet that I was cheating on him with his best friend! High school is sooo dramatic! Anyways, back to tonight, we had a great time! Whitney made authentic Navajo flat bread from scratch! She has to buy special flour in Salt Lake to make them. They were delicious. After we ate we played Rock Band. It took a while to get it set up because the guitar wouldn't sync with the game for some reason. We finally gave up on the guitar and just had drums and vocals. Harris wanted to play the guitar, even though it was broken, Liv sang along to Paramore and Chet played the drums. I was the designated picture taker, which I was fine with. When the kids had had their fill, Chet and Jeff played along to Thirty Seconds to Mars. Chet on vocals and Jeff on drums. It was HILARIOUS! I got some awesome video of Chet doing his best Jered Leto impression, but have been threatened to be cut off financially if I post it. I will post an awesome picture instead. Thanks for a fantastic night guys! Lets do it again soon.
Monday, October 27, 2008
FHE: Carving Pumpkins
Tonight for our Family Home Evening activity we carved pumpkins. This is always fun, because eventually Livvy cries because her pumpkin isn't perfect, Harris is more interested in watching The Great Pumpkin, and I break out in hives. (I'm allergic to pumpkins) But what would Halloween be without carving pumpkins?
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Chet's Inaugural Post
So, Jaime pointed out to me that our URL is chetandjaime.blogspot.com and that there was some serious lack of chet. At first I thought she was swearing at me, but then I realized she meant she wanted me to add a little. So, keeping with the theme of this blog I will limit my posts to anecdotal updates on our regular family life. (I will save my other rantings about life, philosophy, religion and politics for my personal blog, soon to come of course)
and he also had the chance to "dig" for fossils in the fossil dig exhibit. (see below)
We had a great time. I love being able to spend some one-on-one time with the boy. (I am currently in the planning phase for a daddy/daughter date, more on that to come)
Once we finished up at the museum we weren't done yet. Thanksgiving Point is also hosting a seasonal attraction called, "Cornbelly's". Cornbelly's main attraction is a huge corn maze shaped like David Archuleta (awesome, I know) but also has lots of things for kids to do like this giant jumping pillow thing (see below)
And this crazy room chock full of popcorn kernels (again, see below)
Yip, an ocean of dried corn...
Anyway, by the end of the day (around 3 in the afternoon) Harris was exhausted. The problem was that we still hadn't done the actual maze yet (you know, the main attraction) and I was quite determined that we do it (heaven forbid I wouldn't get the chance to get lost somewhere in Archie's left nostril...). So, this final photo I offer to you was the reaction I got from Harris and will officially end this post, enjoy.
Today, Harris and I had some father/son time while the girls went out and purchased a new sunday outfit for Liv.
Harris absolutely loves dinosaurs, he always has. His favorite books have always been fact books on dinosaurs. He likes stories (Dr. Suess etc.) but absoutely loves to sit and hear facts about all sorts of dinos. His favorite is a little known carnivorous biped named Coelophysis. Why exactly he has picked this as his favorite I don't know, but he always picks it out in the various dinosaur books we have. I wonder why he shuns the more "commercial" dinosaurs like T-rex and Stegosaurus and think this may indicated some sort of tendency to root for the underdog.
Anyway, Harris and I spent the majority of the morning reading various facts about dinosaurs and decided to spend the afternoon at one of Harris' favorite locations, "The North American Museum of Ancient Life". For those of you that don't know, this museum is a huge dinosaur museum in a local location called Thanksgiving Point. We did many cool things at the museum today; we ate lunch at their cafe (Harris had dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets), we viewed the various fossils, we spent some time in their erosion exhibit where Harris got the chance to play with sand and water, (see below)
and he also had the chance to "dig" for fossils in the fossil dig exhibit. (see below)
We had a great time. I love being able to spend some one-on-one time with the boy. (I am currently in the planning phase for a daddy/daughter date, more on that to come)
Once we finished up at the museum we weren't done yet. Thanksgiving Point is also hosting a seasonal attraction called, "Cornbelly's". Cornbelly's main attraction is a huge corn maze shaped like David Archuleta (awesome, I know) but also has lots of things for kids to do like this giant jumping pillow thing (see below)
And this crazy room chock full of popcorn kernels (again, see below)
Yip, an ocean of dried corn...
Anyway, by the end of the day (around 3 in the afternoon) Harris was exhausted. The problem was that we still hadn't done the actual maze yet (you know, the main attraction) and I was quite determined that we do it (heaven forbid I wouldn't get the chance to get lost somewhere in Archie's left nostril...). So, this final photo I offer to you was the reaction I got from Harris and will officially end this post, enjoy.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Chrys EMO?
In my post yesterday I referred to Chet's little brother, Chrys, as "emo". Since that post there has been some question as to whether or not he really is. Here are the reasons why he may or may not be "emo".
Not EMO
EMO
- His love of black clothing.
- His love for the lead singer of Paramore.
- His love for guyliner.
Not EMO- His love of Disneyland
- His love for my kids.
- His love of Disneyland.
- He recognizes that the previous post, calling him "emo", is a joke.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Chet's Nana and Snow
Ever since Olivia was born, we have gone to the Robinson's once a week for family dinner. Having a weekly dinner has given our kids the opportunity to form close relationships with their grandparents and uncles. Even their "emo" Uncle Chrys enjoys playing with them. :) Seriously though, my kids looove the time we spend at Papa's and Grandma Wendy's.
Happy Holiday's! ;)
This week's dinner included a special guest, Chet's Nana, who was visiting from California. Nana used to live with the Robinson's but moved back to California about a year ago. We had a great time visiting and catching up. We miss her and it was good to see her. Love you, Nana!
Also, we had our first official snow storm on Saturday night. The kids were so excited. Harris wanted to build a snowman. I had to explain that there wasn't enough snow. He was mad, but it was all melted by the time church was over, so he got over it. I don't think I am ready for the cold. I am, however, excited for all of the fun holidays coming up! We even got our Christmas lights up on the house! We didn't do it. We have Lights Up do it for us. It was either now or not until after Thanksgiving. Since we will be out of town after Thanksgiving it had to be now.
Happy Holiday's! ;)Thursday, October 9, 2008
Field Trip
Today I went with Olivia on her field trip to the North County Equestrian Park. We had a great time. We got to go to different agricultural stations and hear from USU FFA students. I actually learned some things. We got to watch dogs herd ducks! "Why ducks?" you ask. I have no idea! It was so cute though, and the kids thought it was hysterical!
It was also great to be with Liv. It is fun to see her interact with all of her girlfriends. Boys, fortunately, are still "ehh". However, there are two boys (Kobe and DJ) in her class that won't leave her alone. It makes her crazy! For example, when we sat down to watch the herding demonstration one sat on each side of her! (pictured) Then during one of the stations, when I was standing with Kobe and his mom, Kobe said to me "I wish Olivia was in my group." It was funny.
It was also great to be with Liv. It is fun to see her interact with all of her girlfriends. Boys, fortunately, are still "ehh". However, there are two boys (Kobe and DJ) in her class that won't leave her alone. It makes her crazy! For example, when we sat down to watch the herding demonstration one sat on each side of her! (pictured) Then during one of the stations, when I was standing with Kobe and his mom, Kobe said to me "I wish Olivia was in my group." It was funny.
UPDATE
Harris is fine, but looks like he got punched in the face now. There isn't a bump anymore, but the bruising spread from his forehead 
to his nose, eyes and cheek. Poor baby!
to his nose, eyes and cheek. Poor baby!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Our Family Hobby
For those of you who know us, you know that we LOVE Disneyland, and know that we go as much as possible. One of our favorite things to do there is to find characters, the more random the better. I decided that a slide show of all the characters we have seen over the years would be fun. There are some of the same characters on there more than once because, depending on the time of year, and where you see them, they have different outfits on. There would be more, but on our trip there in January I accidentally dropped the camera and broke it. Which was really sad because we had seen several characters that we hadn't seen before or since. We look forward to our December trip because there will be a new character greeting spot where you can meet all the Disney Fairy's! So check back on the slide show for character updates!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
OUCH!!!
So tonight was Sunday dinner as usual at the Robinson's, until Harris decided that his bar stool was a "swing". Needless to say he fell off and the stool hit him right in the center of the forehead. After the initial shock and the crying that followed he felt fine. He didn't look fine, but he felt fine. Except when he went to bed he said "Mommy my bump hurts so much." :( The pictures are a progression of "The Bump" as the night wore on. I think that if it doesn't look better in the morning I will take him to the doctor though.
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