Christmas EVE

We had a wonderful Christmas this is what we did on Christmas eve........ We played minute to win it where we had to bounce all the balls out of the tissue box that was strapped to our butt. We had our grandparents come over and had a nice dinner and program. We got in our warm christmas PJS and the best of all was the present my dad gave my mom on christmas eve. My mom lost her wedding ring while she was up here watching my kids when Brynlee was in the hospital and in order to get into the NICU you had to take your jewlry off and in the process she lost her wedding ring. So my dad came home from droping my grandma off on christmas eve and he was holding a box and he said 31 years ago i asked your mom to marry me on christmas eve and i want to ask her agian and he opened the box and there was a ring it. He had her wedding ring remade. It was beautiful!! That made the whole night it truly was the best present given!!

Santa

The PNP this is the coolest thing for kids it is a personalized movie of Santa talking to your kids from the north pole you have to check it out!! you enter the childs info and then santa talks to your kids Here is Jaxton's movie......

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/HWWNlVpVhf9cqvGiy1dMVg

Bowling league wanna be

Well I can officially check off one thing on my "Things to do before I die list"For those of you that don't know I LOVE bowling, when I grow up I want to be one of those old ladies that has the shirt with her name on it and heads out every Thursday night to meet up with the bowling league ladies. Now you are probably asking yourself is Chantell any good...... No i am not a good bowler but I am very much obsessed with bowling. I do have my own bowling shoes and bowling ball with the fancy bag, now I am just waiting for the shirt with my name on it! Today I went on a tour at the storm bowling ball place here In Brigham. My friend was taking her girl scout troop to tour the place and she knew how much I love bowling and invited us To come. I was in heaven it was like I was a kid on a candy shop I learned so much! It was indeed very interesting!! So here are a few random facts about the Storm bowling ball factory they only make high quality balls.....

They paint the color in the letters by hand!!

Me so excited to be there

These are the balls before the color

Maddison with her safety glass on

They put scents in there balls that make them smell so yummy this one was black cherry

All the different balls that they make

the kids

just a few random shots of the kids that we took today!

Thanksgiving

Dave's Sister was in town and came up to visit us and the kids had a blast playing with their cousin!! We also had an early Christmas and opened a few gifts from Grandma T. We have the instruments now just need to sign up for lessons!!

Jaxton was so excited to have Uncle Tyler teach him how to rope a cow he was talking about it all day. He was so thrilled when ty showed him how it was done then they gave it a try and roped him!!

Brynlee Pictures

Our wonderful friend took Brynlee's pictures for us and she posted them on her blog. They are darling so head on over and check them out!! She is a wonderful photographer and does amazing work. http://britneybphotography.blogspot.com/ thanks Britney!

The fun begins!!

Bringing her home!!

Now that Brynlee is home we have had so much fun dressing her up taking lots of pictures and just loving on her!!

She is finally home!!!

Thank you for all your prayers that were offered in our behalf we have felt such a great peace as we have gone through this experience and can't tell you how much we appreciate it. Brynlee is a huge fighter it seemed that she changed from worse to better so fast. It was last Thursday that she still had the tube in for her pneumo and the x-ray showed a little air but not much but still there was air then friday she changed dramatically the doctor was shocked at how fast she was healing and getting better. It was Friday afternoon that they took the tube out and then Saturday morning they removed the oxygen and the IV's came out. He was amazed. She is now home with us and we are so excited

She is here!!!

Brynlee Roe is here she weighed 7lbs 7 oz and 21 inches long. She is such a doll. It was a quick labor we went in Sunday around 7:00 to be checked thinking they would just send us home but they decided to get the party started and had her at 12:38 A.M. She had trouble breathing at first so they kept her in the special nursery for a few hours until she was stable and then we got to love on her for the rest of the day. My family came to the hospital Monday night to see her and that is when the crazyness started. They were about to leave and we noticed that Brynlee was not looking very well she was turning purple. So the nurse came in we asked her about it and that is when she whisked her away and that was the last time I got to hold my little baby. Since then she has been in the NICU in one of those little plastic boxes that keeps them all snuggly and warm. We found out that she has Pneumothorax which is when air leaks from the lungs and is trapped between the lungs and the chest wall. She is still not doing very well and we are unsure when she will get to come home. This is one of the hardest things that I have ever had to go through. All those mom's who have had to have baby's in the NICU my heart goes out to you. To see your baby in pain and suffering and not able to pick her up give her hugs and kisses and tell her it is going to be ok is the worst thing. She is a fighter and I know that we will get through this but I also know that the road ahead is a long one.

What are we doing?........

Scary picture of me large and in charge!! Yes I am about to pop!!

Captain Pirate pants has a secret fetish with socks!!

These little kiddos are now in the same room together and they have a hard time sleeping as you can see they are catching up on their beauty rest.

What are we doing?........

pumpkins

We went to the "Pumpkin Guys" house. Dave carpools with a guy that has a huge garden and he grew a ton of pumpkins and said we could come over to get some and our kids call him the "Pumpkin Guy" now. They had a blast looking through his garden to find a pumpkin.

Jax just wanted a little pumpkin so we found a small squash and let him take it home

Maddison ready to haul off the pumpkins to the car!

Maddison found her pumpkin right off and was so excited to take it home

Peach Days

This is Sophie and she scored big in the Popsicle area!!
Grandma T and all the kids
Jax did not like the loud noises of the fire trucks but still talks about them to this day.

Maddison and her friends from the float
Daves face speaks a thousand words "Man I can't believe that you missed me run in again"!! He ran it in 53 min 39 sec!! Speedy bullet!!

Peach Days was a few weeks a go and I am a little slow but it was quite an adventure. I woke up with pink eye and not feeling very well and that put a huge kink in the day.

Dave ran the 10k and he did a great job so great that we walked up and saw that he had already finished the race. Shoot one strike for me. Maddison was in the parade doing some cheers and she did a great job! We sat with our friends and Grandma T came up to join us and boy were we grateful that she did. She helped the kids get tonz of candy. It was another great peach days extravaganza!

First Day of Preschool

Yeah the day finally came that Maddison was able to go to preschool. She was asking me every day if that day was the day to go to preschool. She was every excited and so was Jax because he thought that he was going too so he grabbed a backpack and a pair of socks and he was ready. We walked Maddison to school and then to Jax dismay he could not go in with her and boy was he mad. But after a few Oreos and some markers we smoothed things over. My favorite was when Maddison got home and I asked her if she had anything in her back pack and she told me there was some panties in there and I thought to myself wow she is getting an education and free underwear, or that it was a wild day at preschool. I must of made a weird face because she started to laugh and I asked her if she got the underwear from preschool and she laughed even harder and told me they were in there already. Oops next time we will check the new backpack before we head to school next time!

Daddy Day

I went to swiss days this weekend and Dave and the kids had a blast while I was gone. They drove to the top of the mountain to inspiration point and had a picnic, then they went searching for deer, and then they came home and grabbed their fishing poles and went fishing. Then to top off the day they set the tent up in the back yard and slept outside. They have such a great dad they did not even notice I was gone.

Robinson Family Retreat

This weekend we had the first annual Robinson family retreat up in Park City. My parents rented a condo it was a blast. It was like a big sleep over and even though we had separate beds some upstairs some downstairs it was a big open room and we were all together. My brother gave the us the bed time entertainment and we all had some good laughs before we fell asleep. Maddison found a new best friend Aunt Jessica and wanted to play mermaids, tag and had to sit by her every chance she got. Jax followed Uncle Ryan around and I think it was good birth control for them. They said it was like rent a kid they played with them and now they could give them back and go home.:)

We went swimming, went to the Peter Breinholt concert, got glitter toes and went down the alpine slide. My sister and I hung out with my dad while everyone else went down. We were the official photographers!! Thanks for the fun weekend!

LION KING

Maddison and I had the great opportunity to go to Lion King with my mom, Atty and Jessica. It was simply amazing!! The costumes were captivating and the music was intriguing. It is amazing the talent that people have.

Maddison did not blink the whole time she sat on the edge of her seat the whole time and loved it! It was so much fun. We went to the gateway for a few hours and then went to Lion King and after we went to at the cheesecake factory and then did more shopping. It was a blast!