Promise to do better

As the new year approaches...I promise to do better. Robert had surgery today to repair his ACL and I will be home with him for the next couple of weeks. I am going to get caught up on this if its the last thing I do. Its just so difficult to blog when I can facebook. I will do better :)

IcE BlOcKiNg !!

Susan Heap planned this great afternoon activity for Monday. Good thing Barbara moved into that ward. We love our new friends from the Monterey Ward. We are so thankful that they think of us when they make these kinds of plans. Robert trying it out
Justin had a BlAsT
Courtney is as cute as ever
Kaitlyn had a GREAT time
Addi is so sweet, she is great with Kaitlyn
I think Tannis had a good time
Kaitlyn is trying to catch a ride with Robert
Rachel is just 'chilin'
Tannis and Rachel going backwards...CRAZY!
Josh is so cool
Kaitlyn and Regan waiting for their turn

Courtney is silly

Rachel's turn...poor Robert

Brynn is one of the kindest and sweetest girls i know,

she was just patiently waiting for her turn

Ok...so Monday we had no school and we were planning on going to see 'Paul Blart...mall cop', but Bob had seen it Saturday while he was in Sacremento. He said it was ok, but most of the funny stuff was in the previews. I called Barbara that morning to tell her what Bob had said. She had got an email saying that Susan had planned this ice blocking activity. We decided that we would go ice blocking instead. We called Leslie and before you know it we were eating lunch at Subway and were on our way. Ice blocking here we come. We had never been ice blocking. I called Robert to let him know where we were going to be. He had just finished walking in the MLK parade and wanted to join us. He invited Tannis to come along. We love it when Tannis comes, she is so much fun. The kids had a Blast. Except for Robert. He is just to big to fit on one piece of ice. When we figure out that we could put 2 or 3 pieces of ice together and he could use that, he started to really enjoy it. We are so glad we were included in this activity. Over all we all had a GREAT DAY !!

I KNOW ... I KNOW ... Its January. I should have posted these weeks ago. It has been really crazy this first few weeks of January

CHRISTMAS !!

Kaitlyn couldn't wait for us to get started
We LOVE the Rock band.
We got the jersey's for the girls when we were at the game in Dallas :)

Robert loves his Letterman's Jacket

Rachel loved her clothes and she loves to be silly

We had a Great Christmas this year. Except Bob had to go to work at 7:30 am. That meant we were up at about 5:30. We knew that he was going to have to work so we made sure we were prepared. We had all the gifts wrapped and ready to go by 9 pm on Christmas Eve and were in bed by 10. It was awesome. We never do that. I think even if Bob will be home we should tell ourselves that he has to work. :)

The kids all got a camera to take pictures on our Disney Cruise in March. Robert got his Letterman's Jacket. Rachel got her Ipod. Courtney and Kaitlyn got Nintendo DS's. I got a Digital Picture Frame. YEA!! Thats all I wanted. Bob got 'Las Vegas' the series on DVD, and a new ASU Jacket. Even though our Dad had to leave early, we still had a great day. After we opened gifts and Bob headed off to work we continued one of our Christmas day traditions by going and having Breakfast with the Hubble's and Reid's. This year Natalie and her kids were able to join us. It was a great time. We returned home at about 11. I was hoping to take a quick nap when my mom called and said she was hoping we could get to Tiffani's house soon so we could open gifts before eating at 1. I was so tired. (did I mention we were up at 5) We hurried and got our stuff ready and headed over to Tiffani's. It was a lot of fun!!

Robert and Brandon making CoOkIEs for the GiRLs!!

They took this very serious...

Look at those Chocolate Chips

I know...he actually licked them off every time

Robert and his buddy Brandon started this tradition last Christmas when they had decided to make chocolate chip cookies for all of their "girl" friends. This year I had asked if they wanted to make these real cute journals for the girls and they of course said 'no way'. They were going to continue the tradition of making cookies. I want to say that they took cookies to 18 or 20 girls. I don't think these girls realize how lucky they are.

Last Game in Dallas Stadium

My honey in front of the stadium
The banners for the...Superbowl Champions of the World
Tony Romo is #9

The offense getting ready to "TRY" to do something. T.O. is #81

The cute couple...freezing to death!!

Most of you know that we are HUGE Cowboys fans. I know most of our friends don't like them. To be honest...almost all of our friends. That doesn't change the way we feel. We love them. We have for over 30 years. Bob has a friend that he works with at the Guard that has season tickets. I guess they did a little exchange about 2 months ago, he got 2 buddy passes to go to the game in Pittsburg and we got the tickets for this game. It worked out perfectly, because this game was on Saturday. Bob know's I would never go to a game on Sunday, even to see the Cowboys play.

You know that I love Bob...but he has never been a good gift giver. He knows it is my #1 language of love and he still isn't a very good gift giver. He normally is going shopping the night before Christmas or my birthday to get something that he knows that I will like but he puts no time or effort into it. I still love him!! OK...Friday the 19th seemed to start off just like every morning. We were all getting ready for school. It was going to be a very busy day. It was the last day of school before Christmas break. We had parties to attend. I was in charge of the Christmas angel tree at school this year and the families were coming to pick up their gifts. I was picking up sub sandwiches for both the girls classes. I had to get the cards and gifts to the school for the ladies I work with and for the teachers. Needless to say, I DID NOT have time for a SURPRISE trip to Dallas. I know at first I was not being very nice. Rachel made sure I knew that. She kept telling me that I was not even excited. As you can tell...I didn't have time for this.

I had 1 hour to...finish getting ready, take the gifts to the girls at work, pack for 3 days, and try to be excited. I truely was excited about going to the game and getting to spend 3 days with just Bob. I just have a really hard time leaving my kids. I don't know why. All of my friends think I'm crazy. I think it has to do alot with the life we had in the Military. We never did anything without our kids.

We left for the airport alittle late, but that didn't matter because all the flights to Dallas were FULL and we were flying STAND BY. We tried to get on the eleven something flight, but no luck. We were able to sneak on the 1:30 flight. We had to fly thru Albequerque. We were there for 7 hours before we were able to get on a flight into Dallas. I was able to read most of 'The Christmas Sweater' by Glenn Beck. Very good book!! The next day (Saturday, the 20th) we got up, went to eat at one of our favorite places, The Olive Garden, went back to the Hotel and just vegged. Bob fell asleep and that was the perfect opportunity for me to finish my book.

We got to the Stadium about an hour before game time. That gave us the chance to just take it all in. We were able to see the team warm up a little bit. Then the game, if thats what you want to call it, started. WE couldn't do anything right. We blame the weather. Did I mention that it was supposed to be 60 degrees at kick off and they lied. It was maybe 40 degrees and we were freezing!! We brought clothes for 60 degrees. We had to go buy a blanket and beenies to wear. It was so cold!! It was 31 degrees when we got back to our car, that we had to walk a mile to get to.

Ok...so the game wasn't that great, BUT the 'After Party' was unbelieveable!! They had over 100 players there who had played for the Cowboys over the years. Like...Roger Staubach, 'Too Tall' Jones, Emmitt Smith, Micheal Irvin, Tony Dorsett, Leon Lett, Larry Allen, Charles Hailey, Chad Hennings, Jay Novecheck (totally miss spelled his name and he's one of my favorites) I could go on and on and on. The only ones that weren't there that I really wanted to see were Danny White, Troy Aikman, and Darryl Johnston. It didn't matter, it was so amazing. I know I've already said that, but I even had tears a few times. :) We had the time of our lives and I can promise we will NEVER forget it.

Christmas Concert at Franklin

Courtney with her cute 6th grade friends in the Choir
The Choir...obviously
Kaitlyn waiting to get started

Kait pretending to play :)

This year we had a Choir, Band and Orchastra concert during the day at Franklin. Normally we have an evening concert and we have it at Brimhall Junior High. I thought it was such a great idea. The students were able to attend and I think the orchastra is better then its been in years. The choir is always good and the Band (neither of my girls are in the band) did a great job.