happy birthday to cera (yesterday)!!! we miss you and love you SO VERY MUCH!!!
so...although we take a GAzillion photos of our doings, we do not have a family photo. so over christmas we asked cera to take a few in hopes that one would turn out. well, NONE DID and we are going to have to rock the photoshop on one to get it juuuust right. but this one right here is my favorite.
that about sums it up
this is my second favorite one, rowdy is pulling a hannibal lector look.
rowdyman loves him some fava beans and a nice chianti
and one more bad photo to grow on - ME. senior picture, casual style.
what am i looking at?
omg, i just realized i have a mini snooki bump thing going on with my hair there. nice. and in regards to old senior photos, i've seen better - i've seen worse. at least i am not wearing a bolo tie (AHEM, MATT MOWRER).
let's get on to the fun, for thanksgiving matt and i packed the car up with kids and necessities and hit the road. destination: little rock, arkansas. matt's grandparents live there, along with his aunt jan, uncle jim and their kids jeff (with wife mandy with kiddos james allen and baby timothy) and julie (not present this holiday, she was indiana with her honey bunny this year). we had such a wonderful time, it went by too fast.
grandma and grandpa got to meet little rowdy for the first time and our kids really enjoyed them. lottie especially liked crawling on grandpa's lap and rowdy enjoyed banging on grandma's pie pan.
anywho, see for yourself...
here we have lottie sue crawling all over grandpa
and here we have rowdy banging on that pie pan
grandma and rowdyman
grandpa carving the turkey
here i am eating something
matt and grandpa hard at work
grandma and mom hard at work as well
mom sent this photo to me, not sure why i had that look on my face
if you are a robinson girl then you absolutely do two things at a gathering. one is make a craft of some type. the last time we got together we made super fancy hats and this year we made super fancy bracelets. out of SAFETY PINS. oh, you heard me.
here we are making them one evening
and her we are modeling a few
the second thing it that we play some farkle, but i don't have any photos of that. but TRUST ME, we played it lots. i love it. grandma loves it so much that jan bought her a t-shirt that says "i sparkle when i farkle" - she is adorable in it! jan, i can't find the photo so if you could email it to me i will put it up. i don't know what i did with it!
also, please check out our ballerinas. jan gets to wear a pink tutu because she kicked breast cancer's b-u-t-t the past year. she is also currently training for a half marathon with uncle jim. way to go, guys!!! and oh yeah, lottie sue is wearing a pink tutu because she is lottie sue.
GO JAN!!!
baby timothy tells grandma a funny joke
baby timothy being super cute
the men working on a church project for aunt jan
we had such a great time in little rock, the kids had a ton of fun and matt and i enjoyed visiting.
miss you guys!!! smooches!
the same day we drove back from little rock megan called to see if we could make it to her parent's house for dinner. earlier i said no because i thought we would be worn out, but i could not turn that cutie pie megan smith down, so we went as soon as we got home from arkansas. glad we did!
tommy is about to fry a turkey
matt keeps rowdy safe from the fire
megan showing off said-turkey
mary ann wearing a bib
it was, as always - a great time. we are looking forward to the beach trip, it will be here before we know it!
then some other week when matt was out of town i went over to jo's house for dinner. she oftentimes feeds me and the kiddos when matt is out of town. year, she's a saint.
jo presenting blake's spaghetti
the palmers were there
thanks for the grub, y'all!
here's a thing we mowrers like to do, build a big pillow pit and jump or be thrown into it. the kids love it so it happens quite regularly. here are some photos...
a lot of those are blurry but we are moving so fast it's hard to get a good photo. we'll try to get better ones next time. lottie sue and rowdy LOVE the pillow pit. i highly recommend it.
and then i have these photos of the night lottie sue made her gingerbread house. i forgot to take a photo of the finished product though - bad mommy. it was cute though, trust me.
lottie sue about to decorate her gingerbread house
sugar HIGH
and as always...a few items of interest:
1. here's a neat story on a woman that has the job of picking out typefaces for books - i would love that job, btw
2. matt and i just watched "exit through the giftshop" - we LOVED it - truly fascinating (in a related story shepard fairey is off the hook in regards to his obabma/hope poster)
3. the freakonomics group discusses whether or not expensive wins taste better
4. here's a story on jonathan ive (he is the guy that designs for apple, he makes everything so pretty)
5. matt and i loved the movie the station agent, vanity fair has an interview with peter dinklage
6. angry birds is coming to a tv near you
7. woody allen has a piece in the new yorker
alrighty, i am burning through the past few weeks here. it will be SO NICE to finally get caught UP. blog to ya later, taters.
