ONE DAY LEFT!!!

YOU HAVE ONE DAY LEFT TILL THE WEIGH IN!!!! Eat your last fatty meal, get your diet and work out plan in order!!! Tomorrow morning weigh yourself and let the pound shedding begin!! Good Luck to you all and send me your stuff so we can get you on the list!

If one of your New Year's resolution's is to loose a few pounds, WE HAVE THE MOTIVATION FOR YOU!!!!! A Biggest Looser competition!

This is how it is going to work:
~The competition is going to be 3 months long, it's going to start January 1st and is going to end April 1st.
~The competition will be based on the % of weight loss, NOT the actual pounds you loose.
~There will be a $5.00 pay in that the winner will receive at the end of the competition. The more people that are in, the bigger the pot will be!

The Rules and Regulations:
~To join in the friendly competition first of all you need to be an Honest person because this will be based on the Honors System.
~You need to send me, a check for $5.00 made out to Sarah Robinson by no later than January 7th, a Before picture of you (yes I know, in a tank top and tight bottoms), your start weight, and your e-mail address. I will be the only person that knows the start weight and sees the before pictures so you don't have to worry about others seeing it.
~Your before picture and beginning weight need to be taken on the morning of January 1st. This is when the weigh in begins.
~Each week you need to e-mail, call, text, or facebook me in your weight loss by Sunday Evening. Your weekly results WILL be posted on my Blog and in an e-mail sent out to all of the contestants.
~If I go 2 weeks without hearing from you...you are out of the competition and WE KEEP YOUR MONEY!!!
~In 3 months you will need to report your end weight as well as send in an after picture. The winner will have their before and after picture posted on my Blog for viewing pleasure and bragging rights!!!

SO WHO IS IN????? Like I said the more the better, we want this pot to be FULL OF MONEY for the winner!!!

My girlfriend Hillary, is also hosting this competition with me, if you want to check out her blog as well. We will combine all the contestants together, so you will be competing against others who know her as well, more people = more money!

My e-mail address is mommyjr@gmail.com, e-mail me or facebook me if you want to join the weight loosing club! Any questions e-mail me too!

5 months of total bliss!!!!

These last 5 months have been the best 5 months of my life. I feel like the most blessed woman in the entire world to have a husband that loves me unconditionally and treats me like a queen, and to have a healthy, sweet, fun, amazing little girl that makes each day a joy! I never ever knew I could love like this!!! I never ever knew it!
I did not ever do a 4 month post, oops, so I do not really remember what she started doing at 4 months and what she started doing at 5 months. All I know is that we have one amazing little girl!
Things little Brooke can do now:
~Sit for long periods of time on her own playing with her toys
~She can put her binkey back in all by herself
~Changes toys from one hand to the other
~Gets her knees under her hips when she is on her tummy and can kinda scoot a little (not much but a little)
~rolls everywhere
~holds her own bottle
~knows what mama, dada, baba and her own name mean when she hears it.
~grabs her doggies face
~puts herself to sleep
~been sleeping through the night for a long time now
~started eating solids
~started using a sippy cup
~talks, and talks, and talks ALL THE TIME!!!!
~LOVES her baths
~LOVES her blankey
~went on a swing for the first time and LOVED IT!
~not one bit shy
~enjoys her car seat, she loves going places, especially LOVES shopping carts because we always have a blast together in the store.

Ok well I think that's about all I can remember right now. How about some pictures???

















Well that about says it! She is the JOY in our world! Each day Kip and I discuss how blessed and lucky we are to have such a smart, fun, healthy, sweet, loving, girl that brings such happiness into our home! Our hearts are full!!!

Think you can be.....

If one of your New Year's resolution's is to loose a few pounds, WE HAVE THE MOTIVATION FOR YOU!!!!! A Biggest Looser competition!

This is how it is going to work:
~The competition is going to be 3 months long, it's going to start January 1st and is going to end April 1st.
~The competition will be based on the % of weight loss, NOT the actual pounds you loose.
~There will be a $5.00 pay in that the winner will receive at the end of the competition. The more people that are in, the bigger the pot will be!

The Rules and Regulations:
~To join in the friendly competition first of all you need to be an Honest person because this will be based on the Honors System.
~You need to send me, a check for $5.00 made out to Sarah Robinson by no later than January 7th, a Before picture of you (yes I know, in a tank top and tight bottoms), your start weight, and your e-mail address. I will be the only person that knows the start weight and sees the before pictures so you don't have to worry about others seeing it.
~Your before picture and beginning weight need to be taken on the morning of January 1st. This is when the weigh in begins.
~Each week you need to e-mail, call, text, or facebook me in your weight loss by Sunday Evening. Your weekly results WILL be posted on my Blog and in an e-mail sent out to all of the contestants.
~If I go 2 weeks without hearing from you...you are out of the competition and WE KEEP YOUR MONEY!!!
~In 3 months you will need to report your end weight as well as send in an after picture. The winner will have their before and after picture posted on my Blog for viewing pleasure and bragging rights!!!

SO WHO IS IN????? Like I said the more the better, we want this pot to be FULL OF MONEY for the winner!!!

My girlfriend Hillary, is also hosting this competition with me, if you want to check out her blog as well. We will combine all the contestants together, so you will be competing agaisnt others who know her as well, more people = more money!

My e-mail address is mommyjr@gmail.com, e-mail me or facebook me if you want to join the weight loosing club! Any questions e-mail me too!

Other Handmade Crafts!

Here are some more of the Handmade Crafts I made, with the hubby's help a little. It was fun and I am happy with how they turned out, other than the fact that the pictures are bubbling a bit :(

Baby's First Christmas

This was a very special and very fun Christmas for our little family. We know that Brooke is too little to appreciate the fact that Santa came and visited her home and brought her some presents, but he still came, new traditions were still started, and our Christmas memories have forever been changed for the better!
This Christmas was super special having Brooke around but it was also super fun to spend with so much family. We love all the time we get to spend with our families! We are super blessed!
Well, I don't really have any pictures of this event, BUT this is how our Christmas started.....

YUP the Emergency Room!!! Not for Brooke thank goodness but for Daddy. We were super nervous on the Eve of Christmas Eve that Kip had gotten Tetnaus from having been pricked by a screw about 2 weeks ago. For the previous few days Kip had been feeling sick and warn out. As the days passed he began feeling worse and his jaw began to tighten and spasm. By the Eve of Christmas Eve at 2 in the morning Kip was in some serious pain. So much that he was shaking and was feeling nauseous. W looked up Tetnaus online... which freaked us out, it seemed he was having all the signs of Tetnaus. So to the ER we headed after calling over our WONDERFUL friend Katie to stay at home as Brooke was asleep. SORRY KATIE for interrupting... your sleep ;) and THANK YOU!!!! We hope somehow we can pay you back!!!
Well it ends up that Kip has TMJ which is lock jaw. I guess a Tetnaus shot is good for up to 10 years and he has had one within the last few years. So that was a relief! He got a NASTY and very painful shot, the Dr. wanted to make sure even that Kip had enough muscle in his arm to take the pain of the shot ;) Kip says it was NO JOKE and very painful. I laughed :) and $100- later we were on our way home. Getting home at a wonderful 5am.
Then back up at 7:30am to begin our Christmas Eve! We headed down to San Diego to spend the day with my family. Here are some shots from our Christmas Eve.
Brooke and Uncle Ding (David)

Brooke and Kellen

Brooke and Makenna

The Cousins Playing! This made me sad because Brooke looks SO BIG!!!

All the Carlson Grand kids! Heidi, Riley, Makenna, Kellen, and Brooke!

SANTA CAME!!!!

Christmas Morning!
Family PJ Picture!

Checking out the Loot!

Brooke opening her stocking!

Mommy opening her stocking!

Echo opening his stocking!

Daddy and his stocking!

Daddy with his stocking loot! O NO COLE!!!! Naughty boy ;)

Playing with her stocking stuffers :)

Opening her very first gift EVER!!! Wow, that is weird to think about!

Then off to Grandma and Grandpa Robinson's for a Christmas Day packed with fun!!
Brooke and Hailee started playing right off the bat, it was SO CUTE!!! They were playing steal the Binky. It was fun to watch them together.

Robinson Cousins!

We then went on a hike after breakfast and opening presents. I did not have my camera with me, but there are pictures of the event. I am thinking I may not post them, even when I get a hold of them because I look SO FAT and SO NASTY in them. So let's just take my word for it, we went on a hike and it was beautiful and fun and the little girls were great!
Then we had a wonderful dinner and on to the Nativity Play. Kip and I played Mary and Joseph with our little baby Jesus (with ear rings). It was so much fun. It was the first annual Nativity Play put on by all of us, what a fun tradition we started! Here are some pictures from the event that I got on my camera.
Kip as Joseph (check out the brow)

Being silly with the dark facial hair. A totally different look for Kip :)



Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus! Played by Kip, Sarah, and Brooke.

The whole cast!

We then finished the evening with reading our traditional Christmas stories and then playing some quite funny games!
We had a wonderful Christmas with our families and with our little baby girl! We are so grateful for Jesus Christ and the perfect life he led so that we could return home someday. We are so grateful for this season to share time with loved ones, to focus on Christ, and to really take the time to serve others. This was a Christmas I will always remember. Hope it was wonderful for you and your family as well!