Carlson Family

Right after Christmas and before my little brother David headed up to school we wanted to get some family photo's done. I traded KC Knoop of Halocline Photography for a photo session for my parents!

It has been a little while since our last family shoot, more kids have been born and David is all grown and graduated and off to school! This was a super fun shoot as you will see from the pictures! Thank you KC for the TOTALLY Carlson photo shoot. I really feel like you caught the feel of the Carlson Family! FUN, FUN, FUN!!! I love these!

P.S. My mom's hair is a little crazy, but typical of Tammy to die her hair the morning of pictures :), at least we caught reality!

Robinson Family

Right after Christmas the whole Robinson clan got together for a family photo shoot in a totally sweet random field.
It is SO hard to choose just a few photo's from this shoot! Lyndzee Ellsworth of EPlove.net did such a great job!
Get ready for a ton of photo's because I really had a hard time choosing favorites, I am photo happy when it comes to good pictures so I am just going to post all my favorites of the family, which are a lot :)
I think I actually MIGHT even get a frame soon and hang one or two of these up on my wall, which for any of you that know me and my house, this will be HUGE!!! (I know I need to decorate soon)
Enjoy!!!

Just Because

I want to! And because I just think she is SO CUTE!




And Im SPENT!!!

Half A Year

Our little girl is half a year old!!! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN??? I am SO sad to see her growing out of the baby stage but at the same time so happy to see her learning new things every single day.
Brooke has seriously been the BIGGEST Joy in our lives! There is NOTHING better than kissing those chubby cheeks, hearing her giggle, having her lay next to us in bed right when she wakes up in the morning, and well every single little thing she does. Brooke is and has pretty much always been a great baby. We joke that we should not have any more kids because they will all be compared to Brooke, we are pretty convinced none of our other kids are going to be this easy!

6 month stats:
16 lbs. 12 oz. 50%'ish
25 3/4 inches 50%'ish

There are a few things I really want to make sure I remember about Brooke up to this point, so here goes!

~Brooke is a great sleeper and has been since close to 3 weeks of age. She sleeps 12 hours a night and is in bed by 7 pm every evening. Which is wonderful because it gives mommy and daddy special time together :)
~She still LOVES her bouncer and spends plenty of time in it each day! I think she has got to be burning tons of calories in that thing because the girl gets CRAZY!!! It is so, so, so, funny to watch her! She likes to make sure we are watching her tricks and she gets SO happy when we react to her! If we say bouncy, bouncy, bouncy she starts bouncing those little legs! IT'S SO CUTE!!!
~I am pretty sure the 2 favorite times of each day are Brooke's Baby Einstein movie time and her bath time!
Brooke LOVES to watch her Baby Einstein video's. I only let her watch 1 a day, maybe 2 on days she doesn't feel too good. Her favorite video is the "My First Sign's" video. She has favorite characters and there are certain parts that she laughs at every single time they come on. It is SO CUTE!!! I tell myself it is cute because she is learning right?
Her bath is right after dinner time because she ALWAYS makes a total mess! She knows that it is bath time, I am even trying to teach her the sign and when she see's me doing it she starts to get super excited! She loves to splash, wiggle, and play with her little toys and wash cloths!
~The ONLY time I can get Brooke to sit still is reading book time at night. Her favorite book is the Baby Einstein "Touch and Feel Farm Animals" she laughs every time I make the animal sounds. Her favorite is the HORSE, and I am not even kidding, she loves my horsey sound! I am proud! By the way daddy can get her to sit still with him for quite a while and cuddle but this is the ONLY time mommy can get her to sit still.
~Brooke is learning how to shake her head yes and no even though she is not understanding what the head shake means. It is SO funny to watch her nod her head! Totally a new thing for her.
~Brooke's FAVORITE toy is her little car toy and she LOVES to rev the little stick shift part. I am afraid this means she is going to be a speed demon when she is older :( She also loves to pick the thing up in the air and toss it :)
~Brooke is TOTALLY dramatic! She makes these amazingly dramatic faces, it is SO FUNNY!!! She is an over actor for sure!! O an she LOVES to fake cough and fake choke, not cool :)
~She is NOT a good napper during the day. Her naps are usually around 45 minutes long and I get 2 a day, unless I take a drive and then I may get a little more nap time in but what good does that do me when we are in the car?
~She is an INDEPENDENT woman!!! Totally independent! Especially when it comes to food! She HAS to feed herself, even if it is something I can maybe get in with a spoon. She HATES baby food! She SCREAMS if I try it and will not shut her mouth until it drips out all over the place.
~Brooke LOVES the car and enjoys being in her car seat!
~The comfort items are the binkey and the blanket but if I HAD to only choose one of them to bring with me it would be her blanket! SHE IS IN LOVE with her blanket, we do not go anywhere without it :)

OK I can keep going on but I think those are the important ones to me. Here are some shots I got the other day, I did not get many good ones due to the lighting, gotta do another shoot but here are a few that I did get!

Biggest Loser Week #3

Ok so this is a little late because I have been waiting on people to turn in their weight loss. Next week be sure to send it in to me by Sunday Evening at mommyjr@gmail.com. I also need $ from those of you who have not yet paid. Come on people :)

This was a HARD WEEK for a bunch of people, the weather really had an impact on these weights I think? Hang in there guys! The weight will come off!!!!

Ok so here goes:
THIS WEEKS WINNER: Lisa Patel 5
Tony Toliver 4 lbs.
Melissa Gargalis 2 lbs.
Kip Robinson 2 lbs.
Tammie Jones 2 lbs.
Tammy Carlson 2 lbs.
Hilary Hanson 1 lb.
Dev Patel 1 lbs.
Gregg Gargalis 0 lbs.
Sarah Robinson 0 lbs.
Hayley Hanson 0 lbs.
Jackie Hanson 0 lbs.
Meagan Hacker 0 lbs.
Todd Moran 0 lbs.
Jess Allen 0 lbs.
Katie Bruer ? lbs.

If I am missing anybody please let me know and I will get you posted!

Good Luck to you all this coming up week and remember it is not based on pounds lost it is based on your % of weight loss. This posting each week just is motivation to shed those pounds since you have to report each week.

Happy Weight Loss!!!

Silly Girl!

Brooke is starting to get quite silly these day's. It seems that most of the time I am pulling out my camera it is for something funny she is doing. She is constantly making Kip and I laugh, she loves to make people laugh, loves attention, and is not shy one bit! Just what I would have expected! Anyway here are a few pictures from this week that just made me giggle!
This made me laugh the most I think! I was having her play on the ground with her toys and of course she chooses her shoe to play with out of everything she has, and look how she positions herself??? I don't know if she already knows that mommy has plans for her being a gymnast or what? She stayed like this long enough for me to grab my camera and get off like 4 shots. Silly Kid!


I was trying to capture the fact that Brooke actually has hair that is growing because here it is sticking straight up. It is hard to see when her hair is still thin and SO BLOND but look close you will see it!

Here Brooke and Echo are playing tug of war with the wipes.

Brooke gets very frustrated when she has a hard time doing something, it makes me laugh, am I mean? Here she is trying to figure out the crawling thing. I am guessing 1 month and she will be off and crawling??? We shall see??

Brooke playing with her very FAVORITE toy!!! We have all the songs and noises memorized! My favorite is when you honk the horn it says "Get out of the way!", what is this toy teaching our kids??? I want her to be polite, not mean like that :)

And here Brooke fell asleep like this in the car. She stayed like this the entire car ride until I moved her from her car seat to her bed. Why?? Who knows?

Silly girl does this all the time with her ring stacker, I constantly wonder how she does not make herself throw up? Is this even fun?

Biggest Loser Week #2

The dreaded second week!!! Hang in there guys, it will get better!!!

OK so this is a little late because I have been waiting on people to turn in their weight loss. Next week be sure to send it in to me by Sunday Evening at mommyjr@gmail.com. I also need $ from those of you who have not yet paid. Come on people :)

OK so here goes:
THIS WEEKS WINNER: Dev Patel 4 lbs.
Todd Moran 3 lbs.
Jackie Hanson 2 lbs.
Tony Toliver 2 lbs.
Sarah Robinson 2 lbs.
Tammie Jones 1 lbs.
Meagan Hacker 1 lbs.
Melissa Gargalis 1 lbs.
Kip Robinson 1 lbs.
Gregg Gargalis 1 lbs.
Hayley Hanson 1 lbs.
Katie Bruer 0 lbs.
Tammy Carlson 0 lbs.
Hilary Hanson 0 lbs.
Lisa Patel 0 lbs.


If I am missing anybody or I have the results wrong please let me know and I will get it posted!

Good Luck to you all this coming up week and remember it is not based on pounds lost it is based on your % of weight loss. This posting each week just is motivation to shed those pounds since you have to report each week.

Happy Weight Loss!!!

Tough Little Boys!

This song that is the first song on my playlist, I heard for the first time the other day and it totally made me cry! This song reminds me so much of my sweet Kip! I am SO grateful that we had a little girl first, she has softened her daddy SO MUCH!! It is so sweet to see how gentle and loving he is with his daughter. I know this little lady is going to have her daddy wrapped around her little finger. I charish the days that she prefers her mommy because I know the Daddy's Little Girl days are right around the corner! If you have not yet had the chance to listen to this song you should, it is SO CUTE!!! I am so grateful to be married to a man that loves his girls with all his heart and would do or give anything in the world for us! He is a great father and husband! WE ARE SO BLESSED!!! And I would have to say he is pretty blessed to have us too :)

Our little boy!

Echo was 2 years old in people years last month! I was just looking back at pictures of him the night we got him. HE WAS SO LITTLE!!!! So, so, so, little and cute! Now he is big and handsome! Happy Belated Birthday Echo Boy!


Here is a picture I got of him and Brooke today, we do not even pose them, I just capture these moments! SO SWEET!!! When I take pictures like this I think of the movie Marley and Me and it makes me want to cry knowing that some day Brooke will look back at these and see how long this pup has been in her life. So fun, they already LOVE each other!