Family PJ Storytime

Kayla's school had a Family P.J. Storytime! It was so much fun. Everyone was divided into groups: Santas, Christmas Trees, or Gingerbread Men. Kayla and Preston were excited to be in the Santa group. Each group went into a different room to listen to a story. They rotated 3 times and then we all met in the cafeteria for milk and cookies. After our snack we all gathered in the gym and they read , A Night Before Christmas to everyone! In the picture of Kayla raising her hand, she is waiting to tell the police officer what she wants for Christmas.

My Exciting Weekend

On Friday, Kayla and I came down to Collierville. As always she talked the majority of the trip. I dropped her off at my parents house and then headed to meet my best friends from Collierville High School. We all gathered at Gaspo's house.( Mary Ann's Italian Stallion) haha The 1st thing brought up was one of our group pictures taken in High School. Everyone laughed and laughed at Nicci's hair. We went to Bahama Breeze for dinner and had a blast talking about memories and what everyone is doing now. Afterwards we went to TJ Mulligans in which it seemed like we were the youngest people there. Hah Watching older people dance was hilarious.

On Saturday, my mom took Kayla and me shopping at Kohls for Christmas gifts. Afterwards, we went to McDonald in which my mom ran into an old teacher friend, and I ran into Mayor Kerley ( I dated her son Kevin in High School). Later, we went to Bellevue Baptist Church to see The Singing Christmas Tree. Melody was stuck in traffic , but made it kinda in the middle. We were in the 5th row, right by the orchestra and it was amazing. I really enjoyed watching Kayla's face when they threw the snowballs, confetti, streamers, or fireworks. Her most noticed expression was when the angels were flying. Her jaw dropped and her head followed them across the stage. After the performance, we went to Germantown to look at a couple of my mom's students decorated houses. Then we all headed home and ordered pizza with cheese crust. LOL I'll explain that story when I have more time.

On Sunday I woke up to the news that Kayla had been sick all night because of the pizza. She felt better after taking a jacuzzi. We went to Arlington to my dad's band concert. It brought back some memories. Kayla was a little wiggly, so I gave her a pen to draw on the program. When the band played Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Kayla looked up with excitement and jaw dropped. LoL

Movie Review

Wanted- This movie was awesome! It was full of action and  the plot of the story was catching. 

Kung Fu Panda- The first time I watched this movie I was not really into it. But, since Chris enjoyed watching it over and over again I had not choice but to watch it with him and then kind of got use to it and began to laugh. It does have some funny parts. My favorite was when the turtle went around blowing the candles out one by one haha.

Wall-e - This movie didn't really get my attention either. It took me a couple of times to watch it. Let's just say I caught the middle part, then the end, and went back and watched the beginning. The only part I remember to tell you about is the plant, lighter, and the fat guy in the space ship.

Sleeping Beauty- I remember this movie from when I was younger but it was never one of my favorites. Now that I watch it almost 20 years later it is not that interesting. Mostly music and very few words. It is also hard to explain to a young child why a girl fell asleep after pricking her finger. Kayla loves it though and all she can talk about is Sleeping Beauty. Last month it was Tinkerbell and the month before that Ariel. Haha

College- This movie was sooooo funny. But watch it when the kids are asleep. I thought it was hilarious that "Chicken Little" from American Idol was one of the main actors. Haha 

Step Brothers- Now my older sister Amy warned me that there was a lot of curse words in the movie but I rented it anyways. I thought this movie was HILARIOUS! It is going to my top list with Dumb and Dumber! OMG I laughed soo hard that my stomach was tight and I could barely hear myself laugh anymore. The part when they were sleep walking was super funny. Haha I am laughing while I type this. The whole movie was great and I recommend it just ignore the dirty words. And he said Don't touch his drum set!

Fred Claus- I thought this movie was going to be a lot more than it was. It was neat to watch Dr. Merrill Bobolit  from Nip/Tuck play Santa Claus. Naming the dog Macaroni was cute haha It was a good movie, I just expected more from Vince Vaughn.

Untraceable- This was a very hard movie to watch. It is a very good mystery and kept my attention for sure. Just thinking about a website that the more people log on the faster the person dies is awful and I am glad this is just a movie. 

Joy Ride 2- Goldilocks! Ah 1st it was Candy cane and now this! That dude's voice just creeps me out! This movie had a lot of twists in it and I loved that. I had never heard of the actors before but they ended up being pretty good. This movie was also hard to watch  because there is a lot of killing and beating. 

Definitely, Maybe- I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time and I finally rented it. I used to watch Two Guys, A Girl and A Pizza Place in High School and the main actor is from that show. This movie made me cry! It is a very awesome movie told in story form from a dad to daughter. Chris even cried during this movie. 

Cleaner- This movie was very interesting but Chris figured it out in the middle and decided to share his thought. Uhhhhh I hate that!!! haha It was very bloody but keeps you watching and is put together well. 

Christmas Parade

The kids convinced Chris to put up lights and decorate the yard! Well kind of haha. One Santa is all the kids wanted. They have gone up to him several times and told him what they wanted for Christmas and they even say good night to him. The kids had a blast decorating the tree in the living room as well. We have already watched Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Grinch! I love Christmas time and I love watching the kids get so excited about everything!!!! It even snowed a little bit this morning and the kids were just sooooo amazed!!
Today we took the kids to their 1st Christmas Parade! Preston started out the parade all excited! As soon as he saw the motorcycles he waved and smiled. But as soon as he heard the loud noises, tears just poured down his face!!!! Awe

Kayla kept saying, "This is sooooo much fun!" She loved grabbing the candy the kids on the floats threw. I enjoyed watching the marching bands, but it seemed like every time one got to us they were through playing the music! :( It was still enjoyable watching the color guard. I miss marching in parades. I wore my London shirt to the parade hee hee!
Here is my handful!!!! Preston, Kayla, Kendall, Dalton, and Logan! I take the boys to and from school sometimes and watch Kendall at the house with Preston.

Logan and his Dad Brian! Brian and Chris wrestle and work together! They are like part of our family!!!

Robertson's 1st Thanksgiving

Kayla was very helpful! She held the door open for everyone and passed out plates and napkins!
Chris carving his 1st Turkey!
Desserts: Kayla and I made the pumpkin and apple pie and we bought the pecan pie from Perkins.
We have corn casserole, green bean casserole, the turkey, devil eggs, sweet potato casserole, creamy vegetable casserole. Not shown we also had honey baked ham, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing and turkey gravy and rolls.
The Robertson Family

Kayla's Thanksgiving Feast

Kayla and her teacher Mrs. Mandy
Teaching Assistant Mrs. Sonja

Early Christmas Fun

Today we went to the mall for Breakfast with Santa at Sweet Peppers Deli! The kids were very excited to meet the "real" Santa. haha I got tired of taking them to the yard decor at Walmart because they just knew he was still there. Well what we thought was going to be breakfast was two doughnut holes and a swallow of orange juice. Haha After Santa visited our table, we walked around the mall for a bit and then went to Applebees for lunch. 

Movie Review

  

TinkerBell- This movie was very fun to watch. It contains bright colors and lots of little fairy characters, not just TinkerBell. Kayla absolutely loved this movie. It is so cute watching her watch a movie and laughing out loud and then repeating the funny parts.

The Happening- Chris rented this movie thinking it was going to be scary. Well it was not scary but it was very shocking, funny, and sad all at the same time. The movie starts out kind of slow and remains kind of slow but it keeps you watching.

The Strangers- This movie again was very very slow and there is a lot of silence and not a lot of talking. Mainly just music and AHHH, OMG, THERE COMING kinda stuff. The movie really did not make a lot of since to me and I was very disappointed with the ending.

SpeedRacer- I thought this was going to be a good movie based on the appearance of the scenes. I really thought that Preston would get into it because of the racing. Well, we sat down as a family to watch it and Chris fell asleep, Preston started skipping around the house, Kayla wanted to watch TinkerBell and I just wasn't getting into it.....so we turned it off within the first 10 minutes and never tried to watch it again.

Deception- This movie also started out slow and you have to pay close attention to understand things. I really got into this movie and was surprised by the ending. 

Get Smart- We went into Hasting looking for a really good comedy and everyone kept telling us to get this movie. Even when we took Preston to get his haircut the stylist said that she had watched it 4 times. Well.......Chris and I didn't laugh much and ended up turning it off and going to bed because we just weren't feeling the humor. Even THE ROCK wasn't that great of an actor. Another movie we did not even finish watching.

Twin Daggers- We must have had bad luck this go round. We watched the first 5 minutes and turned it off. If you like martial arts then I recommend you don't watch this movie because it will only disappoint you.

Thanksgiving

Well, I am disappointed to say that Thanksgiving will be quite different this year! My older sister Amy just had her second child and will be staying in Texas for this holiday with her husband and his family. Melody has recently graduated and has her first "REAL" job at  a pet hospital and since she took off work to visit Amy during her delivery has been scheduled to work on Thanksgiving. My mom has chosen to visit Amy in Texas and my dad is going to Murfreesboro to be with Melody. I am staying here in Dyersburg and cooking my 1st Thanksgiving meal for the Robertson Family! I am nervous but excited at the same time. I will miss seeing my family for this holiday but will see them for Christmas for sure. Ever since Chris and I have been together we have always had Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family in Collierville/Cordova so I think it is time for Chris's family. 

Here is my menu so far:   

Turkey and Ham (No Honey Baked Hams here :()

Swiss Vegetable Casserole

Green Bean Casserole

Sweet Potato Casserole with marshmellows

Corn Casserole

Cheesy Potato Bake

Deviled Eggs

Stuffing

Cranberry Sauce

Cornbread/ Rolls

Gravy

Double Pumpkin Creme Pie

 

Memories from last Thanksgiving:         

I had just had my hair cut really short and was upset. LOL

Melody and I went and tanned a lot at my salons Collierville/Wolf River.      

 *** Help me out Melody ..I have forgotten... I remember more from Christmas**                          

                                               

Spring Registration

Well I am registered for my Spring classes here at Dyersburg State. I will be taking Anatomy and Physiology II and Masterpieces of Music I. My graduation date has been set for May 15th,2011. Seems like a while but it really goes by quickly considering I have a family to take care of as well. I think it will be the perfect present for my dad whose birthday is May 16th and my father in law whose birthday is May 15th.

Halloween 2008

 My Fireman and Sleeping Beauty with wings!!!
Family Photo before taking the kids trick or treating! Preston is already tired of wearing his hat. 
Kayla wanted to stay home and play fairies with Mommy!

Fall Festival

Pumpkin Patch