What a whirlwind weekend for us… we drove off to Iowa on Friday for a belated Robbins family Christmas… Nick, Karla and the girls were on leave before moving to Washington state, so they were able to fly out to Iowa for a few days. We hadn’t seen them in person since May of 2006, so we jumped on the opportunity to see them! We got to meet Danielle for the first time! Steph, Jay and drove up with little Xavier, so it was great to see him again, too!

Molly had so much fun playing with her cousins… Doug got Ava, Laina and Molly hooked on playing “hide and go seek” so that was a lot of fun to see where three little girls would decide where to hide in Grandma’s house! We ran into a couple of “sharing incidents” involving plastic necklaces but other than that, I think the girls really got along well. When Molly woke up in the morning, the first thing she wanted to do was “play with cousins!”

On Saturday, we had a Robbins family photo shoot. Surprisingly, the kids held on a lot longer than I thought they would… we were able to take lots of photos, but it sure is hard to get 5 little ones all looking happily at the camera in the same shot! Here are a couple of my favorites:

We drove home on Monday, and of course there was a nice snow storm covering our path almost the whole way back. It was fun to see the whole family get together, but I just wish the temperature made it above zero so we could have played outside in all of that Iowa snow! Oh well!

~ Erin