Merry Christmas!
I have the best hubby in the world! He is the light of my life! Happy birthday to him!
I took this picture on our way to Utah, we thought it was funny because we didn't even know our car thermometer could do negatives. Huh, the things you learn driving 40 mph down a snowy road.
This is what the road looked like until we got to Tremonton. I am the biggest chicken when it comes to any sort of dangerous driving, probably due to the fact that all the wrecks I have been in have been due to icy roads. So I closed my eyes a lot of the time we were driving! Collin is good at handling them, though. We really did have to go 40 for a few hours, but we never slid off, which I consider a success! It took us almost 8 hours to make the usually 5-hour drive to Collin's parent's house. But who cares, we made it!
It was 4 degrees when the race started! nice! As you can guess, I was very sad I was sitting in my car with the heater on full blast as the race went on. :)
Tyler earned my race number a nice 14th place in the Womens 25-29 division! Thanks!
Just sitting down to eat--we had Morgan and Lana's family, Tyler, and Beau and Donna all there also. It was great to see everyone and get together. 
Like I said, way more food than could ever possibly be eaten.
Darlyne always refuses to let us bring anything.... so I always bring these. They did get chowed down (especially by the kids, of course), so I felt like I contributed! I also made some pumpkin/cream cheese frosting sandwich cookies. mmm.
We always have fun playing games with the kids too. Collin ran Bingo.... and we always have like 50 games of Nerts (how do you spell that?) and we played Yahtzee this year too! Not to mention watching Kung Fu Panda and some other movies. It was great to have a day to be together and relax and have fun! Even with the fact that I could only eat mashed potatoes and jello salad!
And of course at any Robertson Boy get together you will have this....
and this .... (notice Lucy wishing she could get in on the action)
And this! We keep telling Jim and Darlyne they just need to put a wrestling mat out in their garage, since this always happens. It is pretty funny. Glad the boys have a good time when they get together. 
I can't believe it's already wresting season again! Maybe because Collin's season just ended in August! lol!
I had my every-other-year check in with my GI this week, and even though I knew I would beforehand, sure enough, I left with tears in my eyes due to the gratitude I feel for how healthy I have been! 10 years ago I spent many days and even weeks in the hospital due to ulcerative colitis, and trips to the GI were never fun because it meant I was getting sicker and they had to try to decide what to do. I can't remember all the details of all that transpired leading to me having major surgery to have my colon removed at the age of 16, but whatever it was, Heavenly Father was definitely looking out for me! I have met so many people through Take Steps, Education Conferences, and especially the Support Group I run, that have had the surgery I have, but have been dealing with problems with it ever since. I have to stop and think WOW! I've never had any problems. Okay, not entirely true, but when I look at what I do day-to-day, I really don't deal with any problems. It's a huge miracle, in my opinion. I know everything happens for a reason and I'm glad I've had this reminder that Heavenly Father must have more in store for me to do, giving me such great health. I better take advantage of it! I really do try to, and that is part of why I have been so involved with CCFA the past 6 years or so, but still! I am thankful, thankful, thankful that I have been blessed to lead a "normal" life even with the insanely complicated medical history I have!
Collin, Matt and Laci (this table later collapsed!! Not kidding! Maybe now I can convince Collin we need a new card table!)
My little guy on the left, Collin's on the right.
Las chicas (minus Amber, who I was so glad came, and brought the cutest cookies I've ever seen)
Abby and Karter LOVED our little noise-activated spider, it was the #1 source of entertainment for like 2 hours.
Los ninos
Kim caught this cute picture. These guys were fast friends! Good thing because I realized our house needs to be more little kid friendly! They would have been really bored otherwise!
We all voted for BEST (Chandra and Dustin), SCARIEST (Collin), and UGLIEST (Matt). Nice work peeps! ;)
RIP, I Love Grandpa* Sweatshirt. I finally threw it away last week. I know. Sad. 
This is Andrea outside the temple waiting for Tara and Paul to come out.
The happy couple!
After we spent a couple of hours shopping the Womens Show, we of course had to continue the tradition of eating at Merritt's every time Tara is here. If you've ever visited us in Boise we have probably taken you there. You know, that really trashy place that never replaces their duct-taped seats, but serves super yummy scones and milkshakes?
That day was ACTUALLY Collin and my anniversary so this is our lone 5th anniversary picture.
And here we are pre-race! Actually, we didn't really race, technically. We all signed up for the competitive run since that is what we all originally planned to do. But Mom had an achille's heel injury so we just slid in with a different wave and walked. I say we didn't race technically because walking with my mom is like running a race. We practically had to jog to keep up with her. We got really good at weaving through walkers and strollers!
Our team name was FitWhits (my maiden name/all their last names still is Whittier), --Andrea came up with that one. Then I put some rad (yes, rad) nicknames on the sleeves. The only one I messed up on was Jodee's--I put it on upside down. oops. But anyway--the nicknames were as follows: 
Actually, the part we liked the best was his Special Guest Darius Rucker--who, I found out from Collin just a few days before the concert, is Hootie from Hootie and the Blowfish! He is great. It was a fun opener.
We liked Darius Rucker better than Brad Paisley just because for some reason, whatever idiot was running the sound system for Brad had the treble turned up super high and Brad's voice was faded almost so you couldn't hear it over the instrumentals. And I swear, I'm not just saying it was hard to hear him because we are old fogies at a concert like this! In my opinion country isn't one of those things that should have blasting guitar and vocals you can't hear.
BUT Brad was great!! We had the cheap seats clear up in the nosebleeds at first, but thanks to Amber's great idea we moved down way closer for the second half. Brad put on a super good show. I had been listening to his new CD so I knew those songs, but I was surprised at how many of his other songs I knew too! I'm not really a country listener so I guess Collin has forced those on me more than I had realized! They're funny songs though. It was fun.
The 4 of us! Thanks for going with us, Brady and Amber! 