The Rooster

So Wesley has these two really weird cowlicks right at the crown of his head. As you can see in the picture above, it makes his hair grow straight up and that is what we call...."The Rooster." So I say to Ryan the other day "Honey, I think we need to cut the rooster." His response..."Nooooooo!" Ryan is a bit attached, but it had to go!!

Before

After

Luckily, we just found out that when you hold his hands and practice walking with him he walks just like a little rooster. So he hasn't lost his identity completely!

The Latest....

I have not posted anything new for a while, so here is what we have been up to lately.

Wesley LOVES cucumbers!

Being silly

Wesley also loves watching The Sing Off with mommy and daddy;)

This was the night of our 4 year wedding anniversary....oh how things have changed! :)Our romantic dinner together!...We actually went to the temple that morning and did sealings and Merrill J. Bateman was our sealer. He was the president of BYU when Ryan first started and also has been a member of the seventy. It was a neat experience! We also got to go to lunch and then go shopping while my grandparents watched Wesley, so we did get some alone time!

So cute! Wesley working out with daddy.

Ryan was making these weird robotic noises the other night and Wesley was going hysterical.

Checking out the Christmas tree for the first time

Yesterday Ryan really wanted to get out of the house so we drove over to Camp Floyd State Park. It was only about a 15 minute drive. This was where Johnston's army camped after they came to suppress the supposed Mormon Rebellion in what is called the Utah War. They agreed to set up camp outside of the Salt Lake Valley and stayed there with 1/3 of the U.S. Army. They remained there until the Civil War started. This is a picture of pretty much what remains of the area. It was called the Stagecoach Inn and some famous people stayed there including Mark Twain and Porter Rockwell.

Wesley and I getting a closer look at the horses.

Happy Halloween!

Last night we had a little Halloween party with the Isakson side of the family. This is a tradition we started back in 2009 and we had so much fun the first time we have continued to dress up each year, eat good food, and play games. Here are a couple of pictures from last night and this last week.

 

John Smith, Pocahontas, and their half white, half Indian baby:)

The whole gang! From left to right....Bottom row: Melanie, Susan, Candice and Wesley, Jenny and Sara. Top row: Aaron, Todd, Brent(scary!), Ryan, and Mike

Cousins!

Sara the lion cub and Wesley the Indian chief

Fun Halloween P.J.'s

Our ward trunk or treat. We didn't feel like getting all dressed up for that, so we just went as Brazilian soccer fans:)

10 months old!

So....I feel like these past couple of weeks Wesley has just grown up on me! He is starting to look more like a little boy and definitely act like one. I am afraid for when he actually starts crawling....I think I am going to be getting some good excersize:) Here is what the little munchkin has been up to lately.

Wesley gets up on his hands an knees and rocks back and forth. It's pretty funny to watch, it looks like he is going to take off crawling but he usually just face plants and then kicks around like a fish out of water.
Helping daddy work....we can't do this too often or daddy wouldn't get anything done:)
His mischievous smile

This is his missionary hair do. We can now rest knowing Wesley is a normal child...we introduced him to spaghetti and he loved it!

Wesley can now stand on his own for 2 whole minutes! Way to go Wesley! (of course he is still being supported by the couch...but he's getting there)

Every time I put Wesley on the changing table to change his diaper it's like this crazy switch in him turns on. It's pretty much impossible to hold him down. This is about 2 seconds after I had taken his diaper off. Crazy kid!

Enjoying our walks around town

My favorite! Laundry basket rides around the house:)

Enjoying the fall weather

Today we decided to drive up American Fork Canyon to look at all of the beautiful fall leaves and enjoy the nice weather. We now have church from 3-6pm(yikes!), so we decided it would be a perfect way to spend the day. We are no professionals at taking pictures, but we had fun snapping a couple of shots.

We Moved!

Well, this past month has been a crazy one and that is why you haven't heard from us in a while. At the end of August Ryan was offered a new job and so we decided to move down south a bit. We are now in Eagle Mountain and loving it! It is very beautiful out here. You get a smaller town feel without having to sacrifice too much (like grocery stores and gas stations). We are excited to get established here and get to know our new ward and neighbors!

Here is Wesley helping us unpack, he is such a big helper:)

We decided to take a drive around town to get to know the area better and we found this really cool park near by, it even has a little water play area for kids in the summer. We are going to have some fun next year!

Wesley learning to crawl

Wesley is almost ready to crawl. He's got all of the movements down, now he just needs to put them all together.

24th of July Parade

This post is a little late but I wanted to share some of the fun we had while at the parade. This year was our first time attending the days of 47 parade and we are so glad we went, it was so much fun! For those of you who are not familiar with this parade, it is a commemoration of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley in July of 1847.

I got really excited when President Monson came by, I have never been that close to a prophet before....it looks like he is smiling at me:)

8 months old!

Cheese!

Robinson Family Vacation

This year for the Robinson family vacation, instead of doing our annual lake trip, we thought we would try something a little more adventurous. We stayed in a vacation home in Flagstaff, Arizona and visited a lot of places close by.

Before we met up with my family, Ryan and I camped at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Here is Ryan as we are on a hike to the drop off of the canyon.

I was a little nervous not only because we were pretty high up but because as you can see in this picture, there was a big storm coming our way and we were on a trail that was pretty narrow with drop offs on both sides.

We decided to go simple, canned soup for dinner:)


We drove to a part of the north rim called Cape Royal to watch the sunset, it was totally worth the drive. There was hardly anyone around, a very peaceful environment.

Breakfast time! Wesley is such a good sport when we camp!

Alright, this is where the family vacation begins. We started out visiting one of the best preserved meteor craters in the world called... Meteor Crater.

Our next stop was the Petrified Forest. This area used to be a forest with swamps, massive trees, and a lot of dinosaurs.

This place is pretty cool. There are whole trees strewn across the hillside. The minerals get into the plant cells and harden leaving the form of the original tree but making it hard as rock.

This was a really fun overlook of part of the Painted Dessert and some more petrified wood. Here we caught Chris in midair with a hundred foot drop below.

Petrified Forest National Park, besides preserving petried trees and painted sand dunes, also has some Indian ruins and petroglyphs. See if you can figure out what this one is supposed to be.

We heard from a photographer that this giant bird is some sort of boogeyman that was supposed to pick up misbehaving children. Parents do their best to scare their children in every culture it seems. Not grandpas though...

The next day we drove just north of Flagstaff to visit Sunset Crater National Monument and Wupatki National Monument. Sunset Crater is a cinder cone volcano and is part of the Flagstaff volcanic field which is the second largest in North America.

Sunset Crater was named by John Wesley Powell for the orange, red, and yellow colors near the top. It erupted about 800 years ago. There area still large lava flows and other features that make it look like it erupted much more recently.

Next we stopped at Wupatki, which is a series of ruins created by the Sinagua Indians who came into the area after the eruption of the volcano. Here we are all at the Wukoki ruin. It was fun to climb into all of the rooms here and imagine what it would have been like to live on a rock in the middle of the desert.

Below is the Wupatki ruin, the biggest in the park, which had up to 100 rooms in its heyday. There was also a cool ballcourt and a blowhole that blew nice cool air out of the earth and into our faces.

The next day we got a late start since our battery died and we had a hard time getting out some of the poorly placed bolts. Once we drove down Oak Creek Canyon it was worth all of the hassle.

We had a really fun time at Slide Rock State Park. At this park, the creek flows over some smooth rocks and creates a natural waterslide. The water was cold but the scenery was beautiful and it was a very unique experience.

Here we all are at the park. You can tell which of us don't get out in the sun very much and/or have no Indian blood in us.

That night we drove a few more miles down the road to watch the sunset at Airport Mesa in Sedona. It is a beautiful city that we would like to spend more time in next time we are in the area.

On Thursday, we visited the "crown jewel" of the trip, the Grand Canyon.

It was a beautiful day and it was nice to see the canyon from the South Rim to get a different perspective. The Grand Canyon is amazing no matter where you see it.

On Friday, we decided to take it easy and swim at a local pool. This was Wesley's first time in a pool and he enjoyed himself thoroughly. No photos here, but he got in all the way up to his neck.

On Saturday, we decided to stay local again and visit this very cool Lava Flow Cave. It was created by lava running under ground and then hardening over time. It is about 3/4 of a mile deep and around 45 degrees. This was a good time that was Candice's favorite part of the trip.

Grammy Pammy's favorite part of the trip.

The nice house we stayed at in Flagstaff. We really loved it there and wouldn't mind living there. Thanks Dave for finding this great place to spend our week.