You have to have allot of tolerance for noise if you want to be in our home.
Larson loves his drums and has already learned 3 beat sequences although here he is just rocking out! He sings We will We will Rock you, Rock you as he plays the one beat. Actually am very surprised by his ability to keep the beat so well.
Drum playing rule #1:
No playing while Logan is sleeping!!!!!!!!!!!
I am sure there will be many more to follow!
Our Christmas morning started at 7:00. Bravo to the Roberts kids!
We got a Wii!
Thanks Aunt Char and Mr. Bell
The wait is over: Jordan finally got a cell phone. We hid it in the tree and after all the presents were opened we called her cell phone. Needless to say she was happy and was proud to announce she had sent 88 text messages by the end of the day. Yes, we have an unlimited text plan!
Christmas was a very fun day as they always are. We wish that we could have all of our family with us but as Colby always said, we would have to have a very big house. We are so blessed and look forward to this next week of just spending time with each other and playing with all the new presents!
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house were 4 little children barely being able to contain themselves!
Mommy was very busy cooking for our Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas breakfast, and Christmas dinner, wrapping gifts, and trying to meet all the kids needs. I needed a long winters nap after this day. The kids were full of that Christmas excitement knowing Santa was on his way. We had a great dinner with Uncle Chris and then attempted to watch Vacation Christmas but the kids were not into it so we moved on from that. We watched videos from Santa, put out milk and cookies, read the Night Before Christmas, Larson "read" the baby Jesus story for us and then it was off to bed. (for the kids that is)
The Children all snuggled in their beds or Not!
OK, so he is 10 months and 3 weeks but still in his 10th month so that counts
Logan has very quickly changed from being a baby to trying to be a toddler. He is just about to be able to keep up with the big boys. (or at least he thinks that) Just like all the other Roberts children, he babbles allot but no words other than DADADADADA but I still consider that babbling until I hear a Mama out of him. He may be a mischievous one as he always laughs when he knows he should not be doing something. He sure does smile allot! He is so cuddly and we all have a hard time keeping our hands off of him.
Mrs. Petersons class had a gingerbread decorating party. I was able to be there without Logan (home with Grampy and Nana). It was just Jackson and I and we had a great time. He loves Mrs. Peterson and she has been a great teacher for him. The chefs hats were made out of tissue paper. A couple of us made them with Mrs. Peterson before the party. How easy and cute was that!
When did this happen????
This is Jordan's Achievement group. We had a Christmas party and gift exchange for them. 18 girls is allot in this group now! Jordan was so sad because it is Gemmas last one. She is now 12 and goes onto the youth group.
The Roberts and Tovars were in charge of the Pac meeting for Jacksons cub scouts. Who decided to sign up for this in Dec??? Anyway, it was a success. We had a great skit by the kids and Tom. Wish that I had of taped it but couldnt with helping and the baby. They had crafts and relay races to decorate the Christmas tree (our Cub Scout Master) Then finished the night off with hot chocolate and lots of cookies!
Larson is dreaming of the day that he becomes a cub scout: for now he just lives for the Pac meetings so he can participate with the entire family and pretend that he is already a cub scout.
I got to enjoy a nice night at my friend Mindas house. She has a beautiful Christmas dinner. It was so nice to be with her and some other girl friends during this time of the year.
We were lucky to have Nana and Grampy visit us in December this year so the kids could do holiday activities with them. Austin gave them weather from the 80's to the 30's while they were here.
We celebrated Nana's birthday with a nice dinner and presents from the kids. Jenny Boynton, a good friend that grew up with Tom and Chris in Toledo came over (she lives in Austin now with her son Fred) Grampy gave the kids gold dollar coins with the first 7 Presidents. That was a project that he had worked on for a few days. He made them memorize the Presidents first before he gave them the coins.
They joined us for church!
We had a very nice adult dinner at the new UT club. It was our first time in it and it was very beautiful. A great place to have dinner and it be less than a minute from your house.
Thank you Nana & Grampy for visiting with us. I am sure that you both are recovering from 5 kids, yes 5. we are counting Larson as 2 as he never let them have a break. Carol and Jim shopped, watched kids, did laundry, did laundry some more, cooked and fixed things around the house. Most important spent so much time with the kids.
I love that our church "Christmas Party" is a breakfast. There are just so many planned activities for the nights in December. We have a breakfast, sing some songs, listen to the kids sing and watch a little nativity.
Jordan's One Act play seemed to me like she had been in this thing for a year at least. They finally had their competition and performed for their own school and even threw in a couple of parties.
Jordan so excited to go to school to receive all of the attention that she knew was coming her way. We did a much better job of styling than they did but they were just in a hurry to cut more hair from girls coming in.
They did not use her interview but she was on the news and it is hysterical at one part where she is just flipping her hair all over the place. Tom and I kept playing it in slow motion and just laughing so hard. I am going to attempt to add the link to the news cast. I have not done that before so I will see how it goes.
In all honesty, we are so so proud of Jordan for doing this and setting the goal to never look back.
Our 2 littlest Turkeys
The day was spent cooking, eating, playing a little football, watching a little football, allot of cleaning up, trying to help our sick Logan and just being thankful to have such a great family. 
go to downtown parade where you give new toys for kids
Make Funnel Cakes!!!!
Attempt Christmas card pictures. Notice the crying baby crawling away. Always a dreaded moment at the mention of kids its time to take Christmas pictures.
Why would you fly into Toronto when you can get a footlong hotdog from Teds in Buffalo. This is a family tradition for us. One of the best presents you can bring a Foss girl back home is a package of Teds Hot Dogs. We stopped there on the way and coming home and of course had our coolers packed for the dogs to go.
A quick stop at the water fountain as Larson calls it. Others call it a great wonder of the world or Niagara Falls. They were decorated for Christmas with all the lights and it was so beautiful. Then we continued to drive around Canada for the next 6 hours lost in the night. We eventually made it with a little side trip to Toronto.
Boydie was so happy with the kids around! It will take her days to recover.
We kept telling Larson that she was 100 because that sounded better to him than just 90.
So glad that we could be with you! 
Crystal was one of Larsons constant companions. She taught him all kinds of fun things. The moose ears and saying "Go Canada" was seen and heard a few times on this trip.
Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!
How perfect! A trip to Canada without snow would have been disappointing. This was Larsons first snow. It was night time and started to come down and everyone was a good sport to get dressed and go play in the snow. Of course our cousins had t-shirts on with a little jacket. They were laughing at us: coats, boots, gloves, hats, scarfs. Larson got to take a few sled rides, a great snowball fight with Mr. Bell and a pitiful snowman but never the less, a snowman! Larson was having so much fun right up until the point where he noticed his hands were stinging and frozen. We made a quick escape to the fire place.
Grandma kept worrying me trying to pick up Logan. I was so glad that they were together.
St. Thomas, Ontario- Jumbo the Elephant. Every town has a claim to fame and this is a sad story and people were laughing at us but I had to take Larson to see the elephant. When the circus came to town the original Jumbo saved her baby by pushing it off of the train tracks but Jumbo could not be saved. This was the actual size of Jumbo. We had a stellar wind path blowing right on us at this point but we had to get the picture. We asked Larson how he liked this cold weather and he said "IT IS HORRIBLE".
Here was some of the gang just hanging out at Aunt Carolines. 
"The Fountain"
The house my Dad grew up in and Grandma Foss lived in until she passed away.
