The Robles Family Christmas party was held at the Jensen's home this year. The party was a ton of fun despite the turkey cooker malfunctioning and delaying our meal 1 1/2 hours.
Opening presents is always fun for everyone. Robbie loves his colorful book!
Mom is talking to David and Jackie as she opens their extra special gift.
The kids were all over the place, including the staircase to watch the present opening fun!
Jacob and Natalie can hardly contain their excitement over the splendid wrapping paper!
Julie is in love and doesn't care what is going on!!!! Jordan is such a good sport. He played all of our goofy games and even helped clean up after little kids!
Dad received more presents than he knew what to do with. He had trouble keeping them all together.
Yes, Kami looks super cute at about 6 months pregnant.
These little darlings loved that there was chocolate and candy out on the tables for anyone to eat. They had their fair share and a little more when no one was looking!
Please notice that Mom and Dad are in this picture and that we are playing UNO. Try not to fall out of your chair in shock! They are even having fun playing a family game. Kami was awesome to teach mom the rules of UNO. Later during the day, Mom and Dad even played Apples to Apples. Although they didn't win, (AMY WON 10 TIMES!!!!!), Dad did a great job offending all of the women in the room in one turn and offended Jacob on another turn. It was a funny site to see!!! 
Our next stop after dinner was the Mesa Temple. We listened to the musical performance by the Cooley Sisters. Heidi, Madi and Payten enjoyed it so much that they were dancing everywhere. They did pause for a moment to get their priceless picture taken. 
Mitchell and Grant tried not to notice all of the beautiful lights....but it was just too hard for them to avoid it!
On Saturday afternoon, Uncle Major and Aunt Ann came over for lunch. Aunt Ann told lots of stories about the Sweeney family history and filled in some of the gaps I had in my family history information. It was a wonderful visit and quite a treat!We can hardly wait for the next big Robles Family get-together!
Bob did a great job tricking Amy into thinking she was going to a special park for a birthday celebration. He had her close her eyes the whole way to the "park." It was fun to see her surprise when she ended up at our house for dinner and a party! We love you Amy! Happy Birthday!
Doesn't she looked surprised with her lovely tiara, magic wand and sprinkled cupcake?
Today she was sporting her zebra bag. Amy just knew that Sarah would want to see this super cute purse and be jealous about it ;)
The party table at Wendy's! We even sang Happy Birthday to Grandma. The other diners in the restaurant clapped.
Time for presents! Grandma received three cute shirts from Mom.
She also received this rustic birdhouse to adorn her backyard from me (Haley). Maddi helped pick it out at HobbyLobby.
The best part of the party was chowing down on the sprinkled cupcakes. Robby loved to stick his fingers in the cupcake frosting but became frustrated that when he shook his hand, it wouldn't come off. Eventually, Amy stuck his hand in his mouth so he could taste the sweet frosting. After that, he had no problem shoving the cupcake in his face. Robby will be ready for his birthday cake this weekend!
Notice its all of the girls crowding around Dad to get a look at the book. Where are all of the boys??? j/k
She pealed off the gold wrapping paper and found the elegant red box with a picture of her and dad in the center.
She pulled the special book from the box and read the title page "A Tribute to Valerie Robles from her 10 Kids." This is when the tears started to fall.
Nervously and full of emotion, she browsed through the pages of the books reading the thoughtful words of gratitude written by each of her children. All of us just stood there and watched in silence. It was quite a moment! Thankfully, Sarah said she wanted to read the whole thing out loud. We all gathered around Sarah, including mom, and read it together. It was fun to see what pictures each of us included and what funny stories or memories were shared. We are a pretty lucky group of 10 kids to have such a remarkable mother.
