A Robison Thanksgiving Bonanza!

The Robison Siblings:

Left to right (and oldrest to youngest):

Kelley, Brook, Sara, Matthew, Daniel, Amy, Emma, Hannah

A few weeks before Thanksgiving my sister Sara contacted my siblings and I and asked if we wanted to surprise my mom for Thanksgiving. (Now, my family has to plan reunions two years in advance because we all live so far away, and there are nine of us.) But somehow we pulled it off.

(1 set of grandparents, 1 set of parents, 1 cousin, 9 siblings, 6 in-laws, and 11 grandchildren makes for 1 crazy reunion. 2 in-laws and 1 grandchild not shown above.)

It wasn’t a surprise, though. We invited my grandparents and they refused to surprise her. So we planned a fun way to tell my mom. One evening my sister Molly (the youngest living outside the home) called my mom at 6:00 pm and told her that she would be coming for Thanksgiving. Then at 6:02, I called her. At 6:04, my older brother Dan called her. And so on every 2 minutes until finally my grandparents called. She loved it. And it turned out much better not being a surprise. There were thirty of us in my parent’s 4-bedroom house for three days.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at the local Stake Center so we could all sit down together, at the same time, without worrying about what the kids were getting into. Dan and Tasha set up the tables. Pretty exquisite, huh?The kids got their own table with a butcher paper table cloth they could color on.

We all cooked something for dinner so my mom would have to do anything. My favorite was Molly's sweet potato dish. I had it for dessert instead of pie.

Playing at the Stake Center after dinner.Dancing in my parents living room. Jacob warming up to his uncle Ken. He stared at him like this for at least 30 minutes and then fell asleap there.
Grace "doctoring" her cousin Paige.
The sisters: Molly, Hannah, Amy, Emma, Sara, KelleyThe Turkey Bowl:

It wouldn't be a family reuinon without a little competiton, a little roughhousing, a little disagreement, and a little arguing.

We all had so much fun. My family likes to play this game called loaded questions. You may have heard of it. We make up our own questions, though. It is hilarious. I could go on and on about all we did and how great my family is, but, I don’t really want to. So, that’s all.