This is our family in a NUTshell

DOBRON

Diligent

Obedient

Brave

Reverent

Optimistic

Nutty

 Allison Ryann

affectionate

leader

listener

intelligent

smiley

obedient

nurturer

Allison is a good soul. She loves music and helping around the house....and most especially the two together. She is gaining more courage as the months go on and her latest feat was riding on the California Screamin' roller coaster (it goes upside down!) which is now her favorite ride. She can often be found drawing or reading. She LOVES school and is probably one of very few kids who doesn't want the school year to end. She is an excellent student and it comes easy to her. She also loves to help me bake and organize.  If the only thing I have to get on her about is hiding dirty clothes in nooks and crannies in her room, I can't complain. She is a great big sister and a good example. She has a little testimony of her own and she's very excited to be baptized next year and has set a goal to read the entire Book of Mormon before she does! We waited a long year before getting pregnant with Ally and she is a blessing in our home!

 Gregory "Cole"

cheerful

obedient

leader

example

Cole entered our lives with a bang. He's been our zero to sixty kid. As you can tell from his picture here, Cole is a genuinely joyful boy. We love to watch him play sports. He's surprisingly great at soccer, and just finished a fun season of baseball! (Dan's secretly hoping he takes that route and can one day be his coach.) Cole's got a smile that will melt your heart, and skin that soaks in the sun. He is a sweet brother to his little sister and can often be heard around the house talking to her in a high, sweet voice asking her to do things with/for him.  He and his big sister love to play together too, and thankfully, his sister's joy for learning and reading is rubbing off. Cole asks almost every time we drive by the school, "When do I start Kindergarten?" Not soon enough for this kid. He has officially started to read and loves it. I'd like to think my love for reading has rubbed off on both of them! He has no fear (which could give us trouble in a few years ahead.)  He loves being a helper too and he most especially loves being his daddy's shadow on Saturdays! Cole can turn his mood around in a wink.  He is 100% boy...we're just trying to help his voice box pick up on it. He is a hard worker and loves working in the garden. We're glad we have him around to help balance out estrogen in the house! 

Kaitlyn Reese

kissable

active

interested

talkative

light-hearted

youthful

neat

 Kaitlyn has added some spice to our lives. She was a pleasant surprise to our family! Some people are just born with big personalities. (I always wished I had one myself.) And this girl's got one. Kaitlyn is happy and funny and talks about things all day long. She will play in a playroom by herself and be content not to be bothered. She loves to color just like her sister. She loves babies and books.  She clings to me anytime I leave her with someone else, but then runs off to play the second I'm out of sight. She says the cutest little prayers. I want to bottle them up and be able to hear them forever in her cute little voice.  She also freely and frequently tells me she loves me, just because. She can often be seen with her hair right in front of her face and not even seem to notice it's there. She thrives on patterns and once one starts, it sticks. Today's latest is needing a bandaid on some "owie" before nap. And the kid has owies. She is a rough and tumble kid and it will be fun to see what she's into as she grows! Kailtyn is a bright light to our family!

Easter Sunday

After an eventful trip to Park City for Spring Break, we made sure to be back for Easter Sunday where we were able to see sweet little Maggie Staffieri receive her baby blessing. It's a small world - Dan and Matt were best friends growing up in Del Mar, then Dan and I met in Utah, and then a few yeas ago, my parents and Matt's parents ended up in the same ward. Weeks before Easter, our parents' ward split and they split from each other, but the same sweet lady was playing the organ from when I was growing up and some of the kids who were in diapers last time I was around, were passing the sacrament! It was fun to be together again with our families. I hardly recognized Ellie-she looks so old! We sure love this family and were thrilled to hear they are moving back to San Diego from Arizona! We were glad to be a part of their special day. We wouldn't miss it!

  

 The must have "family Easter picture." It was a bit breezy.

 This is why we call him Uncle Matt ;)

 Our handsome little bugger, Cole. Check out those dimples. Lady killer.

 Our darling little Kate. The head cock says it all. *Melt*

 And our sweetheart, Ally. (How does she look so old!)

 

We ended the day with my family as we enjoyed homemade rolls and dinner together. Then the kids played school and Ally was the teacher.  We love living near our cousins!

Birthday bash at Chuck E Cheese

Because our family has a few birthdays within a few weeks, we love to get together for a big birthday celebration.  My brother invited us to Chucky Cheese to celebrate with his son and our two birthday kids.

As usual, there are a few adults who seem to have more fun that the kids. (That would be my dad and my brother's father-in-law.) Always kids at heart.

Even Uncle "J" came to celebrate with us.

They each topped off the night with a visit in the ticket blaster. The hit of the night!

Brown-eyed beauty's birthday

Doesn't she look old?! For Ally's birthday date night we went to her most favorite restaurant -Oggies and then to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D at the theater! 

A birthday isn't complete without a Dixon/Dobron shabang! They start out calm...

The newest addition to the Dixon/Dobron family joined us for our family birthday celebration. Berkley knows how to break in a little girl getting over her fear of dogs. *kiss kiss*

Then the fun begins...

Notice who's at the heart of the fun...

Sometimes it turns violent (See head lock from Gavin).

In an effort to come to the rescue, Shannon gets pulled into the mosh pit.

And then we send the Dixon kids home crying. And that's how the shebang ends. Never a dull moment here at the Dobrons ;) Happy Birthday sweet Ally!

Disneyland

3 weeks of Winter Break calls for strip to Disneyland! We saw some characters we don't typically run into. I think Jasmine's mouth hurt from smiling all day. Not sure she likes her job.

Ally has officially been broken in and LOVES Splash Mountain now. Squeals of joy!

FAVORITE RIDE EVER!

Winter beach break

We squeezed on one fairly warm and sunny day during our winter break before school started up again. Once we get there--with all the effort it takes, it is probably one of the more relaxing things I do with the kids. They are usually really happy and get along well. It's nice to be away from the noise and business of an ordinary day. I'd say a visit to the beach is a great way to start off this new year!