Live life to the fullest and be beautiful!
Hello and Merry Christmas!
I can’t believe it’s the holiday season already. We’ve been so busy and the time has just flown by so quickly! It’s been a very eventful year for the Robbins family, for sure. We hope you are doing well and enjoying this most wonderful time of year.
We recently moved into our beautiful new house in San Clemente just blocks from the beach. Since we moved in, we’ve seen some of the most beautiful sunsets from our gorgeous back deck. It’s like a tropical fantasy back there with hibiscus, bougainvillea, and palms. Just an explosion of color! The built-in bar and pizza oven is getting some serious use, too, let me tell you.
The kids are stoked to be so close to the beach and the boys are surfing every day. Little Zoe recently started tagging along with them. She says she’s bored with ballet, but she still wears her pink tutu everywhere. Kids sure are funny, aren’t they?
Anyway, it seems like Zoe wants to be a little surfer girl. Don’t tell, but Santa is bringing her a new pink board for Christmas! What a lucky girl!
We’ve been so excited to watch Jaxon and Rex fall in love with surfing. They just keep getting better and better! We can’t wait to see them make the most of everything that San Clemente has to offer. The waves really are awesome here.
Jaxon recently won his first QS heat up in Morro Bay and he’s been shredding the NSSA contests. This year, he started online school, so he can put even more time into his surfing. He’s just so dedicated. We’re sure his hard work is going to pay off and he’ll be picking up sponsors in no time. Who wouldn’t want to support such an amazing young man!
Rex is our little daydreamer, and he’s coming along a little more slowly than his older brother. He likes live in his own world. Just last weekend, we drove to Rincon for a family surf day, and of course, Rex forgot to bring his wetsuit. We do love him, and fortunately, Jaxon brought a spare. It didn’t fit super well, but at least Rex got to get out there and surf.
This past year, Rex won his first ever NSSA event, which was a huge step forward for him. When he focuses, he’s a real winner! We’re confident he’s going to grow into his talent. He’s just going to take his time about it and that’s okay. We have to meet our kids where they are, amiright?
As for little Zoe, well, she’s definitely over her ballet phase. She’s gotten really excited about surfing and always seems to want to do whatever her brothers are doing. Fortunately, they’re pretty patient with her and there’ve only been a few tantrums. Okay, maybe a lot of tantrums, but that’s just growing up!
Zoe looks super cute in her pink wetsuit standing on the front of her dad’s surfboard. In fact, Paul bought a new SUP just so that he could surf with Zoe, and they’ve been getting so many great waves together. They make the whole lineup smile, that’s for sure. Zoe definitely has great balance already and we’re pretty sure she’s going to turn into a beautiful longboarder. Gotta start ‘em young, that’s for sure.
Santa is bringing me a new camera and tripod for Christmas so I can record all our family memories. I can’t wait to show you all the kids’ awesome surf clips. It’s a hard job but someone has to do it! I feel so privileged to support their ambitions and I have to say, hanging out at the beach all day is pretty great.
And as a bonus, since Jaxon started surfing seriously, I’ve gotten so good at Instagram. It’s all about the algorithm, you know. So, I’ve started my own online business, too, and it’s simply thriving! Check out forabeautifullife.com and I’d love to have you follow me on Instagram. It’s growing so fast and I’m so excited to see where it all leads.
Meanwhile Paul has been super busy with his consulting business, but not so busy that he can’t spend time in the lineup coaching Jaxon and Rex. He’s also been helping them figure out their boards and their surfing has improved so much just from getting the right dimensions — I guess, that’s what it is, anyway! Surfing is so complicated! — under their feet. Paul’s just such the perfect surf dad and we’re all so lucky to have him.
Oh, and I almost forgot our awesome family vacation to Baja this past summer. I only got a little sick from eating some raw vegetables, but how was I supposed to go an entire two weeks without kale? That’s just too much to ask. The boys got some fun waves right out in front of the resort and other than the unfortunate kale incident, the food was scrumptious. I especially enjoyed the spa and I’d love to go back next year.
But we’ve also been dreaming of a trip to Indo, so that might mean postponing Baja. Paul’s been scoping out the zones with the best waves and I’m sure he’ll come up with another amazing adventure for us. The boys are excited to push their skills in better surf, so the timing couldn’t be better. I can’t wait!
Santa is bringing the whole family ebikes for Christmas, so we’ll be zipping around town in no time. The boys are going to be at Trestles every day now. It’s going to be so amazing to see their talents develop — and it looks like Zoe is right behind them.
I do hope your family has a wonderful Christmas and a happy and healthy new year. Live life to the fullest and be beautiful!
Love from the Robbins Family
Paul, Jade, Jaxon, Rex & Zoe
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I don’t find hate necessary personally at this moment of my life. I certainly ain’t been no saint at times over the course of my life. I try and extend Grace as it has been extended to me. Now as to your question. Hahaha. I’m not sure how to answer. I’m thinking in terms of like a good/bad, up/down, yin yang balance thing but I can’t square the box on hate from myself these days. To me hate equals self centeredness and ignorance. Evil. What do you think?
pity they have Andy living across the road who just wants to crush Rex’s pretty little picture dreams, Andy ain’t so shiny, his parents bought their house with his grandparents inheritance and don’t work anymore, they just get shitfaced and rack up on his boards , Andy is gunna stick needles in their tires every friday night,,
YOUR BEST WORK YET, JENN!;
Never pegged him as a Bad Religion type, more like a Dave Matthews Band / musicians with tweed flat-caps kind of guy.
PS – googled dave matthews to see if he actually wore twee flatcaps and found this instead:
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band_Chicago_River_incident
Wow! What a beautiful and inspirational family! They seem to be adjusting nicely to life on the southern California coast. I think as long as the family stays focused on themselves they will continue to thrive and make plenty of like-minded friends along the way. So happy for the boys, I seem them progressing nicely in and out of the lineup and likely will be assaulting destitute homeless people soon. Oh Zoe! She will really make some lucky man, 3 decades her senior, very happy one day! Remember lil Zoe Zoe, New England this ain’t, so the tits and ass need to be fully on display by 16yrs old. Greetings from SatanLand everyone and may all of our wishes and yours continue to come true. I mean we only live once so let’s get all we can get! Sorry everyone, I actually like Socal but most of us know it’s a little fucked. We all could do a little better, let’s try a little harder in 2025! Peace and Love to All!
Beautiful
NOT the ultimate Cali surf fam, try the Paskowitz fam; THEY are the ultimate
Haha, say it Jen, little cunts!
Xox
For all those that were wondering, this is what it means to be 2٪
Au contraire…what about your cunning wit and desire to throw you life away as a surfer?
No, no, very nice man!
This is really funny. The only critique I have is that a truly toxic family would not spend two paragraphs on Rex. He’d get 1-2 sentences while the other kids get 2-3 paragraphs.
At the same time I probably would have missed the Rex joke if you didn’t give him that space so maybe don’t listen to me.
Every time a San Clemente teen gets an e-bike, a Brazilian 10-year-old lands a full rotation
Especially the really individual and creative parents who, you know, just really want their kids to be special and different.
The level of effluence in the New Australia is awesome!
Ha! good work Jen, thanks
A Christmas Carol of Charles Dickens measure with a surfing 21st Century configuration. May good things come to you all as time goes by.
true story: as a teen went surfing on a Sunday afternoon between morning and evening church services. Driving back to house got stuck at a train crossing, was 15 minutes late getting back, mom was waiting on car to get to church on time. She’s ticked, I’m grounded for 2 weeks, no surfing or even going to beach. During that 2 weeks is one of the times that Slater comes down and surfs our home break – buddies raving about it, I missed it bc was late getting the car back to mom for church. Beginning of the end of my relationship with religion lol
My experience with it was going to a drive in church in Minnesota with my grandparents when I was a kid. It was like a movie drive in where you park in a big lot and then hang a speaker in your window and the priest appeared on a stage to talk.
I also tried praying for things to happen but they never did so I gave up on it.
Still like Christmas though.
right with you … your grandparents’ spot actually sounds like a pretty cool place to attend a service, if you’re going to one anyway
The irony is God came to town!
Missed out hanging with the goat because of god!
christ 1 – satan 0
father, son and spirit in one!
…..or, you were very fortunate to have never met Slater.
your entire life could have changed in that one moment and you could have ended up being a ___________ jerk instead of jerking ________.
Does the guy in the photo have a Del Taco Salsa packet stuck to his leg?
this is effing great Jen, i hate them so much!
Correct and still is