7 Things

7 Things

7 things I can do:
1. Cook
2. Sing Alto at church in a large group
3. Make bread
4. Read long books :)
5. Touch the floor with the palms of my hands while standing straight legged
6. Play Boggle like a maniac
7. Change diapers - I better be able to - we are in for the long haul!

7 things I can't do:
1. Remember the Preamble to to Constitution - if you are part of my family, you'd understand my dilemma and sadness
2. Run more than one block - I hate running
3. Stay up late
4. Remember people's names
5. Juggle
6. Iron well
7. Watch music or fishing shows without leaving the room in near total boredom - unless they are fly fishing shows about Wyoming.

7 things I say often:
1. Love you!
2. Grace - stop it!
3. Rats
4. Chocolate milk or yellow juice?
5. Come here, sweetie
6. Do you need to pee pee? (speaking to Grace - we are in the middle of potty training)
7. Stop!

7 things I love about Logan:
1. He makes me laugh
2. He can fix anything!
3. He is smart
4. He works hard at his job for long hours and doesn't complain
5. He wants to someday move back to Wyoming, it helps that there is great fly fishing up there! :)
6. He doesn't mind watching the kids when I need to run an errand
7. He's a very good man and loves our family that is full of girls!

7 favorite foods:
1. Orange chicken from Pei Wei's
2. Homemade wheat bread
3. garlic bread
4. Lasagna
5. Diet Coke
6. Twin Bing candy bars. You can't get them in Arizona, so I eat them like crazy every time it go back to Wyoming!
7. cereal - wheat chex or grape nuts

7 people I tag:
1. Heather
2. Rachelle
3. Jill
4. Megan
5. Alice K.
6. Tammy
7. Kylie

Two year old fun...

I let Grace play in the flour left over from making bread the other day. We have a new toy! I had no idea that it would entertain her for as long as it did. Five Plus Hours!!! She had fun making "cakes" and moving it around. A cup of flour sure makes for an easy and inexpensive pastime.

Robertson Family Picture

This is a picture of my immediate family... We are missing Logan, two nephews that are serving missions (one it Tucson and one in Samara Russia), and my nephew Christopher and his wife Brooke (he is in the hospital getting his appendix removed!).... So, if you've counted... there are five people missing. My niece-in-law Megan took the picture, her web site is http://megangrantphotography.blogspot.com) She is fabulous!

Ramblings

I still need to post some pictures from my trip to Wyoming for the month of November. I am a procrastinator! Anyway - as I said before, I had a great time, the girls loved Grandma Flash (my mom) and had tons tons tons of fun playing with all their cousins and meeting lots of family again.

Thanksgiving was a real treat. We had everyone home except for Logan and two of my nephews who are serving missions (Lane and Lucas). That means with all of my siblings, their kids and grandkids, and a few extra bonus guests we had 70 people for dinner! Wowza! that number still blows me away. We knew we could not all fit into anyone's house with everyone there, so we had it at the Church Gym. In Lovell, we have the Stake Center, and then the Church Gym across the street. It kind of felt like a ward dinner, not having it at a home and having SO MANY people there.

We all had a great time, a scrabble and Boggle tournamnet, Trivial Pursuit, Volleyball games, and the big boys had a full court basket ball game too. What a fun and full day.

At my mom's house (she recently moved to Cowley, WY to a house considerably smaller than the house I grew up in) we had 25 people and three dogs staying over. It was so much fun! I hope a holiday like that happens again.

There are a lot more happenings than that that went on, but I will bore you no longer. Here are a few pictures of our time there. Grace had lots of fun with my niece Betsy's little girl, Maren, and Libby learned to pull herself up to furniture while we were there. I will post a big family picture when we get it from the photographer (check out her website... http://megangrantphotography.blogspot.com/).

Grace and Maren

Grace and Grandma Flash

Libby and cousin Caleb

Laughing!

Look - Libby is Standing!

Headlock!!

Siblings: Karen, Gareth, Margaret, Marianne, Gwen, Eric, Joyce (Kevin would be standing between Eric and Joyce - we miss him!)

Scrabble tournament and boggle on the side!

Libby Maren and Grace

Matthew, Kyle, Eric, and Jared singing beautifully.

Pink Shoes?

Grace: "Mommy, ... Pink shoes?"
Mommy: "Hmmm?"
Grace: "Pink shoes?..." looks down at her feet. "Don't worry toes, I find 'em!"

She makes me chuckle every day!

Exciting News

I know I should be updating about my fun time in Wyoming last month, but more exciting news has occurred since then. What, you say, could be more exciting than spending a month in a small farming community in Wyoming where the highlight of the day is going to the local supermarket? Have I kept you in suspense? Thrilled? Can't wait any longer?

Drum roll... (it is up to you to imagine the sound :)

We had an ultrasound last week... and... It is another girl!! Hooray! We are excited to have another girl join Grace and Libby. They will have lots of fun, and run Logan ragged. He has decided that these girls will just have to be tomboys so he can have a fishing buddy. That is fine with me - my biggest fear is having a girly girl. I wouldn't know how to relate!!

We are looking forward to welcoming Leah Rebecca (we're pretty sure on the name) in the middle of April.

Jumping on the couch

Grace is jumping on the couch. I tell her to stop, but she insists it is a trampoline. I see one in our future for Christmas! She was saying "Mommy, Dabby, Grandma Flash, Bob..." with each jump. I love it. We just got back from a month long visit with my Mom. Grace really loves Grandma Flash, and I say, "Who Wouldn't! She's the greatest!" I will fill the fun times in Wyoming in a new post later on. Suffice it to say, we really missed Logan, but had the best time up home!

The Chiricahuas!

We took a day trip over to the Chiracahua Mountains the other day. It was beautiful and so nice to see pine trees and fall colors. Grace had a fun time hiking on trails and throwing rocks into a creek. Logan was with her when they got to the creek and he said that she said "hmmm... a river, how do we get across?.... I know! A boat!" She was a good girl, when we were getting a picture with all of us together by the creek. Libby did well in the car - even though we were there for about 7 hours! yikes! lots of driving, but pretty country.


We have also spent a lot of time outside in our back/side yard lately. Grace had a fun time with the goats and the neighbors mouser cat. Logan put our one billy goat on a stake on our acre that is all tall dead grass. Grace was grabbing its leash/chain and tried to take it for a walk. It was fun to watch Grace run and run and run. She is getting fast!

Here is our poor little peach tree - the grass hopper ate all the leaves! Ack!

Happy Halloween Fun!

The ward trunk-or-treat was fun last night. Grace was a cute Lady Bug (her costume from last year) and Libby was a chili pepper (Grace's costume from two years ago). They were both too cute. Next year will be more fun, when Grace hopefully will not be to shy to say "Trick or Treat", and Libby has maybe a clue what is going on. Grace sure liked the candy she received. She was already asking for her "bucket" this morning at 6:30!

A lucky day

I was so lucky today! As I was driving to my Doctor's appointment and as I was almost there I saw two missionaries on their bikes. Guess who it was? It was my nephew Lucas, my sister Marianne's second child!! He has been serving in the Arizona Tucson Mission since June of 2007, and is currently actually serving in Tucson. I new that his apartment was close to where my doctor was, but I did not think I would be able to see him. I had called the mission office to see if we could take him and his companion to lunch on their preparation day, but that was nixed by the mission president. So, I knew the only way I would be able to see him was to either a) break a rule and go to his apartment, or b) be lucky and see him on the street. Hooray for B!

It was so good to see him. I gave him a little hug and took a picture with him. I called my sister right away, and she was so excited to hear that I was able to see him. Now I will look for him everytime I go to the Doctor. I wish I had them more than once a month - especially since I don't know how long he will be in the area. I love happy accidents like this!