Happy Birthday Alayna!

Happy Birthday to Alayna!!!! Hope you have a great day and lots of fun and get to do something to pamper yourself!

We love you-you are a great Mom and a great wife to Kevin.

You are:

• Fun


• Kind


• Loving


• Giving


• Talented


• Witty


• Beautiful

We are glad that you are a part of our family!

Happy Birthday to you!

Love,

Lloyd and Marie

Elizabeth's 2 yr Photos

Hi Family, it was so great to see most of you this summer and to talk to Tim and Lisa on the phone. We had a great time in the states. it was so relaxing and the shopping sure was fun too! Anyways, having photos taken in Taiwan is really expensive and Adam finally got around to taking a few 2 yr pictures of Lizzy. These were my favorite ones...

Twin Falls Temple Dedication

Hey everyone,

Thought I'd post a couple of things since I haven't put anything on the blog for awhile. August has been a fun month for us. Laurie, Becca, Elle, and I went to see Kevin and his plethera of girls at the beginning of the month so we could go to the Twin Falls Temple open House (Laurs hadn't been yet.). The girls had fun playing and fighting with each other (I think they still love each other.) Thanks to Kev and Alayna for letting us hang out with them once again. Good Luck selling your house.

Jenn

Firsts

There's been a couple of firsts at our house this month. First, Elle had her first birthday. We didn't do much, just kept it to our immediate family, opened presents and had ice cream cake.

Becca's first day of kindergarten was on Monday, August 25. She is going in the afternoon. She was disappointed that she did not have a recess on her first day (it was a short day and only 2 hours), but did enjoy the story her teacher read her about raccoons was go to kindergarten at night.

The times and life of Laurie

This last month I finished working at Nutty Guys (at least in the office). I still do farmers markets for them and will finish out the season doing the Salt Lake Market. I get to see people I know from time to time. I wen to Michigan this last month for a training for school. I left early Sunday morning and came back at 10:30 Friday night. I stayed at a really nice Hotel were I could had some visitors. I had two queen size beds, a walk in closet, bathroom sitting area and I even had room service were I was served breakfast. It was a really fancy hotel.

I had training everyday from 8 am to 3:30 pm. We rode what one teacher calls the "Cheese!" Aka the school bus. We had to be on the bus at 7:30 or pay $50.00 for a taxi to take me to the school. I always choose the cheese! I learned how to run a computer lab that I will be teaching to 7th graders this school year. There will be 18 different lab going on at once. I am sure that the beginning of the school year will be a headache for me but I will learn as time goes on. I am glad that I am doing it with another teacher that take off some of the pressure. Plus, he thinks of me as only doing this for one year and moving on because the other girl I am working with will quit next school year. There wasn't much to do in downtown Grand Rapids. Everything was closed at 5 pm. That didn't give me time to do anything. It was different because all of the other teachers wanted to drink at night. I decided on see things and doing things that I have done before. I was able to see the President Ford Muesum. I was acrossed the river from where I stayed. I had dinner in fancy resturants all paid by the training or my school. Enjoyed a week of relaxing at night, swimming, see a motorcyle party and holding some bird on my arm. I met some really nice people and learned a lot. I came back to pack and go to the family reunion. I enjoyed that. I was also able to go on a ward campout to Lava Hot Springs again. That was super fun. This time I didn't get any scrapes that is because I was riding the tube with Talena and she never falls out. :) (Don't have any pictures forgot my camera). Well it was a eventfully month for me and I know this month will be also. School starts again Aug 25th. Crazy that the summer has gone by so fast. I visited so many places and have scene so many things. It has been great.

New look

I figured out how to make my own backgrounds!! Well I guess I sort of always new how to make the background, just not how to code it when you change the html, but now I know and I think it is so fun! I was so excited so I thought I'd give our family's site a new look. Love ya Alayna

Free at last!

Dear Family,

Sorry I am so slow but June ended up being a great month at the end for Mom. She walked out of work one day--the 17th to be exact. She had had enough! It has been quite nice to be home and doing what ever I want to--like clean house! There is so much mess from me working that it is ridiculous. I am sure that Dad is shaking in his shoes wondering what I am going to throw out.

Dad also bought mom a helmet and jacket so that she can go on rides with him on the motorcycle. Nothing big mind you--just short little trips. A friend of Mom's from work wants her to go for a ride with her and her husband one of these days soon. I think that she may be quitting FEC soon too.

Guess that is it for now.

Love,

MOM and DAD

Family Visit

I am very surprised at myself that I did not snap more pictures than just these! Anyway here are the few that I did take of the cousins playing.

Yearsley's

Hey everyone! We have been busy around here! Last month seemed to be crazy--Cami broke her arm (it is healing nicely, and she will probably have her cast on another 3 weeks),we spent time with Ben's family (we had a reunion at his parents' house), and we've been finishing projects at our house (working on our porches, painting, yard work, etc). I've been working like crazy to get our blog updated and I'm almost done, so check it out for more details! We love you and happy July!

p.s. The picture is from our reunion--Ben likes to bow hunt carp. He brought one back and the kids were all looking intently at it--it was pretty funny!

Fun times!

I started my month off in Hong Kong and Tiawan with my roommates. I came back and started the Salt Lake City and Park City Farmers Market. I also went to my new school and had a tour of the school and took all of my stuff. Well not all of it because I still have stuff in my truck. I celebrated my 27th birthday this month. My roommates gave me a birthday party. They placed cupcakes all over the counter and I had to blow them out. That was really fun! I have had a busy summer and thought I would have a little time to relax before school starts again but I don't think that is going to happen. If you want to read about the trip get on my blog page. Love you all.
Laurie

The Robinsons-June 2008

Hello Family, June was a great month for us as we had our first visitors! It was so much fun to have Laurie and her friends come. We did and saw tons and Lizzy fell in love with Aunt Laurie. After they left, we made sure to play with our friends, the Palmers, before they moved back to China. It was sad when they left. It has now been 2 weeks and Lizzy still asks for her best friend Addy everyday. I think that she is starting to get used to it. I am trying to distract her with another friend and it is working, I think.... Lizzy also turned 2 this month! It was a fun birthday. She was so cute opening presents! I wanted to give her more and more just to see her reactions, but we ran out.... We also found out that we are having a baby boy! We are really excited. I am now 20 weeks and starting to feel the little guy kick more and more which is fun. Adam can't wait until he is big enough so he can feel it. The 4th of July was pretty lame for us. The Westin invited all of the Boeing people to the hotel for a dinner which was nice. the best thing that they had were these little bite-sized hamburgers. Besides being really cute, they were so good! I made sure to have another one right before the food was going away! I also organized a beach outing/picnic with a bunch of friends in our ward that are still here as a "4th of July BBQ". It was so much fun! The ocean here is a nice warm temperature and the sand is fun to play in. Lizzy also for the first time swam in the ocean "without fear", meaning she would let go of us and swim. One of the best parts was having a contest of who could ride the seal the longest..see pictures, i think Adam won in the end! We are coming back to the US in 8 days and are so excited!!! See you soon!

Photo Challenge

Hi family! Head over to our blog to find out about a photo challange and give away! Love Alayna

Our Broken Child...

Cami broke her arm on Tuesday. She was jumping on the trampoline with her friend and our neighbor, Kenzie, and they fell. On the way down, Kenzie somehow kicked Cami's arm. We took her to the dr. that afternoon when the swelling in her arm just kept getting worse. She is learning quickly that it isn't so much fun to have a broken arm, but she is being a great sport! We are so glad she is okay!

The picture is of her at the doctor's office with our PA, Matt Nelson. We took her in today to have her arm checked out, and we were hoping to get her arm casted, but it is still too swollen. We will take her back next week to get the cast and go back again the next week to have more x-rays to make sure her arm is healing.

(I'm having trouble with the picture uploading, so I will have to do it another time--or you can check out our blog for the pictures.)

Big Brothers Share Trucks

That's what Caleb's shirt says, but I could not get him to stand still for the pictures, so here are a couple of my attempts. Yep, so Caleb's gonna be a big brother in January! The baby will be due a couple days after his birthday. We're really excited and we hope he'll enjoy his birthday present. We are kinda hoping it will be a girl, but I've been told to consult Kay's Chinese Astrology Calendar for early, accurate predictions. I'm at 11 weeks right now and wanted to wait until 12 weeks to announce it, but I'm too anxious to tell everyone and consult the calendar. Anyway, have a good Wednesday!

Sorry this is a little late but HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all you Dads! You are terrific and we appreciate all you do. Get lots of hugs and kisses from your kids and a giant one from your wife!

Love,

MOM and DAD aka Lloyd and Marie

And.........................

Laurie's Visit

Laurie and her friends came to visit in Taiwan and we had so much fun. We were sure not too waste any moment of the trip and packed in a ton of stuff. Lizzy loved Aunt Laurie and can't wait to see her again in July! Here are a couple of pictures. I didn't take a lot since Laurie and her friends always had their cameras out. Their are more on my blog if you want to see.

Temple open house

The Twin Falls open house has been announced. If anyone would like to come see it you are more than welcome to stay with us! The link for reservations is http://www.lds.org/reservations/1,10751,1619-1-442,00.html. They say they like you to set a reservation, but anyone who come is not going to be turned away.The dates are July 11 through Aug. 16. So come see the Temple! Love Ya, Alayna

Jumping off the Couch

Today, Lizzy put my body pillow in front of the couch and jumped. She thought it was the best time in the world! Enjoy!

Kev and his girls in May

The girls at their first dance performance! They loved it!

Oh my gosh May was crazy! Kev is working hard and still loving Simplot. He received another job offer in Washington, which he turned down, we just really feel that this is where we need to be....although I would give anything to be next to family! A lady called e from a near by store and asked to carry my line (of bows) in her store, so I've been working hard to complete that for her, plus fill the 45 orders I had from the previous week, and make a dress for Avery for a friends wedding. Craziness at our house! Aubrey is doing great and making huge progress, we still have a long way to go..she is testing at 1 year 5 mo mentally, but that is way better than before! Madelyne finished her 2 year of pre-school, and was really sad about it. Hadley is just ADORABLE! I love that girl so much, she is totally what our family needs! The best part of the month is Kev and I going out on two dates! My favorite was a night of golfing! I have not been able to play for about 5 years, and let just say i was not far behind Kev..I really should not say to may detail so that Kev is not embarrassed. Ha Ha! I can not wait to play him again, Tim next time you come get ready for a behind whipping! (I know how much it bugs you when I win, which seems to happen ALL the time! HA HA!) WE miss the family and love you all to pieces!

Avery's Dress

Las Vegas!!!

Well life has been a kickin. i have probably been doing a little to much relaxing. because i havent been selling as much as i have expected. i like las vegas and all the guys i work with. it is up lifting. but i am sad to say that i sold nothing last week. it was tough, even though i knocked a million doors. well other than that i have a new goal and am giving it my best in this next 2 weeks. i will figure out if it is something that i should be doing or not. now that i have learned everything that i possibly could have learned about the product and stuff i will be working my hardest in this next 2 weeks.

also i have been making a good impression on some of the non member guys hear. i and some of my roomates have been working on a guy named "O." hes the black guy you see in the picture. anyways in my car i keep a book of mormon and i keep it in a box. well everyone always picks up the box and asks, "what is this?" well i then have a missionary experiance. well he is now reading it alot. and he asks us guys questions all the time and on top of that, he came to church for the 1st time and bore his testimony at the pulput. it was pretty sweet, then this morning we had the missionaries over and had a 1st lesson with the baptisimal commitment! he said yes. well it is pretty sweet. i have also made it to the temple hear. its beautiful. i went by my self and it relived all my stress. and now im back on my way.

thats life for the little man Tim!

May on the Farm (Thomas & fam)

It's beautiful, but deadly here! Thomas has the worst allergies from hanging out in the hay all day. Caleb's are not quite as bad, although they seem like it because he's eternally teething. I'm allergic to the dust in our yard, but we're so happy to be here and be in the house. Thomas has been really busy, so Caleb and I decided to get out of everyone's hair for awhile and go to see my grandpa in Southern Utah. We flew to Las Vegas and my sister, who's staying with my grandpa, picked us up. We stayed and visited for a week. It was fun seeing my grandpa, who I adore, and seeing that beautiful part of the world. When we came home the house was ready to move in and we've been working to get ourselves settled while Thomas works in the field ever since. It's gonna take a lot of work... especially the yard, since I don't know what I'm doing. Meg has been helping me plan a little and Meg and our neighbors (the Buckleys) have brought us some plants to get started. Do you think that's a hint, or what? We need to stop making the neighborhood look so ugly! Thomas got a calling: Webelo leader. We love that age. They're tons of fun. We're enjoying getting to know people in the ward and getting settled in. We're really excited to see everyone next month. It's really fun for us to live on the mainland... We get to see everyone much more often and I love to travel. Thanks to everyone who let us hang out on our last trip.

Happy Summer, everyone!

Pictures are: Caleb's old hair, his haircut, his new hair, and the house + sand box (yard... Caleb thinks it's his sand box)

Robinsons in May

Hi Family, hope things are treating you all well. We are good here in Taipei. This last month has gone pretty smooth. The school year here is over this week so all of Lizzy's activities are now over. I know that she misses kindermusik so we listen to her cd sometimes. She is also becoming more and more independent each day. She also has a caring personality and is very conscience of anyone around her who may be sad or crying. She always will run up and pat them on the back and ask if they are OK.

Adam is busy at work and enjoying it as much as ever. They are working on getting airplane 3 out the door this week and will continue to work on airplane 4.

We are very excited for Laurie and her friends to come this week. They will be our first visitors! It will be fun to hang out and check out the tourist sites.

As for me, I am hanging in there and hoping to be over pregnancy related sickness soon as I am now in the 2nd trimester. Next week, we should be able to find out the sex of the baby so hopefully the kid will cooperate! Can't wait and we will post news as soon as we know....Love you all! Adam, K and Lizzy

P.S. We have made it to the water park a couple of times this month to cool off. Lizzy loved it. Here she is with her best friend Addyson...

I QUIT!!!

Yes, that's right folks, Marie/Mom has quit! The official last day, as far as I know, is July 3. It was July 1 but Jackie is gone with her family and Dr. Jacks asked if I would work those days. What can I say, I am a pushover! Oh well.

The reason I am quiting: I am tired of the soap opera and mostly because one of the girls is stealing and it makes me feel like I am part of it. I don't want anything to do with it. I thought maybe she would get fired today but no such luck!

The Doctors have hired another woman who is older. She used to work for President Dart in his orthodontist office when Thomas had braces. Her name is April and I wish the best for her. Unfortunately, they have Ellie training her. I told Amy she will probably have to retrain. Guess that they will have to work it out. I am not going to do anything about it. Do you believe me? I can't believe I didn't say something today. It was hard!

When I am done I am thinking of taking a road trip to see everyone and bring Jill and Caleb with me so that they can get to know you all better. We will see since it is close to the family reunion I may wait until after. We hope you can all make it. Sorry it is at Dworshack again. Uncle Phil and Grandma took over.

Dad is in the middle of hay harvest and corn planting. Will be glad when it is over. At least he hasn't been quite so grumpy as usual which has been a nice surprise.

Well, we love you all!

Looking forward to just being a MOM again.

Mom and Dad

Santa Real or Not Real

Hi, this is K. Sometimes you are glad your child is only 1 yr old. Yesterday in Sacrament Meeting (church), the new Elder in the ward was asked to share his testimony. He started giving an analogy about Santa Claus and the Church (a little weird). His final punchline, if you call it that, was we all know that Santa Claus isn't real. At that point I was in shock and so were several of my friends so we really didn't hear what came next, but the poor little 7 year old girl sitting 2 rows in front of us burst into tears. It wasn't the best time to find out the truth about Santa..... I bet the Elder will think twice mayve 10 tens times about sharing that analogy in front of kids! (Luckily a lot of the kids were not paying attention!)

Tooele, UT

Oops! You didn't get my first post. So I will tell you all about it. We decided to take my roommate away for a night. Talena and I yesterday morning decided that we need to take Jenny on a trip. So Talena asked, "Laurie, where should we take Jenny?" She said we can go to Brigham City. I then I said, "We can go to Maddox!" She said "where else can we go?" I then said, "Provo." She said, "Where else?" I then thought to myself where do all of the reps go for Nutty Guys, I then said, "Tooele!" She said, "Yes! Let's go to Tooele!" So we didn't tell Jenny where we were going. We went to Tooele and had dinner and talked to her about her problems. Then took a tour of Tooele. We wanted to find a fun statue but found the fire fighter station and then found a train and a nice park with a nice water fountain. My roommates are really cute. Jenny is right by me and then Talena.

Elm Street!

Here is us at the Great Salt Lake. It is really pretty out towards Tooele.

Jack

This is just a little post so you can see how big Jack is getting. The other dog is Duke. Thomas and I adopted him after a visit with Jack to the vet. The animal hospital had found Duke and had given shots and all that good stuff and were just waiting to find him a home. He's having fun on the farm and is Jack's best friend. Since Jack got fixed yesterday they haven't been able to play much and are both moping around a lot. It's cute, but sad.

Smooches

Caleb has a new way of greeting the animals he meets. That's right, he walks right up to them and kisses them on the lips. Yesterday Caleb and I (this is Jill) took Jack to the vet and a really large dog (a little taller than Caleb and probaby 150 lbs.) walked in. Caleb didn't even hesitate. He ran right up to the dog and planted a juicy one right on his lips. The dog looked like it could have gobbled Caleb up in a second so I was a little scared, but Caleb was so happy to see a dog. That's the only word he'll really consistently say now, although he was looking at pictures of Becca and Madelyne as babies last Sunday and he said, "Baby!" for the first time.

Anyway, I didn't have a camera so we had to renact the situation with the help of computer technology. It looks a little weird, but it was really hilarious!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of our daughters aka: Jennifer, Kay, Lisa, Alayna, Jill and you too Laurie! You are all such wonderful Mothers and so very talented. We are so thankful and proud to call you ours!

Love,

MOM and DAD

Alayna is the coolest!

I just wanted to say how much I love my sister Alayna. She is the most creative thing around..I just love her! Thanks for being my sister!

Ha! Ha! Ha!!! If you had checked our blog (Ben and Lisa's) back in April, this is what you will find as one of the posts!!! It makes me laugh every time I think of it, because, while I truly do love my sister, Alayna, she posted this herself after she helped me fix our blog!!!

Thanks Alayna for getting the family blog started and for making it look so beautiful!!! We love you!

Tim just can not make up his mind on what look he want to go for! We had so much fun when he came to visit before Vegas, I came across these pics and had to share with he fam! I say loose the fro keep the beard!