Catch up 3

This is the third and hopefully the last blog I need to write to play catch up. To continue from where I left off:  I love Craig's List.  I was able to find a, new to me, used stove on craigs list for only $40. I was so excited.  It was in great working order.  So we called a couple of friends from the ward to help us install the new stove.

 

Justin helping get our electrical in order for the stove.

 

The old stove is gone and we have it prepped for the new stove.

 

The final product.  The stove isn't pretty but it works great!!!  So much bigger and better than the old stove that was there.  I love the stove.  Thank you Justin and Justin for all your help!!

 

 

On October 13, I was given a great gift.  A friend of mine paid for a flight for me to fly to Utah to escort my friend Kelly thru the temple.  Kelly went thru the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It is such a Beautiful temple. Kelly told me it was a small temple, but it has 3 floors and a basement. There are 6 sealing rooms. I told her this is not small...you should see tri-cities. :) We walked past the recommend desk and the sight just took my breath away. There were 2 staircases going up to the 2nd floor with a gigantic star chandlier in between. It was BEAUTIFUL!!! Kelly laughed at me because I actually made a noise and said how beautiful it was. It was so great being an escort for kelly. She and I both cried several times. I learned so much while I was there. I couldn't believe it. When I was waiting for kelly to get dressed the Assistant to the Matron was talking to me. I had told her I was from Washington and she asked a little about kelly and me. She told me to take Kelly up to the third floor to show her around. That is where all the sealing rooms are and the wedding waiting area. I was surprised she told me to do that and I asked if I really could. She said absolutely. So after the session, I took her up to the third floor. It was so beautiful. We were standing in a sealing room looking in the mirrors when an old man, who was a sealer, asked if we needed any help. I told him the Assistant to the Matron told us to take a look, and of course he knew kelly was new, so he said, well come here...let me show you this. And he showed us all this cool stuff up there. It was a lot of fun.

 

 

 

Kelly and me in front of the temple

 

 

Kelly @ Oquirrh Mountain Temple

 

Oquirre Mountain Temple

 

After the temple, we went to my friend Ange's house. That was where I was going to have a get together with some old friends I hadn't seen in a long time. So I got to see Ange and her husband, who I met in April when we went to their reception in Walla Walla, then I saw my friend Lisa and her new husband of 3 weeks. That was a lot of fun. She is a friend I met at the Business College. I also got to see Margo and her husband I had never met and her 2 year old little girl. They were fun to see. I actually met her up here in the branch.  I also got to see Nicole, who I worked with at Zirkle and she attended the branch. She brought her boyfriend that I got to meet. So it was a small crowd but so much fun. I just had a blast.

 

Lisa, Brad & Me

Me & Margo's Family

 

 



 

Me & Nicole

 

Me and Ange

 

Catch Up 2

 

May 2012

 

Jon and I were able to get a ride with a friend to Moses Lake to go see Jon's sister get baptised.  Jon had the privledge of performing the baptism.  He was extremely honored to do it.  My friend Tina bought this nice bright yellow camaro.  The same car as Bumble Bee on Transformers.  Jon loves this car, so we took pictures with it.

 

 

 

Thanks Tina for letting us ride with you in your sweet car. ;)

 

For Memorial Day weekend all of my siblings got together for a camping trip since we couldn't get together for Memorial Day.  We went up to Mt. Rainier National Park and camped at Ohanepecosh.  We had an entire camping area to ourselves.  No neighbors.  It was so nice to get to visit and spend some time together.  Friday night we all arrived, set up camp and just spent the evening around the campfire.

 

 

 

Jon and I took 2 of Emily's kids down to the river.  It's too dark to see the river behind us.

On Saturday we hiked up to Silver Falls.  With it being so early in the year Silver Falls was so big.  I have never seen it that big.  It was a nice hike.  Jon carried Thomas on his back the whole way so that summer wouldn't have to carry him.

 

 

Me & Lisa

 

Jon & Me

 

All of us ready to head out for the rest of the day.  We had such a good time with everyone.  Jon and I loved it.  We hope to be able to do it again.  Thank you everyone so much for making our time so enjoyable.

 

 

After we left Ohanapecosh, Lisa and Jamie's family and Jon and me went to see the Grove of the Patriarchs.  Jon had never been there and Lisa couldn't ever remember when she went as a young girl.  So we had so much fun seeing all the big trees.

 

 

 

We loved the suspension bridge.  It's almost like a fun ride.

 

We loved how huge the trees were

 

All of us around the big tree



 

 

After Grove of the Patriarchs Lisa and Jaime left to go home.  I wanted to take Jon up to Paradise to see the base of Mt. Rainier.  It had been kinda cloudy the whole morning, so we weren't sure how the weather was going to be.  But I wanted him to be able to see the mountain up close, so we took a chance.  There was so much snow.  When we walked around I would sink down to my knees and still not be touching the ground.  It was fun to see so much snow.  When we got there, we had great weather.  It was so good, Jon even hiked up to a really tall peak.  He loved it.

 

 

 

Look how deep the snow is

 

Jon hiking up the mountain

 

 

At the top

 



Catch up

A year has almost come and gone and I haven't done very well at keeping up on our blog.  We have had a very busy year.  In the next couple of posts I will try to update you on all the goings on in the Robbins Nest.  I hope you enjoy!


February 2012

In February Jon invited a friend to come and hang out and watch football.  While they were watching football, I took the kids into the kitchen and we made chocolate chip cookies.  They had so much fun and still ask to make cookies.

 

Ayden and Camden Shirk

 

 

 

 

 

Me with Ayden and Camden

 

 

March 2012

 

In March I had the opportunity to go to Mary Kay Career Conference.  Jon went with me.  It was so fun to have him there.  He had a great time.  Career Conference was in Spokane this year and it was so cold.  

 

 

 

The mexican restaurant we had dinner.

The hotel we stayed at.

 

Dinner with the gang.

 

 

Jon's Mom and Neice Sophie came to visit us and took us to Meadowbrook Family Fun Center.  It was such a nice day the sun was out so we did all the outside activities before going inside for pizza and arcade games.  We had such a fine time there.  Thanks Dee and Sophie for taking us!!

 

 

Sophie & Dee ready to go to the fun center

 

He is ready for the go cart race

 

All of us ready for the go light

 

After the go carts we took a turn at the batting cages.  Those metal bats in the cold air was so hard on the hands.  But we pushed on thru and had a good time at the batting cages.

 

 

Sophie ready to bat

 

Jon up to bat

 

My turn...it was a lot harder than it looks.  I think I might have only hit about 3 balls. :)

 

Next up was the miniature golf.  I think we probably enjoyed this the most.  It was a good time to visit and enjoy the day.

 

Dee with her perfect form. She actually won the game.  I should take lessons. ;)

 

Sophie all set for her putt

 

 

After mini golf we went inside to warm up and played some of the arcade games.  Jon loved this dancing game.  Unfortunately it quit working so we weren't able to compete against each other.

 

 

April 2012

 

In April we had the chance to attend the baptism of my niece Lindsey Morales.  She was such a sweetheart and was so happy to be making this big step in her life.  She is such a great example to all of those she comes in contact with.  Lindsey we are so proud of the decision you have made.

 

 

 

It was so cute to see the girls walking to the church together.  This is Olivia and Emma walking to the church

 

The kids were just so cute waiting for Lindsey

 

Lindsey and her Dad

 

We Love You Lindsey!!!

 

 

We had some really nice weather in April so Jon and I took advantage of it. I had to drive to Ellensburg to deliver some product to a customer and decided to come back to Yakima by going thru the Canyon. Jon had never been thru there, and I wanted him to see how beautiful it was. He loved it, and it turned out to be the perfect day for it.