Portland trip

I have to say how much I like to go places.  I don't like the money that it takes to go... but I love to go.  I'm going to "photog" (photo blog) our trip day by day so that I have some kind of record of it.

We drove up to Nampa, ID on the first night.  It was fun to catch up with my cousin Steve and his cute wife, Lindsay.  I'd rather stay with them than any hotel!  Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture with them... Then we drove on up the rest of the way... here's what we saw...

When we got close to Portland we decided to go visit Multnomah Falls.... Amazing...

(This on is a typical family portrait by the way...) Then we got together with James, Becca and James and their kids, Emily M., Amy, and we had a nice dinner.  We were only going to be walking a couple of blocks so even though it was raining we grabbed our umbrellas and headed out the door... This is what the kids did with it and we were completely soaked by the time we got there.  They gave Amy and I some birthday desserts and sang to us in Italian.  Then we headed to their hotel so we could talk and hang out before we went to bed.

The next morning, Jer went to get Marg and her baby Cyrus (he's a cutie... he likes to "talk" to everyone... he's only three months old.)  While they were gone I bathed kids and we went on a walk through downtown, Chinatown, and Old Town areas. 

Then we left to drive to the beach.  Thanks to my amazing friend Elizabeth, we got to go to the most amazing beach ever... Cannon Beach, Haystack Rock.  I think everyone got to come to this one... Mary and her 7 kids, Jim and Judy, Marg and baby, James and Emily and baby Graham, Emily M., Amy, Becca and James and kids... and of course... us.  (This day also happened to be on my actual birthday... where better to spend it?)

Jay and Emily... married

So we've been out of the loop for everything for the last week.  We've been in Portland, Oregon for Jer's brother's wedding.  We're so excited for both Jay and Emily.  They are so perfect for each other and we're excited to have another Emily.  (She's the 3rd Emily in the Robertson family... We also have 5 James', 4 John's, 2 Margaret's, 2 Samuel's, etc... we just can't stop duplicating can we...)  It just means that it was meant to be right?

Jim, Jay, Emily, Judy

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa

races to keep them busy during picture time

Italian sodas

Janelle, this one's for you.  This was the Groom's cake.  Cool huh!

This ones for you Sharon!

Great-Grandma showing us how hungry she was...

Ada ditched her shoes somewhere and then got busy running though the mud in her white dress and white tights... Don't tell my Grandma but I just threw the tights away.  I didn't think there was any hope for them.

This is the Portland temple.  It's really pretty but it is hard to get a picture of the whole thing because of how many trees there are.

Ada and Sammy found a couple of ducks that had flown into the temple's fountain.

Catching the bouquet... then Ada ran in and took it from this girl and got it taken away from her by a little boy too... the irony

The Lodge where we were staying had an old pump organ... so we all tried it out and had a little sing along.

3-in-1

Since all our birthdays are really close and we didn't want to clean up from three parties and we've got Uncle Jay's wedding this week so we'd be pretty busy anyways... we celebrated Sam's, Evelyn's, and my birthdays today.  It was a lot of fun!  First, Sharon watched our kids while Jer and I went shooting with our friends Bethany and Ben.  That was a lot funner than I thought it was going to be.  I thought... shooting, fun, okay I'll go.  But it was a lot funner than that.  Got to shoot some pistols, rifles, shotguns, and some replicas.  Then we came back in time for the bday party.  We played angry birds with blocks and stuffed angry birds, had cake, played in the back yard, opened presents, and played some more.  It was fun.  And yes, if anyone is wondering, I'm 31 this year. 

Their coolness factor...

Playing Angry Birds

My very soon to be 1 year old

My very soon to be 3 year old

baby Hannah

This is my friend's baby Hannah.  Just barely reached 5 lbs and she's about a month old.  Thanks to my sister-in-law Becca that edited them for me... (I still don't have access to my photoshop... computer's still broken)... Isn't she cute!

Evelyn's smile

Whenever I pull out the camera Evelyn gives me a cheesy smile... I think it's absolutely amazing!

Baby Hannah

Just so you know they're coming Mary!  I begged my friend to let me take pictures of her new baby.  I think she's about 3-4 weeks old by now... and barely reaching 5 lbs.  So tiny that I feel like I'm holding a baby doll instead of a baby.  Now... my computer with Photoshop CS3 on in is the one that's broken... so I can't edit them until after it's fixed or I get together with Becca :) I wanted to take a look at her editing software anyways... she says that she loves it.  But here are a few previews before and we'll give you the after soon...

And a blooper one just because it was dang awesome...

doesn't sound familiar does it?

I used to play with my brother and his GI Joes... And my Barbies... Most of the time we'd game three girl getting rescued and then they'd get married. Ada has a six year old friend that loves transformers... And Ada loves ponies. Her friends mom walked in on this comment:
"No ADA. Optimus prime doesn't ride ponies."

Goings on

So this week has been quite eventful.  We had the Robertson Sunday Fast Dinner at our house... we had Waffles and Brownies.  Yep.  And they were delicious.  It was so fun even if it was a little chilly outside.  Tuesday we went to Gma's house to "irrigate"... or more like... take advantage of the irrigation.  The kids played in it for between 4-5 hours.  And we also had Star Wars Day... always worth mentioning.  (May the 4th be with you).  Playing with cousins Grace and Rocky at the mall play place.  Not to mention the biggest moon that we've ever seen.  It was 30% bigger than any other time in my lifetime... I'm not sure all the details, just heard. Today I got to hang out with my parents, sisters and brother.  I always enjoy doing this.  Mom got her book printed and back today.  (for those that don't know... she's been working on personal histories for each of the kids, my grandpa, and my dad... now it's her turn!)  Here are some pictures to illustrate my week...