Mission photoshoot

 This sweet woman is going to Michigan on her mission!  Excited for her.  She is well prepared!

Full week

 

This week was busy too.  Never too busy to take a break with cats though.

Sam does Pep band as part of the Jazz band class.  Ada does the concessions for FBLA.  I don't usually get to see them, but I finished work and Ada called to get a charger for her computer to finish her online course work.  I took it over and stayed for a minute to cheer both their efforts on.

Jer was able to get to Seth's Show what you know presentation.  I really like both of us working from home.  It's great how flexible it can be. And it meant a lot to Seth to see Jer there.  They did a rap about the water cycle.

I love swing music.  In High School, my lunch time was split between working in the school store and the swing club.  We'd dance for a half hour and then back to class.  Sam's Jazz band had a fundraiser concert in connection with the Wasatch Jazz.  They're the professional band in our county.  I'd been looking forward to it for weeks.  I even heard that there might be dancing and mingling.  Unfortunately, because it was a Saturday, we had to get all our stuff done before going.  Jer was at the grocery store and by the time we got all the groceries away, we were late.  Then we were misdirected at the doors to the volleyball game going on instead of the jazz band.  So we were later.  We missed Sam's band.  I was so sad.  And then seeing my Sam's face when he told us that we missed his solo (which he'd told me he didn't have this time...) Made me sad.  Fortunately, we were able to hear their last piece together.... so we got to see one.  No one really danced except for Sam's cute group of friends.  I wanted to go dance with them, but which teenagers are thrilled to have their friend's mom start dancing with them? 

This week, I also did a family photoshoot and a missionary photoshoot.  Jer was able to join McKay's family as a missionary send off as they took Devin to the MTC.

On Sunday, we were able to celebrate Grandpa Robertson's birthday with them, the Hansen's and Joe T.

Grandma's annual lasagna.

Sam, Ada, Evelyn, Joe, Karl, Mariah, Millie, Amy, Jon

A birthday zoom call the Robertson siblings.

Watching The Wind Rises.

4 Robertson men

Ada did a voice assessment and is going to be starting Opera lessons this week. I'm excited.  She has power in her voice.  It will be fun to see what she thinks of it.  

Wednesday, Sam took part in the solo/ensemble for the flute. He and a couple of his flute "harem" (he's usually the group leader but it's always a bunch of girls.  We started joking with Seth that he should learn the flute then he'll have no shortage of girls to date.) did their ensemble piece.  Then he and I played Allegretto for his solo piece.  I hope that he gets a good score and feels good about how he did.  I've been enjoying listening to him and his flute teacher, Maddison, play duets in the front room.  Sam almost didn't do the solo competition.  He didn't want to pay for an accompanist.  I've accompanied for violin and vocal competitions before, so I raised my hand to volunteer.  It really is so fun working on music with my kids.  It's one of the biggest joys I get as a mom to teens.  Jeremy went out of his way to help me be able to help Sam too.  He sat with the daycare for the hour or so that it took to go to the High School and play with him. Bless him for being willing even if it's not his preferred activity.

The kids don't have school today, Except Ada, who's doing a technical school outside the district.  It's fun to have the kids around doing various stuff.  The daycare is kind of quiet too.  So I took the time to get our taxes started.  Next, I need to go practice the organ.  I've been asked to sub on Sunday for the first time since the new hymns have come out.  A lot of the new hymns were not written for the organ.

Parties and Dances

 

Work hard, play hard right?  This week was parties and dances.  Sam went to the "informal" prom with Sarah this weekend.  The theme was aliens, so Sam and his friends dressed up as Among Us characters. I'm so proud of him for being brave and asking girls (well, the same girl twice) out.  That's a good thing to have. 

My friend, Cristina, invited us to her son, Christian's bday party. He had so much fun and Seth got to play games with Dad and I. The other kids were all busy with things like FBLA reports, cleaning fish tanks, and playing with friends.

Last Friday, was "everything but a backpack" day.  Seth chose to take a pizza box.  I bought pizza the week before and just asked for an extra box.  The employee thought that was hilarious.  Seth said that he wanted to walk into the room and say, "Ding-Dong, pizza's here!"

Evelyn got the cats to put to away for the night.... She turned slowly in her chair and said, "I've been expecting you."

DnD got rescheduled, so Uncle Seth came over and they painted models/worked on trains while I sat and ate popsicles.  

Jim knows how to party too.  He got a new treadmill.  Jer and him set it up.  Quite the party.  I hope he likes his new one.