Missionary time

 

We were lucky to be able to see cousin Joseph one more time as they were taking him to enter the MTC.  I think he's going to be a great missionary and I'm looking forward to seeing him as he works and learns.  He was absolutely beaming.  

4th of July

 

We found a few smaller and safer fireworks that we did together as a family to tell the kids thank you for all the hard work they've been doing on the house.

4th of July was a fast Sunday this year.  A nice surprise was showing up to church and flags covered the lawn.  It was neat.

Robertson Family Reunion

We saw some cousins for the 3rd of July.  It was fun to catch up with everyone and see kids chatting and playing. 

Pigsticks

Hal was so excited to watch pig sticks.

Joe, Ada, Eli, Sam, Maisy, Evelyn, Seth, Hal, Cy (the Hansens and Byrds left earlier)

We didn't do fireworks this year because we've been dealing with a drought, but we did do sparklers.  

 

Sundries

My brother, our neighbors and us are doing a D&D group together.  Jer is the first time Dungeon Master.  He's doing great and it's fun to see him.  We decided to paint some figures for it.  Jer figured out a way to shake up the paint with his power tool and I am reminded of his engineer brain.  I love how he's always figuring things out.

We got an extra figure for little Seth to paint.  He loved doing it and Uncle Seth is so patient.

We've also been painting the house the last couple of weeks.  It sounds like something so simple, but it can go on and on.  This is the girls room just after the furniture got put back.  We still need to organize and hang curtains, but both the girls were very active in painting their room.  Ada took initiative and did all the detail work very carefully on her own.  I was proud that she took ownership in her room. 

Sam and Seth's room turned out really cute too.  Sam did most of it and I did the detail work in there.  Then I did the edging in my room, the hall/entryway, the basement and the missionaries came and painted our living room with us this morning.  That was fun.  Sam was all chatty and loved talking to them.  Seth made life as difficult as he could for two days because he was bored, but I didn't trust him to get the paint where it needed to go.  We still need to finish Jer's and my room, the hallway and the basement.  Hopefully we can finish in the next two weeks.  

 

16th wedding anniversary

 

Jer and I just celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary.  I was supposed to be doing daycare, but my partner is awesome and took them for the day so that Jer and I could go do sealings at the Provo temple for the first time since covid started.  I was so glad to be there and to be there with Jer.  He's a good man that I love so very much.

Bear Lake June 2021

 There are some places that even the weather can't keep you down.  We went camping this week to Bear Lake.  It rained every day except Saturday, but we were just glad to be there at all.  The first day it rained, the corner of our tent collapsed and poured water into our tent.  3 out of the 5 of us didn't have dry bedding and I had not dry clothes, so I went and rented a hotel room for the night.  It was nice to have a soft and warm bed, but I don't like being that far from all the family that I wanted to be spending time with.  I got to visit with Liz, Rachel, Joe and Tiff's families as well as my parents, Janelle, Sharon and Seth. We saw McKay's family for a minute before we left and got to see Mark and Carol, as well as Sonny and Darlene.

I had no desire to swim at all this time.  Usually I'll get in at least once... this time I just wanted to sit and talk.  It made me happy to see Ada and Seth hanging out with Tiff though.

Miss Rae of Sunshine.  Ada took this... being all artsy.