I should start a Bed & Breakfast

Can I just brag for a minute? Okay, thanks. I have the BEST family and friends EVER! As you may know, I live in the middle of nowhere. And-here's the amazing part-I have had visitors every month this year except for January-which really shouldn't count anyway because Josh and I were in Utah for New Years. I know, I am way spoiled. Plus, if you throw in my trip home in March for my grandma's funeral, a trip to Pima to visit with Josh's Aunt's family, and then to Utah again in April for my brother's farewell, I have been really lucky this year. So, as I share some photos from all the fun times, check your schedules, because right now I still have availabilities for June through December! I don't really make breakfast that often though, so maybe I should call it a "Bed and Whatever-You-Can-Find-to-Eat"....hmm, the name's a bit lengthy, I'll have to work on it. These pictures are not in any sort of order; just FYI.

While Josh's mom and little brother were here, we went out to the desert and cooked hot dogs and played games, etc. Josh has Night Vision Goggles (NVGs) for work and they are pretty fun to look through at night. This is Spencer trying them out. They look pretty goofy when you wear them, but how well they work makes up for it.

This is on our way to the "ice cream store". I am not sure if it's because we had a 15 passenger van growing up, but I always think it is more fun when we jam everyone into one car. I was in the front seat with my mom and dad. Seven people isn't really that impressive. One time in college we fit ten people in my Dodge Neon to go to the movies.

Jess had to pick up a few more things for the mission, so we went to SLC and we were able to do a session at the temple. I have never done a live session, and I loved it! It was a lot easier for me to pay attention.This is our new tent. Josh recently purchased this old truck and he needed the tent that goes with it of course! Actually, Josh wanted a camper, but this was much more affordable. I was a little skeptical at first, but it is actually pretty cool. We set this up on the aforementioned campfire cookout with GayLynn and Spencer. We had to take it down because Brutus kept trying to get in it.

Ah....Baby Animal Day. A classice Easter weekend event that I have never had the priviledge of going to before. This place is in Logan, and they charge you an arm and a leg to get in, but the kids love it. This is (from L to R) Jack, Gaven, and Haylee (my brother Mike's kids). Oh, and the back of Audra's head. If Audra's head wasn't in the way, you would be able to see the cute baby bunnies the boys are holding. Oh, and good news: the Robison kids did not kill any baby ducks or chicks this year. Apparently, that is a big accomplishment.

This is little sister Adrianna about to hit the ball in her softball game. It was a really good hit. She is on the high school team and they are super good. She also plays outfield, but I didn't get any action shots of that, because the other team never got a hit....I told you they were good.

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time. Char and I were making churros and we didn't want to get grease on our clothes, so we borrowed my mom's aprons. We were laughing so hard about them, that my mom started laughing too, and we got a picture (Nate-O is in the back). I love pictures of my mom laughing, because she has a hard time smiling good in pictures sometimes.

Little Brother Jess now AKA Elder Robison. He's all grown up and being a missionary in Portland, Oregon. Well, technically, he is still in the MTC. I am really glad he is there, but we sure will miss him, especially the dog.

So fun, I don't mind living in Ajo with all my company! Call/email/comment/facebook me so you can come visit too!

Just Pictures

There were too many fun ones on my camera that I wanted to share. So here we go-

This is my littlest niece, Katrina. She is super-duper cute. My sister Char put the plastic easter eggs on her ears. They are kind of big, like her brother Gaven's, so they held the eggs on pretty good. She is trying to eat her way through the wrapper of a SpongeBob SquarePants gummy crabby patty. Yum.
And here's Katrina's big sister, Haylee. She's seven, hence the cheesy grin when I told her to smile. I think all kids do this when their grown up teeth are coming in.

Jack wouldn't look at me. He loves Tara and Audra, but we are only friends when I am blowing bubbles because I can blow big bubbles and then he does his Kung Fu Panda moves on them. It is pretty dang funny.

Katrina is so happy all the time. It doesn't matter that she hasn't seen me since she was two weeks old. I like kids like her.
Gaven riding the ponies at Baby Animal Day. Check out his ears, they're pretty big. We're hoping he grows into them.

Katrina sleeping-I was holding her, but she is a little chub, and my arms got tired, so Audra took her.
These are Dave's kids: McKayla (6), Alena(8), Dallin(5), and Ethan(3). Alena just got baptized. Good job Alena! They weren't at Baby Animal Day so this is the only picture I have of them. Don't they look cute in their Easter clothes?
At the cookout. It was pretty cold and GayLynn is wearing Josh's coat. I am so glad they came to visit, we had a really good time.

The last thing we did with GayLynn and Spencer was go see Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D! So funny, Bob is my favorite! And they even let us keep the glasses. I think Josh looks hilarious, but he was really tired and not it the mood for a photo shoot.

Look how cute she is! I was tickling her tummy.


I was bored at Char's house.

Audra posing...ok, not really. Jess took this and I am pretty sure Audra didn't know about it. She is probably going to kill me when she sees this, but there was another one that was worse, so she should really be grateful.

Gotta love the mom aprons!

Ha ha, I really like this one.

Look, we made a baby and you can too!

Ha ha, I got this off of my friend Sara's blog. So, I guess VW is doing these commercials about how people are having kids as an excuse to buy the VW minivan, the Routan, AND you can "make" your own baby on their website. I do love Volkswagens, and making a baby this way is very convenient AND you get to buy a new car out of it. Josh is really going to like that feature. Plus, aside from the creepy eyes, (I agree with you Sara), this little guy or girl is pretty funny.

http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/?mId=29783351

It's Official: My Dogs are Spoiled

I know, I know, you're all shocked. So I bought new doggie beds for Brutus and Lunar-their old ones were gross. We were going to throw their old beds away, but we were waiting until a friend with a truck could help haul them to the dump. (And this next part of the story is where I messed up.) So, in the mean time, I thought it would be okay to put the new beds on my bedroom floor until we could move them to the dog room. Bad Idea. Just look at the pictures, you'll see what I mean.

Here's the boys in their room after we got rid of the old beds. It's not a bad setup for a dog if you ask me.

And 15 minutes later, back in my (somewhat messy) bedroom. They picked the beds up with their mouths and dragged them back in there. Apparently, their bedroom is not up to their standards for sleeping anymore.

Here we go again. I put them back in the dog's room.
Look at Brutus pout.

Don't worry, Brutus showed me who's really the boss at our house. I was calling his name when I was taking the picture so he would look at me and he was ignoring me on purpose. What a punk.

This one happened a few nights later. Lunar was being really quiet so I called his name and he came out of my room instead of the dog's room. I walked down to see what he was doing and found this. Again I dragged the beds back to the their room and then went back down to the living room.
Apparently, Lunar was starting to understand I didn't want his bed in my room, so he decided to bring it to the living room instead. He was really proud of himself so it was hard to be mad at him.
On my way to bed each night, I usually stick my head in their room to make sure they're both in there. (Sometimes I forget that I let one or both of them outside.) Lately, this is what I find.
Hmm...something tells me my dogs don't have a lot of respect for me.

Scrumptious- that's all I have to say

Josh LOVES blueberry muffins. I have never made them from scratch because he seemed perfectly content with the Betty Crocker ones in a box and I didn't have a really good recipe...until now. I came across the recipe on a roommate's blog and thought I'd try it out. These muffins are SUPER good. Josh gives them a 10 on one of his scales, but as we all know, his scales aren't super reliable (see post below). Anyway, here is a shot of the last one. I was going to take a picture of a few, but there was only one left when I remembered. Also, I made a dozen with one batch. I know it says it only makes 8, but I think they must have used a bigger muffin pan then the standard one. If you try them, leave a comment to let me know what you thought of them.
Oh yeah, here is the LINK for the recipe! YUM.

Don't you love how you can see the details of (my favorite part) the crumbly topping? It's because I took the picture with my new camera I got for Valentine's Day! I have no idea how to use it yet, but it's very nice and way better than flowers. Good job Josh.