Sunday, August 1, 2010

Why are we always catching up?

Well... it seems like we always miss months at a time so here are some highlights from the last few months!
May - The Robbins - some great friends from Utah - came to Florida and dropped by for a night of fun! It was so good to see them - we hadn't even met little Chloe!

Also in May - Jessica and Christopher graduated from UF. We are so happy for them! We are always amazed and inspired by them!


Also May - We had an addition to our family - We rescued a little puppy and named him Beck! He is a fabulous puppy... although we are discovering that he's going to be much more of a dog than we expected! HE'S HUGE! He already can eat off of Will's highchair and snags lots of food!
Also in May - Grami and Pa came to Florida and we got to spend some sweet time with them! Alina loves her Pa.... in her own words "I so love you, Pa!" He made all of her dreams come true with this cute little stroller and baby doll.



JUNE! Our friends the Binghams made a trip to Florida! We planned this for MONTHS! It was so much fun to have them at our house for almost a week! Brody and Alina became quick friends and had fantastic conversations in the backseat. Alina still talks about how Josh and Cami are moving to Florida... how fun would that be? Here we are on our airboat ride to see some alligators.

June 26th - Will turned ONE! Time is going by incredibly fast! How we love this little guy! (Not so little... he's over 27 lbs. and about 32 in. tall. Plus, he easily outeats Alina!) We had a perfect family party and Will loved his Orange Lion Cake!
In July we took a two-week vacation to Utah to spend some quality time with the Rasband clan! We went on a week long trip to Lake Powell aboard "Young at Heart" and got to see the newest little cousin - Paxton.

Many of the nieces and nephews helped bury "Uncle Chris"We went to breakfast before a couple of families went on little trips of their own.
We even got to visit with Uncle Jon and Auntie Lauren in Provo. Alina and Jon had a debate about whether or not ketchup is good... they both started acting like tigers - uh oh!




Christian and I meet Paxton for the first time. He's so sweet and tiny! He has a long road ahead of him, but he's surrounded by the perfect people to give him all the love he needs!




Our trip was over before we knew it! Without question - the longest part of the trip was aboard the airplane! Actually, our kids did great! We're blessed to have such good travelers!
















4 comments:

Jessica said...

Catching up is hard to do so good job! I need to do it sometime too probably. Can't believe I made it on the Ramblings....!!! :)

Brandon . Ash . Bennnett said...

I love the update! We sure do miss you guys. I wish I were better at keeping in touch - our lives have been so crazy and it sounds like yours has too!! We missed seeing you guys when you came to Utah - but let us know when you come again. Hugs to all of you. Love you!!!!

TC, Ashley said...

So will you guys say hi to my mom the next time you see her at the temple? Lol. I just think it is funny that she has told me she has run into you a few times and you live hours away. Make sure if you make it down where they live you take them up on her pasta dinner-it's yummy. It's fun to see updates on your kids. They're getting so big. It seems like just yesterday that Savanna and Alina were just born. Hope you all are doing well.

Mike and Alyse Swenson said...

Fun updates! Sorry we missed you in July. We had no idea you were here, but no worries, I am sure you were beyond busy! We love seeing pictures of your kids.