Day 4: Friends

I know this was for yesterday but I'm just catching up. I am so grateful for my friends. I am so blessed that I have friends that I have had since I was a little kid like Carly and Beth. I love these girls and I'm so happy we have been happy to go through life with them. they are always there for me. I am also grateful for newer friends I've made like college roommates and girls for the hygiene program. I love that I have gained friends from marrying Race and have been able to get along with friends he already had. I also am grateful for new friends that we are making living in our new ward. and the last type of friend I am grateful for is work and family friends. I have made lifelong friends through jobs and there are so many great people in my life because of being family friends. I am grateful for each and every friend I have, had, and will have. My life would be incomplete without them. Thank you for all you do friends! I love you!

Me, Heather & Jacie loved living with these girls!
Wouldn't change it for anything! 2010

Love friends from my hometown, Me, Carly, Race and Grant
at an ugly sweater party 2009

Me and Beth at my wedding love this girl !
And it's a plus she does hair :)

Best friends, Race and I with Kristen Carly and Jerry.

Love my hygiene girls! We forever will be connected because of what we made it through!

                                              

                                                                   This was the perfect roommate situation and I still love these girls!
                                                          Becky, Kristen, me and Lauren 2008

Day 3: My Parents

There are some things in life that I'm constantly grateful for and one of those things is my mom and dad. They are truly the best parents and I'm so blessed to have been sent to be a part of their loving family. They have been there for me through everything and are always willing to help. They are also very fun and I have so many memories with them. I love living close to them again. I'm grateful they raised me in the true gospel and taught me how to live life successfully! I am who I am today because of them. Love you Mom & Dad!

Day 2: A little sting taken out of tragedy

Today was a heartbreaking day, a precious 13 year old boy was taken from a family very dear to me. He was involved in an auto pedestrian accident while walking to school. My heart goes out to the family, the friends that were him, and the driver of the car. They are constantly in my prayers and will continue to be. I wish  there was something more I could do in a time like this... but this brings me to the thing I am grateful for today. I, along with the boy's family, are so extremely blessed to have to knowledge of eternal families. Even though Collin's life was cut much too short, he is now with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I know Collin was welcomed with loving arms and was reunited with those who love him. There is no taking away from the pain, sorrow, and tragedy of this, but we have a Heavenly Father who is extremely loving and because of this He has made it possible for us to be with our families forever. Collin's family will one day be reunited and Kenny and Erin will be able to continue on raising this sweet, intelligent boy. We know that Collin's life's mission is now complete on this earth and he was needed for important work on the other side. He was very blessed to be brought into a family that was sealed in the Temple and have followed the word of the Lord. He will now be able to be a missionary and bless so many people's life for eternity. I cannot imagine living without this knowledge. A natural mother and father could not go through this extremely difficult time alone. The spirit is with them and will get them through this and continue to comfort them throughout their time here on this earth as Collin will be missed. I am so grateful that my Heavenly Father loves me enough to never take away the thing that is most important to me-my family. I continue to pray for Kenny, Erin, the kids, and so many other people that love them that they will remember and find comfort and strength in this important knowledge the gospel has given us.

Grateful

Since I really don't have much to blog about lately I'm going to follow the lead of some other bloggers I've seen and post something I'm thankful for everyday in November... Technically  it's the 2nd now but this is for the 1st.Today I grateful for the fall season in northern Utah. Seriously I've missed this season the most while I lived in St. George the past 4 years. Everything just dies there and it never really cools down. But up here it is so gorgeous! I've loved walking out my door and enjoying the beauty of the mountains everyday :) I wish I had pictures... I'll have to hurry and take some before the snow covers it all up. Halloween night was so perfect! I don't ever remember a Halloween being that warm. We enjoyed taking my nephews trick-or-treating and walking through the crunchy leaves and just enjoying the evening!

Cute sleeping Max

The adventure of getting to meet Drake

So to begin the story, my brother Dave and his wife Jana just had a new baby boy Drake Durham Kawika (pronounced kavika) Roberts. It was convenient he was born during the week of our fall break so we figured it would be perfect to go to Vegas to meet this little guy. Well to make a long story short we decided to fly on buddy passes instead of driving. So we get to the airport at 7 am. It got down to the last minute and Race and I were listed last and there was one seat on the plane so we decided to split up thinking I would get on the next flight and everything would be fine. So I sent Race on the plane. Well he got there just fine. I was chillin waiting to get on the next flight and I totally thought I was on cause they had four of us in a line ready to be taken back and at the very last second a guy ran up with his ticket... so I got kicked off. So missed it by one person. Then I tried flying to Ontario and I could ride to Vegas with Jana's dad and sister. Totally thought I was on this flight too, the guy said give it three more minutes and if this person doesn't show up I'm on. There was NO ONE in sight, till about a minute later this lady comes walking around the corner all calm and leisurely like and needless to say she was the one person... so yet again I got bumped by one person! Seriously who gets to their flight 2 minutes before the door is shut, not in a frantic that you are going to miss your flight... This happened over and over, I don't get people! Be early to your flight!!! So then I try the next Vegas flight and I knew I wouldn't get on it, which was true. So then I try the next Vegas flight and again people with paid tickets showed up as they were taking standbys back! grrrr! So then we figured the best bet would be to fly to St. George and then my aunt would get me to Vegas one way or another. So I thought it was going to be fine but like within 45 minutes it did not look good and I was number 11 and there 8 seats open. So the lady told me I could get on the flight to Cedar City that left at the same time... seriously who flies to Cedar City? Oh me after being in the airport for 10 hours I wanted to be ANYWHERE other then SLC. So I got on the flight and 50 minutes later arrived in Cedar City and my favorite aunt picked me and took me to catch a shuttle in St. George and by the skin of our teeth we made it on time. Finally I arrived in Vegas and then it took like 45 minutes to find Race cause that airport where they dropped us off was confusing! But after a long crappy emotional day in the airport I made it to my destination! I was so happy to be there I didn't even care and the whole thing was kinda humorous. Driving would have been faster that time around... But I hate driving. I know lots of people have their 'horrible' standby stories and now I have mine. Needless to say Race got alot of crap from people for 'leaving me' in Salt Lake. But I told him to go cause we had no clue all that would happen and that was his first time flying standby and he would have given up and gone home and never made it to Vegas. Anyway when I got there the hospital visiting hours where over, so I had to sneak in to meet this handsome baby boy...

Made the whole trip totally worth it to be able to hold him :)

He is so sweet and very alert for a newborn. He definitely has Jana's eyes which makes him look like Marlee's sibling, but he didn't get the Roberts' red hair. It was a fun surprise too because Dave and Jana didn't find out the gender, so it was a surprise when we found out it was a boy. We enjoyed our few days there with Dave Jana Marlee and Drake and some of Jana's family. We had alot of fun taking Marlee to the park and hanging out with her. She is so dang cute and fun! We love having nieces and nephews :) Here's some more pictures from the trip...

Marlee loves the swing

hanging with Auntie Aly

Marlee showing us Drake's nose

Sweet baby boy

Love his eyes!

Uncle Race

Cutie

Strong baby!

Marlee loves her uncle Race

What's for dinner?

Thanks to pinterest I found this super cute and useful project and now it is so much easier to plan dinners and grocery list!

I made a calender outline w/ribbon on my fridge, I typed up all  the names of recipes I use and put what book they are in and the page#. 

This is the whole fridge, I don't plan for a whole month, but if I wanted to I could. On the bottom is all the recipe cards.

Days of the week.

Two of the recipe cards

The best part is on the back I put the ingredients needed so each shopping trip I decide what we are going to eat then I just flip the card over and I know what I need to buy. ( Sorry for the blurry pic)

Mine isn't as cute as the original idea, but it matches my kitchen and works for us. It makes dinner planning so much easier! It took a little time to type up all the cards but it was so worth it. Now it is even easier to remember what the options are for dinner. This was my first time actually doing something from pinterest, and I'm sure there will be plenty more to come! Here's the link to the blog I got the idea from http://theletter4.blogspot.com/2011/06/recipe-magnets.html

Race has a new wife...and other life happenings

So most guys like blonde or brunette... Race gets to experience being married to both, I went dark again!

I love change! And I love living near Beth :)

And Race's other new wife is HOMEWORK! He started school at the U and has 17 hard credits so he has to study and do homework all the time. But it will be worth it in the end. I'm in school too, I'm getting my Bachelor's degree in Dental Hygiene and I'm doing a teaching emphasis. It's all online through Dixie, it's time consuming but it will be nice to have a Bachelor's and to get it out of the way now. 

One more thing I wanted to document cause I actually have pictures. Before school started Race and I hiked up to donut falls. It was so beautiful up there and it was fun hiking up the falls. Here's some pics

The reason it is called donut falls... the water fall goes through a hole in the rock.

The fall through the hole

It was so cool under here it was like a little cave

Race went through the freezing cold water to explore the fall

On another note my parents are never going to empty nesters... they always have someone living with them. The newest edition is these 3 cute kids from China. They have been in Tooele for a year and their parents had to go work in another state, so my parents being the very kind people they are invited them into our home :) Life is never dull at the Robert's house and these kids have alot of energy! They are still learning English and are pretty good at it, but they still speak Chinese to each other often... They have awesome personalities and are providing a very good experience for my parents! 

Ting- 19

Shun-13

Yuxin-12

Speaking of my parents... my dad is running for city council in Tooele, so if you live in Tooele get out and vote in the Primary's on Sept. 13 (one week from today). And check out his blog at http://charlietooele.blogspot.com/  Good luck Dad!