ICE CREAM

Usually we go to my parent's house for dinner on Sunday. Today they were out of town so we had to make the best of it. After my kids did the whole whining thing, "we are not going to grandma's house" we made a great dinner. Never as good as grandma's but it was close. I have tried and tried to make my moms rolls but they never turn out as good as hers. Today I think I got close. They were DELICIOUS if I do say so myself. We then dug our ice cream maker out and made homemade ice cream. We haven't did that in a long time. The kids loved it! Especially Jaxon. I looked over at him and he was drinking out of his bowl. We sure missed grandma and grandpa today but we did make the best of it.

How many men does it take to fix a car!

My dear husband has such a great heart! Sometimes is capabilities don't quite match his heart. He thought this friend of his sisters was being ripped off by the shop that he took his car to be fixed to. He told them that he could fix it. Well if you know me, you know I have a dad and a brother that are great mechanics but are very busy. Randy was determined to do it on his own. After the car was in our garage for a week or so and there were a lot of phone calls for help.He thought he had fixed it but then the car wouldn't start! I snapped this picture of the reinforcements that he had called in! My dad, brother Lonney, and my nephew Zach plus Randy FINALLY fixed the car. Thank goodness for family and there willing to help when we get ourselves into trouble. They had thought that we might have to replace the computer in the car ( a lot of money) but luckily it was the timing belt that just happened to go out. Thank you thank you to those that helped!!!

Back to School! If you read my post before I fixed it, I do know how to spell I just get in a hurry.

I can't believe it is time for school again. We just barely got out in the middle of July! Here is Trent and his wonderful teacher. He is in second grade and his teachers name is Ms. Ruport. She is so sweet, I can't imagine any one not liking her.
When I picked him up from school and asked him how it was he said, " fantastic." He is growing up! It is going to be nice getting back into a routine.



Cameron is going to White Middle School this year. I thought today would be really easy for me because his Mom took him to school. Come to find out it was really hard. All I did was worry about him all day. Is he making new friends? Does he have enough money for lunch? Who is he going to sit by at lunch? Randy was so sick of hearing me ask him a million questions. I guess it is the control freak in me. I have taken him to school on his first day since he was in Kindergarten! It was not normal for me today. I guess I will get used to it. He does have a mom and dad that are very capable of taking care of him. I guess it boils down to no matter how much he makes me CRAZY, I do love him!

My Husband is CRAZY!

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A few weeks ago some of the Robbins Family started getting together at Rob & Liz's for family home evening. It has been a lot of fun. The kids get to swim with their cousins, then we have dinner and a lesson. Well, this week we were getting ready to go. I had to give the lesson, so I was finishing up preparing. He came around the corner in our house with my old swimsuit bottoms on. He said,"how much will you give me to wear these to Rob's." I said that I would pay him to not wear them. He then put his swimsuit over it. When we got to Rob's he told everyone," you want to see me do a flip off the rock." He stood up pulled his swimsuit down and the rest is on the video! Needless to say my family saw way too much of my husband last night! Rob said he will never look at Randy the same again. At times he may drive me crazy, but I am afraid to say when I see this crazy side to him I remember why I love him. There is never a dull moment with him around. I think my parents were a little shocked after we first got married and they would see him do crazy things. Now they just have no choice but to laugh.

Some Family Fun!

We have these great friends named Laura & Ken. They so graciously have let us use their boat. Randy used it to take the 12 year old boys from church out on Saturday. He ask our wonderful friends if we could keep it and go as a family today. I am so glad he did. We had a great time together. I would of had more pictures but my battery died. I just do not have good luck with cameras and water. I have broke two cameras by water. One fell in the water as Randy and I were on a canoe. The other broke at our family reunion a couple of months ago. It must have gotten some water in it. Cameron and Trent usually fight from sun up to sun down. Today, at the lake, they got along great. They rode on the tube together. Jumped off cliffs together. Trent had to show Cameron how it was done. Cam as too much of Turner in him. He is scared of everything. The only reason he went as high as he did was because he couldn't let his 7 year old brother show him up.
We are so proud of all our boys and today Brayden didn't let us down. Most of you know that last summer Brayden went swimming and went under the water and was pulled out after 30 seconds or so. He was very traumatized by this. Well he has been terrified of the water since. He has started to warm up to the water in the last few weeks. Today he got in the lake with a life jacket on and swam without holding on to me. ( Good Job Brayden!)
Jaxon just liked to wave to who was on the tube. He now says boat. What a trooper. He fell asleep sitting up on the floor of the boat.

Diaper Cakes

Most of you probably know that I am not very crafty. Well I finally found something that I can do and I like making. This cake was my first order. I have made some before for friends but it was kind of nice getting paid for it.

Cameron's Home

Cameron's back from California and wow he brings such an energy home! I am trying to relax and read Breaking Dawn! All I hear is running around and craziness! That's when I knew Cam is home. He gets the kids all wound up. I decided to take a deep breath instead of yelling at them, "that I was reading and to be quiet!" I tried "enjoy the moment" I found them shooting each other with the Nerf guns. Even Jaxon was in on it, so I had them pose for a picture. Wow that was hard for me 'cause I was really into my book!



Sorry if this post is so long, I haven't posted in a week. I thought there wasn't much to say but I guess there was. Trent had his 7th birthday last week. Well, at his birthday party ,two days before his birthday, we were playing red light, green light. Brayden ran on red and ran into Trent. Trent's tooth was loose before but now he could twist his tooth all the way around. Finally I talked him in to letting me pull it out the night before his real birthday. What a great birthday present!



The night of Trent's Birthday we had some family over for a party. My nephew Zach came over . ( the boys love him ) We heard some commotion from the other room and Quintons saying while he was laughing ," Aunt Mer come look." Zach had done this to Brayden! It was hilarious! I had to have a picture. Brayden will kill me later in life.