Christmas 2009

Tyler is going on a mission so we decided to have Christmas at our house like the good old days. Mom and Riley came and we all slept in the same room. We woke up and made Riley wait to open presents until we ate breakfas. Then we spent the day hanging out, playing games, watching movies, and having fun. It was a great Christmas!

I guess people know that I love Reese's.

Tay got a model car!

Look at that mess we made!

Tyler, Mom, and Riley.

He's a weird "college graduate" kid, I don't know what he is doing probably something to do with spaghettification, but I sure do love him.

Christmas Eve Party!

Annual Christmas Eve party 2009! We started a tradition to have a Christmas Eve party with our Family and Friends. It was fun. Mom and Dad Robinson came with Aunt Sue, Mom, Riley, Jess, Lindy, and Kids, and a friend came. It was good food and good company.

Here we are! Fun times. :)

MEXICO 2009

Tayce and I had the opportunity to go to Mexico in December. We drove down to Guaymus, Sonora, Mexico with a group of amazing SUU students. We spent a week there doing a variety of service projects and loved it. It was a wonderful way to spend part of our Christmas season. I am so grateful for a husband who is caring and loving to not only me but others, I am grateful for a free country and a clean country, I am grateful for a group of people that teach me that life is too short to stress and worry about myself, but to care for others. Here are a few pictures while we were there.

Tayce and I at the orphanage waiting to play with the children!

This little one taught me my colors and numbers in Spanish while playing UNO!

This is Sezar (spelling?) He is a little boy at the orphanage. He has been there since my first trip in 2007.

There we are in MEXICO the land of my heart. :)

Sezar loved Tay. He would hardly let him go when he was there. It was so cute.

Random Post #1

So friends and family the next few post will be random. I finally uploaded all my pictures, thanks to my good friend Jesica. She helped me realize that Tay's computer has a memory card deal. I just had to stick it in and like magic there they were. It was amazing. So I will post some of them. Enjoy!

The little town of Eureka! We passed through all kinds of little towns on our adventure coming home from Logan. We took the back roads that came around Utah Lake. It was way fun, but way long too.

Our name sign! I made Tayce stop and turn around to get a picture with this.

Denim, Claire, and half of Aspens head. Thought we would show off Brother and Sister in Law.


Tay with Shay. Shay loves Uncle Tay, the whole time we were in Ogden she always wanted to be with Uncle Tay. It was pretty cute.

KC drinking her hot chocolate. What a girl.

Here is the new Center: A virtual tour!

The Center

This is down the stair way. The right side says "The Pig Pen" that is what the basement was named. The left just says Southern Utah University Service and Learning Center.

This is the work room. Not done yet, there will be a couch and chairs and things like that.

Here is the HOPE Pantry.

Pam's office. Way cute couch!

This is the Service Leader work room, with their own bathroom.

This is the conference room. The wall is usually not there, but for the open house Pam did an amazing time line.

This is the front room, with another amazing couch.

Here is my desk. I like it a lot.

Those who wanted to know where I work here it is. Have a great day.

To: Marianne Love: Your Best Friend

This post is for all, but it is being dedicated to Marianne. I love and miss you and we missed you this weekend!
For all of you who don't know the Service and Learning Center had it's open house this weekend. We were celebrating a move to a bigger office and 10 years of serving. It was a fun night.

Alyssa with the HUGE s

Pam with the scissors. We had a little photo shoot. :)

I would never really cut Tayce's head off, but the picture is sweet.

Here is a small group of us. Waiting for it to all start.

Cutting the ribbon... almost

Pam and the President cutting the ribbon.

Those are the scissors chilling in the corner. Sweet.

There is Dane, our old buddy. It was good to see him.

Mike and Pam. It was so much fun to see Mike. He was so excited. Imagine that. :)

So, there it is. We had a fun night, but it would have been better with Marianne there and Jo and all the other Alumni Service Leaders. We are growing strong and intend to keep it that way.

Life Changes

Hello all!
I just have to say that I feel so blessed for all I have. This last week has been stressful, but I have learned a lot. Tayce and I were filling out his graduation papers and realized that he didn't have enough credits to graduate. We thought for sure that was wrong, but it wasn't. So, he had to go talk to his "boss" for seminary. And we were told that he couldn't teach anymore. BOOM! Life switched in an instant. It is hard, but through prayer and wonderful friends and family it is okay. Tayce is a spiritual giant and his words are "Everything will be fine, Heavenly Father has a different plan for us." What an amazing man. I am a lucky lady for sure. So, we are starting anew. He is going to keep going to school and we will stay in Cedar City for now. Life is good and I know that as we live our lives in away that is pleasing to our Heavenly Father that it will all work out. He gives us nothing that we cannot handle and He knows much more than us. So, as for me I will rely on my Father in Heaven and I will be happy for whatever happens! Love you all!

The things we do in the summer time...

Well here is an assortment of pictures of what we do. They are not in order because I don't quite get this blog stuff. So They are all mixed up. But we have had fun. Tayce has been working two jobs and going to school. He is amazing. And as for me I have been a babysitting, relief society wife. We have stayed busy. So... here is some of the things we've been up too.

We go to parades! This is in Spanish Fork, but we also went to Kanabs parade too. (the 4th parade).

Here we are!

We make Sticky Gooeys. A lot of them!

Here is a game I actually won. Barley, but I did it! We play a lot of games you know.

Here is an Ox jumping through a ring of fire! It was sweet. The rodeo was so much fun!

We went to the Spanish Fork 24th of July Rodeo. It was fun. We went with my crazy family and loved it. We also went to the Zoo when we were there. Thanks Steph, Grandma, Riley, Skyler, Mom, and Aunt Laura for some fun times.

We go bowling. This is a bowling night with Tyler and Taylor. We also went with Beau and Amanda Gibbs and we had so much fun. I actually got 124, that is amazing.

We go camping in Mom and Dad Robinson's backyard. Tayce was supposed to take me camping, but it was always rainy, so when we went and spent a few days at his parents house and we set up camp. We had fires every night. We had some good dutch oven and tin foil dinners.

Here is Mom and Dad Robinson at the Kanab 4th of July parade. We had a fun long weekend with them. Watching the fire works, going up to Crystal Cove, and have camp fire every night.

Here is Tay eating his mallow.

This is Tay and his Dad out at Crystal Cove, old family property. It was quite an adventure and we had fun exploring and finding Indian pottery.

That is Tay and me. I really was happy, but this picture shows otherwise.

I helped clean out he Service and Learning Center. It was a lot of work, but now the center is in the new house.

We go to plays with our good friends, the Lindsays. We actually went to the Green Show where they gave us free ticket for being in some pictures and then we all went to two plays. It was fun. Thanks Shawn and Jesica for some fun times.

We play games and Tayce usually wins me. This is our Scrabble game. Some good words.