The Last Few Days

I really had the intentions of posting everyday, but you know life happens! ;) So here is a run down of the last few day.

The last few days I have had a few special angel babies on my mind. Yesterday was Andi and Linc's birthdays. I just want to send love and peace to their families and let them know that their babies were remembered.

 For Linc's birthday his family made baskets for the Jubilee homes in St. George and Cedar City. We stayed in the Jubilee home in St. George for 3 months when Olivia was in the hospital, so we were so happy to help with Linc's birthday. So we donated what every NICU family needs... HAND SANITIZER! I am grateful for Linc and his family. It is always a bittersweet blessing to have angel baby families in your life, you never want to have anyone have to go through the loss of a child, but to have connection with other families is nice. Love you Hamilton Family, hope your day was full of peace and love.

 Even though my week has been quite hectic, cookies were made and delivered to a few neighbors. We will have to do it again before the month is over because we have so many people we are thankful for in our lives.

 In memory of sweet Kassie, we made some survival kits for mom's during the holidays. Kassie's 8th birthday is coming up and I know that she would be the most beautiful 8 year old in Cedar City. I pray for comfort and peace to her sweet family. The Neilsen family is a huge blessing in our life.

This little one just needs a shout out because she brings me so much peace. She knows when I am sad and knows when I need a hug and a kiss. She cuddles with me and deals with her crazy mom not functioning so well this month. She is my miracle and my constant reminder to be as good as I can be so we can be with Graydin and Alice again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUT!

Happy birthday Tiff! I couldn't ask to share my birthday with a better person. I am so glad we found each other 8! years ago! Love you!

Service From Others

November 3rd

On Sunday I had a wonderful time at church with the wonderful children in Primary. It is a joy to be in Primary. Heavenly Father knows what He's doing. I love the CTR 4 class, they remind me of my sweet Graydin, it's a Heavenly hug each Sunday to see them. 

When I got home from church there was a dinner all made for me by Tyler and Taylor and Jessica. What a wonderful thing to come home to after almost 5 hours of church, on a fast Sunday! It was wonderful. And they didn't stop there, they pulled out a Dairy Queen cake! and then the most wonderful gift, a Tiffany Blue antique phone. Jessica and I saw it at the train station antique consignment shop in town and she got it for me! It was such a wonderful evening.
When I started this month of Love I was trying to think of something to do everyday for someone and Sunday I was the one who was shown love. Thank you Tyler and Jessica, you sure did make my day!

My AWESOME phone! It is going to be a decoration in my living room!

Olivia thinks it is pretty awesome! 

She actually knew it was a phone, I was impressed.

                                                                      November 4th
Monday was another day that I felt like I was blessed more than I blessed others. Little Addi came over and was perfect, no screaming and no tears. Jessica hung out with me and I was able to get some more adoption paper work done! I was able to prep for some future LOVE this month and be with Olivia! It was a good day!

November 2nd = Love

 We made it through day two of November! 

The journey it took to November = Love has been a long one, but on the way it has been rewarding. We have found friends that have become our family, learned things about life we never thought we would know and have grown closer to our Savior in a way that is unthinkable. 

Today we spent a whole day as a family! That is a great blessing that does not happen often with Tayce working two jobs. We split and stacked wood, (Thank you to our wonderful neighbors for their continued assistance in our home owning experience, we sure love the Barton's.) worked on our chicken coop and cleaned up the yard. Not much serving besides to our chickens. ;)

This evening we were able to go to LDS Family Services Adoption Luau. Why? You might ask. Well, Tayce and I have decided to adopt. Because of some remarkable people in our lives and their love and support we were able to start the process for adoption. We are just starting our paperwork, but are more and more excited each day. We truly believe our sweet Graydin and Alice are helping us with this just like they helped Miss Olivia get her safely.

 Then after our luau we attended the SUU Library's Gala and fundraiser. We love supporting the library and SUU. Olivia was a popular guest at the event and Tayce was able to introduce Olivia and I to many of his co-workers. He is an amazing man and works so hard for us. Thank goodness my children have such an awesome daddy.

The day has been eventful and full of love and that is what not only this month is about, but life... right? Thank you all for your love and support.

What are you doing with your love?

What Do You Do With Your Love?

To our Family and Friends,

 NOVEMBER = LOVE

November is here and this year it is not going to be a drag. This year in The Robinson home we are celebrating this month a bit differently. Since 2008 when our sweet Graydin returned to our Heavenly Father, November became a sad month. In 2010 when our precious Alice left us too soon, November became even harder. This year we are going to do something with our LOVE.

In March I had the opportunity to fly to Missouri for a Share conference. During the conference a wonderful woman shared her story about her daughter and after many years of being upset and bitter about her infant baby dying she decided to ask herself “What am I doing with the LOVE?” She had so much love for her daughter that she decided to do things positive and happy with that love. So, Tayce and I are adopting this analogy in our life and especially in November. We are going to remember our sweet babies with positive loving service and good deeds. 

We invite all of our family and friends to share with us throughout this month what you do with your love, your love for Graydin and Alice, for another baby who’s gone too soon, for any loved one here or gone. Show your love through service, good deeds, a smile, something you learn, hear about or share.

Every day I will blog about our LOVE- if you want to do your service in secret that is great! But, if there is anything you do that can be put on Facebook or our blog we would love to hear about it and or see it. Email, text, message me, or call me.

We are grateful for the continued support and love from so many of you. It has been an adventurous 5 years and we are excited to start a new tradition.

With Love,
            Tayce, Lacie and Olivia **

TWO!?!

I cannot believe this miracle girl is two years old! Where has the time gone? I cannot believe we made it. When my hand was on that tiny baby two years ago I couldn't even imagine how much joy this little one would bring me. Don't get me wrong, I have hard days just like any mom and she still gives us scares that we wish we didn't have to deal with, but she's literally a walking miracle. 

Last year I couldn't believe she finally rolled over and was sitting up and now she's babbling about anything she can think of and climbing up and down stairs, feeding her self, helping clean up and working my IPad better than me!

Now she is loud and fun and silly. She's destructive and sometimes mean, but she always ends with a kiss. She is sassy and knows that she is loved that is for sure!

Being a mom is wonderful and I miss my sweet little baby sometimes but I am loving this toddler stage more and more. Crafts and projects here we come!

Happy Birthday Miss Olivia. You truly bring a joy into my life that my word cannot describe. I love you more and more each day and I can not wait to keep learning with you.

Family Pictures!

Family pictures by JLD photography! Jessica is an amazing photographer and if you need photo's she's your girl! :) 
Find her stuff on Facebook on her blog http://lifebeautifullycaptured.blogspot.com

Totally in love with this picture!

Do you think Olivia loves having a buddy or what?

She's poopin don't you worry my friend.

Families truly can be together forever and I am so glad. Life may be hard, but there will always be more good and more beauty than bad! :)

Meet Our Chickens and See what we are up to...

 In April we bought 8 Chickens and we now have 6. 2 Were stolen, by who? We don't know. It could have been a smart animal or a tricky human, but we still have 6 and because of our awesome new neighbors the 6 are safe now. :)

 They are much bigger now and more pictures will come. We are also building a chicken coop! It's been an adventure.

 Miss Olivia likes the chickens and when they were small she could catch them, but we didn't condone that she wasn't very soft.

March...

Well, since it is May I should post my March picture. :)

This is in the old house. A new favorite pass time is coloring. So we tried some tub coloring with no water. It was a success, a short one, but a success none the less.

Mini Cadbury chocolate bars were a hit. Still are, if she sees any form of ice cream bar she says please, even if they are not ours.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We had a fun day. Started with a green breakfast of green biscuits and gravy and green eggs.

Grandma Nae was hanging out with us so Olivia was a happy girl. And that night I tried my hand at corned beef and cabbage. It was pretty good and good thing Tyler was there to teach how to eat it.

Lucy came to live with us when we signed for the house. She has made Olivia pretty happy. Olivia's favorite things are puppies and mommy.

Had a photo shoot. She sat in the same place for a long time just playing with what was around her. This is because the girl would not move in the grass, she was so not touching it more than she had too.

Good thing she had Lucy to come and play with her.

Happy Easter. We went to Tayce's family cook out the Saturday before and got to officially roll Easter eggs. Pretty fun. Olivia loved digging in the sand, unlike the grass she is not afraid of dirt or sand.

Here we are. Happy holidays in March and April to you. Hope your life is happy and full of joy. Until next time.