Hope you don't mind I am putting this up Chelsea. This is lucky little shot I got of Devan Sunday night. I wanted to put it up because I realized I don't have any of him up on here yet! The second picture is of him raisin' the roof in his new Christmas present I made him.

Merry Christmas!

So I'd have to say this was one of the best Christmas's I've had. The downside- I missed having Brendi and her familia with us...but we had Matt, Chelsea and Devan this year! Also for some reason this year I just totally missed having Christmas with the Valentines. We definately need to do Sundance or something like that again once boys are off their missions and everyone is home, etc. Just the other day I was working and I was organizing a shelf -cluttered beyond belief- and in my head, I was like "happy Christmas Adam" to myself. It was Dec 23, remembering the joke we always had with the Valentines. (Christmas Eve, Christmas Adam... ya cheesy we were young haha) Anyways I had a flashback of us in the basement at the Valentines saying that to each other thinking we were so clever and then I was like "okay....back then, we would be sledding or skiing or running around the house at the Valentines and here I am working on CHRISTMAS ADAM!! What is this?!" (I know, I know, how am I ever going to have a steady job?) Anyways point of this long tangent- Valentines I miss you and we need to do Christmas again! No matter how hectic, how crazy and how LARGE of a group that would be... I don't care!


So onto how Christmas this year went. For some reason this is the first year that I didn't even really get excited about getting presents, but I mostly got excited about the giving. (I know I'm such a sweet little angel huh??) haha Anyways it was probably because I actually had money this year but I just got really into it. One of the fun things is I actually made a lot of presents this year which was also fun. I'm probably inspired from Brendi ( with the help of woodworker hubby) who makes all her decorations, and everything! Anyways I made Devan a little U-shaped baby pillow thing. I bought the fabric and it took like 10 minutes to sew! I'm no semestress but Devan fell asleep in it (which they say is incredibly rare because he needs to be held to fall asleep) and also can kind of sit up in it even though he's only 2 months old. Anyways that was pretty cool. I made a few other things for friends and stuff. The last thing I was kind of excited about is we (court, sean, Jake, Kaisa and me) all pitched in for a present for my parents. We got my dad a GPS but for my mom we got her a big canves picture of the picture of my family in Grand Cayman. That was probably the present I was most excited about.

As for me, I got a bunch of stuff for college. Mostly stuff for the cold that I will be suffering through in Idaho haha. A little shout out to Mom and Dad, Chelsea, Kelsey, Kate, G&G Robinson, G&G Swenson, and Great Grandpa Carey - thank you so much for the gifts and cards! I loved every single one of them and also every single one will be put to use :). Anyways I'd say it turned out to be a pretty great Christmas.

I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas!!!

p.s. If my blog ever seems boring, dragged out, or full of pointless stories, it's because this is semi like a scrapbook to me... well one I will be printing out every year ( yes, Brendi I am copying you... just like I have been doing in every other aspect since I was a kid haha jk) but anyways its a great idea and I think it gives more meaning to my blog for me.

Family Pictures

So these first few are just some pictures I took a few months ago of Brendi and Aisley just for fun. The next ones are of Brendi and Rusty's family Christmas pictures I just took a few weeks ago.

meanwhile, Kinlee was playing in the hose :)

They were all supposed to look at Aisley..I think Deacon took it a little too seriously.

Why is it the ONE night I can actually go to bed early, I can't sleep?? I've been working at TJ Maxx about 30+ hours a week, and then babysitting a few different familys on the side anywhere from 10 hours a week to a couple full days and all-nighters. Then I occasionally work for my dad by cleaning the office, or cleaning one of his houses, etc. It's been pretty busy and I am just so tired all the time! I'm so happy to finally have a set schedule though and being busy is actually really good for me. I just want to request one day off from work and just stay in bed all day long and not have to worry about anything! Oh boy, how am I ever going to be a mom?

some old pictures

I should've added these forever ago but never got around to it. Anyways here are a few of my favorites i've taken semi-recently..

this one I took on my old pentax film camera. I did a little bit of editing as you can see haha but i really like it for some reason.

The rest of these are from a photoshoot we did a while back for Jasmine.

They were kind of "senior portrait" style as you can tell by most of these..

This is one of my good friends lexi. I did a photoshoot of her a while back and just wanted to put them on here just for fun. DOn't mind my cheesy name I was just playing around on photoshop and those make the pictures look more legit :)

let it be known.

So after having my childhood and lifelong dream of becoming a dolphin trainer crushed by researching the pay, and the fact that I need a 4 year degree to get a minimum wage job... this is next in line. I would absolutely LOVE to do this. This guy is amazing. I took 2 years of ROP digital video production in high school and absolutely loved it. I always wanted to do something in video...but hollywood isn't exactly at the top of my list. Anyways this would be perfect. I love filming and editing projects like this and this way I could still be at home 99% of the time with my kids. Also, if I get good enough.. the pay is awesome. Anyways I saw this link somewhere and fell in love with this guys work (although a bit cheesy at times haha) so I am now re-inspired and am definately going to look into majoring in video production.

(click on the link)



Ryan Southwell Films

welcome to this world my cute little new nephew Devan Scott Swenson! I can't wait to see you in a couple hours!
and congrats to Chelsea and Matt

p.s. he was born yesterday 10/8/10

This is the river in Folsom. I seriously think it's the prettiest area around here!

and..it's where the Sacramento temple is :)

Kinzy

Kinlee is my cute little model. She loves modeling for me and asks for pay :)

QUIZ: (from the Robinson Ladies blog)

1- Why were you given your particular
name? Not sure, but my middle name is Grandma Robinson's middle name

2- How many brothers and sisters do you have? 6 brothers, 2 sisters, 1 sis-in-law, 1 bro-in-law

3- What is your favorite thing to do? number one is hang out with people, i like fun day trips like six flags and tahoe and stuff. hmm..taking pictures, and working on random projects..yep..sounds boring but i really do like it

4- What is your favorite food? ah.. not sure what its called but chicken and rice that mom makes, green been casserole, chicken haystacks, mr pickles, costa vida, lincoln chinese, maguro sushi in folsom, seriously...and sadly.. the list goes wayyy on.

5- What is your favorite book? okay...hard to say because I don't read A TON, but I hate to say it...but the last books i really enjoyed were the twilight series. But in my defense- I read them before they got crazy popular, and it's just kind of hard to admit I like them now beause it's almost annoying. I'm reading the hunger games right now and they're pretty good also.

6- What is your favorite candy bar? Rolo's or reeses

7- What is your favorite cookie? chocolate chip--with ice cream on top like a pazookie:)

8- What is your favorite sport? soccer or basketball. I played both growing up but just on rec leagues which I love because I'm not too amazing so it was perfect playing on less competative leagues.

9- What is your favorite kind of music? rap for sure. and to the world: "rap" is not bad. Ya, there is a LOT of bad rap out there--but I hear just as bad of rock or even country songs. So please don't generalize it as being bad. haha

10- What is your favorite song? Really hard question. I'd probably narrow it down to my top 100 favorite songs..which I'm not going to figure out.

11- What do you want to be when you grow up? Ah, still deciding. So hard.. Yep, I'll give the typical church-y answer: a mom. But it is true. I for sure am going to get a degree in something to always have it there. I hope to maybe have a side career that I can do from home...haven't decided just yet though. Cut me some slack I'm only in my freshman year of college.

12- How many kids do you want when you get married? hmm.. maybe 5 or 6.


13- How many temples have you been through and What is your favorite temple? 2..Oakland and Sacramento... my favorite is San Diego because it's by far the prettiest but I want to get married in the Sac one because it's like "mine" I guess..

14- What place you would like to know more about? Cuba

15- What place would you like to visit? Grand Cayman again!!

16- What is your favorite thing about your mom? VVV

17- What is your favorite thing about your dad? I'm going to combine these last two questions because I think they have the same qualities I love because so much of their parenting is done equally and together. I have never heard my parents yell at each other and that's a huge thing to me because I want that in my future house. Also one thing I always have loved is instead of getting on us about what we're doing wrong, they've always praised us for what we're doing right... and how much they appreciate us, etc. I think this has always made me want to do whats right because I'm wanting to live up to the person they set me as, other then the other way around.

18- What is your favorite thing about yourself? dang..hard question... really hard. hmm.. ok fine I thought of one. I think growing up and kinda just all through out school and high school, I never really wanted to be anyone but me. To explain that, of course I wanted to be prettier, or better at something or however you say that, but I never had the huge strong need to be popular. Ya, I had my best friends and class friends, and acquaintences, but I never had the desire to be part of a different crowd or someone I wasn't. To be honest, I think this saved me from maybe getting into trouble in high school.

20- Do you like to dance? Ya, but I totally wish I knew how to dance I think it'd be sweet.

21- Do you like to play a musical instrument? Semi-piano

22- What musical instruments can you play? "

23- What is your favorite type of art? I've always wanted to be a photographer since I was a little kid but I'm embarrassed to tell people because I'm not too good. 

fall ♥

I love this weather because:
1. i get to wear my wonderful Uggs again. ahh
2. bishops pumpkin farm is a whole lot funner when it's kinda cold!
3. i get to move into a fresh new wardrobe (ok....not exactly fresh...just not worn since last year)
4. I can actually sleep in peace and not wake up all hot like when mom and dad don't let me turn on the AC at night in the summer!!
5. Snowboarding is coming soon....

Once again....

Once again starting a new blog. This is one of six blogs I either have, or am a part of. Ridiculous much? Yet I can't seem to just stick with one.... I have my original blog that I started when I was probably 13(so basically too embarrassing to ever show ANYONE), my pictures blog, my journal blog, and I'm apart of a private blog with some friends and a part of Robinson girls blog. So this blog is......hmm.. just going to be my basic blog just hopefully less embarrassing than my old one from when I was 13. So, here it goes!