4th of July

These 3 adorable girls let me do their hair "crazy" for the 4th. We had fun coming up with new ideas. And my good friend Michelle made them matching hair bows for the day.

Olivia can only handle a pony tail, much more and she'll lose patience.

Alina's is my favorite. We can do this hairstyle for every occasion.

Greta went for the crazy fire cracker twists and it looks so cute on her.

Here is Olivia happy being outside with her family and getting all the attention in the world.

Here we are at the Riverton park where we went on rides, played on the playground and had lots of yummy treats. We love this tradition with my family every year. The only thing missing was Matthew and Melinda. They moved to Ogden this last week. We sure miss them.

Unwavering Faith

I've recently read two books that have changed my thinking about life. It's changed how my faith works. Crazy thing is I've always known this. I've applied the same principles all my life but didn't understand what I was doing.

When Cameron and I lived in Idaho I was unhappy. We were poor, living pay check to pay check with nothing left over to ever do anything fun. I wanted a change, I needed a change. My sister told me to make a vision board, I did just that. I listed the dollar amount I wanted put up a picture of the the kind of home I wanted to live in, and I believed it would happen. I knew it would happen. I had NO doubts. I also studied faith like crazy in the scriptures, and I learned a lot.

A couple of weeks after I made my vision board Cameron came home from work and I knew the second I saw him he had been laid off. I wasn't even nervous or scared. I KNEW we would be okay.

A couple of weeks before this Cameron and I both felt prompted to start applying to jobs back in Utah. We didn't know why, we just KNEW we should. Cameron was laid off on a Tuesday. He already had two interviews set up in Utah for Friday of the same week.

Cameron went into that interview knowing he would get the job on the spot, and he did. The dollar amount was $10,000 less than what we wanted, but still more than we had ever made before. We were okay with it though because we had given a time limit of making a certain amount by the end of the year, and it was only May. And we were grateful for this job.

The job was hard and frustrating. We didn't have a good feeling about it, but it did get us back to Utah where we wanted to be. The job was also with a home builder so we thought that maybe this was how we were going to get our dream home. Things didn't happen that way at all. Cameron once again felt like he should start looking again. We did and on December 10th he started his new job making $10,000 more than what we had stated on our vision board. That's $20,000 more a year from his previous job.

On Christmas Eve we finally sold our home in Idaho and moved into our house in Eagle Mountain. As we were unpacking our boxes I found our vision board. Here is a picture of what we wanted our house to look like.



And here is a picture of our home now.



We got our home by applying simple principles of faith. By actually believing it, not just asking, but believing and being grateful before we even received it. We got $10,000 more a year than we wanted. It works. I just wish I hadn't forgotten these principles when Cameron was laid off again last November. It's okay though because now I know exactly what to do and my vision board is made and I'm grateful for this trial. My spirituality has grown like crazy and my children will learn all of this at a young age.

And now I want to be like this special woman.

She's on my vision board to help me become a better person, a better mother. And to always remember that everything comes from God. We accomplish nothing on our own. And all of our gratitude goes to our Heavenly Father for his bounteous blessings. And the Robinson family is going to be greatly blessed, just wait and see.

Gratitude Rocks

Whining....I hate it, so I had to do something about it. My solution, gratitude rocks. We used to do this before we moved to Eagle Mountain, then in the move our rocks got lost and we just never got around to painting new ones. Well the time came Monday night. After a full week of nonstop whining I knew exactly what our FHE lesson would be on.....Gratitude. Now whenever my kids get whiny they have to hold their rock and say 5 things they're grateful for. And at night before we pray we all take our turn holding our rock and remembering 1 thing we were grateful for throughout the day.

The kids had a grand time painting their rocks every color imaginable and of course we had to have glitter. After their rocks and themselves were covered in paint they decided we also needed to paint some of the bigger rocks in our yard for decoration. It was a great FHE and the best thing is that my kids are having fun being grateful.

Olivia, Teeth and Popsicles

This little girl is teething and she thinks she needs popsicles.

And she likes to make a mess with them.

But it makes her happy. She'll finally have more than two teeth now and that makes her momma happy.

Summer Has Begun

Popsicles and friends summer has begun!

Although Alina still thinks she needs to wear a coat.

Young Women Princess Night

For Young Womens tonight we had a princess party. All the girls got to invite a girl between the ages of 4-8 and do makeovers on them. They sent them out personal invitations and we had a few girls show up in princess dresses.

We had stations for hair, nails, makeup, and costumes.

Bella chose to invite Greta.

Kianna chose to invite Alina

12 big girls plus 12 little girls makes for a big group of fun. It was one of the Beehives favorite activities so far.

Greta's Kindergarten Graduation

This was the first year for Eagle Valley to do a Kindergarten Graduation. Greta was so cute in her little green cap and gown. She got a diploma, a cap full of candy and some pictures to remember the day.

Greta and Alyssa Vehar

Mrs. Spaulding

Mrs. Joy