Summer 2011 Wrap otto: Labor Day

We got out of the heat and went to P-town for the weekend. 

It was so nice watching the temperature drop from the high 90's to 80, to 70, and then finally to 63 when we got to Panaca Friday evening. It was chilly when we got out of the car! But it felt soo good. Mama always says her favorite thing about living in Panaca is that during the summer, it can get hot as heck, but as soon as that sun drops the windows are opened and the cold air comes in all night. If only that could be the case in these here southern parts of Nevada. 

Saturday, we slept in. Oh sweet sleep! Played with David's new scope. Went to the spring to check out the set-up for the triathlon. Giulia ran home. Then we headed to Pioche for the softball tournament and other excitement. Preston was so excited for me to experience Labor Day the Lincoln County way. He had a running list of everything I just had to try. But we get to Pioche, and Preston is all upset because none of the vendors were there. The story is that some lady got on "the board" this year and put a ban on any outside vendors so that her concession stand could make more money. Or something. So, I guess it wasn't exciting as it usually is. We watched Zach's softball game and then headed for the hills. The dove hunting season officially started, and David wanted to take Preston. After going to several different water holes and not finding much, David wanted to go "deeper in the mountains" and check out this "one spot that I went to years ago". Mostly he wanted to check it out for deer tracks and maybe see some deersies. We hiked in to that one. And still didn't see much. Kind of a bummer but it was good exercise!

big man on campus.

takin' a break at the water hole we hiked to. just followed the sound of the water

I missed the memo to look normal?

I need to note that the cell phone service was horrendous that weekend. There was so many people in town that you could rarely get a call through. Extremely frustrating when you're trying to get a hold of someone to let them know that you won't be there for primary.

while i was trying to get a call out, david was doing this

We headed back to town and met up with Mama for dinner and the electric parade! 

Before the parade started we walked "uptown" to check out the street dancing. What a site! haha. They had a live band in the street and everyone was gettin' their groove on. The drunk ones are always the most fun to watch. ;)  After getting our fill of people watching and busting out the occasional moves ourselves, we got back in our seats and watched the lit up floats pass by. It was fun. Never been to a parade in the dark before.  no pictures...woops!

Sunday, sunday....I can't remember what we did Sunday morning....I think we slept in again. Went to church. 

That afternoon we had fun at the gun range. My arm was sore for days from throwing the clay pigeons.

And then that evening was the big fireworks show in Pioche. What a show it was! Best fireworks show I have ever seen! It was great!

ya'll already seen this one. this was before the works got started.

attractive!

I almost have the serious face down...kind of...

Monday morning we woke up early for some more hunting. Driving through town we were so excited because Doves were packed on every power line. Sadly, none were to be found in the fields. 

However, David and Preston chased down a jack-rabbit and Giulia nailed a few stink bugs with the .22.

David does the serious face so well. Me... not so much.

That morning was another parade- where candy was thrown left and right! Yum yum! After that there was games and races at the park. I won the 13 and up  skipping race and got like 50 cents!!! woot woot!

On the way home from that excitement David and I pulled off into some other fields. David was feeling a little jipped about this bird thing. We theorize that it was still too cold for them to be out in full force yet. Sorry honey. Anyway, we stopped in some fields and David got out with the shotgun and went on the hunt, and I took a nap in the car. :) He came back about 45 minutes later with a few birds and a smile on his face. 

We headed back to the house and David fired up the BBQ. He put together a marinade the day before and had the chicken soaking up that goodness for 18 h ours. Threw that on grill. YUM! I spotted a "Tater Twister" in the laundry room, pulled that sucker out and went to work makin' some curly fries to go along with the BBQ chicken. Healthiest meal ever!

And then the time came when we had to say our good-byes. That part is never fun.

Summer 2011 Wrap sette: GAS reunion

GAS= papa's initials. hehe.hehehe.

baby Roslyn sportin' the fam tee. (thanks Daniel for the picha)

This year we had the first annual GAS reunion the third weekend of August in St.George. 

It was so fun to have everyone together. I wish we could all get together every month! :( 

Highlights included:
getting to spend some time with the Adams family:

Little Mermaid at Tuacahn!!!!

the staging was amazing.

David had never been before, and he hasn't been to many plays/musicals in his lifetime (I'm working on that, little by little). But he was giggling and smiling and enjoying the show. :)

it was a very hot night and we we were all sweaty messes when we walked back to the cars

I stole this pic from Daniel on facebook. :) I just thought it was cute.

On Saturday morning we headed over to the Jacob Hamblin home for a tour and family pictures (that I'm sure we'll be getting soon, right Ashley?)

 

After that the men folk spent a few hours in Sportsmen Warehouse.

Then we lunched at Golden Corral (David has converted everyone). And then sadly we all went our separate ways.

'Til next year! 

I should mention that it was after lunch that D&G went back to Sportsman's Warehouse for another few hours and left with some pretty sweet stuff. ;) 

{For the Soul}

loved this. needed it.
"Our need for constant recourse to the scriptures is greater [now] than in any previous time".

Now everyone say a prayer that all my primary kiddos remember the words to all the songs we're singing today. ay yi yi! I'm nervous! But I am so looking forward to having the primary program done and singing the songs that I want to. :) 

a true depiction...

Wurley's Mine December 2010

I think this picture captured us accurately:

I'm a bit of an odd-ball,

and David is calm and confident [and always so good lookin'].

Summer 2011 Wrap sei: Cabin Time

For 24th of July weekend we headed up to Joseph's family's cabin somewhere in Kolob. 

I've posted a few pictures from that already. 

Lots of just hangin' out and enjoying each other's company. 

David and I left pretty early Sunday morning because I was singing in church at 1. Funny story time (well, it's funny now). When I woke up, David was nowhere to be found. After searching the cabin high and low and not finding his body, I went outside to find that our car was gone as well. Once I calmed down and got over the crazy thoughts that were something along the lines of David being held hostage somewhere (oh the mind of a helpless wife at 6:00a.m. with no cell service and no car in a place she hasn't been before), I figured he was probably just gone fishin'. I tried going back to sleep but to no avail. I had got myself too worked up to be able to fall asleep plus I wasn't really sure if he was fishin'. What if something really terrible had happened and none of us knew? Definitely no sleep with all those thoughts.  So I sat on the couch and read. And I was livid. Mad because he didn't tell me where he went, mad because he didn't invite me (how rude!), and mad because I couldn't fall back asleep and I really wanted to sleep some more! Well, David comes in around 7:30, sees my face and asks me whats up. After unloading on him, he explains to me that he did wake me up and told me he was going fishing and asked if I wanted to come and I told him no. This upset me even more because, to this day, I had no recollection of him waking me up that morning. The joke was on me and my morning grogginess I guess. But Honey, next time leave a note!!!

so in love with this face!

boom baby!

some King of the Pole action

a simple game: last person on the pole wins

horseshoes! Team D&G won one round. Round two was boys v girls. The girls were ahead, but sadly lost in the end. It was close though! (and G never did get showered or dressed after Insanity that day. yum. Yes she made sure she got her Insanity on for the two nights they were there.woot!)

the face of a winner. ;)

Also, the boys went fishin'. Felicia and I drove around the whole reservoir trying to find and meet up with them, but our paths never crossed. Long story short: it was one of those things where if you went ten more feet before turning around you would have found what you were looking for. :) But it was a nice drive and we had a nice talk.

Also, Chelsie and Mame were there, even though by looking at these pictures you would think they weren't.

the end.

Summer 2011 Wrap cinque: Orange Dirt

This summer was filled with lots of softball. 

David played as a sub with Turner's team as often as he could/his work schedule would allow.

can you see the smiles on his face? I love it. He loves to play and I love to watch him.

Turner made sure that David came out to play for the championship game. They won!!!!! And they all have nice blue shirts to prove it. :) 

Turner also got all us Robbins together to play in the annual Midnight Madness tournament that the city puts on every year. It definitely lived up to its name. Things were pretty crazy and our last game didn't START until 2:00a.m.!!!

not the best pictures of the night, but proof that we were in fact there and that I really don't just make up stories about the things we do.

David had some good hits and awesome catches (and 1 collision with his brother in the outfield).

I got on base a few times, batted 1 runner to home, and had some pretty good plays at 2nd base. 

The Sunday after:

hims was tiwed.

The start of a quest

One day when we have our own house with walls that I can do whatever I want with, I'm going to dedicate some space for a "Generations of Love" or a "Windows of Love" gallery. I don't know which title I like best yet. 

Anyhow...The center would/will have our wedding photo, and then to each side of us our parent's wedding photos, and to each side of those our grandparent's wedding photo. 

I finally got a good scan of the only photo we have of Grandpa and Grandma Stolworthy's wedding day (or at least I was told this was taken on their wedding day).

love it. I want Grandma's coat! Such a stylish lady. :)
1 down. 5 more to go.