GREAT NEWS! :)

OUR HOUSE HAS SOLD!!! No more mortgage payments on top of all our GA bills and no more worry! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :D

I can now say quite honestly that I am happy here in GA. I still miss my family and friends in Utah, I miss my mountains, and I just miss the "West," but the Lord knew what He was doing when He sent us to our new home. I have made so many awesome friends, there are so many fun things to do here as a family, I have discovered a lot of things about myself, and NATURE is always waiting just outside our apartment building!

Speaking of Nature, I took my boy out for a walk on the Greenway before his nap. The woods were calling to me and I couldn't say no, and I'm so glad I listened! I met a very sweet woman from Germany, and I saw the most beautiful hawk! I wish I had had a camera or something... I'm thinking about getting a Georgia Birdwatching book tonight; we see so much wildlife every day and it bugs me when I don't know what something is. :P
I said a little prayer thanking God for the gift of being so close to all the beauty and life He has created, and for making me so good at spotting some of it (even when I forget my glasses like today). <3

(Photos soon!)

Happy Halloween!

The good/bad day...

So yesterday had it's ups and downs:
The good: Graydon and I went to the aquarium with my friend Marchet and her son Peter. We had a really good time and it was fun to get away from home and go "out on the town" with a friend. Marchet took lots of pictures with her awesome camera, so I'll be posting those soon. :)
The bad: Got home feeling beat-up and kind of sick. Then we found out that the sale of our house fell through AGAIN (lets hope the back-up offer comes through)! Then the monitor on our eMac died. So thats it for our short ownership of a Macintosh. It would cost too much to fix it. :(

I'm hoping today will be a better day!

PICTURES!

These are some of our family photos taken a week ago by my good friend Marchet Butler. They were all taken on the Greenway right behind our apartment complex!!! It's so awesome out there, and I love how the pictures came out. I LOVE TREES!

Isn't Graydon the cutest!? He loves leaves. Loves to touch them and crunch them and eat them if I let him. lol

I LOVE my beautiful family so much. :)

Internet access at last!

I live! We finally have internet at home.
So, GA is beautiful right now. Wonderful Fall weather, so many trees, and my mom and dad are visiting for a week. We went to the GA Aquarium (largest in the world), and had a blast! Graydon is getting SO BIG; he's walking really well, climbing, and trying to talk more and more.
I love our ward here. Awesome people; they really saved me from falling into depression when I first got here. I've made a lot of new friends and I know my way around town pretty well now too. Did I mention all the beautiful TREES!? I am in my element! :D

Can't think of anything new other than that splurge above... I'll be posting pictures soon. Comment with questions if I missed filling you in on anything you wanted to know. :)

Alive in Georgia

I thought I better make a quick update while I am here at the library since I am sure everyone is wondering about us. We still don't have internet at the apartment. :(
We are all healthy and happy, and GA isn't so bad. I LOVE our ward, and I love all the trees. Graydon is doing well and keeping me busy, as is the unpacking. Jonny is working hard and we are all SO happy to be together again. The flight was stressful but ok. Graydon slept through most of the adventure; I did not...

More to come later. Graydon is letting me know it's time to go home and have lunch!
Love and miss you all back in Utah!!! <3

Happy Birthday Graydon! ...and goodbye Utah.

First off, HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY to my beautiful son Graydon! I am so amazed by and thankful for his joyful sweet spirit; he gets me through the rough times. :)

...Rough times like this. Tomorrow night we fly to Georgia. I can't wait to be with Jonny again, but I am having a really REALLY hard time with leaving my home and family and friends here in Utah. I'll miss you all so much; please keep in touch! Pray for us... And pray that Graydon handles the flight well! o_o

I'll post again as soon as I can!

New Photos of Graydon: 1 year old!

My sister-in-law took these birthday photos of Graydon for me (he will be 1 year old tomorrow). I cropped some of them, and I added the blue to his eyes in the first B&W picture with PhotoShop. :)

Doing well! :)

Just an update to let you know that we are all doing well! My dad is all finished with his therapy and is feeling good over-all (mostly tired). Graydon and I have had a good time visiting with family and friends this past week, and I REALLY enjoyed seeing Transformers the other night. IT WAS AWESOME!!! (But it's so not for kids, so look out for that.) Jonny is surviving as well... He says he may not make it to the 3rd but I'm sure he will. ;)

Graydon's progressive slide show!

I thought a little slide show of the past year with Graydon would be cute... I made it with the few photos I have here on my parent's computer, so I'll have to make a better one later when we get to GA.
Graydon will be a year old in less than 2 weeks!

Plans & Prayers

Looks like Graydon and I will be flying to Georgia on the 3rd of August (one day after the munchkin's birthday). No luck with the house yet though... Pray for us! o_o

Keep my dad in your prayers too. He's finishing his last radiation treatment today and will be in the hospital overnight.

Alls well...for now.

Jonny was able to get a key Sunday morning, and after church about 6 Elders came back with him and they unpacked the truck! So all is well for now, other than Jonny having a box-stuffed apartment to organize and unpack... And the three of us missing each other like crazy.

The house market here in Utah seems to be cooling, so we'll have to drop the price of the house. We don't really care too much, we just want to sell it fast. I need to mow that darn lawn tomorrow morning too. x_x

Have a happy 4th of July!!!

Crummy trip for Jonny

After 3 days of driving with so little sleep, Jonny reached our Alpharetta apartment tonight to find that the management had forgotten to leave a key for him! The Elders from our new ward who had come to help him unpack had to go home and Jonny is having to sleep in the cab of the truck tonight.
Needless to say, we are both pretty freaking mad! >:(

Please pray for him, that he can somehow get into the apartment tomorrow (the office there is closed on Sundays). He has to go back to work on Monday!

One giant leap for the Robinson family...

Last night we finished packing-up all our things and loading everything into the rental truck. Today I cleaned the empty house and took the last few things to storage, and Jonny left with the renal for Georgia. (He is still on the road at 12AM, poor guy.) Keep him in your prayers!
It's been a VERY busy week, and I'm too tired to really be able to think much... Thats a good thing; I miss Jonny already and thinking about moving makes me depressed. :(

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who helped us out! We could not have done it without you. Thank you thank you thank you!!! I can't say it enough.
Also, thank you to everyone who could make it to Graydon's birthday party. He got a lot of awesome gifts, and it was good to see everyone before Jonny had to go.

Tomorrow I have more to do to finalize things, then I get a fun break: "Ocean's 13" with Lorrin. :)

First Update!

I thought I better make a post now that so many people know about the new blog!

Nothing really new today. Packing and preparing for Graydon's early birthday party... I think I have got the hang of using our new camcorder so we'll be able to get all of that on video. :)
In a few hours I'm going to lunch with Mom and my three sisters. Olive Garden is yum!

Best of all: Jonny will be home tonight!