Family Vacation

We had a great time just taking a break. I had checked the weather before we left but I guess the forcast changed. The first night we had a great time making smores and watching the fire. The next day we went fishing. Greg caught quite a few fish. On Friday Greg's parents and brother and sister-in-law joined us. We were able to still have a fire and such that night. We went fishing in the morning and from noon on it rained and rained and rained. We were not prepared for the cold. We only each had one sweatshirt and the kids each had a jacket. So anyway our camping adventure was still fun and we had a good time with our family. Next time though, we will have lots of warm clothes.

Piece of Cake???

Recently one of the couples in our church celebrated there 25th wedding anniversary. Praise the Lord. There family had a suprise party for them. I asked if I could do anything to help and they responded that I could make a cake that was some what weddingish. Well sometimes I get these great ideas and sometimes not so great ideas. I decided I was going to go all the way and just make a wedding cake. Now you see the only cakes I have ever made have been the kids birthday cakes. So now realizing I have a lot of work to do I went to talk to my mom who works in a bakery/deli. She has never made a decorated cake either. She offered her help anyhow. This kind lady by God's grace gave me some great advice in the cake decorating isle. I also had a crash course in rose making and so did my mom. Well as you can see it wasn't a complete disaster and actually it was fun. My only piece of advice is you need more than 2 hours to decorate a cake. So anyway, was my idea great? At the time I was not thinking so. But now that everything turned out and the cake actually did make it to the party, it wasn't such a bad idea.
And by the way, Thanks mom, I love you!!

Another Good-Bye

As many of you know we have been very close to Phil and Tiffany for the past almost 3 years. Our apartments for the past year have been back to back and we spent a lot of time with them. The Lord has seen fit to seperate our live through great distance. Phil and Tiffany went to Florida this past month. We went to say good-bye and help a bit with packing. Our kids litterally think they are family. In fact when we went to take a picture of all of us Alyssa said "we need another family picture." We will miss them terribly but we do have this awesome internet to keep in touch. So anyhow, here is our last day with our great friends. Hopefully sometime soon we can see each other agian.

Good o'l pals

Phil and John

Phil and Alyssa

The Whole Gang

Our New Home

A few of you have asked to see pictures of our new place. It is a bit smaller but everything is in and mostly in its place. The backyard is great for the kids and the playroom actulally keeps the toys out of the rest of the house. This is just a pic of Alyssa and John playing on the stairs.

Our backyard

The Kitchen The living room

Alyssa and Johnathan sitting on the stairs

Ok, I know you are wondering what in the world is that. That would be the other half of the basement which has been turned into laudry room, storage, office and playroom. Or as I call it our tornado. It is has been organized on few occasions but manages to always turns back into a toy tornado.

playroom

Alyssa's side of the room

Johnathan's side of the room

Our bedroom The bathroom

A New little Nephew

Daylen Michael
Born July 14th

Oh so cute

Aunt Karen and Daylen

Alyssa and Daylen

Justin, Emily, and Daylen

Last Service at Fellowship

Thank-you Fellowship church family for all the great memmories and love. We will miss you greatly. Please pray for our new ministry God has opened the door for.

The cake made for the reception.

Greg gives pastor a hug of thank-you and see you later. Greg has looked up to him for so many years and he will definately be greatly missed by the Robotti family along with his wife and family. Thank-you for all you have done.

This was Gregs last time at Fellowship so they had a reception for us to bid us good-bye. It has been a tramendous blessing to serve at Fellowship. We have both grown in the Lord so much. We appreciated all the Godly teaching and love God's people showed our family. So as we move to a new chapter, we will not forget all we have learned. God will use that chapter of our lives to help us write the next one. We were presented with a beautiful certificate and a gift from the church family.

Swimming lessons

Alyssa recently took Swimming lessons. She loves to be in the water. Her friend Joshua was in the same class so that made it more exciting. Here is a few pics of here at lessons.

Sticking her face in and swimming.

Getting out of the pool after jumping in.

Alyssa and Joshua waiting for the lesson to begin. John waits with the "big kids"