Happy Holidays !

Since we are not sending a newsletter with our holiday greeting card, You'll have to get it here.

Ryan is still working with Countrywide or shall we say, Bank of America. After many layoffs, he luckily still has a job and that is all we can really ask for. He continues to stay busy with surfing, running, working with the young men, and being a great daddy to Kennedee.

I,Ashley, work 15 hours a week. I used to train 15 personal training sessions, but I cut down to only 8, but now teach 7 classes. It gives me an excuse to workout. I am teaching spinning, aqua aerobics, boot camp, Weight lifting, and pilates. It keeps me busy and I love to stay busy.

Kennedee is 21 months and is wild as ever. She loves to climb, run and just be silly. She is learning several words and is now just starting to watch a little bit of Elmo and playing with baby dolls. She just got her ears pierced. Ouch!

We are so grateful, epecially this time of year, for all the many blessings that we continue to recieve. We are ever grateful for wonderful friends and family and their support. We are grateful for all the wonderful accomodations we have. We are grateful for our health, for our freedoms, and peace in our lives. We are grateful especially for Christ and his love for our family.

We wish you all very happy holidays and all the love and joy in the world.

Love,

the Roberts

Christmas Stockings

If any one is interested. My Sister In Law is so talented and makes gorgeous stockings. She sells them on etsy.com. She can customize the size, the pattern, the colors, and even add a NAME. Please see some more of her examples here (http://emileeschristmasjoy.blogspot.com/.

My Own Font !

click here to see it. It is called "K*Rayn" . It is probably the 10th one down or so. If you would like to download it or other fonts click on download from the site. Then you must go into your control panel and choose "fonts". (make sure you are in classic view). Double click on the fonts folder. Chose File>Install new font. On the drop down list I chose C Drive> mommy(user)>my documents>fonts. Be sure the "copy fonts to fonts folder" is checked. Click on the select all button and click OK. (Oh, and I forgot, you first have to unzip your fonts before you can attempt to install them).

THis will make you CRY and choke up

*Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick you up and take you to the park to play.

*Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.

*Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles.

*Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born and how much I love you.

*Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.

*Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars.


*Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favorite TV shows.

*Just for this evening when I run my finger through your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given.

*I will think about the mothers And fathers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their children's graves instead of their bedrooms, and mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly, And the mothers and fathers who are struggling to have a baby of their own.

*And when I kiss you good night I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask Him for nothing, except one more day.............


this picture tells it all.




Scousins

My cousins (we call oursleves scousins) visited us this last week for dinner with my Aunt. Thanks for coming.

Ryan said he had to get Kennedee a basketball hoop for Christmas, but turns out he secretly just wanted it for himself. Here are pics of us all playing H-O-R-S-E with "K"'s present. And a pic of my cousin Richelle's little girl ABI. They are so cute dancing together.

adding on one more bad mom moment

Okay, this just happened today and is worthy of a bad mom moment. I had just gotten home from teaching a class and saw the garbage man pulling up. So I ran into the house, put Kennedee down, grabbed the trash, and took it out. It is crazy windy today and the wind blew my door shut with Kennedee locked inside. I had to call Ryan from my neighbors as I could hear Kennedee crying behind a locked door. I was able to knock on our glass patio door and get her to come by it, so she could at least see me. Ryan works close by, so fifteen minutes later I was back inside. Moral of the story, don't lock your door if it is opened, who knows if it will shut and lock you out. Thank goodness Kennedee isn't younger.

This is me being real-(Bad Mom Moments)

What do we usually blog about. Well of course, rainbows and sunshines. But life isn't always like that and I am not about to say that I am perfect, so I decided to make some confessions.
1. We were eating dinner at my mom IL's house and I was cutting up kennedee's food for her on her high chair. I finish and go ahead and sit down. My mom IL starts laughing and I look back to see that I have left the knife on the high chair and now "K" is playing with it. Ashley, where are your brains?
2. I was getting in the car to go train a client, ignition on, check mirrors, start driving..................I made it about 2 blocks, when I feel a little tap tap on my shoulder ("K" gives me the look that says, "uh, mom were you planning on buckleing me into my carseat?) I'm glad I hadn't gone farther. I told my sister about the incident and she confessed it also happened to her. Yeah, I'm not the only one.
3. From a little age we would build block towers and teach Kennedee to come knock them down. It was cute and we would laugh. But then one day when I picked up "K" from the kids club, the staff told me that Kennedee was knocking down all of the other kids lego towers and laughing histerically. Oops! Who knew the skills we teach her at home, don't transfer well into real life.

If you so wish to help me not feel like such a bad mom, please share one of your moments. (Not assuming that you have any bad moments).

QUESTION # 6
What was one of your "bad" or "funny" mom moments?

I commend many of you who sacrificed for something you believe in. I have been moved seeing so many people volunteering and taking much time to support a cause. The results are in, and yes on 8 has passed in California.