Robinson Ramblings

I thought that I should update all of you on what has been going on with us in the past few weeks. The most important news is that we are moving into a house!! We won't be living there until later in the month but we are starting to move in now! The house has been empty for a couple of years, I think. The property manager (a friend of ours) has been working for over four months to clear it out and clean it up! It is now ready for occupancy! Rich has the use of a big utility trailer and we plan to take over a load every day until we can get a crew to move the big pieces of furniture. We have a vacation planned to the Oregon coast from August 8-14 so we won't be moving anything during that week:-) We are going to meet Derrick and Susie near Portland. Rich has made friends with a gentleman (Lloyd) who is building a four-plex across from our townhouse. Lloyd offered us the use of a furnished apartment that he and his wife own. ...

Henry was a bit nervous before he got his shots but he was brave! Jack was bummed that he didn't get to go into the doctor's office with Henry:-(                                       However, Jack finally got interested in some of the cool toys in the waiting room. After his shots were over, Henry and Mommy were relieved and smiley!

Jack's birthday party was at Lake Lowell on Friday evening. It was so windy that the lake looked like the ocean with the waves rolling in. The water was warm and so was the wind. The kids and the grown-ups had a great time.

Jack turned three on Friday, July 13. He had a birthday party at Lake Lowell. I will post some of those pictures soon but wanted to post some that Becca's friend, Nicole took of another trip to the lake. Aren't they getting big?

I have told so many people about the alphabet (complete with scripture verses) that my niece, Sara Mincy's, painted on her church nursery walls, that I decided to make it easy for you to see some of it. If you want to see more, click on Sara's Art House Blog on my sidebar & check out this wonderful artist.  She has listed some of her more popular posts and this is included in that! Who wouldn't want to teach little ones the Bible with these reminders all around you! If you love the Lord, love art and kids - you will love Sara's blog!

Hopefully, we will be able to get some camping in this summer. Here is a beautiful view of Lake Cascade from Tamarack. We drove all around when we stayed at the Ashley Inn in April.

Another month has flown by - it was busy!! Most of June was spent at church getting ready for VBS. Last week was VBS and it was wonderful! We used the RBP curriculum: Bugzone: Transformed by Our Big God. We had an awesome crew of teachers and those in charge of games, crafts, snacks, registration, childcare for the workers, as well as our pastors, missionary, and many helpers! We had an average of about 105 kids each day and 5 children (all in the 3rd and 4th grade class) made salvation decisions. I am sure that we had many other decisions as well because our emphasis was on letting God transform us into His servants. Our missionary was Sarah Grings, a fourth generation missionary to the Congo. She is hoping to leave for her first term in January. Sarah was such a blessing!! She is a graduate of Northland Bible College and just finished getting her nursing degree. She will be going to work with Sparky and Mindi Clancy (missionaries from Idaho). The kids loved he...