Swimming Pool Fun.....

Summertime fun in the pool with Daddy and cousin Olivia!!!
(Daddy and Mama broke down and bought a pool for outside to help beat the heat on the hot days....it's really fun!!!)


Miss Mackenzie beating the heat on her towel in the shade!!!


Peek-a-boo Mama, I see you!!!!!!!!!!



Wow this duckie is fun!!!! I can sit up in it all by myself without falling!!!!!



Hee Hee......watch me splash Daddy and Mama!!!!!!


Spending the day at a friends house where there is a beautiful indoor pool.....We all had a blast swimming with our floaties and with cousins Olivia and Brayden!!!


Cousins Olivia and Brayden playing on the big bug with Daddy!!!!


Mama and her two favorite kiddo's (Grandpa Bruce is there too, but he got cut off....Sorry Grandpa!!!!)


Look at that happy family enjoying the water!!!!



Hey now, let's get something straight....I want to go into the deep end of the pool where all the fun stuff happens....GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!



Oh Brother.....Now what am I supposed to do???????????



Ok, I'll just take a bite out of her...then she'll know who's the boss and who's drivin' this fun boatin' machine!!!!!


I love you Daddy.......Don't you think we look alike????


Lovebug Hugs,
Lori

The Answer To The Paul Bunyan Surprise.....

Because you have all asked what the mission by Paul Bunyan and Tim the Tool Man Taylor was, here is the comment that Daddy posted on the blog entry entitled Mission Accomplished.

Daddy said...
WOW Honey I'm still astonished at what you've done!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!! Well to let all of you know out there in blogger land....Lori my hard working and loving wife has done an amazing feat! You see just before I left on this last military trip I cut down a huge tree in our front yard and didn't have enough time to haul it all away. So most of it was left in the backyard of which Lori helped me or should I say SHE hauled it there for me, so that when I returned I could finish the job.Knowing full well that when I returned I would be faced with a monumental task of logging for a few days Lori decided to help her hubby out and do it herself!!!! AUGH....Yep Lori the logger...or Paul Bunyan's helper...she is fantastic!!! And mind you this was not a branch or two this was a whole tree!!!! She cut, stacked, removed it all!!!! Honey I hear Weyerhauser is looking for a few good lumberjacks! But not only was she lumberjack but she also pressure washed our whole patio and fixed up the backyard as well...weeding.. trimming plants and making our yard more livable. You see I had given up on it because of our precious little beast Abbey...a very active black lab we got as a puppy....and puppies like to dig and chew and totally annihilate things which she did in short order to our backyard! But thanks to the hard efforts of my beautiful wife.... Daddy can now spend quality time with her and the kids instead of working for days out back... probably only doing half as nice a job as she has done in ONE DAY !!!! Yep one day!!! Wow is she ever efficient!!!! I guess that comes with being a busy Mommy!Thanks Honey..this is truly a gift not only do I thank you but my back does too!!!

OK Gramps....I'm not going to forget you either...You see Lori did have a little help...Grampa Milliren came up and helped Lori with all the "lumberjacking" and the use of his truck to haul it all away and I hear he can swing a mean chainsaw with the best of those Weyerhauser lumberjacks! Oh and he also pressure washed our back deck off which is quite a job!! Thanks Gramps for all your hard work! You've both done a fabulous job I sincerely appreciate it!!!!!

Oh and last but not least.. I can't forget Grandma Milliren....none of this would have been possible without her vigilant watch over our "littlebug" and "sweetpea" so Mama and Grandpa could practice their chainsaw and axe swinging routines...thanks Grams!!

Love Randy and "his non aching back"

We received great news yesterday at Little Bug's cardiology appointment. He hasn't seen his cardiologist in 5 months so they were so excited to see how Connor had grown and to hear about all the new things he is doing. After his echo cardiogram we got the good report that Connor's heart function is perfectly NORMAL and HEALTHY!!!!!!!!!!! Praise the Lord for that fantastic word, NORMAL!!!!! He received a bill of health for 12 full months and he also dropped another medication off of his list. That means we are down to only 2 meds that he is taking. Slowly but surely we are making excellent progress towards normal. I will update more on how he is doing in all areas soon. We have our neice Olivia with us until the 17th so we have lots of fun things planned.

Oh, by the way, thanks for commenting Graham, WA. I was apparently wrong in my assumption of who the 100,000th visitor was to the blog. I will confess, I thought it might have been Tammy because I know how addicted she and her wonderful family are to the blog, but I was wrong. According to the comment, it was Kim Vallone. It's nice to know you visit often to check in on us. Thanks for letting us know who you are, I feel like we've made a new friend.

Have a wonderful day and I hope everyone finds a way to beat the heat around here. It's supposed to be in the high 90's and may even reach 100 here in Seattle over the next few days.

Lovebug Hugs,
Lori

All American!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 4th of July!!!!!

The Patriotic Robertson Family!!!!!!!!! A fun day at Les Grove Park in Auburn, WA!! This was the first parade and festival that the kids have ever been to. We all had a great time.


All American.....All the way......Little Bug loves to have his bare feet in the cool grass.....especially on a hot 90 degree day like today!!!


Daddy and Little Bug getting ready to take a train ride around the park.....Wheeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!


Daddy, Little Bug and the Engineer!!!! Thanks for the ride Mr. Train guy!!!!!


Mackenzie Joy lookin' pretty with her flag!!!


Little Bug rarin' to go to the next exhibit......'cmon guys, let's go!!!!!!!!!!!


Little Bug got to meet a parrott today!!!!


More play time in the cool grass with Daddy!!!!


Ohhhhhh............Somebody's sleepy sleepy!!!!!


Oh Brother......There goes Mama again doing a photo shoot.......


Ok Mackenzie.....Here's a secret for you......If you don't always do what I say, then I'm gonna have to bite your ear off.....Got It??????


Hee Hee Hee.......Little Bug thinks he's the boss telling me those secrets to make me scared.....I've got some news for you big brother.......


I'm gonna smile pretty and tilt my head and my Daddy and Mama will give me anything I want......


Big All American Girl smiles......


Whew.....I'm getting tired of this photo shoot Mama......My tongues hanging out and I'm hot and tired and Mackenzie looks scared out of her shorts.....Can't we just stop and go watch fireworks??? Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!


Mama I said NOW..................I'm TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The end of a great day with our All American Kids!!!!

Lovebug Hugs & Happy Independence Day,
Randy, Lori, Little Bug & Sweet Pea

100,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe the time has finally arrived that we made 100,000 hits on Little Bug's blog!!! Someone in Graham, WA logged on at 10:15pm (PST) and the ticker changed over to 100,000!!! We can't believe that our story has touched so many lives and that people are still committed to checking in on us!!! Our hearts are filled with deep gratitude to each and every one of you for coming into our lives daily to check in on us and to continue reading our journey. We plan on keeping up on this avenue of communication for a long long time....so don't go anywhere. We have many more adventures to share with the world and we have many more joys to celebrate and requests to pray for. I plan on writing a post real soon to update all of Connor's medical info for those of you who are interested. To all of our faithful blogger family we wish you a Happy 4th of July!!!!

Lovebug Hugs,
Lori

PS~ Whoever you are Graham, WA that logged on at 10:15pm on July 3rd.......leave us a comment and let us know who you are!!!!! We have a sneaking suspicion that we know who it is but I won't reveal it until we get a comment, ok......Hint...Hint...We think we saw this person at a wedding over the weekend....and a beautiful wedding at that!!!!!! Let us know!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mission Accomplished!!!!

This is for Daddy (wherever you are!!!)
Hi Daddy, it's Little Bug. I wanted to sneak into the computer to tell you that the mission is accomplished. Mama was working on a surprise for you and, let me tell you, Paul Bunyan would be proud....In fact I think Tim the Toolman Taylor would be proud too....(You know that guy from the Home Improvement show!!!) Are you curious yet????? We can't wait for you to come home and get you Father's Day surprise!!!!! You deserve it Daddy 'cause you're the best!!!!!!

See you soon. Sweet Pea says hello and I wanted to let you know that I got another tooth!!! Love you Daddy!!!!

Lovebug Hugs,
Little Bug

Saying Goodbye To Grandma Ruth!!!!

With grieving hearts we said goodbye to Grandma Ruth today. Last Friday, June 15th, Grandma Ruth (Lori's Grandma) went home to be with the Lord at 2:50am. Lori and the kids were there when Grandma took those final breaths on this earth. Randy had just left on a military trip earlier that morning and was unable to be there, but he was there in spirit. Today we had a beautiful memorial service and burial for Grandma. She is with the Lord in Heaven now and although we grieve her loss in our family we know she is healthy and whole in Heaven. Grandma was a beautiful lady with a beautiful heart. We miss her already but we are so grateful that she did have opportunity to meet both of our kids before she passed away. She had seen Connor a few times and Mackenzie only twice. I will cherish the days that we had 4 generations represented in our family and I will forever feel her absence.

Thank you for all the love and prayers over the years for my Grandma. It was wonderful to see our extended family today from all over the state of Washington. May you all feel the comfort that only the Lord can give during these days when we miss her most. The pictures below were taken just a month ago on Mother's Day. We love you Grandma!!!





Lovebug Hugs,
Randy, Lori, Connor and Mackenzie

Happy Father's Day Daddy!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everybody, it's Connor and Mackenzie here. Mama let us out of her sight for a few minutes so the little sweet pea and I made our way to the computer as quick as we could. It's Father's Day today and our Daddy is overseas on a military trip. We are so sad that we can't kiss all over him and slobber him with love....we love to do that to our Daddy.

There are so many reasons that our Daddy is the BEST. First, he loves us with all his heart. You'd think he'd won the lottery each and every time he sees us....especially me, Little Bug....I think he likes me best....Hee Hee!!! (Shhhhhh...don't tell the little sweet pea that because she'd get all bent out of shape....) Our Daddy is always so happy to see us. He flies us around the house and he kisses us all over. He loves to throw us way up in the air and listen to us giggle. Well, at least I giggle, sometimes Mackenzie just looks like she's gonna throw up or something, but I still think she likes it. Second, our Daddy's the best Daddy because he works so hard for us. He has to be gone a lot and he hates that, but he is always faithful to his job and to defend our country's freedom. We are so proud of you Daddy. Wherever you are today, we hope you know that we love you so much!!!! Third, we love our Daddy because he let's us have all of our toys out at the same time. Mama has these silly rules that we have to play with only 1 or 2 toys at a time so she can keep things tidy around here......Well, not our Daddy. He let's us have the whole floor covered with toys at the same time...Everywhere you look you see toys when our Dad's watching out for us. He turns on all our musical toys and you'd think a parade was traveling through our house. It gets really noisy around here and we love that. Fourth, we love Daddy so much because he lets us wear our sleepers all day long. (Mama hates that!!!!) He says it's easier to change us in sleepers rather than putting us in clothes. We love to roll around in sleepers....Way to go Dad for letting us have it our way....It's kinda like eating at Burger King...you know...Have it your way!! Fifth, we love Daddy because he gives us light shows at bedtime. He plays the moon game with us and lets the tap light rise over the crib just like the moon...then he zooms it around the crib and swoops it down so we can touch it. We laugh so hard.....it's the funnest game. Sixth, we love Daddy because he plays his guitar and sings silly songs to us. He makes up the words and the tunes sometimes and they're always about us. Thanks for being such a creative Daddy to us.

Well, we could go on and on but I think Mama is catching on to the fact that we're not where we are supposed to be right now. So Daddy, wherever you are we want you to know that we miss you and we love you. Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy in the whole wide universe!!!!! Can't wait to celebrate with you when you come home.

Lovebug Hugs To You Daddy!!!!
Little Bug and Sweet Pea

PS ~ Hey Dad, Mama's working on a surprise for you......I think she might be turning into Paul Bunyan!!!!

New Pictures....FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

Pretty in pink in Mama's dress that she wore 37 years ago!!!!
(I think this means were going to be taking lots of pictures of me in this dress.....Enjoy!!!)


Me and Mama.....Ohhhhhhh


Having a little bit of tummy time in my pretty dress!!


Smiling for the camera!!


So concerned....How many more pictures is Mama gonna take?????


I'll just sit here and be cute as a sweet pea so Mama can get the pictures she wants.....


Mama and Sweet Pea........


Daddy and his little girl!!!


Hanging out with Mama after a costume change....Hee Hee


Daddy and Little Bug getting ready for some snuggle time....


Snuggle time.....Are you kidding me???? I want to play!! I want to fly!!! Look at me....I'm serious, get me flying Daddy.....Ok, I'll flap my arms real hard and see if I can go....


I love my Daddy!!!!

I'm sitting up with my dog Abbey!!!! I don't sit up all by myself all the time, but occasionally Mama and Daddy catch me sitting up with a little help from my puppy dog!!! Mama says, "Don't worry", I'll be sitting up in no time!!

Hey Dad, let's just hang out for a while......I like hanging out with you!!

Oh Dad, don't cry......I promise I won't grow up too fast!!!!!!

Sweet Pea hanging out with her orange Binky!!!! (Man I wish these Binky's came in other colors to match outfits.....Uggghhh....What's a Mama to do?????)

Too Cute.......

Hanging out with our neighbor's, The Foxes last week when we had our first fire in our fire pit...We even made smore's. This was Connor and Mackenzie's 1st bonfire!!! If you look real close you will see that Connor and Mama are roasting a marshmellow.....yummy!!!!!

Connor and Mackenzie having play time with Daddy when Mama had to run errands....Wow, look at all the toys out at one time!!! Daddy must be on duty!!!!

Hey, is that Mackenzie in Connor's Bumbo chair?????? I guess she needs to start working on her sitting up skills too.....

Hope you enjoyed the recent pictures.....I know it's been a while!!!

Lovebug Hugs,

Lori