New Adventure

When I got Married in 2009. I was a Hair Stylist, a Nanny, and a waitress. Rob was a Mechanic. I figured this as step one in settling down.

With our Careers we could make a good life.

In 2011 We had Ryder, six weeks before his due date. It was scary and unexpected to say the least. I couldn't imagine leaving my baby who was on oxygen at home hooked up to all kinds of machines. I decided I was no longer going to work in a salon away from my baby. I could nanny from home. So the plan for our lives changed a bit, but not alot. I still did hair, just from home, and Rob still had a lucrative job. I still was a nanny, just at my own home.

In 2012 i thought we made one of our final steps in settling down. I had wanted to buy a house for years. My goal was always to buy a house by the time I turned 25. I was 24 when We bought our house.


Then in 2013 the unexpected happen- Rob lost his job as a mechanic. Two weeks before our second son Rustin was born. We were shocked, devastated, and realized that maybe we weren't as "settled" as we thought. But I figured, we survived Ryder coming early, we survived the law suit against the insurance company that wouldn't pay Ryder's 30k worth of hospital bills.

But, a few months later, Rob found another job, with great benefits, but making a lot less money. I just kept thinking, it will work out something better will come along, or Rob would get a promotion, or some amazing job would just fall into our laps, I mean we were almost "settled"

Well here we are in the year 2016, and not much has changed in three years. We now have a family of five! But we have felt stuck for a while now and nothing seems to be changing.

A few months ago I had a feeling that something big was going to happen, something good, but something big. At first I kind of blew off the thought, figured it was my over active imagination or wishful thinking. then I thought; well maybe Rob will get a promotion or some awesome job will come up.


But The truth is something amazing didnt just fall into our laps. But I do think my years of prayers have been answered and I believe it got a kick off with a simple conversation with my cousin who is an A&P certified Aircraft Mechanic. At a family party Rob and I were talking to my cousin, and something just clicked with me and Rob. I've asked Rob for three years what does he want to do, where does he want to go from here. His response has always been, I don't know, or I'm not sure. Or I don't think I've come across the answer yet.

Rob is motivated, excited and decisive about this path for our future. I am very excited and supportive of this new development in our lives.
Rob is enrolled at SLLC to study becoming a Licensed A&P aircraft Mechanic.



He starts school: August 24th

WE will move' (sometime before that)

We sold our house ...... (it has a pending offer)

WE will live @ Somewhere near Salt Lake international airport? Since that is where his classes will be. I'm sure some amazing deal will come up just when we need it to, it seems everything else has happened that way since we made the decision to go down this path!

This is our new adventure!

We are far from "settled" but we feel very strongly this new direction was always part of the plan, we just didn't know it yet!

It's never too late to start the rest of your life! So here we go!

There has been times, a lot of times, lately that my heart feels heavy, and my body tired, and my mind fuzzy, and my soul discouraged. I'm lonely as Rob works 60+ weeks and devotes time and effort and hours away from us to his scout calling, and I struggle with a fussy baby and energetic strong willed little boys. But now, since we've made this decision, and started down this path. I feel lighter, I feel Joy. He worked a 14 hour day today. I saw him for less than two hours before he had to go to bed again to wake up tomorrow and work another 14 hour day. But now I know this isn't the end for us, this isn't going to be how the rest of our lives are going to be. Some day we will see Rob more, he will be able to spend more time with us, and we will be more financially secure.

I may not have all the answers and there is a lot that is still unknown, But I know the future is full of wonderful surprises and adventures, and I can smile and truly feel happy, knowing our future is bright and full of hope and faith.

RAELEE ROBINSON

August 24th was the day Raelee joined our family.

I was scheduled to be induced. My doctor was concerned that she was going to be quite large since this was the longest I had carried a baby and Rustin was quite large for coming two weeks early. Even at the hospital the day she was born I told the Dr. that I was hoping since she was a girl that she would be small and petite. He told me that I was wishful thinking.

Well I got to the hospital at 630am on August 24th. The hospital had called me at 530 and asked that I arrive at 630.

I was started on pitocin right away. I was feeling pretty good for a couple of hours. I could feel the contractions but could handle them pretty well. Around 830 am Dr. Thompson came and broke my water. The nurses didnt think he would because the bay was sitll quite high but he was able to feel the baby's head and thought it would be a good time to break my water. It was an interesting feeling...
by 10 am the contractions were getting pretty bad, so I asked for an epidural. After my epidural I progressed quickly. Dr T came back to check me around 12:45 the nurses said I was ready to push. Dr T said something funny I dont even remember what he said but i was laughing quite hard and he commented on the fact that only I would laugh during labor. After a few practice pushes we were waiting for a contraction for the next push and Dr T asked the nurse if that was a contraction and she said no thats all mom. He laughed and said I guess we don't need to wait for a contraction shes going to laugh this baby out. So I started pushing and she came out after a couple pushes and was born at 1:07pm. It was my easiest least stressful birth so far. She was only 7 lbs 4 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. I stayed in the hospital for two nights. It was crazy because Ryder was starting school that week and so Rob stayed home with the boys and took ryder to school and would come check up on me in the days and Ronda would come visit after work. it was nice to not have to worry about housework or making meals etc for a couple days and to jus tbe pampered in the hospital. I didnt have help once I got home, Rob had to get right back to work and Ronda wasnt able to get time off from work. So I was glad I stayed the extra day in the hospital to get some much needed rest.

We have had so much fun having a girl in the house! HAving three kids wasnt as hard of a transition as I feared, not so far at least.:)

Our Miracle

Disclaimer: this post is going to be long and full of detail, just FYI! :)



When I was seventeen I was diagnosed with PCOS. At that time I was told that I may have difficulty having children someday.
When we got married in 2009, We knew we wanted a family, but knew it may not be easy. We discussed adoption and fertility treatments. We decided to try without medical intervention for a year to just see what happened. At the end of that year we were still not pregnant so we went to the Dr. The Dr. prescribed Provera (a pill to cause me to have periods, since I was not having them on my own) and then a medication called Femara,(an ovulation medication known to work better for women with pcos) I did one cycle of this treatment and had a period on my own the next month then took the femara, and by the next month I was pregnant?!!! We were so excited it only took two months of fertilty pills to get pregnant.


When the time came that we wanted another baby we again started the provera and femara. After the first month my period came on its own so from then on I only needed to take the femara each month. But this time it took 6 months to get pregnant opposed to the two it took the first time.
We were grateful we were able to get pregnant at all and just figured every time we wanted to get pregnant we would have to use fertility meds to do so.

This year has been a busy year with Rob going to school and working lots of over time at work there has been little to no family time. We have always wanted our kids close in age, but didnt see how that would be possible. Fertility medications cost quite a bit, and we just didnt have the time to plan around fertility treatments. We were saddened by this but figured we would consider starting fertility medications once Rob was done with school.

Well during the last couple years I have been trying really hard to exercise and eat strategically. My goal was to lose weight. Well I didn't lose much weight but in March I started having monthly periods which I never had before on my own without medication involved somehow. So the exercising and eating better helped my body to function better, even if I wasn't losing weight. Then in December I was expecting my period around Christmas time. It never came. When I took a pregnancy test-it was negative. By New years my period was still late, so I decided to take another pregnancy test. This time it was positive. WE were so surprised and so EXCITED! We just thought we would always need fertility treatments to get pregnant and it was a miracle we were able to conceive a baby without medical intervention! We feel so blessed.


Since Ryder was born at 34 weeks all my pregnancies are considered high risk! so I have lots of dr apts. WE have had several ultrasounds at this point and the consensus has been the same at all of them "we think its a girl, but were not positive" Todays ultrasound tech seemed a little more sure it was a girl but still isnt 100% positive!? So its hard to plan for sure but we think its a girl?

I don't even know what we will do with a girl?! We are so used to boys at this time in our lives! WE would have so much fun with a girl!!

Rustin is two!

Rustin is a little fire ball!

He is stubborn and loud and witty and hilarious and has the best laugh in the world. He can make me so mad one moment and cracking up laughing the next. He loves to be involved in anything and everything. He loves learning new things! He is talking more and more every day! He loves trains and trucks and riding bikes and playing out side. His best friend is his brother Ryder he thinks he can and should do everything Ryder is doing! They play together and fight together and have the best times together!

Rustin recently has become obsessed with Olaf from the movie Frozen. So we decided to throw him an olaf party! I really wish we would have taken more pictures, because we had a blast making and gathering things for this party and it was quite evident that day! Rustin really loved his party and all the people that came to celebrate with us!

My cousin Kyle is one of Rustins favorite people in the whole world, thats why he is the one helping rustin with opening his presents! :)

I can't believe my baby is two! We are so blessed to have this wild crazy courageous loving mamas boy in our lives!

Ryder is 3!!! :)

I can't believe that Ryder is three. He is my little sidekick! I love having him around. I can't believe it has been 3 years since I was in labor and didn't even know it. Had my first baby 6 weeks early 45 minutes after arriving at the hospital where they told me nothing was wrong with me and were getting ready to send me home, and had a baby in the nicu for one week and home on oxygen for another week. Our once little preemie-is now a big strong 3 year old who is 37 pounds and full of energy!


I love my little buddy! We do everything together. He likes to help with everything from cooking to cleaning to fixing and building and crafting and cutting and gluing.

Ryder:

Loves to Ride his trike. He rides it forwards and backwards and can do tricks on it.

Knows and recognizes all his letters, lower case and upper case and knows the sounds they make.

Loves to help his brother with everything, which sometimes hinders... but his heart is in the right place.

Loves to read scriptures before bed every night. We bought the book, Book of Mormon Stories, which summarizes the scripture stories and has pictures. He loves reading it and understands and remembers the stories we read.

Is obsessed with Trains!! He likes any show, movie or book that may even have a glimpse of a train in it..And of course Thomas the tank engine is his favorite! :)

Loves to wear hats like dad.

Loves to go on fourwheeler rides with dad.

Loves to camp.

Loves to play outside.

Loves to play with his cousins.

loves his sister ladies (what he calls his nursery teachers-I know random right?)

loves exercising with Mommy.

Loves Pizza and pasta and meat and apples and pears.


I'm sure he loves many more things but this is what I can think of right now.


Because Ryder loves trains so much. We decided to have a train party! We have been planning, gathering and preparing for this party for months!

Sorry for the picture overload, but the decorations were pretty fun! :)

Rob and I may have missed our calling in life-maybe we should have been party planners lol!! Rob helped me with all the big signs and by help me I mean he made them and hung them ;)