The Robertson Family: Andrea's Gilberts Graduation Party...June 5, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Andrea's Gilberts Graduation Party...June 5, 2010

Eleven years ago I returned home from my mission in Ecuador. One of the families whom I saw baptised, the Rossi's, migrated to Utah about 6 months after I came home. We've visited on a number of occasions but it's been about 4 years since I've last seen them.

A few weeks ago we received a graduation announcement in the mail for Andrea. (I can't believe how old she has gotten. When I first met her in Ecuador she was only 5 years old and now she's graduating from high school.) Her family invited my parents, Sam, and me to a dinner in her honor at the Lion House. My last companion in the field, Hermana Hutchens, was invited also.

We had such a great time re-uniting and visiting. I LOVE the Latin people. They are so full of happiness and love. To top it off, they KNOW HOW to express it to everyone too. I told Sam and my dad that there has never been a time in my life that I felt SO MUCH happiness then when I was surrounded by these great people who truly know how to love people and how to love life. They understand and know what's truly important in life.

I loved being there with them and reconnecting. I felt that I was in my element again. I felt an insurmountable amount of joy. I was reminded, just by being with them, what's important and how to love others. I LOVE this family more than I can express. They're wonderful people and wonderful saints.

Me and Hermana Hutchens, Eva...

Eva, Andrea, Vanessa, Me, and my dad...

Eva, Vanessa, me, Niza, Vanessa girls...

Eva, Vanessa, Sam, me, Niza, my dad...

Andrea...

My dad doing majic tricks for Vanessa's little girl...SO CUTE!

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Sam and I are products of the Spanish Fork Singles Ward. When we met, Sam was the ward mission leader and I was a stake missionary. We dated for 3 months then I served a mission. After I returned home we married in November 1999. We have four beautiful children: Hadlie, Daxton, Tage, and Paizlie. Our family is growing bigger and better everyday. Since we don't live close to our immediate families we hope this blog will capture our memories we are making and allow our families and friends to watch us grow and progress everyday.

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I, Jen, illustrated this book for two friends of mine, Jewel Armstrong and Rebecca Christensen, whom wrote the book. Together, we self published it in 2007. We have been sending it to military families and military schools around the nation to help children with deployed parents. Our book perviously won the 2007 Golden Quill Award from the American Authors Association and the 2007 Don Hanson Award for Creativity from the Military Writers Society of America. We now have learned that Scholastic Books is now going to carry it for the next 7 years in their book order magazines. We are very excited about it. It's so awesome! So watch for it when your kids bring home their book orders from school. You can also get it on Amazon.com.