On Thursday March 4th we got to go to Lily’s wedding reception! They got married in the temple that morning with just parents and grandparents! And then they had an amazing reception at Wadley Farms in the castle. They had a dinner and toast and cake cutting and dancing and dessert! It was so fun and they were so happy and so in love!
Ray was helping Tiago read his baggy books. Most nights Ray reads to Tiago up in their beds 🙂
Man – Still Missing my dad! So many Great Pictures of him and the life he lived. I walked away from the funeral and all of the hoopla just thinking what a good man he was. He didn’t have much materially but he just loved people. He always served in the church and always took care of his family and all 100 of our friends. One of the things that stuck with me was a 30ish year old girl that showed up with pizza for the family because she had called the RS and wanted to help. Someone asked who she was and who she was here for – meaning – which Robertson kid is she the same age as and hung out with… – the answer was that she was here for Dad. Dad was her bishop and loved her and treated her kindly and reached out to her. I loved that.
A couple days after the funeral we all got these pictures on our group me messages from “dad” when Mom started up his phone. Looks like he was trying to send us this last picture the day he passed away. It was weird to see a new picture of him after he was already gone. One of the hardest parts about losing dad was that we couldn’t be with him. These Covid restrictions have been crazy and sad. We just wanted to talk to him and encourage him and even just to be able to SEE how he was doing or SEE what he needed. I felt so out of touch with him. He only talked on the phone once or twice a day so we didn’t get to see him or hear him. Dad was such a people person – I’m sorry that he had to die without his people.
On Tuesday we drove home. We had a good, productive, special time in CA. It was everything that I hoped it would be. When we got home we found a VERY clean house and lots of food and flowers and notes of love! We have such good friends! They snuck in and left our home sparkling clean and the kids were loving these new squishmallows!
We also found a pretty sad Brewer. He keeps breaking open his foot surgery wound and trying to rub his eye on everything so he was having a hard time healing. Also Rose and Raymond both missed their battle of the books at the school. We were pretty sad about that. But it was good to be home and getting back to the grind.
Monday morning – homework, breakfast, and GAMES with Kevin and Liz’s fam.
We went to the dam and roller bladed!
Cute Girls in the Car
And the VAN IS FIXED so we can pack up and head home! yipee! We decided to pack up and then after dinner we’d drive down to Sacrament to a) test the new transmission b) see mom and Tracie’s new house and c) be a few minutes closer to Home when we start the long drive home. We loaded the car and had a few last hurrahs with K and L and then headed out around 7pm.
It was nice to see moms new place all set up and cute. And the progress Michael had made in his room. And to see John and Tracie and kids and goats! And to give mom one more hug… her world really has been turned upside down! They had their bags packed for their mission and now dads gone! We moved her out of her condo and ward! She is in a new place without her husband – they had been together since high school! I just feel so bad for her 🙁 I’m sad they don’t get to serve their mission together.
We were originally planning on driving home Sunday so the kids could be back to school on Monday but our car was still in the shop so… we HAD to stay. I’m glad we got to stay because Sunday was a really nice day. We did Zoom church together and then we sat and talked about all of the MIRACLES surrounding dads death. We discussed all of the tender mercies that we each experienced. It ended up being about 2 hours worth of thoughts. I loved it.
Most people headed home some time Sunday but it was nice to have that one more day together.
That afternoon we went to the cemetery to put a bunch of the flowers on dads gravesite and on the grandparents.
And the few of us that were left hung out til late one more night:
oh – and you can’t forget the FRIES- these boys made us delicious fries all night long!
We got up Saturday morning and went to Table Mountain! After that we came home and chilled. The big kids went to play soccer with friends. The younger kids went to the bunk room to eat ice cream. And the adults played some games!
We celebrated a bunch of Feb. birthdays and continued to eat too much food.
That night Ben and I went to Rite Aid for an ice cream run! Matt and Jamie wanted to do something nice for the family so they sent money for the Cream Run – – we got lots of the “Chocolate Malted Crunch” that the youngins always talk about.
And then back to the game playing:
We hung out at the house and visited with friends. We continued to remember all the fun times with dad and enjoyed reliving our childhoods. We ate and played games and just enjoyed being together after a loong day.
After the graveside service we went back to the church for a luncheon. The Oroville 1st ward fed us lunch and we sat and visited with them and with other friends that came. We watched parts of the 2 hour dad video and zoomed in with the aunts and a few cousins. Uncle Russ and Aunt Karen were here all weekend so that was pretty neat.
At the end of the luncheon we got the idea that we should do family pictures right then instead of Saturday morning – so we hurried back to the house and put on our Robertson shirts that mom and dad designed for us for Christmas. Kelsey A. brought her camera and we all took some great pics!
