Dodger-mania.

This past weekend marked the 2nd Annual Robins Family trip to Dodgers Spring Training. I think one of my favorite things about my family is how much we all love the Dodgers--even though my mom really needs to step up her fandom. I really love that this is becoming a yearly tradition. Spring Training is so great--super laid back, youre right there with the players. you can hear them talk to each other, youre right up against the back stop, the games are awesome and for us utahans (i guess this year thats only me) you escape the cold! some great highlights of the trip included:

• getting a free stay in Glendale, AZ due to overbooking of our rental house
• wearing shorts
• touching Manny's helmet
• Chase's prayer on Friday night: "Dear Heav'ly Father, Thank you for Granma, Granpa, Wee, the Dodgers and the Lakers" Ya. Laura and Matt are raising him right.
• playing Mexican Train with Matt and Dad on friday night and literally about to fall asleep at 10 at night. which led to me promptly going to bed at 10:30. which then led to being ok about waking up at 7:30 to eat breakfast with the fam.
• A Dodger win on Saturday
• Clayton Kershaw falling in love with me. oh wait. that didnt happen.
• Almost running into Manny at Rumbi Grill
• Getting Joe Torre, George Sherill, and Jonathon Broxton's autograph for Matt

my sister already provided a great recap. but here are some more photos for your viewing pleasure:

i love this picture. she is so cute.
and so is he. mmmm andre ethier
joe torre.

Oh hey Matt Kemp

im kinda obssessed with my adorable dodger loving niece. can you tell?

raising her so right.

and i agree with laura. world series champs 2010. i can feel it. this is our year.

so ive been a little MIA.

i have definitely neglected my blog for some time now. but dont get confused by my MIA status. Its not that living the college grad life gives me nothing to blog about. oh no. i have been so busy that i just have not found the time to blog about all of the things going on in my life! what have i been so busy with? sometimes i just dont know. some days go by and i dont even know what ive done to make them so busy and go by so fast. Here is a little recap of things that have been going on in my life...

For a few days in February I only responded to the name of MOM as I acted as such to Kelly's kids for the weekend. I made them breakfast and lunch and well...bought them dinner. We played games, watched a lot of High School Musical. Took Drewbie to pre-school. Went to the Tree House Museum. Cleaned up the house so that people could come check it out. And took the kiddies to Seth's soccer game. Sounds like a great weekend, but dont you worry, there were some disasters as well. Including preventing the basement bathroom from flooding, getting locked out of the house and Drew peeing and pooping in his pants. ya super fun. But how can you resist things such as these...

the cute note ella wrote to me while at the tree house that i had to answer. i love that she wrote my name l-e-e.

After holding Kate, kissing Drew non-stop, tackling Seth and doing projects one weekend, I flew home the next weekend to hold Mia and go to Chase's highly anticipated Cars birthday party. That boy is so sweet and adorable. Laura threw a fabulous party for a three year old, he better cherish that forever. I have been cursed with every time I go home it rains all weekend. Luckily it was absolutely fabulous on Sunday which allowed us to soak up the Southern California sun during lunch and it was AWESOME. Why do i live in provo!? i just dont know.

the cupcake that was suppose to be matt's but he left it on the counter, which chase got down all by himself. haha.

Last Friday I had the day off from work. Thank you Staff Development Days! As soon as I found this out I marked on my calendar to go skiing. I havent been in like two years and miss it so much. I didnt know who to go with like all of my friends work and have school, so i called up someone who I definitely dont get to see enough--Ms Dixon! Ha i mean Jessica. She slept over so that we could go to Sundance in the morning and it was just like old times. Sleeping in the same room, getting to yell at her for being an adult, sharing a bathroom--luckily i didnt have to lean over her like 100 times to get into the medicine cabinet haha--and getting to hang out all day long. Jess and I were so lucky and had awesome weather. It snowed the night before and was still snowing good in the morning but right as we made the turn to go up to sundance it was blue skies and sunny, making it a perfect day to hit the slopes. We were literally so happy all day long. We even opted out going in for lunch cause we were having such a good time.

Now this week, Ive been waiting for this week since like January. It was our really good friend Tracie's Wedding last night in Salt Lake. And for this occasion two of my favorite friends came into town to visit Allie Barker and Nick Lombardo. Provo just hasnt been the same now that they left. It turned this week into the biggest reunion and party all week long. Oh and of course a picture fest. The wedding last night was so great--she looked beautiful and it was seriously so much fun to have the entire lanai crew there to party and hang out.

Every thing else has been pretty great, job is alright, going to the gym a lot, hanging out with friends, loving my roommates, going out on a good amount of dates and trying not to think about the future that much.