Well were to begin, well Rob had his birthday and we moved to american fork, lets just say moving is not the funninst thing in the world, lets see what else happened..oh yea I had my birthday it was just a small one which was nice just a few family and friends was there. then the next week we went up to Idaho for a family reunion, it was so fun everyone from my family was there well all but a brother but it was still fun, we went to Ross park in Pocatello which is a swim park and they boys had a grand time, then that saturday we say the Blue Angles which if anyone how has not seen them and have a chance I would very highly recomend it, it was so cool, I have some pics on my facebook page. and other than that it has just been work and family, Michelle is still working at her job online and Scott and Kyle are just being crazy kids like normal, so the summer is going to fast so if anyone has anything that can slow time when at home and speed it up at work if I just use it for a bit that would be great just let me know :)
Hope you all are having a great summer
The Hopes
Monday, August 9, 2010
2010 July: Bates
Solid work for me this month. FashionGenome is starting to take off. Our investor day is Sept 10th, so that's when we will find out if all this work leads to any $$$. I am now CTO of FashionGenome... which is basically just a fancy title for "be an entire development team by myself." Luckily my Hardare/IT team (my friend Shaun) is amazing, as is our Graphics Department (a guy named Dustin). Even if I don't get paid though, it will have been well worth it as a learning experience, and also just for the satisfaction of actually creating something again.
Well, I touched on this last time (because we were late with newsletters), but Orianna turned 2, the 4th was busy as ever, Fintan was born, and I turned 27. July's are gonna be busy months in my forseeable future :)
Tamara went to Yellowstone with her extended family for a family reunion. She took both kids on a huge road trip by herself, and managed not to go crazy.
Well, I touched on this last time (because we were late with newsletters), but Orianna turned 2, the 4th was busy as ever, Fintan was born, and I turned 27. July's are gonna be busy months in my forseeable future :)
Tamara went to Yellowstone with her extended family for a family reunion. She took both kids on a huge road trip by herself, and managed not to go crazy.
2010 July: North
July started out with us in Rexburg ID. It was so nice to be back with family and friends. We were in Rexburg for the 4th of July parade. I was surprised to see that I recognized the winner of the Junior Miss pageant, but I couldn’t put my finger on who it was. My mom must have seen the perplexed look on my face because she said “that’s Derik’s younger sister up there.” Then I remembered; congratulations to Lindsay, she looked very nice up there in the parade. We watched Rexburg’s fireworks that night from my parents’ front yard. We had been invited to go to IF with Camille and Juan, but I remember how long it took us to get home 6 years ago when I went after my mission and so we decided to just chill at home.
Early that next week we drove back to Becky’s family on the West end of the State. One morning Becky’s dad and I got up early and went on a four-wheeler ride out in the desert South of the farm. We went way out to some of the canyons and creeks out there. I got to see some neat country. Then as we were climbing a steep hill to get a better view of one of the canyons I fell back off my four-wheeler and it came tumbling down the hill behind me. Luckily I was able to step out of the way or my life could have been very different from then on. I had a sore hip and shoulder from where I landed, and the four-wheeler was a little beat up, but that’s pretty good for a four-wheeling accident. It’s not uncommon for someone to go to the hospital after rolling a four-wheeler. I felt very blessed that day as we were riding home.
On July 13th we got on a plane in Boise ID and flew home to WV; it was a sad day for us. Becky went back to work immediately after we returned; the employee that was hired to replace her wasn’t doing her job very well, so they had to let her go. I spent my last couple of weeks before school started reading (I read 3 Harry Potter books this summer, all I have left is number 7), hiking, relaxing, and sadly, studying. School got started on the 3rd of August. I’ll have more on that for next month.
Stewart and Becky
Early that next week we drove back to Becky’s family on the West end of the State. One morning Becky’s dad and I got up early and went on a four-wheeler ride out in the desert South of the farm. We went way out to some of the canyons and creeks out there. I got to see some neat country. Then as we were climbing a steep hill to get a better view of one of the canyons I fell back off my four-wheeler and it came tumbling down the hill behind me. Luckily I was able to step out of the way or my life could have been very different from then on. I had a sore hip and shoulder from where I landed, and the four-wheeler was a little beat up, but that’s pretty good for a four-wheeling accident. It’s not uncommon for someone to go to the hospital after rolling a four-wheeler. I felt very blessed that day as we were riding home.
On July 13th we got on a plane in Boise ID and flew home to WV; it was a sad day for us. Becky went back to work immediately after we returned; the employee that was hired to replace her wasn’t doing her job very well, so they had to let her go. I spent my last couple of weeks before school started reading (I read 3 Harry Potter books this summer, all I have left is number 7), hiking, relaxing, and sadly, studying. School got started on the 3rd of August. I’ll have more on that for next month.
Stewart and Becky
2010 July: Robertson
Greetings everyone,
So, as I think back over what has happened over the month of July, the biggest word that comes to mind is waiting. We have been waiting for our house to close, we have been waiting for school to start, we have been waiting for the weekends to come. Waiting, waiting, waiting. During the month, I started to get things ready for my time teaching at BYU-I with a few preliminary meetings and logistical things (get an office key, mailbox, etc). I am contracted to start work on Aug 16th, but before that time I am supposed to do some on-line orientation – 15 hours worth. I have some mixed feelings about the whole orientation content. Needless to say, I will keep my mouth shut about the things I raise an eyebrow over. It isn’t good to question a new employer let alone one that is immediately run by a general authority.
Anyway, on the house front – we have been getting more and more jaded with the entire process at the same time loving our realtor more and more. Things were going smoothly enough until the bank got involved. They did their appraisal and then, inexplicably, they ordered a second appraisal. This is almost unheard of, and we have no idea why they requested a second appraisal. So that pushed things out even more. And then the second appraisal came in and said that the exterior of the house needed to be repainted. The seller (after fixing all of the things that we requested be fixed after our home inspection) was going to walk away after hearing that the bank wanted him to repaint the house since it was going to cost him about $600 and he was only obligated to fix things up to $300 (which he had already used fixing the previous things). But our superhero realtor somehow talked the seller into sticking with it and painting the house. I’m not sure how he was able to do it, but we are grateful that he did since we really don’t want to start this process over again. Hopefully the bank doesn’t surprise us with anything else and we can close this week. Fingers crossed.
We have spent a lot f time this month (almost every weekend) down in Logan with Ann and Miriam and their families. It has been really nice to spend time with them before they had to move to their new destinations. But it was really nice catching up and getting to know my brothers-in-law a bit better. We were able to go to Bear Lake and many other places around Cache valley.
Morgan also celebrated her birthday this month. She bemoaned her age a bit, so I will not publish that at this time. She had a nice birthday (so she tells me), and she had a great dinner and received a gift card for a nice, long professional message. Other than that, we are just trying to get ready for school in August. We hope that all of you are doing well.
With love and regards,
The Robertsons
So, as I think back over what has happened over the month of July, the biggest word that comes to mind is waiting. We have been waiting for our house to close, we have been waiting for school to start, we have been waiting for the weekends to come. Waiting, waiting, waiting. During the month, I started to get things ready for my time teaching at BYU-I with a few preliminary meetings and logistical things (get an office key, mailbox, etc). I am contracted to start work on Aug 16th, but before that time I am supposed to do some on-line orientation – 15 hours worth. I have some mixed feelings about the whole orientation content. Needless to say, I will keep my mouth shut about the things I raise an eyebrow over. It isn’t good to question a new employer let alone one that is immediately run by a general authority.
Anyway, on the house front – we have been getting more and more jaded with the entire process at the same time loving our realtor more and more. Things were going smoothly enough until the bank got involved. They did their appraisal and then, inexplicably, they ordered a second appraisal. This is almost unheard of, and we have no idea why they requested a second appraisal. So that pushed things out even more. And then the second appraisal came in and said that the exterior of the house needed to be repainted. The seller (after fixing all of the things that we requested be fixed after our home inspection) was going to walk away after hearing that the bank wanted him to repaint the house since it was going to cost him about $600 and he was only obligated to fix things up to $300 (which he had already used fixing the previous things). But our superhero realtor somehow talked the seller into sticking with it and painting the house. I’m not sure how he was able to do it, but we are grateful that he did since we really don’t want to start this process over again. Hopefully the bank doesn’t surprise us with anything else and we can close this week. Fingers crossed.
We have spent a lot f time this month (almost every weekend) down in Logan with Ann and Miriam and their families. It has been really nice to spend time with them before they had to move to their new destinations. But it was really nice catching up and getting to know my brothers-in-law a bit better. We were able to go to Bear Lake and many other places around Cache valley.
Morgan also celebrated her birthday this month. She bemoaned her age a bit, so I will not publish that at this time. She had a nice birthday (so she tells me), and she had a great dinner and received a gift card for a nice, long professional message. Other than that, we are just trying to get ready for school in August. We hope that all of you are doing well.
With love and regards,
The Robertsons
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