Updates

Just some random updates for anyone who still reads this blog!

- I think I really lost our camera, so we have no recent pictures (super cute moments with nieces/nephews that hopefully other family member captured!)

- Terry(i) is now the size of an apple

- Our December is super duper busy but it's all fun stuff! Lots of babysitting, Christmas parties, a wedding, our 2nd Anniversary, Christmas... we'll need a vacation when we're done!

- Dec. 23 is the BIG reveal day, if Terry(i) will cooperate and show us what we want to see

- Almost final time= there won't be many Mark sightings for the next few weeks. He's definitely looking forward to Christmas break!

Not much else has been happening... look for a longer post when we've got some more baby news and pictures!

Our Little Kumquat

So, our little one is now the size of a kumquat. I had no idea what this was when I read this, so I had to do some research. Apparently it's in the orange family and they're usually around 1 to 1.5 inches long. It's pretty exciting that now our little one is big enough to be compared to fruit : )
In the next week to week and a half, baby will be the size of the short side of a credit card- which is bigger than I thought! I can't believe we're already 1/4 of the way there... scary!

If you haven't already heard, Mark has affectionately given our baby the nickname Terry(i). I kept saying "it", and Mark wasn't fond of that, so he came up with Terry. According to him, it's a unisex name so it's perfect. Hopefully we don't grow so attached to calling little one Terry that we actually name our child that (no offense to anyone whose loved one is name Terry).

Things are going well in STL, we've both been super busy between work, school, and helping out with the youth at church. We were interviewed by our session last night, and Mark got approved to be the official youth and family intern at Old Orchard! (and I've been deemed Mrs. Intern). We are super excited to serve in this great church that the Lord has placed us in while we're in St. Louis!

It has been super rainy here, we've had the most rain in October since the 1800s... needless to say, Sadie is not fond of going to the bathroom outside right now. The mud is so thick it has seeped onto our sidewalk!

I promise to be better about updating about all things Robertson. Maybe even Sadie will get an updated photo shoot and she'll make the blog too (that is, if I can find our camera).

Until then...

Seriously...

I'm a TERRIBLE blogger. Maybe someday soon I'll post something interesting : )

Blog? What blog?

I guess I need to take a second to blow the dust off the blog that was once the happenings of M&M... I can't believe we haven't posted since March!!! Hopefully in the next few days a blog will follow that may contain all or none of the following information:

- pictures and an update about our trip to the DR
- a peek at our new car, Franklin
- a tribute to Billy Mays
-Mark's new job at BB&B! he sure loves his cookware : )
- a poem by Sadie

Hope you're all well (if any of you still read this!)

A Robertson Weekend

Last week the whole Robertson clan came to St. Louis to visit for the weekend! Nichole & Brent came Friday night, and we went to dinner & then to play at the City Museum. It's a really neat playground... for big kids! It's in an old shoelace factory,and you crawl & climb everywhere. They even have a 7 story slide- that we all went down! It was ton of fun but exhausting! Saturday morning we went to the Botanical Gardens before everyone else got here.

Bob, Debbie, Aaron, Heidi & Cooper all came on Saturday. We headed to the zoo, then had pizza & hung out back at their hotel for the evening. Sunday brought church, lunch, the Arch, the museum, walking to the Cardinals stadium, dinner, then hanging out at the hotel again! We were busy! It was so wonderful to see them all and show them around our new city. Thank you all for driving out here to spend such a great weekend with us! It truly meant a lot to the both of us!

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Beautiful day... huge arch

The not so very smart fish at the Botanical Gardens. They're fun to feed

Wanting to get in on the mass fish feeding

Mark & Brent pondering something at the Botanical Gardens

City museum. Yes, we climbed up through that. And yes, my heart was pounding out of my chest!

Nichole was the only one brave enough to climb down this dark hole. In about 15 seconds she reappeared, not wanting to go into the unknown.

Mark & I really enjoy having visitors, so if you ever want to come visit for a fun filled weekend, just let us know (we require at least 48 hours notice : )

Much love to you all,

Marci

New pictures!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting... we have been busy! Mark's semester is keeping him pretty busy, and it seems like we've always got something to do! Here are some pictures from my visit to Ohio, a picture of Sadie with her new friend Daisy the Great Dane, and 2 pictures from the Anheuser-Busch Brewery tour we took with my parents this past weekend!

Sorry. blogger insists on loading the images in the wrong order!

Luke insisted on having his eyes closed : )

on our date at "Ten Portons" (that's what Luke calls Tim Hortons). Yes, he has 2 donuts. I'm his aunt, that's how I roll!

Look at those fingers!

Uncle Mark Timmons luckily didn't break his back!

Ellie Grace was so sweet with Lilah!

Such a proud big brother!

Our little puppy is growing up!

Sadie has recently sprouted like a weed! 2 weeks ago when I took her to the vet, she had gained 8 pounds in the 3 weeks that we'd had her... so she was 13 pounds! I bet that now she's at least 18.
Last Saturday we took her to Forest Park & went on quite a long walk. She's not too fond of people on bikes or those that are running, but I'm sure she'll get used to it!

Here are a few pictures of Sadie from the past few weeks! For some reason the loaded in reverse order... so those first are the most recent.

She's always very jealous when she's the only one not on the couch!

This is what I found when I went in our bedroom to gather up the laundry I was getting ready to sort...

She really enjoys trying to eat our hair (don't worry, we don't let her!)

In other news... Mark has started semester #2, and it's going very well. It will be a challenging but rewarding semester. He preaches for the first time in seminary next Monday, Feb. 16, and then again on March 16. We've found a church that we really like, we've started going to a pray group on Sunday evenings there, and I'm involved in a wonderful women's Bible study on Thursday evenings. We'll be joining the church on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic in late June, where we'll be putting on a "Narnia" VBS at an orphanage. Neither of us have ever been on a mission trip, so we're quite excited to go!

I'm headed to Ohio next Saturday (Feb. 21) to meet baby Lilah, and to help my sister out for a few days. I'm so excited to meet our new niece and spend some quality time with the Smith family! I'll update with pictures when I return on the 24th.

~Marci