I know...

Heyy everybody... I know it's true that I haven't posted in 6 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, and 30 minutes, and that it's horrible blog keeping. But, to my defense, much has happened since then, not to mention my first year back at school after two of homeschooling was tough also. Currently, Mom and I are back in Moscow for the summer, being lazy and just relaxing, but also getting ready for European vacations!

In about two weeks, Mom and I are going off to Sancerre, France to go to language school. Sancerre (in the Loire Valley) is a teeny tiny town with a Chateau where the upper rooms are for the students and the lower part is the school. Yeah. Definitely excited.

After that, we go back up to Paris and meet Kellie, spend a couple days there, then head on over to Normandy for about five days or so. Then we are renting a car and driving over to Belgium, where we'll meet Luke who's there for architecture (see here) and spend about a week or so there. Then we go back to Paris and from there go our separate ways, Kellie to the USA and Mom, Dad, and I to Moscow.

Then, we enjoy our last days in Moscow before Mom and I head back to the States and get ready for the next school year (sophomore!).

Otherwise, to catch up from the last looong time ago that I actually posted, the biggest things that have happened are that Ryan's gotten a job at Exxon, my friend Jennifer got to come visit in Russia for about 2 weeks (a LOT of fun), Luke is going to try to get into Harvard, I am working on getting in shape for Cross Country next year, and Kellie has been the maid of honor at two weddings and is keeping together our family bookclub.

Cross my heart and hope to die, I will try really hard to post pictures and such during our European excursion, but I cannot guarantee anything (proof being my previous promises to post within the month that all failed).

So, this is the end of the post. I hope it was long enough to sufficiently add up to 6 months, 2 weeks, etc. of lost posts.

Fall Cleaning

With this time of year, lots of leaves are falling and it's time to bring out the camera for some fall tidying in the front yard!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans, in and out of the country!

Prayers Needed

Please pray for Ryan. He broke his arm a while ago in three places and the bone was practically out of his skin. He just got a sort-of cast on it and needs all of our prayers.

The Muddy Buddy

Kellie just did the Muddy Buddy race in Texas which is basically running and biking a super hard course and doing obstacles on the way. The last obstacle is a huge mud pit that you have to crawl through with your 'Buddy' and you end up 'Muddy' (hence, the name). Anyways, here are some pictures from their race:

The Before Shot:

Kellie running

crawling through the mud!

FINISH!

The After Picture

pictures? really??

okay, so, they might not've come within the month, but they're here!:

painting the house:




and using it for our happy family meals:

wow!! has it really been this long since my last post?! well, apparently it has so here's some quick info on life with the Robinsons:



-we moved back to America

-and bought a house (right down the street from our old house, go figure...)

-i started highschool!! (freshman! aaah, yeah)

-we're currently waiting to go to Spring Creek Barbeque (sp?) but we're delayed because of the Dallas Cowboy game... *sigh*



that's the big stuff that's happened, and there's tons and TONS of little stuff that would be crazily long to write out. my awesome highschool's first home football game is next Friday! (woo! go jp2!!) wish us luck!


and i PROMISE, pictures will be coming! not necessarily super soon, but they will be here within the month.

-shannon-