George Bockafird

Here's to George Bock the third!!!

George is amazing and I truly couldn't imagine life without him. I remember when I first met George, I thought he was cute and I knew he thought I was so I was just going to have fun and play around! After our first date (and week of knowing each other) I knew he was different and that I didn't just want to play around, I really liked this guy. From day one he made me feel so good about myself. I was really attracted to how calm he was and how little he got stressed. He made me feel calm and happy. Besides being my number one man, he does a lot of other great things!

Get ready for some awesome and awkward pics from the past!!!!

This is George shoveling snow (for his very first time!) at my parent's house last Christmas!

He loves going to Spokane for the holidays, even if the temperature is half of what it is in AZ!

We love to go on road trips and George loves to drive which makes my singing and dancing to every song on our ipod that much easier!!!!

He loves football and isn't afraid to be goofy with me! He's always trying to get me to do awkward things and just have a fun time!

He works extremely hard and is very goal oriented. This is a pic of us the day we signed for our condo!

He's just cute!

And so good to his parents and family.

He made the cut and put up with my 3 older brothers ;)

This picture just makes me laugh!!! This is the night before we got married at our family dinner. We look so awkward!!!! LOVE IT!

He still loves me, even when I pose like this....

George is mine forever and I wouldn't have it any other way. He always knows how to put a smile on my face or give me butterflies.

Thank goodness for George Alvin Bock III, and that he loves a girl with the name of a bird.

My Mind

Wanna know what has been on my mind lately....

Here ya go!

1. I have a serious all-star for a husband! Every once in a while, I go to blog about how amazing he is but then I get sort of shy one, because I don't wanna brag ;) and two because he is like my best kept secret! Just trust me, he is amazing in every single absolute possible way. He is my world!

2. Isn't it kind of weird how people say, "I'm pooped!". I mean really shouldn't that be something relieving (tmi?) oh and eewww.

3. I'm almost to the homestretch my schooling sort of! I'll graduate in May with a degree in Family and Human Development - so if you know of any cool jobs send 'em my way!!

4. Getting the little girl I take care of to talk in accents is hilarious!

Her specialty is a southern accent. She also stood up for me the other day to her younger cousin - "Robyn's not a giant! She's just middle sized!" ha ha ha she was so serious when she said it too!

5. We are running in a turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning! The weather will be amazing and we get a T-shirt! I love T-shirts!

6. The fast, timed version of Monopoly is fun.

7. I have gotten my hair done by this girl named Sarah for a while now and she always makes me look and feel amazing about myself. Yay for great hair cuts!

8. We have been obsessed with turkey wraps and sandwiches full of veggies lately. Throw some cucumbers on your next sandwich - you won't be disappointed, unless you don't like cucumbers!

9. I've gotten myself to run 2 miles everyday for the past two weeks - doesn't seem that bad but my motivation has been lacking, so yay for me!

10. Just so you can actually have something interesting to look at since you even came to my blog, here is a funny picture. Don't be offended!!!! It's funny and you know it!

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Fall Funzies

I realize that this should actually be made into like 4 posts but I'm too lazy to break it up...so read as far as you'd like!

This past weekend I took my girls to the pumpkin patch and we had so much fun. The weather was so perfect and they looked so cute that I took a gazillion pictures of them - they were pretty tired of the camera by the end of the day but they humor me :)
P.S. Its basically the middle of October and I'm STILL wearing shorts!! Yahoo!

Me and Claudia out playing chalk

Me and Kalei

The three of us getting ready to go pick out pumpkins and go on the hay ride!

This place is fun, but definitely not as great as Greenbluff in WA!

Recent Quotes from Kalei: "I just don't know how Jesus makes cars"

"Robyn! You won't believe what I heard come out of my mouth the other day! A whistle!"

While working on rhyming..."mit, bit, and a sh**" ;)

She was telling me the names of her friends at school

K: Kooshy

R: Her name is Kooshy?

K: Ya, she's a china girl

I told her that she needed to eat some more of her dinner so that she would be buff, to which she responded, "like a buffalo!"

Ha ha ha she cracks me up and I love being with both her and Claudia

Then a few weekends ago, Georgie and I took off to go camping at Christopher Creek. This was our second time camping in that area and I think it is our favorite. Plus, we are getting to be pretty dang good a packing up fast and camping. If we had a big truck, it would be even better!

Us, out looking for wood

Georgie getting the fire going while I made our bed in the tent

The weekend of September 10th & 11th we drove out to the absolute middle of nowhere to meet my parents for a po-dunk pie festival. It was goofy but so fun! The festival was held in a tiny town in New Mexico called Pie Town. Our hotel was an hour away because it was seriously in the middle of nowhere! George entered the pie eating contest, he didn't win but he got a ribbon! :)
After seeing my parents for no more than 24hrs we drove home, and somehow we ended up without any pictures of the 4 of us, but trust me we were all there!

On the way home we stopped in Heber and found this cute little strip of touristy shops. It was a perfect way to spend our Sunday drive home.

Going to Pie Town was a fun quick little trip and let me tell you, there was some good people watching....so many hippies....so many unshaven legs on women...yum!

My pie police shirt is from the Great American Pie Festival in Celebration, Florida that my parents frequent every April. I've been twice and its a blast! So, if you're ever near Florida towards the end of April, go get some PIE!

Things We Have Been Lovin' On This Summer

Are you shocked and amazed?? I am! Two blogs in one week! I'm trying, really I am!
Anyways....here are some things we've been thoroughly enjoying this summer and would recommend to you!

1st: Zipfizz, we got it at Costco and it is delightful! I mean just read what the pic says! It is all natural and loaded with vitamins and yummy!


Next is Torani sugar free Watermelon flavored syrup. You add a dabble or two of this to some water and you will want to chug your water. Anything watermelon flavored usually grosses me out, but this stuff makes water taste extra refreshing! George thinks that water tastes bad...(doesn't actually have a taste, but he thinks its yucky). I think he has consumed more water this past summer than in is whole life thanks to this stuff! Yay for giving our bodies what they need! Bonus: its sugar free which means ZERO calories...I know its just like the fake sugar or whatever but I think its fine in moderation.

The pool!!! We have a pool at our condo but its not amazing. For only 3 bucks we can go to a way better pool! George has Mondays off from work, so we would go to Shepherd pool and swim laps and lay out to work on our tans. We LOVED it! Cooling off, exercise and tanning! Wahoo Mondays are the best!

Then we had the show, Heavy. Just really interesting to watch and can be found on Netflix! These people go to a facility where they have personal trainers and meals prepared for them! Man, if we all could go to a place like that we'd be looking dang good!

And most recently, is this book! George's oldest brother told us about it and we got it from Amazon for like $8! His brother, who isn't really over weight at all, lost about 20lbs following this book. It talks about how and what you should be eating. PLUS like half of the book is yummy recipes that are fairly easy and very healthy. We have been making a meal schedule each week and we hardly eat out anymore. George is benefiting the most I think because now I make him lunch and dinner every day!!! (working on being a better wifey) It's a lot of planning/prep but its worth it! We are eating healthy and FEELING GOOD! We've already noticed that if we do eat out we either can't eat as much as we used to or the unhealthy fast food makes us feel awful. Like last week we went to In n' Out and both felt sick to our stomachs afterwards! I couldn't believe how fast my body is adapting!

Until next time!!!

I love summer!

This summer has been fabulous!!! One of our highlights was spending the 4th of July with the Readers in San Diego. We just got to totally relax, hang out on the beach everyday and tan and play volleyball! Oh and there was some amazing Mexican food involved too! San Diego is so funny and the weather is amazing! We may need to escape there one more time before fall gets too busy!

Our besties, Robbie & Kensie

Kensie sorta looks like she's trying to be Ursula.

Boogie boarding is NOT my calling in life. It was really fun to try and play around but I took in so much salt water that I had a sore throat for a couple of days!!

The boys boogie boarding

The family I nanny for was in San Diego for the month, so we stopped by to see them, the girls were so surprised! And ya...my eyes are closed but what can ya do!?

I made George take a picture and this is what he gave me!

This pic is from the top of a night hike we did in Mesa. It was seriously like 109 degrees (deathly hot even at night) when we hiked and I told George that I was never, ever going to hike again...we went again about a month later but way up north where it was only like 95 out! It was much better!

More of our summer adventures coming soon!!!

-Fossil Springs

-Spokane

-I change my major...what?

-Oh and the AC in my all black car blows heat!

-Oh and I dropped my phone and shattered the screen today! Big time frowny face!

Carson

My brother Carson is the greatest. If you don't already know why, read this article: http://www.voaspokane.org/CarsonsStory

We were great buds growing up and did everything together. He was and is always so kind, sweet, and funny. Growing up in the Dipo house with the boys was the best! Most of my memories involve hilarious stories and adventures Carson and I would create. We even made a monster movie one time! That movie is for choice viewers only!

My family is the best and I miss them very much. But don't worry, I've got a plan to get them to all move down AZ in the future!!!

Recently...

So, I have to start with the most recent and work backwards...because, I just can't figure out the right way to load my pictures!!!
To start: George shaved his head!!!! AHHH I know! He usually cuts his own hair...and accidentally did part of it too short and didn't have many options. It was either an army style cut or just bic it. Did I mention I was still in Spokane and he was in Mesa when this happened! I barely recognized him when I first saw him!!! Let's face it, he was gonna shave it sooner or later! ;)


We have been going to school and working REALLY hard lately, so George bought a new toy, its a Russian gun. This pic probably looks a bit white trash, but shooting is actually pretty fun. I'm not good at all, but its fun to watch George!!



We flew up to Spokane on Christmas day and got to stay for a little more than a week. It was a great vacation. We had lots of family time and lots of laughs.

This is Duke sitting in 'his' chair and he just looked so funny, I thought I would share it with you.

This is miss Chloe and my mom. We went to Starbucks one morning and every time we tried to take a picture with Chloe she would try and sneak a kiss on the cheek. She is so funny!

December 30th was my parents 33rd anniversary. We went out to dinner at Clinkerdagger and had a fun night!

This is George's first time shoveling snow!!! Ha I laughed every time he would go out to shovel. I think he wore at least 4 layers every time we left the house!

We went snowboarding with Carson and Mercedes for a day and had a blast. We we SO sore the next day!

The week before Christmas we went down to Tuscon and went camping. The weather was great and in the morning we went Spelunking (cave exploring). It was really cool and super scary at the same time. We came out cover in mud, but George has the pics of it on his phone, so I'll post those later because they're fun!

Thanksgiving weekend George's oldest brother, Jared and his family came down for Utah. We had such a fun weekend! These are a few pics from the Mesa Temple Lights. We live less than 10 minutes away from the Temple and it is SO great!

Jared's kids from tallest to shortest ;)

Ethan, Owen, Luke, and Ryan. These are the coolest funniest kids you will ever meet!

2010 was a great year, 2011 is going to be great as well - even busier and better.

I am currently working as an Instructional Aid at a Junior High here in Mesa, I'm in my 2nd block of the teaching program at ASU, nannying and serving in Primary. George is working and schooling it up a ton too and loving his calling in scouts. We don't have a ton of free time, but we are happy and excited for the future!