Fun in the Creek

What kid can resist playing in the water and the mud and squishing that yummy stuff between their toes??

Definitely none of the Romriell grandkids...

Happy Birthday Lexi

Another overdue post...

Lexi, our beautiful, energetic, dramatic, fun loving little girl celebrated her 4th birthday!! What a fun day we all had, an opportunity to show her how happy we are that she came to our family.

We wanted another baby for so long after Shelby and at times wondered if it would happen. To our great surprise and joy we were blessed with Alexis Tiffanie Romriell. From the 1st minute she was born she tugged at our heart strings and would do anything for a smile!


Now she seems all grown up! Lexi loves playing dolls, Polly Pockets and computer games. She loves playing anything she can with her older sister Shelby and enjoys getting hugs, kisses and cuddling up to mom or dad!

For her birthday she wanted a princess cake and she was lucky enough to get 2 of them!! What a lucky occassion for her to have most of her Romriell family in town, Lexi celebrated with cake and ice cream with all of them!Then she celebrated with her Sparrow family! What a loved little girl, she got dolls, clothes, makeup, a movie and lots of other fun stuff.
Lexi, your laughs, your smile, your looks and your hugs are such joy to have around. It has been so fun watching you grow into a little dancing, tumbling, music loving girl.

Happy Birthday little Princess!

12 Years Strong!!

Happy Anniversary!!

So this post is a couple months overdue but while watching one of my favorite flicks the other night I was completely taken back...

It was 12 years ago on June 19th that Matt and I took an eternal drive to the Idaho Falls temple. There before our closest friends and family we were sealed together for time and all eternity...no it hasn't been an eternity yet but some days we both wonder!! Just Kidding

Most of you know the story behind Matt and I, how we met, when we got engaged (the 1st time & 2nd time) and when we got married. So for those of you who know bear with me...

Matt had just returned from his mission and attended an institute dance. It just so happened that I gave in to peer pressure that same night and attended (yes you guessed it) the same institute dance. I remember going home that night and telling my mom all about seeing him and dancing with him a couple times. That was that. I didn't see or hear from him. Then just before Thanksgiving (about 2 months later) I got a phone call. He thought it would be fun to have a date. I remember going to hang out at his parents house with Susan and Paul and I'm sure there were a few friends there but really no one else mattered outside Matt and his family.

From there it was pretty much dating exclusively and then he just couldn't hold back and asked me to marry him at the end of January. I was in a fender bender earlier that day and I think he was just trying to make me feel better. We were sitting on the couch and he gave me a vase full of flowers and then just said, "Will you marry me?"

Really I thought he was just joking and replied, "Sure." Then I realized he was serious and we were engaged.

For a lot of reasons I don't need to go into we ended up calling off the engagement but I had already planned our entire reception so I just left all of it in place. For the next month we continued dating and figuring some things out. Matt sent my ring off to be sized, not sure that he was ever going to propose again. After a few on again, off again moments I could see that Matt wasn't going to take the chance again. That was it...it was up to me...I was going to have to propose myself!

Although I'm sure it didn't come off quite as eloquent and not nearly as staged, I can give you a little glimpse into what our moment was like...I knew if I didn't I would regret it for the rest of my life!



So here's to the best decision of my life! Although we have had our struggles and certainly wonder what we are doing sometimes, I cannot imagine going through this journey of life without you! I love you Matt and hope everyday that you know you are my whole world!! Thank you for 12 wonderful years!!

Activities, Activities, Activities

Along with summer at the Romriell house comes lots and lots of activities! So much fun and such a great time seeing each of the kids growing in their various interests. So to share a few of them I am posting some of our favorite videos thus far.

Family Fun Day

At the ZOO
Another Saturday without Matt around...what should we do with our time...the zoo is having a family fun day, we should go!

My mom and I ended up being all on our own for the day so we decided to take the kids to the zoo. It was a lot of fun just walking around and being together to see fun things. The kids were able to jump in a bounce house, see a HUGE snake and a couple of them even wanted to get their faces painted. Luke became Spiderman and Shelby turned into a dog.




After the walking and checking things out we got to go on a trolley ride with Uncle Cody. It was so fun to see him in his element, driving a bus (or trolley in this case). So funny to see him all grown up acting like an adult! SMILE

HORSE RACES

OFF TO THE RACES!!

When I was younger my family spent oodles of time back and forth between horse races. We traveled to the Sandy Downs track in Idaho Falls regularly and spent many weekends camped out here at the Pocatello race track. Of course as I got older and got busier with my own life it just seemed I didn't get back very often. It was such a fun experience and one my own family hasn't been able to be a part of. You can only guess how much fun it was to take all of the kids to the track to see their grandpa Shappart's horse race. I'm pretty sure Luke has the racing blood or at least the absolute love of horses running through him. Definitely a childhood memory that was fun to share with my own kids. I think Matt even had a good time! :)



You can only guess how much fun it was to take all of the kids to the track to see their grandpa Shappart's horse race. I'm pretty sure Luke has the racing blood or at least the absolute love of horses running through him. Definitely a childhood memory that was fun to share with my own kids. I think Matt even had a good time! :)

Time Flies!!

It only feels like a week ago I posted Shelby's baptism but as life goes it has been much much longer than that! We have had so many things since then that I thought maybe I should get this little blog updated at least a tiny bit.

The week after Shelby's baptism we celebrated Easter. What a wonderful time for all of us. It gave us some much needed time for reflection and a chance to be so thankful for the knowledge our Heavenly Father has given us. It was a very full weekend with Leslie's funeral and enjoying all the family that was in town. So grateful for the time we got to spend with everyone, especially Paul! Matt seems like a more complete person whenever he has his little brother around to talk to and hang out with.

Given the circumstances we didn't miss the chance to have to kids do an Easter egg hunt, Grandma Leslie wouldn't have wanted it any other way!! They were all so cute and fun to watch as they searched through the little patches of snow for some brightly colored surprise.




Then Aunt Annabeth planned some fun games for the kids complete with some awesome prizes!! Just a wonderful experience and a fun time.