Summer Fun

This is the best picture Mark and I have taken together in a long time. It is my favorite of the trip!!
Yes we walked around Vegas in matching outfits, yes Mark fought it, and yes I WON :) But don't the pictures look great!!
I should have helped him up, but I had to snap this picture of the little stinker climbing over the fence to get into the flowers

Garden's at the Bellagio
Grandma Romine
Paris Hotel and Casino
View from Aunt Cappy's house
Walking into the river
Paw Paw and his "only shirt" ok so he has a lot of shirts, but I think they all look like this :)
The water was GORGEOUS

NIkki's surprise Baby shower
The Scooby Doo Mystery Machine. We had to take this pic :)
Pump Jack in NM there were hundreds of these in Hobbs, it was quite amazing.
The above pictures are probably out of order, but they take so long to load and it is late so I just put them in the order I saw them. We have done so much in these last few weeks I have not had time to post. In August we went to Devil's River Texas where Mark's mom and dad renewed their vows. The river was beautiful! The water was so clear and clean I coul swim in it with my eyes open and see to the bottom and it didn't hurt or affect my eyes at all. Coytt had a blast with his Uncle Berry (Billy) and "his 'rena" (Irena), he also had fun with his Aunt Nikki, and of course Grandma and Paw Paw. Dalon fell in love with Nikki's husband JD Smiling hugely whenever he walked by. We also enjoyed visiting with Mark's Grandma and Grandpa Reyna and Grandma Johnnie. We stayed at Mark's Aunt Cappy's house on the river and spent most of our day at her in-laws home.

After the river we came home only to unwind for a short time before heading off to Las Vegas to visit my Grandma and Grandpa Romine and all our other family out there. We had so much fun visiting with all the family. We decided to be "tourists" and go enjoy some random things on the strip. We took the boys to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. And the Secret Garden at the Mirage. I bought the wrong size battery for my camera so we don't have pictures of these two places, only video. That night Mark and I went on a date and found a fun little restaurant called Napolean's inside the Paris Hotel. They had a dueling piano show that night and we enjoyed that very much. The next day we took the boys to the garden at the Bellagio and Coytt loved it becuase it had a train theme. In all the pictures we could only get his back because he wouldn't turn around long enough for us to take a picture of him faceing forward. We then went to Caesar's Palace to see the giant aquarium, and then back to the Bellagio for the water show. It was a lot of fun. We also went to church with Grandma and Grandpa. They had an amazing speaker that day. It was a young man about 25 years old that had been in a horrible motorcycle accident awhile back. He had been married for only 5 months at the time. He actually died 3 times and they recessitated him each time. His whole talk was on how greatful he was for that experience and the Melchezedik preisthood. He spoke of how when the Dr.s would say what was wrong his family would pray for that specific thing and it would slowly heal. He talked about how as he was healing he was thankful for the priesthood blessing s from his father. How greatful I am that Mark holds this precious priesthood and that he can bless me and our boys if ever needed. The talk really touched both Mark and myself. It was such an inspiring talk. We did have to laugh when he said that to earn money before he could walk he would ride his mobile chair down the street and deliver Avon catalogs. This was funny, but also inspirational. He could have given up and just said that God ruined his life, but he accepted the blessings of the Melchezedik priesthood and moved forward. Anyway it was a great meeting.