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.

What am I thinking

I think this picture of Dalon is so cute. There are so many things he could be thinking. You tell me what you think he is saying...

Help

I put a new background and it erased my posts, what do I do?

Summer Fun

This past weekend we decided to take advantage of the cool weather and take the boys to the new San Tan Mall play area. We invited Josh and Meagan over and we took the three kids to the mall. We decided to let them play in the splash part of the playground and they had so much fun. Brooklyn had to borrow one of Dalon's swimming suits and Coytt's shirts, she looked so cute. The kids had a blast in the water and Brooklyn had pretty good aim spashing me a couple of times. She would put her bum on the water spout just right to splash me. It was so fun to see all three of them smiling and splashing all over. Sorry some of the pictures are so dark. I lightend them the best that I could. I can't wait for another night cool enough for me to sit outside while Coytt and Dalon play in the water.









Cold Brrr Mommy!

It's 10 o'clock...do you know where your children are?

Yes I do. Mark took them out so I could do homework in peace. Thanks babe!!! I definately owe you one!

My first Sunglasses

So, I finally broke down and bought some sunglasses. The only other pair I have owned in my life were a pair of Armani sunglasses that I bought in Vegas and I think one of my roomates stole because I have no clue where they ended up. Since then (1999) I haven't bought a new pair becuase I can't see without my glasses. I have always just had transitions lenses. Well I got contacts this month and decided that it was time to breakdown and buy a pair of sunglasses. There was no way I was spending $95 on them like the only other pair I have ever owned, so I set out to find some cheap ones. Well all the cheap ones were just that...CHEAP. Until I found my new favorite place for accessories. Aldo! I went to their website www.aldoshoes.com and found these. They were $4.95 and are not cheaply made, just a really good sale! I am now slightly addicted to their sight and have bought numerous jewlery items from there. Here are a couple of pictures of my new glasses. I love the little sparklies on the sides, the flash in the picture made it so you can see my eyes through the lenses but you really can't.

Decorating Fun

Mark and I got tired of our boring white walls so we decided to make some changes. We only painted in the living room and dining room, but we added some things to the walls. We also bought a new "toy". Yes that is 65" of pure HD fun you see. I am still trying to find something to go over the TV, any suggestions are welcome.


Mark ragged this wall. I think it looks great...especially since he had never done that before.


We added some black and white pictures of the boys. If you look close enough you can see how straight the edge where Mark painted is. I don't know how he does it.


We did the dining room a solid color called Aloe Vera and added the O Jerusalem picture. It is one of my favorite pictures. (I love the Deseret Book half off sale during Easter and Conference)


To add to the hallway and staircase we added this mirror and matching pictures of the boys.


We got the trees at Michael's, they have little christmas lights on them and I love them. I just need to know what to put above the TV. We were thinking of painting the wall behind the TV, but not sure what color to do there either. Any suggestions are welcome.

mmmm fruit

So today was bountiful basket Saturday. We are members of a co-op and every other Saturday we get a basket full of fresh fruits and veggies. It it $15 and we get at least $50 worth of fruits and veggies. This being my first Saturday off work in months I thought it would be a good idea to ride the bike and bike trailer to the neighborhood across the street and pickup the basket. Well let me tell you don't let the word morning fool you. It is still schorching HOT here even at 7:30am. Needless to say I came back a sweaty gross mess, but was very excited about the basket. We never know what we are going to get, so it is like Christmas every other weekend. After breakfast (thanks Mark) I went to shower and get ready to take the boys to go see the new Pixar movie Wall-E. It was ok I guess not near as funny as Cars or as exciting as Nemo, but it was still good. After the movie we came home and the boys laid down to take a nap. I went upstairs to do my homework when it hit me that we had fruit downstairs. I went to look for something yummy to eat and saw this
Mark had arranged the fruit so pretty I couldn't resist taking a picture. I probably would have just thrown it into the bowl or refridgerator, but he carefully placed each fruit so perfectly in the bowl. Thanks to him we now have a beautiful edible display in our kitchen.

Update

Well I finally have some time (well not really I am just choosing not to write my essay for school right now) and I decided to post an update so Jillian stop whining here is an update.

Life around here is good, we are busy and time seems to fly right by. Coytt and Dalon are growing up and it is hard for mommy to take in all that they are learning. Coytt is just a chatterbox who is now talking in full sentences. It is funny the things that come out of his mouth sometimes. Dalon has started army crawling all over the place and has learned to stand up when holding onto something. As cute as this is it is terrifying with the tile downstairs. I am still working at University of Phoenix as an Enrollment Counselor in the Military division and loving it, and Mark is enjoying this special time he gets to stay home with the boys. Mark is enjoying his online classes and is excited to finally be getting closer and closer to his degree. I am majoring in Business Management and Mark is majoring in Muti Media Visual Communications. We both plan on getting our Master's degrees within the next 5 or 6 years.

Some of our favorite things right now are:

Mark: Playing Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360, Painting, Making Amazing meals and trying new recipies, Playing with his boys

Monette: Watching movies on our 65" HD TV, My Hip Hop Dance Class, Singing Silly Songs with Coytt, Tickleing Dalon, and snuggling with Mark

Coytt: Race Cars, Race Cars, Race Cars oh and watching "Buzz and Weeloo" or Toy Story. He has also decided that he no longer takes baths, but showers.

Dalon: Crawling on the floor and plaing the game where he makes noise and mom or dad pats his mouth to make the noise sound like an Indian call. He could do this for hours!

We have been enjoying having different families over for family home evening each week and are making a lot of friends in our ward. We are really starting too like it here in Gilbert.

Mark the photographer

Mark took some amazing nature pitctures at the reunion and I thought I would share some of them.

Lots of pictures

So, we finally got a new camera and fixed our computer. So I am just going to post a bunch of pictures for this update. The pictures are mostly of the Rothlisberger reunion and the weekend that Mark blessed the boys.

Dalon's Great Grandma Romine (Monette's Mom's Mom)



Dalon and Uncle Bryce (please ignore the spitup on Dalon's shirt)

Yes Meagan that is mud Brooklyn is trekking through



I don't think these boys have enough toys...do you?


Yes that is a giant horny toad Coytt is holding!