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Romney happenings

Well Thanksgiving was awesome! The dinner at my mom's in her new home* was awesome and we had family pics done with Daniel's family in the afternoon.  My kids were cranky most of the evening and Leighton wouldn't sleep. Ireland woke up today coughing until she gagged. She has had a tummy and head ache for days but that seemed to be controlled for the most part with tylenol. Leighton has had a cough since birth so I was sort of concerned when it was a lot more frequent. Both girls have been cranky so I took them to their pediatrician. So Leighton has an ear infection. In both ears. UGH. It's like Ireland all over again!! What is up with my kid's ears?? I guess her throat is all red too. Also Ireland has strep! :(  I had no idea in the world she had strep. I guessed a cold. I feel bad since we were around a ton of family yesterday. I had no clue I also had thought her two year molars were bugging her. which is true too. So that is the sad part. 

* my mom is finally in her new home!! ok well it's not her new home but they are renting this amazing place until theirs can be built. Neither of the two homes they were hoping to get worked out, so they will build. They want something bigger with horse property. Can't wait to ride our horses!! Ireland will go nuts. So this  "new" house is so beautiful and we love to be there except it is close to an hour drive. each way! My sister will live there on weekends and still with us mon- thurs. for school since it takes her no more than 7 mins to get to school from my house.  My sister is using our extra room so Leighton and Ireland are sharing a room. I was hesitant at first because their sleep schedules are way off but we are getting it down and I LOOOOVE having them together! Ireland has her big girl bed and Lei has the crib. Luckily Ireland had a big room so It's not uncomfortable. And they have a huge closet to hold all their  clothes! I need to put up the pics of their room it's so fun! 

Oh so Ireland and Lei are already best friends! Leighton just turned 5 months on tuesday but it seems she is so much older because she just seems to get things! I had both girls laying on Ireland's bed a minute ago with a movie on. they didn't care about their show they were looking at each other and smiling and giggling. Ireland kept holding Lei's hand and Leighton would let her. I needed to do some stuff and didn't feel comfortable leaving the baby alone with a 2 year old and all those pillows and what not on this twin size bed. I picked up Lei and they both started crying! So sad but so cute. I did my stuff and brought the baby back in there and they both got the hugest grins! Lei reached out her hand and Ireland just held it. Ireland kept rubbing the babies head too and they just smile at each other. I love how much they love each other! Leighton can sit really well for a long time so she just sits and watches Ireland color or play and they have this amazing bond already. I hope they stay close forever like my sister and me!

yes I know this is long, but I want to print out my blog and keep it as my journal. So I want to keep track of everything!!

People keep asking how my training is going. well..... um... it would be a LOT better if I could be on a treadmill each day! I was doing the gym once a week on my mom's pass but that is used up and once a week will not cut it!  Another problem about training from home: I am not comfortable running alone outside. I have had offers for friends to come run with me. Let's do it!! I only have until spring to be ready to run a marathon. eek. spring!! that is just to prepare me for the insane one (so I have heard) in JULY! I have got to get going! I need a gym membership or a treadmill, neither of which is affordable right now. I am not giving up, no way! I WILL run the marathon in spring!! 

I have so so so many pictures I want to put up. I have so many things I want put on here before I get this blog printed for a book. I just never have time to sort that many pics and get them ready on my slow computer. I will do it very soon. Oh, also my phone is not able to text or call so if someone has been texting and I haven't been responding I am sorry. text me and I will text you back with my Baby Ireland Bows business phone number! thanks!

ok, kids screaming so this is the end of my forever long update!

The rest of our family pictures!

                                                           ROMNEY FAMILY 2009

fun right?? Ireland is such a natural. She LOVED having her pictures taken!! We would walk up to a tree and she would go to the tree, stand in front of it and smile. Every picture is her own posing and what not. Sometimes we would have to make her laugh but she loved the attention. Leighton didn't always look at the camera, but she never cried. Thank you very much JUSTIN & MALLORY! We love them!! We had over 50 pics on the disk and it was hard to choose which ones for this blog so I just selected about 15 of my top picks!

Sneak Peek!

we got our family pics back!! We had them done on halloween. I have a ton I want to put up, I am getting ready for a birthday party. I will post the rest tonight! HOORAY!

Fun right? 

also, did you see my Moab post?? It's after this one :)

happiest place on Earth

ha ha yay! I finally have a few minutes to post moab pictures! Seriously, seriously! Moab is the greatest place on Earth. people literally come from all over the world to see Utah's amazing scenery, trails, whatever else you may want. I have probably hundreds of pics of Moab between all of us that took them but I randomly chose a bunch. Sorry if some are blurry or random. I honestly just picked out some. I am so excited. This was the best trip ever and we already have our next one planned for April. Before I start I have to thank my mom for this. We would not have been able to go without her. thanks mom for the gas, food, hotel, snacks, stuff for the kids, love, whatever else!!! 

anyway here are a BUNCH of pics of our latest moab adventure

This is how we roll! notice 1, 2, 3 jeeps? notice the car? yeah, sadly MY jeep needs a new transmission and wouldn't have made the trip. So we are the only car in our group 

ha ha ha this is how I transport two kids across the entire hotel so I didn't have to carry them both.

this is what 2 year olds do until they are big enough to play pool with us

or heck, even let them play!

ha ha ha we tried

getting ready for the hot tub

foosball (is that even how you spell it??)

more entertainment for the kiddo while we played pool. Barney on youtube! She loved it and kept wanting more

Oh, Dan! Always trying to ride ON the jeeps

somewhere in this is me and my mom

We went on easy trails since we had the kids in the jeep. This next pic is Steele in his stock jeep. If his could do all the trails, mine will for sure!! 

hmmm. Where is dan? not in the jeep. again :)

The trails are so fun and so bumpy and some way scary. Ireland laughs so dang hard. then passes out before we are done

When they went on the crazy steep, scary trails, I stayed @ the hotel with the kids. next year they both get to go!

The hotel had a gym outside. It was pretty sweet. Ireland doing some crunches in this one. Or not, I don't know

Dan and I getting our buff on!

 

 and then the hotel's playground. 
I want to post more pics to have for later so I don't forget everything. These pics aren't even half of what we did. :( 

Ps GO TO MOAB!!!

Fun stuff

Before I start, my camera broke and the last couple of months I have only been able to take pics on my phone. So please don't mind all my blurry pics I did and will post. thanks

Ok, things that are fun:

Leighton is sitting! She leans forward a lot because she is new to it and she LOVES her feet. She does pretty well. Ireland sat by this time too so I am sure she will be a pro in no time! funny thing though, she won't roll over! Ireland wouldn't roll over forever either.

I use this to help in case she topples over so she won't hit the floor.

Also we saw new moon! we had tickets for thurs at 8 pm. It was pretty sweet getting to see it early. It was way good. Although the special effects made me chuckle a few times, I still enjoyed the movie. I want to go see it again. :)
It gets even better! Ok, they did a drawing of a bunch of prizes. They randomly draw a row and seat # and I won a necklace and some vinyl letters. Then they drew my sister and she won a gift card, THEN they drew megan and she won a gift card (they didn't draw all 3 of us in a row though) but fun right? Out of the entire theater they drew 3 out of the 6 in our group. So it was a good time. More pics to come but it's near 3 am and I am exhausted but I am super determined to get our vacation pics up, but the way I do it, it takes forever since my post will be so long!

this makes me laugh so hard!!

I just found this video of Ireland on youtube. she had just turned 5 months old. she was so cute!! (well still is) I loved how her head was too big and arms too small. She had no hair but a smile and laugh that would melt your heart! this video is long and crazy. but its edited too. she was laughing much more for about 6 minutes straight before this one. I can't believe she sat up for so long while laughing so hard!! leave it to Pedro and his dad to make boogs laugh. 

Here is ireland at 5 months old. enjoy!! 

Just so everyone is aware

my kids are amazing! So much personality and they crack me up. all. day. long. Don't you just LOVE when proud moms post a billion pictures of their kids and talk about how great they are? yes? no? well.... um it's my blog, so there! :)  no but seriously I love them. I really do have other things to blog about I just squeeze in random pics because I think they are fun. The end :)

Don't you just want to eat her fat little cheeks??? please don't. I want them all for me! 

My child is a monster!

Ha Ha. Not really, but she was a cute monster for Halloween!

Now  some Halloween pics! 

As most of you know (or not. I don't remember if I said it or not) I don't like Halloween. I can't remember ever liking it. MAYBE as a kid. Yeah I am pretty sure it used to be fun. Well I am trying to like it, now that I have kids I would like to have fun with it. 

Here is my mom with Leighton the cutest lil monster ever!

Here I am. I didn't dress up. :)  oh, you can't see it but I have a tail too.

Here is my mom. She didn't want to dress up either :) hee hee

My sweet, girly girl, princess became the strong, incredible, tough:
BATGIRL!! how stinkin cute is she??? We saw this at sears and HAD to get it!! I was actually looking for a butterfly costume, but this was much better for her! ha ha. 

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Before Halloween Daniel, his mom, myself and the girls went to a dance. Costumes were welcomed so I dressed the girls in things we already had (hadn't been costume shopping yet!)

So..... Leighton was basically a skeleton fairy. ??? ha ha So cute!

Daddy was a... I am not even sure

Grandma and Ireland hitting the floor! Ireland has some serious moves (really good rhythm as someone that night put it) Daniel's mom, Daniel and I have all danced our whole lives, so she definitely got her moves from all of us!!

This was at home. what a doll!!

These are Ireland and myself being silly before the dance:

She was covered in gold sparkles. As was I (oh and I had false lashes, so I really couldn't see!)

Check out our AMAZING pumpkins!!

this was Daniel's:

Mekell's:

Megan's:

Didn't have a  shot of mine, but it's the pirate ship at the end. sweet huh?? We did Ireland's that night. Well Daniel did it and hers was a bat! (click on it, or any pic to see the detail!)
The end!