The Romriell's: July 2011

Happy 4th of July!!!

Well really it was yesterday but we had a blast! We all got up early and went to the Rexburg parade which went down Main Street. The floats were throwing out candy and Kaiden had lots of fun collecting all the candy with his dad. When we got home we laid Kaiden down for his nap. The afternoon was awesome, we went to Idaho Falls for a special pick up. (I'll get back to this later) While preparing that nights dessert, chocolate cheescake, I realized I forgot to buy some Redi- Whip so I ran to the store and while I was there I picked up a few little fireworks for Kaiden and Preston to play with. They loved the Pop-Its most of all, the sparklers didnt work so well with all the wind, Kaiden got super excited over the Jack in the Boxes (with lil bees that fly out) and the other lil things that smoke, spin, change color and shoot off lil sparks. Well it kept those lil boys busy for about 30 minutes and when we were done, we put the boys to bed and ate the delicious cheesecakes and even played a game!
Now to fill in the afternoon!:
So I LOVE baking and I've head my eye on a PINK Kitchenaide mixer for a LONG time now. I've been dropping hints to Darren for over a month now about how much I wanted one for my birthday and how awesome they are. And yesterday I called the store just to see if they had one in stock, which they did! I dropped yet another hint to him, something along the lines of "so I just called Bed Bath and Beyond and they have a pink Kitchenaide in stock." And then he surprised me by saying we could go down and get it! SWEEEEEEEEET! I'm still in shock becuase of how exciting it all was! The best part was the drive on the way home where Darren said I had to wait until my birthday, this saturday, to open it. So I put it on my counter thinking it would be forever before I got to use the thing. Well Darren must have seen me stealing glances at my new mixer and he finally gave in and said I could open it as long as he got some pictures first! YAY!
Let My Birthday WEEK Begin!!

****Pics and video to follow shortly***********

Jaxton's Baby Blessing!

What a sepcial day! We all got ready early in the morning and headed down to Inkom to get things ready. Dena did lots of the cooking and prep work and she did such a great job! most of Darren's family was able to make it and my mom, dad and Derek even showed up for a bit. It was such a beautiful blessing, Darren got really choked up in the beginning and paused for what seemed like forever before he began again. He had been fasting for awhile and you could tell by the beautiful spirit that filled Grandma Joyce's living room! Jaxton was a doll and slept through the whole thing. =) After the blessing the family got together for a BBQ outside! The weather was hot but I didn't mind. Having all the family together is a real treat for me, I loved it! We are so happy to have Jaxton Tripp Romriell in our lil family! It just wouldn't be the same without him!

Grandma Joyce

Mi madre!

Mi Padre!

My brother Derek

Grandma and Grandpa Romriell

Our handsome lil man in his blessing outfit!

Although I caught him eating a cupcake, this boy ate a thousand cookies this day!

Celebrating Freedom!

On saturday we went to the celebrating freedom "festival"! It was alot of fun and the best part was that we got to spend ALL day outside! I even got my legs tan finally! lol. The festival was an hour away in Driggs, Idaho. It was all free and sponsored by the Huntsman family. There were 7 bouncy houses, 2 hypnotist acts (really funny!), face painting, a dog show (Dena's favorite part), a juggling act (pretty lame), pig races (we actually missed out on these sadly), BMX shows (which we also missed), an airshow (which we missed most of) an AWESOME fireworks show, oh and GLEN BECK was there! Darren was pretty excited to see him in person! He did a great talk about the constitution and once he was done the fireworks show began! Kaiden surprisingly fell asleep on me around 8:30 and slept through the entire fireworks show! Jaxton also slept through them. Haha. My boys love their sleep! We got home really late, I think about 12:30. We were all POOPED but went to bed with smiles on our faces!