LaRiSsa...my youngest sister!

This month is such a special one;

It's birthday time for you.

We'd really like to celebrate Your happy day with you...

Zip-adee-ay and heigh-dee-ho,

Here's something we can do.

We'll sing a song that we all know,

Happy Birthday to YOU!

Yeah it's Larissa's birthday! We love Aunt Rissa. She is so much fun.

We love living so close to her and her family. It is fun to meet up and go to the park or have them over to ride bikes in our culdesac.

One of her favorite restaurants is Serrano's - she gets a bean and cheese burro with of course a DR. PEPPER. We have met up a few times to grab lunch there, yummy!

Larissa is a very beautiful woman with a cute petite figure. She is such a GREAT mom. Her girls are so lucky to have such a patient and loving mom. She has taught them to say the most beautiful prayers. She has a very STRONG testimony and does anything she can to serve the Lord. What a GREAT role model.

We LOVE to go to her house and get pedicures. She does such an AWESOME job!

We love you Aunt Larissa and hope you have a very SPECIAL birthday!

Thanks for being such a GREAT sister and aunt! We love you so much!

Cleaning or Organizing tips...

My cousin Kassi asked about cleaning and organizing tips...

Tip #1: I always go to bed with my kitchen dishes done. My sink clean and empty. I love waking up feeling ahead of the game.

Tip #2: Before I leave my house we do a sweep of the house, picking up all the toys. We come home to a picked up home, YEAH!

The Romney's are in UTAH now.

UPDATE:

The Romney's are now in Utah. They bought a home in Cedar Hills which is a town right next to American Fork and Highland. They can't move in until Sept. 3, so they are living with our cousin Brittany (Schneider) and Haven McCall until then. What a blessing that has been (thank you to the McCall family)! LaSchelle and Kurt wanted their kids to start the school year off at their new schools.

Tyler has already been invited to play basketball with some boys at the church. Courtney and Tanner have recess together - which works great since they don't know to many kids yet and can play with each other (thank heavens for siblings). Kayla is in 9th grade and we know SOON will meet some great friends. Her cell phone was lost for a few days, but now it has been found and that is a GOOD thing.

We love them... they are ALL in our prayers!

We can't wait to go visit and spend a day at LAGOON.

Sienna is TwO!!!

Sienna is two years old today! She is such a cutie pie. She has a little petite body and a smile to still your heart.

We love you Sienna and hope you have a FUN birthday!

TeNdEr hEARted Conner...

Conner has such a TENDER heart! When he found out Carly had broken her arm he was REALLY worried. Friday while he was at school she had gotten home from the hospital. He came right in and was very quiet and with his sweet countenance came over to her and asked how she was feeling. Well that night, we ate pizza. We cut Carly's pizza up into small pieces. She was sitting on the couch and we put her plate down on her lap with a fork. Conner went over sat down by her and FED her -her pizza. He has such a tender heart! I love this GREAT quality of his.

Buccaneers WON their first game!

Hip, hip HURRAY... the Buccaneer volleyball team won their first game today against

Willis Jr. High.

Way to go LINDSEY!

Carly and her PINK cast with SPARKLES!

Monday, 8-18-08, Carly went to the pediatric orthopedic surgeons office. There they did x-rays to make sure her pins were still in the right place - which they were.
They did a paper clip poke testing her fingers to make sure they were feeling properly.
Once everything was good they squeezed her hard cast together (they had left two slits down the side of the cast for swelling purposes) making the slights close up and put her pink cast on. Carly was so very patient and the doctor's assistant and the nurse were so fun and patient with Carly.
They even put a BLACK cast on Carly's bear. Yes, adding sparkles at the end. Carly got to choose what color and if it too would have sparkles. They were so GOOD with her.
So Carly now has a PINK cast with sparkles and her bear a BLACK cast with sparkles. How very cute.

The plan now is that in 3 weeks we will go back to the Dr. and have x-rays. If everything looks good they will take the pins out right there in the office. They WILL NOT put another cast on. She has to be very careful for another 3 weeks - more x-rays and then hopefully we will be good to go. They wrote her out a script saying NO playground, jumping, running, sliding, PE, or any active playing for TEN weeks, BUMMER! They may change the script to playing sooner if things heal good and Carly does what she is suppose to right now.

Lucky for us, Carly loves to color, draw, play on the computer, read, play games, and do quiet sit down activities. Now if this was Conner we would be IN TROUBLE!

We got to go to JUSTICE and get Carly her SECOND webkin and out to lunch at Sombreros. YUMMY! I love this one on one time with Carly. We don't get it that often anymore.

The night we were in the hospital at around 1am she was really having a hard time sleeping due to pain and unsure of the hospital. I was sitting on her bed rubbing her face and arms she said, "MOM I love you!" I wanted to just bawl like a baby. She is such a sweetheart. I guess I had been a bit stressed out and needed to hear that. A tender mercy...

Carly and I went and got her picture taken yesterday with her fun PINK sparkly cast. She had a HORRIBLE night last night, couldn't sleep. I had decided she would stay home today, but she wanted to go. It was picture day and she wanted her picture taken for her school id. I was worried because she has still had quite a bit of pain, so I came at lunch time to check in and she was doing GREAT! Her teacher is AWESOME! She came to our house Friday after school with a Sonic drink for Carly and I and a HUGE card the students had made her. I love teachers like her!