Kenny and Jeni Romney

We have had a super busy last few months. In August we went to the Oregon Coast for a week with some friends of ours, the Behunins. We had a great time! It was cool and rainy much of the time but the kids still had tons of fun. We camped across from the beach in campgrounds with our trailer. One of the highlights was playing with all the fun things in the tide pools at low tide including starfish, sea enenamy (Daniel calls them sea enemies because they try to “suck your finger off”), clams, seashells etc. They loved flying kites and playing in the sand and the ocean. One day we went to Newport Beach. We saw huge crabs, sea lions sunning on the docks, and tons of smelly fish. We ate “real” clam chowder at Mo’s, fresh pulled taffy from the taffy shop, and ice cream from the Tillamook Cheese Factory. After we had only been there less than 24 hours and Andrew had soaked 3 of his 4 pair of shorts I had brought him (nothing ever dries because it is too cool and humid) I was scolding him for getting in the water AGAIN when he had promised he wouldn’t. He said “but Mom, I didn’t get in the water, the water came up and got me!” What can I say? Another great thing we did in August was go to the Twin Falls Temple open house. What a blessing it was to take our children to tour the temple! Afterwards we talked about everyone’s favorite part and the strong spirit that is in the temple. How blessed we are to be a forever family! Right after we got back from Oregon, school, soccer, piano and gymnastics started. Gone are the lazy days of summer. LWe are back into the regular schedule. Andrew and Becca started Kindergarten. After Jeni picked them up on their first day Becca said “We did NOT learn to Read and we didn’t even do Math!” I think her older sister had planted some pretty high expectations in her head. They are all doing great (but Poor Daniel is pretty lonely). At the beginning of September Kenny got a wild hair in his nose to post our car and van on Craigslist one Saturday morning. We had been keeping the van because the AC died in his car and it was too hot to drive in the 100+ weather in the summer. Both vehicles sold that weekend and we were left with only the Suburban. We have been a one car family for the last month. It has not been too bad. Jeni doesn’t go many places that she can’t go on her bike and Daniel is happy to ride in the bike seat on the back. We have been looking nonstop for a vehicle that we can payoff in 6 months or less and is a reliable car. Last night we purchased a Nissan Altima, it is a 2001 but it only has 37,000 miles on it! It will be a great car for Kenny to go to work in and potentially be the teenager car in about 5 years. (We don’t really want to think about that!) We hope you are all doing great!

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