Spirital Thought

To All my Childred and their Spouses:
Please read the article in the February
ensign on page 53 - "The Blessing of the
Blackberry Bush. It can really help you
in raising the precious Grand Children
that you have been blessed with.
"The Saints should always remember that
God sees not as man sees; that he does not
willingly afflict his children, and that if he
requires them to endure present privation and
trial, it is that they may escape greater
tribulations which would otherwise inevitably
overtake them. If He deprives them of any
present blessing, it is that he may bestow
upon them greater and more glorious one
by-and-by." - Elder George Q. Cannon
What a great thought and reminder about the
trial that we face.
I love you all! - Gramps - Dad

Grandpa and Grandma Romney

January 2009 was a great start of the year for
Gramps. I had three business trips to Atlanta-
Orlando and Kansas City. Tiffany, Dave, and
Benjamin came to Orlando for the week end that
I was there. We had a great time at Gator Land
and Down Town Disney at Disney World in Orlando.
Benjamin and I had a great time 'Camping' at the
Orlando Hilton - Gramps Style. He kept falling
off the log into the Creek. ( round pillow that
Gramps was moving with his feet )
GrandMa and I had a late birthday party for Dallin
in St. George on 1-31-09. Dallin wore Gramps out
at the Jumping Jacks park. I attended a Missionary
Meeting 1-31-09 where Elder L. Tom Perry spoke
and gave us great instruction on doing missionary
work.

I don't know where the month of January has gone. Great things have happened to start the new year. Paula and Mike's lilttle baby Katherine was born and all went well with that. What a great blessing to see the many, many miracles our Heavenly Father blessed Paula and Katherine with. We thank Him everyday in our prayers for those blessings. We went up to Reed and Summer's house this last weekend and spent Saturday and celebrated Dallin's birthday. He wanted to go to jumpin jacks which is a place with all kinds of jumpy castles. He had a great time. Then Dallin wanted to go to lunch and get chicken fingers at Chilies. We then went back and opened presents and had cake and ice cream. It was a fun day. I went too fast. Little Avery is getting so big and she is so cute. We had fund with her while we were taking Dallin to his places. REed and Summer went to lunch and the temple. We met up with them for the cake and ice cream. We are so blessed to have all of you as part of our family. What a blessing the gospel is in our lives. The older I get the more I realize how imporatant family is. May the Lord continue to bless each of you as you strive to llive the commandments. Love mom, grandma

Kenny, Jeni, Corbin, Anna, Becca, Andrew, and Daniel

Happy New Year 2009! The happy new year came for us the first week in 2009 when Daniel became potty trained! It only took about a week and he has had very few accidents. The Idaho Romney's officially have no children in diapers! The rest of January has flown by with the highlights being two skiing trips. Kenny and Jeni took Corbin and Anna once and then Andrew and Becca another time. They are all turning into great skiers. Poor Daniel has to wait a few more years to join the fun.

Reed, Summer, Dallin, and Avery

This month we celebrated Dallin’s 3rd birthday. Summer took Dallin and Avery up to Provo to her sister Whitney’s second wedding reception. It was fun but crazy. She probably won’t be going on a trip by herself with the kids for a long long long time. While there Summer’s family had a party for Dallin at The Olde Spaghetti Factory with a Madagascar cake and lots of presents! Reed went back to school (for 2 more semesters. Yeah!) At the end of the month grandma and grandpa Romney came up to celebrate Dallin’s birthday (again!) It was fun to have them come. Dallin and Avery went to Jumpin’ Jacks and Chili’s for lunch with grandma and grandpa while Reed and Summer went to the temple. Avery took her first bite of rice cereal the other day. She is going on 5 months in February. It makes Summer cry to think about it!

Mike, Paula, Joseph, Rachel, Julianna, and Katherine

This month we welcomed the newest member of our family as you all know. Katherine Diane was born on January 16th. She is doing really well. She is so little but I feel that she is growing and is really heathly. What a great baby that is in our home now. As with formula fed babies she eats about every 3 hours and is seldom fussy except for 2:00 in the morning. But she is worth getting up for.

Joseph has started back to school this past week. He is doing really well there. They are preparing to take the CSAPS so he is taking a lot of practice tests. He is excited about the fact that his special this week is gym, his favorite. He loves it because they get to run around all the time. It seems to get a lot of energy out which is a good thing. Spring Baseball begins at the end of March and he is looking forward to that starting.

The girls are doing well. They love thier new Primary class and thier teachers. They seem to respond really well to them. All my kids love going to Primary I went back to church yesturday for the first time. Mike stayed with the baby and I did my calling in Primary again. It felt good to be back and I know it has been hard on the presidency since I have been gone. I fit right back in though and it felt as if I had never left.

Hope all is well with everyone! We love you and miss you lots!

Love

The Denver Nelson's