Condo 2009

Every year before Christmas my parents rent a suite at a condo just out side of Driggs. It is a lot of fun every year. My brother Riley got to come home for Christmas from his army base in North Carolina.

My little brother and sister are being silly with the sparkling cider.

Emily and Benjamin playing the game cube.

Benjamin took Emily and Joseph on a hike through the woods around the condo.

A week of leave.

My brother Riley got to come home for a week after he graduated from Airborne. It was so great to have him home for a while.We had fun going to lunch, playing lazer tag, watching movies, and just hanging out. He is in the 3rd brigade of the 82nd Airborne division. He will be in North Carolina for a while. The rest of his brigade is in Iraq right now, but they are almost done, so Riley wont be deployed for quite a while.

The Fourth of July!!!

Apricot Cheesecake!

Floating the canal with Amberlee and Autumn

Strawberry Shortcake

Fireworks!

My sister Emily and one of her chickens

Autumn and Anthony heading to the canal

We had a blast during our fourth of July break! We went to the parade in the morning, then went to a Barbeque at the Romney home. We had apricot cheesecake and steaks! Then everyone floated the canal (I took pictures). Then we crashed the next barbeque at my Nikki and Eric's (my aunt and uncle). There was red, white, and blue cheesecake! (have you guessed that cheesecake is my favorite?) It started pouring, so we moved inside. Then we went to the Rexburg fireworks with my family and lit off our own at my parents house.

A call from Riley!!!!!!!!

A couple weeks ago, I got to talk on the phone with my little brother Riley!!! He has finished basic training, and he will finish Infantry training at the end of this month. Then he gets a small break for graduation before he starts airborn training. He is at Fort Benning in Georgia in the army. He looks so tough. He got 36 hours leave and he bought minutes on a temporary cell phone. It was so great to talk to him. I love my brother so much!

Heartless

Well another season of American Idol came and went. I thought I would post a performance by the winner (jk/ its just my 13 year old brother Joseph trying to immitate the winner. He is a spaz).

Flower Show

bubble wrap wall paper painting

the path to the green houses. It was like walking through a rainbow. There was a section with all the different colors of the rainbow. There was even a colored waterfall fountain.

Graduation party. Can you believe the rubix cube is a cake!?!

These are the tabels for the Grad party. There were all sorts of bright colors on the other ones.

Grad party Art

The wall is swirly paint covered in bubble wrap. It looked awesome with bean bags, lava lamps, bright colors. The lights were lower but my camera flash ruined the atmosphere.

Kylie, my sister in law, worked on this room. It was an asian wedding reception. It was beautiful!

Another gorgeous table setting for the Asian design roomg

This was part of the Asian Room that Kylie worked on

Aren't these colors awesome together?

I loved the seashells in this boquet.

Broadway Flowers!!!

Every year ByuI puts together a flower and bridal Show. You walk throught the different wedding receptions that they set up. This year the theme was "Gathering with a Melody in Your Heart" They used music as the theme and created different events. There was a country western wedding, an Asian dinner party/reception, a jazz new years eve swing dance, a techno graduation party, an elegant classical wedding receiption, a summer beach party, and a whole bunch of other displays and walk ways. Each horticulter student had to do a project. My sisters Kylie and Bethany both made beautiful boquets and the put together the fun rooms. Some did interprative arrangments that were displayed along with the art work that inspired them. My friend Mary Ann created an amazing broken glass mosaic with flowers. There were so many beautiful displays. It is awesome to have a Father inlaw who is the head of the hort program. My husband brings home lots of flowers! I am sad that my camera ran out of bateries before I got to kylie and bethany's boquets. Check out these blogs:
The Girl Who Loves Flowers
Flower Prof: Ben Romney
Doug Stewart's Landscape Portfolio

My Sister's New Blog

My sister Emily started her own blog. It is super cute! I love that girl so much!
Its over on the side under my Family Blogger Links.

Party!

Have your cake and eat it, too! 

Ping Pong Tournament

The Cake

Happy Birthday Jonathon

Happy Birthday Papa Ben and Amy Jo

For Family Night last Monday we celebrated Jonathon, PapaBen, and Amy's Birthday at the Romney Place. We all opened our gifts and and played table tennis. It was so much fun. Kylie and Anth got me a whole bunch of rice krispies (my favorite), Pete and Jonathon got me my favorite kind of lotion, my parents in law got me a digital tv converter and an antanea so that we can have a few channels on our tv (also a cute watch, money to help with a dresser, and some clothes.) My neice Lydia even made me an adorable homemade book mark! Thank you everyone. 

My husband gets a little wound up playing ping pong. 

Birthday Bash

Benjamin bought me this book! He wants me to read it to him when we finish Inkheart.

My visiting teachers brought me a whole plateful of these cute cupcakes and the matching purple flowers shown above. I love purple and green together!

Happy Birthday Grandma Jo!

My little sister made me a wooden pokey stick. She cut down the willow, peeled off the bark, rounded the bottom, carved the markings, and widdled it to a point. Thanks Emily!!! I love it!!!!! Your the best!

What a season of celebration! A few weeks ago my new cousin Kyle was born. On Feb 26th it was my Birthday and my Grandma Jolene Nissen's Birthday. The 28th was my visiting teacher Vivian's Birthday. Yesterday (March 1) was Papa Ben's Birthday, Tomorrow is my Aunt Nikki's Birthday, The 4th is my Brother in Law Jonathon's b-day, The 5th is my best bud Catherine's birthday, and soon my new nephew Stewart #3 will be born. April 2 is Grandpa Gary, Tax day is mama Kaye, and April 27 is my brother Riley. We will celebrate for him early becuase he might be at boot camp on his birthday. Oh and I almost forgot my nephews Jacob and Myles recently both had Birthdays and my sister Kylie. Happy Birthday Everyone!( Sorry If I missed anyone. ) 

I have always had awesome birthdays.

 16th birthday: the high school caught on fire. I was at school just long enough to get a few gifts from my friends and a first date with my sweetheart (now my husband). We were let out of school for the rest of the day and a few days after to let the smoke air out. That day a bunch of my friends went over to Little Ceasers and bought a bunch of 5 dollar Pizzas. At the time it was right next door to my dad's office. He saw Jessie Rudd outside with pizza and he asked what was going on. She said that the school was burning down and school was let out and a bunch of people were going to suprise me. My dad hurried an called me to tell me they were coming. He knows that I only like mild suprise parties. He gave me chance to clean up the house real quick and get cute before the boy I had a crush on (agian, my husband) came over with flowers, pizza, and a big group of people. 

17th Birthday: I was going to go on a date with Benj on my birthday. The day before, when I asked him what time he would pick me up, he made up some excue like, "oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Maybe another time ok?" Then he just walked away without another word. I was terrified that he didn't like me anymore. So instead I went to lunch with Brodie, Jeff, Lindsay, Mal, and Kendra (my theatre friends). After a few hours of hanging out at Jeff's house, my dad called and said that he had a scary feeling that something bad was going to happen and that he wanted me to come home right away. I thought I was going to die on my birthday! So I hurried home. I opened the garage door to pull the car in and inside was the giant 15 seater Romney van. Benjamin was standing there with flowers and a bunch of my other friends, my brother and cousins. We loaded up the van and Benj took us to Blast Off for a few rounds of Lazer Tag and pizza. It was so fun! Then we took everyone home and Benj and I watched a movie together. 

This year I got a new Camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you mom and dad! We are really excited to be able to take good pictures. It is an Olympus FE-20. It has 8 megpixels and a bunch of different settings. I don't know much about photography terminology so i am not sure what that even means. But I sure do love it.  Benjamin also made me breakfast, and took me out to dinner. He got me that book shown above, a bunch of lotions that I like, the Paul Mitchell Hair stuff I like, a gift card for The Hair Academy so that I can go pamper myself, and some craft stuff (Cyrstal Laquer). Thansk everyone! 

Sweet Heart Dinner

I wanted to make a special dinner for Benjamin on our 10 month Anniversary and for Valentines Day. I a fancy invitation. He was supposed to RSVP to the owner of the fancy resturaunt (my sister). I was just going to do it at our home, then I got the idea to try to do it in the Jungle Greenhouse on campus. When that didn't workout I decided to go out to my parent's house to make the food and set up. I was running out of time, I hadn't started cooking, and Benjamin still hadn't RSVP'd. I was frustrated and Benjamin was confused becuase he didn't even get the invite. I was about to give up and just make a dinner to take home. My sweet brother Riley took over. He recruted Emily and Joseph, my other siblings, and they turned the bonus room where Riley's band practices into an amazing dinner for two. He used things around the house, the fun V Day decorations I had brought, and sheets. He covered up the instruments and exercise stuff, put little flickering electric candles everywhere. Brought up chairs and a table cloth. Covered the lights with red crape paper to give the light a red pink hue. It was beautiful. the flowers Benjamin brought topped it off wonderfully. Michael Buble was playing in the background. We had Sangria in big goblets with heart shaped ice cubes and heart curly straws. I made pesto-basil stuffed tomatos, and shrimp pasta. Riley cooked most of it. I used the leftover salad my family ate at dinner. Emily made a blueberry, blackberry, pudding parfait with heart and lips sprinkles. They quickly served the food and left us to be alone. They were amazing. They seriously whipped it all together in 30 minutes. I really love my brothers and sister. Thanks for saving the day, Riley! We love you!

Happy Birthday To Amy Jolene and Jolene

I am so luck to have such a sweet grandma to share my birthday with!!! Happy Birthday Grandma Jolene! Yay for February 26!

This is the picture my little nephews (thanks to abe and chelsea) sent me while Benjamin was on his mission. It was a bold statement. I wasn't their aunt then, and there was a chance I never would be. Boy, am I glad that their prediction was right. I sure love them! And I sure love their parents, Abe and Chelsea! Most of all, I love my sweet Benjamin!

Look at the cute necklace that my sister-in law Chelsea gave me for my birthday! She makes the cutest necklaces out of scrabble pieces, modge podge, bails, and cute paper (and other things.). This one is made from glass instead of a scrabble piece. I love it! I made some around Christmas, but I haven't finished them yet, I'll post them soon! Thanks Chelsea!!!



And to top it off I got the most beautiful drawings from my adorable nieces Amberlee and Autumn Stewart in Moscow, Idaho! Thanks Girls!

My Sweet Peach

Benjamin and Emily building models of molecules with an organic chemistry model set. 

I love my little sister Emily sooooooooooo much! She is so special to me. We all call her Peach because when she was born her hair stuck straight up all over her head and it was so thin and blonde. It looked like peach fuzz! And because she is so sweet! She was born when I was 10 after two brothers. I love Riley and Joe a ton, too. I just needed a sister, too. She is my best friend. She has such a kind and sweet heart. She is so willing to help people. She is very funny and witty. She loves science and hates math (Helen Stewart is her 5th grade teacher right now and is great to do lots of experiements. Emily loves it.) Benjamin is always trying to do a new science experiment with her. She is amazing with animals. She has 6 chickens and takes care of them better than anyone else. She takes horse riding lessons when the weather is warm. She is so good arts and crafts. She has a lot of patience. She just started learning the piano and she is doing such a great job! I love you, Peach!