First Anniversary

We still smile like that to each other.

This year - Dinner out in Coronado on Saturday night...
(Do our faces look a little rounder than a year ago?!)

Sunday afternoon at Balboa Park touring the International Houses...

...And the fanciest dinner I've ever made that night.

It was a great first year of marriage!

My Least Favorite Day of The Year

When my favorite man of
my future,
met my favorite man of
my past.








Today is always a rough day. August 26th, 2006 is the day my father unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack. My heart still hurts if I think of that week. I won't post about that today. Or ever. But I'm always reminded of that whole experience on this day in August. And it's four years later and I still miss him. We all do. I don't think about him all too often, but on this day, I always do. Although it brings sad memories on this particular day, it's really nice to think of him and be sad today so I remember how much he'll always mean to me. Every time a big decision comes up, I wonder if he would be proud of how I handled it. He was so good at giving advice for big decisions. And most important to me, would he love that I married Peter? I think he would. I really think he would love Peter and be proud of me for bringing him into his family.

It was particularly sad morning because I dropped my mom off for a knee surgery she didn't really want to have without her husband next to her. We both were sorta scared for the procedure (she would NOT like if I told people about her surgery. But I know she doesn't read blogs, so her secret's safe with you, the world of the Blog). We were all together last night and thought it was sweet that she got the procedure done today and will be under anesthesia and close to my dad.

Aren't we lucky to know about the Plan of Salvation?
Or, The Plan of Happiness as I like to call it.

unADVENTUROUS

We're coming up on our first anniversary and I'm thinking on this past year of marriage. Before we got married, I used to travel all the time (helps that it was my job, when I lived in Manhattan), eat fun and new foods, always meeting new people, go dancing often and stay up late doing things I laugh about now. It was great! Lived life to the fullest! Wouldn't trade my memories or experiences anything (especially a baby)! Now it's been a year and I realize I've give up my adventurous streak. I don't do any of those things anymore...

AND I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER!!

I love, love, love doing nothing and everything with Peter. And we don't even have to go anywhere, we love being in our apartment. We love being in our home, eating a home, walking on the beach or the bay from our home, playing games, doing puzzles, watching shows, talking with interesting friends. It surprises me- It's not what I would have thought I'd become, but it's what I'd heard about. But in thinking if the trade was worth it? Yes! Almost 365 days of yes! I'm really happy and it's all because I married Peter, my best friend.

We might be breaking the Word of Wisdom

In doing the dishes from our Mexican Chicken Casserole, we realized we've had Mexican food every-night for a 7 days! Cafe Coyote in Old Town, Taco Salad, Carne Asada Tacos (Costco's meat is amazing!), Salsa Chicken, leftovers... We've still got Fish Tacos and a Nacho Dip in the line up for next week.

I don't think I knew we were that into Mexican Food?! Maybe because it's so easy to make? Maybe because it's cheap to make? Or maybe because fresh Avo and Cilantro is the best combination in the world, to me!

First Step to becoming a Speech Pathologist

I just bought my text books! I start my 3 online courses through USU's Second Bachelor's Program in Communication Disorders at the end of the month. I'm excited!!

I'll be taking-
-Language, Speech, and Hearing Development
-Fundamentals of Anatomy for Speech and Language
-Language Science

The first and last one sound much like my Linguistics courses at BYU. The scariest sounding one is the Anatomy for Speech and Language. I took Human Anatomy years ago and it was tough! The life saver was the lab, where I could go in and study. Since this is online, I'm not sure what my study options are. But I really want to do well. I feel like being married, not in Provo, not snowboarding 3 times a week and wanting to improve my career will be a much better motivator! Wish me luck!

Family Night at Moonlight

With four of the six Romney kids living in San Diego, we try to meet up about once a month for dinner. We took advantage of the beach had a lovely little evening last night.

Peter, Dave and Rob played on the skim board...

Owen giggled and was cute, like always...
Couldn't get Anne's boys to smile, they were too busy playing in the sand...

And shot with my wonderful mother!
Two of my favorite things in life-
SAN DIEGO AND FAMILY!!

Peter's Post

Peter detailed out our trip with a few pictures on his blog. And I bet anyone that looks my blog, would see the big ol' album I put on there. Fun trip! Aaaand, we're already planning our next summer's trip- Dubai... Guatemala... Those are the front runners. It's exciting just thinking about it all! Although we are SO HAPPY where we are! We had a great SD day and just love that this is our home.