Salt Air

We tagged along with our friend Lindsey out to Salt Air. Finally Anna was cooperating and let her take some pictures. I am really happy with how they turned out, now I just have to narrow it down and get some printed.

Duck Creek Family Reunion

Over Labor Day weekend we headed down to Duck Creek, which is in the mountains above Cedar City, for a Romero Family Reunion. We rented a cabin that sleeps 16 and there were 26 of us (including babies). We had tons of fun just eating, playing games, and just hanging out relaxing! Thanks to my Aunt Leona who planned the whole thing! She even made a "Romero Family Reunion" banner for the front of the cabin!

Shaun and my brother-in-law Kyle headed up to Brianhead to do a little downhill biking. Kyle endoed and hurt his hip so he was done after one run. Some of us headed up to Brianhead later just to hang out and hike around.

Hanging out at Brianhead!

On the way back from brianhead we stopped at this pretty lookout to take some pics!

My brother Patrick was the only one not there out of our whole extended family. He is on his mission in Costa Rica. We didn't want him to miss the family pics so Whitney went and got a cardboard cutout of him. His head ended up being a little smaller than life size but oh well, it was fun having him there anyway!

We played a mean game of horseshoes, the winners won $44 to split. Darren and I took the whole thing. I even had a couple of ringers, I've never even played horseshoes before, but now am a champ!

My grandparents and all their grandkids (including shrunken head flat Patrick)

We had a great time and hope to do it again next year!

This is the second year that we have gone with Shaun's parent's ward on their Park City bike ride. We had such a great time last year we tagged along again this year.

Anna loves riding the bike with Shaun, he makes things so much more fun.

This year a few more family members joined us on our ride.

We met at the pavilion on Bull Shyt Alley

Anna loved having her cousin Kaydee along for the ride

We had sloppy joes and hot dogs waiting for us when we finished!

1st Day of School

Anna started pre-school this fall. I can't believe she is old enough to go to school, crazy how time flies. We are both so excited for her to start this new adventure. She goes Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours. 2 hours that I can do whatever I want :)

1st day of school pictures

on our way

We stopped at Leila's house to walk to school with us.

We walked to school with our friends

My favorite picture, she just got to class and is so excited to be in pre-school

This is her class and her teacher Miss Kathy, her other teacher is Miss Connie. While she was sitting in the circle she looked up and saw me watching her through the window, I blew her a kiss, she blew one back and waved goodbye. She felt comfortable and excited to be there.

Anna's first piece of schoolwork

She loves going to school and being with her friends. This month they are learning about bears, the letter A, the color brown and a few other things. She is all smiles going to school and has a great time while she is there. She loves to tell people that she is in pre-school.

Our own parade

Our neighbor across the street is a Fireman and was scheduled to drive this sweet fire truck in a parade. After the parade he gave us a call to let us know he had brought it home to show Anna. He was nice enough to give us a ride around the block. We felt like we were in our own little parade, Anna was able to ring the bell and push the siren. Too bad no one was out to watch our parade, it was okay because we still had fun!!

This is a 1936 fully restored fire engine.

Our stay at Primary Children's Hospital

Anna woke up Saturday itching really bad. I put her in the shower and she went back to sleep. We had a long day the day before at Lagoon so she was still tired. When she woke up later the rash had gotten worse. I called and talked to a nurse and she said to give her Benadryl. After 2 doses of that it was still getting worse, plus her right had was swollen.

This was before it got too bad.
I took her into the clinic that evening and they prescribed her the steroid Prednisone. She was still happy, but itchy, that night. She woke up Sunday morning at 3am in so much pain and the rash was worse. Her eyes were almost swollen shut, both her hands and feet were swollen now too. She would just cry and ask us to please take her spots off. Her hands were really hurting her and she started to throw up. After she threw up the first time, she looked at Shaun and said "I'm sorry daddy." It was so sad. Finally at 7:30 we got ready and took her up to Primary's.

The doctors diagnosed her with something called Erythema Multiforme. Which I guess is just an allergic reaction to something foreign, nothing specific. They prescribed her an anti-itch medication and we went home. That day Anna wanted to be carried everywhere since her feet were swollen and hurt so bad. She still itched, the medication didn't really do much.

We gave her a bath in Aveeno Oatmeal to try to help with the itching.

Sunday night Anna wanted to sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I didn't want to leave her there alone in case it was another bad night. Sure enough it was horrible. I felt bad, my mom slept with Anna and I went in the other room. I was exhausted from the previous nights. They were up all night and even watched a movie at 2am. She finally fell asleep from 4-6:45, then woke up screaming for me. We took her back into the clinic that morning and the Dr. that saw us sent us back to Primary's to have her admitted.

They sent quite a few doctors in to see her, they were even going to have a Rheumatologist come in since her joints, knees, hands, feet, face, etc... were so swollen. When the dermatologist came in she said right away that it wasn't Erythema Multiforme and diagnosed her with Acute Serum Sickness. Anna had just gotten done taking the drug Omnicef for an ear infection. She had been on it before and was fine, but not this time. She had an allergic reaction to it and broke out in this horrible rash.

We went on wagon rides through the hospital and just hung out.

We went into the hospital on Monday and we were able to leave on Wednesday. By Wednesday she was feeling much better and was getting back to her crazy self. It felt so good to be home!!

We had lot's of visitor's and gifts. Thank you to all those that came and helped pass the time. She loved to see you all and so did we.

Outta there

Lagoon 2009

Last year we wasted $22 on a Lagoon pass for Anna. This year it was well worth the $22 spent. Anna had a great time at Lagoon and wanted to ride on all the big rides. There were a few rides that she was too short to ride on, so we put a diaper under her hat and she was suddenly taller when going through the line. I couldn't let go of her head when it was under there, but it got the job done.

Wheeler Farm

My cousin Anthony had offered to take some pictures of Anna. Since I am horrible getting her picture taken we were more than happy to let him. We met at Wheeler Farm and Anna was anything but pleasant. She was so happy until Anthony showed up with the camera. She buried her face in my neck and cried and wouldn't let me put her down. She did not cooperate in the least. I was so sad! I had to put her down and run so I wouldn't be in the pic. We got a few but it could have turned out better. It was crazy because she was so excited and talked about it the whole way there, but when it came down to it she went nutz.

This explains the whole day

She did get excited to go in the little tree house

4th of July

On the 4th of July we did what we always do, went to the Granite Parade. This year Grandpa Neil drove all the grand kids on the float that Grandma decorated. They had a great time. Anna was more interested in eating the candy than throwing it. Shaun finally convinced her to throw it once they were half way through the parade.

After the parade we went swimming. Shaun had asked Anna if she wanted to jump off the diving board and she said no. Then she found out Ryder was going to do it so she quickly changed her mind. After a couple of jumps she yelled "hey everybody watch me!" she surprised us all by doing a front flip. I didn't catch the flip on film but I did get Shaun's look of surprise and excitement when she did it.

**These are videos of her doing her flips, jump and a dive**

Jump

Dive

When she did her flip Shaun said it was his proudest moment as a father, even more so then her first time on skis. No one had told her to do it, she did it all on her own and surprised us all. I love to watch her swim, she puts her head in the water and wiggles it back and forth while kicking her legs. It's super cute, I can't believe how long she can hold her breath.

Flip

Flip #2