Another Memorial Day, Pool Party at the Romberg's

I've heard it said,

that if a certain event happens more than once,

and a pattern gets started,

it's a tradition . . . .

Hum, I think we have a tradition.

Some of the girls, Ema, Kylie, Brandi with Ella too

My Waders

Dane

Dylan, not so used to this kind of play

Heeman, Kevin!

Watch this guys!

Here's Dane-O

Non-stop action

Pretty boy Wade, look at his eye lashes.

If there's a football to be found, Adam will find it. He's so cute!

All the swimmers

Greg and Brandi with their babies.

Julie and Dustin with theirs, too. No swimming for baby Parker yet.

Happy Grandma Holly!

Our Youngest Two Grandbabies

Adam is two now are was really enamored with his new baby cousin Parker. He kept wanting to hold him all by himself. You could almost read the love and recognition between Adam and Parker, very special.

Sweet Boys

Disneyland with Greg and Jess and the boys

In May we were lucky enough to have Greg, Jessica and their boys here with us for a little over two weeks. We have so much fun with them when they're here. All of the girls and their families always want to be here too, to enjoy the time with them so it's just one great big family reunion the whole time. All eleven of our grandchildren really love their cousins too, and just love to spend time playing (and fighting) whenever we have the chance, they call each other "my friends" it's so cute.

This is a picture of Adam who's 2, on the tram ride into Disneyland.

It's our "favorite ride" because we always go on it twice, hahaha

The picture taking begins even before we enter the park.

Chelsie, Jessica's sister, came down with Jess and spent a few days here too.

Here they are with Dumbo.

Greg and Dylan ready to go too!

Grandpa Gene with Adam in line for the carousel

Some of my favorite boys/men, they make my life so happy!

Greg and his boys, what a lucky daddy!

I know, it's a little blurry, but I had to share it, they're in Buzz Light Year.
Racking up the points
In the Monkey cage/train car, on Casey Jr.

Here's a cute video of Jess and Chels with the boys on the teacups.

I am brave enough to venture onto the teacups with the boys, too. My secret, let them do the spinning. It's not that bad when you go with the little ones and they do the spinning!

It was nice to spend the day enjoying the experience with our out of towners . . .

but it was sad that all of our other families haven't renewed their passes this year. It is expensive but so worth it when family comes to town. I think they all regretted not having active Disney passes on this day and are saying they are going to renew as soon as they can.

We Can't Blame "Our Kid's Friends" for this one!

Look what we woke up to! It's been years since we've had lovin' like this and back then we had our teenage kids to go clean it up!

It was a really good job, very artistic too.

I'm Slacking Again

We have been so busy that I haven't taken the time to stay caught up with this blog. Jessica, the amazing, wonderful wife and mommy that she is has captured our last few weeks beautifully on her blog.

See her link on the right side of mine, go to hers and you will be all caught up with some of what we've been up too.

I'll get back in the groove soon.

A Rainbow Cloud

The other day while visiting our favorite fine dining establishment, Del Taco in Newport Beach, where I go to meet Gene at lunch time quite often, we saw this strange cloud.

Gene looked out the window and said,

"Wow, look at that cloud!"

So of course, being the "techies" that we are, we took a picture. The owner inside thought we were taking a picture of some homeless guy that has decided to call

"our Del Taco", his home.

Has any one ever seen a cloud that looks like a rainbow?

We never had before, . . . but now we all have!

Our Fun Ward Youth Fundraiser/Luau 2010

Both Gene and I have the privilege of working with the youth in our church.

He is the Young Men's President and I am a counsellor in the Young Women's leadership. It is so fun, and we really enjoy it. It takes up a lot of our free time but we have really grown to love these young kids as our own,

and we both cherish our time with them.

This first video is of the Young Men of our ward, doing a Samoan slap dance.

Some awesome Young Adult guys from Long Beach came over several times to teach our boys this dance. Then they came to our Luau to help out and support our effort.

I love my Samoan brothers and sisters, they are so generous and kind. Our wonderful MC that evening was Sepa/Lisa who grew up in our ward and graduated from Westminster High School, she was even the Homecoming Queen in 1993/94.

She, along with several others flew all the way from Utah to help us out with our Luau.

Our Samoan guests/helpers were also our wonderful entertainment for the evening aside from our youth who did their dances. A Polynesian custom that we've learned as a ward, is to throw money onto the stage to show appreciation for the dancers. The boys really raked in the money. At the end of the evening they called all of the Bishopric, Activities Committee and all of us youth leaders up on to the stage to do our impromptu dance . . . . All of our efforts raised just under 4 thousand dollars that evening and we had a lot of fun too!

The Westminster Ward has had many, many luaus through out the years but this one is the funnest one I can remember!!!

Yipee!

One of our favorite places to eat is Cafe Rio. Until reciently that meant that we needed to be in Utah to enjoy this cuisine. Earlier this year one Cafe Rio opened in Lake Forest which meant a serious time commitment, but now we have one closer in Costa Mesa, yea . . . it's really close to Gene's office.

We Stopped by tonight on our way home from work, yum, good as always!

Welcome to the World Parker Dane Boling

Parker with his Grandma Holly

So Peaceful, hope it lasts!

Could they look happier or more pleased?

I think Grandpa Gene approves

Our oldest and youngest grand children, Ema with Parker.

April 6th, What a Beautiful Day to Welcome Our Newest Grandson

Our beautiful Julie has waited a long time for this wonderful experience.

Today she became a mommy.

She had her weekly appointment with her OB doc. yesterday and she was told that she was very ready to have her baby, (she could have told the Dr. that!) But of course if nothing happened to go in on Friday if she wanted to get things started for real. So she went back to work and put in her full day, until 5 p.m.

As all first time mommies can attest, we really don't know what to expect and when things do start to happen we wonder if it's really labor. She felt some discomfort all afternoon which she passed off as resulting from her doctor's examination, but they had a normal evening. She called me at about 12:30 asking me some questions about how she was feeling. After her initial explanation and questions I said, "that sounds like real labor, you better go to the hospital!" She called her Dr. and she said, "Go to the hospital." She was so worried about it being false labor but they decide to err on the side of caution and got there by about 1 a.m.

She is so tough, she actually walked into the hospital, went up the elevator and got checked in to find she was indeed in labor and dilated to 8 centimeters. Her first question was, "can I still have my epidural?" Dustin called us to report in and tell us she was really in labor and we were on our way. By the time we got in to see them she had indeed received her epidural meds. was way more comfortable, and dilated to 10! By now it was only about 3 a.m.

We found her resting comfortably and we visited with them and took some pictures until about 4:15 when she was feeling the need to push. The nurse excused us to the hallway and instructed her on how to push. Then she came and told us we could wait in the waiting room but that it probably wouldn't be very long because she was a really good pusher!!! That proved to be the case because she said it only took four contractions more to give birth. What a champ!

Here's what all the fuss is about . . .

Parker Dane Boling

7 lbs 6 oz and 20 inches long

born at 4:55 a.m. on April 6, 2010

He shares his birthday with our Savior Jesus Christ, how wonderful is that?

She did such a wonderful job, only a few pushes and there he was.

What a difference a few hours makes, now they are a party of three!