Stake Conference

We had the most amazing and humbling stake conference this last weekend! We were graced with the presence of Elder David A. Bednar! What an amazing man!!! He had a way about telling you what you should be doing very bluntly without making you feel like he was belittling you if you weren't doing what you should and he still kept the spirit in his message. I can say without a doubt in my mind that he is an apostle of the lord and was sent to my little ol' town to put me straight and make me think about how deep my roots are in the gospel and to remind me that just having a testimony is not enough anymore. It is essential but not enough, I have to sink my roots down and LIVE the gospel. I was so grateful to him for coming and enriching and edifying mine and my family's lives. He was a true spokesman for our Heavenly Father.

Catch up!!!!

I didn't realize it had been since November that I posted last. So I thought I would do a real quick post. Our holidays were really fun and went really well and that is how our new year has been so far!

Lets see . . .

IT SNOWED!!!

Back in December and that was the last time besides random dustings and by morning it was gone so we didn't even get a chance to build a snow man. The boys were out playing in it till 9:00 p.m. then I made them come in. They weren't very happy.
Then we had Christmas! There were to many pictures to choose from to add any but it was a great Christmas. The boys loved their gifts and we enjoyed the family time. We had a blast at our annual Rogers Family Christmas Party! I need to get pictures from someone, this year we had the ugliest sweater contest. It was hilarious!

"The Polar Express"

Every year we get our kiddos one big present and a few smaller ones and this year they got tickets to go ride The Polar Express!!! They had so much fun. They were so excited and it was a lot more fun this go round for all of us cause they were older and way, way more excited.


They drew pictures for Santa . . .

Anxiously waited for the train to start . . .

Gave a "CHEERS" to good times . . .

And finally got to meet SANTA!


All the kids were given a bell from Santa as a gift!
We had a ton of fun and will being taking another train ride sooner than later if Darrell has his way. We loved everything about it!

Two days after the polar express, we packed our bags and drove all the way to . . .
Dallas, TX!!!
It was so much fun! The farthest east I had ever been was New Mexico so it was that much more exciting for me! We went to visit Joe's little brother and his wife for the blessing of their baby girl. I would snatch her up every second I could, it was love at first sight! ha ha ha She is the prettiest little thing! I even got her to laugh at me! It was a fun trip, all of Joes siblings and his parents were able to make it and it was so much fun to get to spend a few days together.

We went to the Dallas Zoo . . .





Tad got in some Uncle Drew time!

Had a little family get together complete with family pictures at the Stake Center, I snapped a few of the kids while they burnt some energy that I will post later, this is getting kinda long . . .


And I took as many pictures of Brooklyn as I could!
She is as sweet as blueberry cobbler smothered in vanilla ice cream!
We love you Drew and Staci!!!! Thanks for the great time!!!!
We have now returned to real life and back into the swing of things with school and work and what have you. We are almost finished with the bathroom remodel but I will save that for another
"Real Quick Post"

While Mom's away . . .

Tad will play!

Actually mom was just in the other room helping Darrell with his homework. She was distracted enough to not realize little man was in the office playing on the computer! Every window that could be opened was open and the last one I came to were these pictures taken by our computer!
What a goob!

Is it to late?

So I have been a little lazy at posting, I am just getting around to Halloween but I don't want it to go undone!

This year Darrell wanted to be a vampire. He has been telling me he has wanted to be a vampire since about June. So we made him a quite scary vampire! He looked so different with dark hair!!! I kept staring at him cause he just looked so strange to me! He thought I was crazy, I thought what happened to my sweet little boy? This demon keeps growling at me! Still very cute but I love his lovely blonde locks!

Tad really wanted to be green lantern. He has never seen the movie but this is who he really wanted to be. I don't know why he decided to choose this, but he was cute even if he doesn't know what the green lantern is all about. I don't even know what the green lantern is all about. Maybe I should watch the movie! ha ha ha.

I got the chance to make cookies for my first ever class party! I guess it was Darrells first ever class party but I think I was just as excited as he was about it. I find myself being emotional for my kids. Does that make sense? I get sad for them when something is sad for them, I get excited for them when something exciting is happening to them and I get embarrassed for them when they get embarrassed. Is that just a parent thing? None the less, I am very very excited that he is getting to experience fun things in his life like school parties, friends and reading. He is doing well with reading and enjoys doing it for a short time.

Ok I kind of got side tracked in this post. That doesn't take much for me to do through out my whole day though! ha ha ha They had a ton of fun getting to run door to door trick or treating and can't wait for next year. Now on to another favorite holiday, THANKSGIVING!!! I have an excuse to stay in the kitchen all day cooking and ignore everything else that needs to be done around the house, my idea of heaven!