Happenings

Besides all the boring regular day in the life of the Rogers' family. . .we've had a few exciting moments over the weekend. And since I've heard that people really hate you if everything you blog about is wonderful and fabulous -- I promise that once you make it past all the fun things, there will be lots of real life junk too!

* We booked our tickets for Belize!
We are traveling with 4 really fun friends which will make the whole thing so much more fun. We're currently deciding where to stay.
Where we will not be staying: Francis Ford Copolla's Resort
Possibilities: Hamanasi, Ka'ana, Kanantik
Places I want to see: Mayan Ruins, the coral reefs

* Nate grew up over night. Sunday we went to his baptism preview. They were talking about Cub Scouts and my brain was just reeling. It's probably because we still have 10 months before the big event. Also, I think he has his first babysitter crush. We tried a new babysitter on Saturday and Nate kept trying to track her down at church on Sunday. She is really cute.

* My kids attended the Stake Articles of Faith Ice Cream Sundae Reception. Please excuse the poor phone photo I stole from someone's facebook. Ellie and Nate both worked really hard and memorized all 13 this year. I was the Articles of Faith Specialist last year and I loved working with these kids. They are all spectacular. I *LOVE* our Ward.

* We started our trial "Meal Swap" with out neighbors. Basically Monday and Thursday I make double my dinner and Tuesday and Wednesday she makes double her dinner and we just drop the extra one off at their house. I'm excited and nervous. . . Tonight we made a chicken stir fry, but usually when you make people a meal you bring more than one pot. But, chicken stir fry is an entire meal for us -- chicken, brown rice and veggies. So that counts right? If we're going to do this every week I shouldn't be making some fancy huge dinner all the time. Realism from the start. Thursday I'm planning on a salad, breadsticks and baked pasta to make up for today's simplicity. Plus I'm running a half on Saturday and I need the carbs. I'm really REALLY excited because I do not have to cook for the next two days!!

* OK, so here we go. The bummers of the week: Ellie had a Science Fair. I totally spaced it and we missed it. Ellie went on a field trip to the State Capital. I didn't volunteer to go. And I am currently making her stay up late to three digit multiplication problems.

* And in case you aren't on Facebook, this will also entertain you. My kid was *that* kid at Church on Sunday.

I was slightly frenzied Sunday morning: We have 9 am Church. Dustin is in meetings all morning, so I have to feed and dress 4 kids, plus we needed some printing done on the envelopes for the Girls Camp Fundraiser and they hadn't gotten dropped off until I was in bed Saturday night. I was also teaching so I was gathering all my gear and Dustin was doing a combined lesson on our Ward Mission Goals, so he sent me some stuff to print off. . . Are you getting the state of my house Sunday morning? Because I could throw in there that Luke's nose was running like a faucet and he was hacking up a lung plus a million other things (we've all had those Sundays --right?? PLEASE say YES). Oh and we actually we're leaving for Church early because I needed to make photocopies and my kids apparently need a snack at 8:15 in the morning. BUT the main point is -- I told my kids four or five times to put their shoes on because we were leaving.

I finally get everything loaded up and get Luke all buckled in the car, drive to church and guess who has NO shoes on.Oh wait, that wasn't hard to guess at all. I enjoyed some of these great moments later on. Like when Sadie tells me, "Ellie laughed at me." Ellie said, "No. I laughed at Daddy's funny joke when he saw you." Sadie said, "Dad didn't make a joke. He said, 'Nice shoes.' But they weren't shoes. They were just feet." Or when someone asked her if she forgot her shoes and she said, "Yeah, and my feet are cold."