Born to be Wild

yet again....behind

2011-12-28T13:30:00.009-07:00

Seems I'm always behind. I'm just slow I guess. Everything seems to be that way in my life haha. Ah well. I'm trying. So Claire turned one!!! And in November my baby boy turned 3!! Aw, that really makes me so sad. He's still my little nursery baby and as of this week he will be a sunbeam! I'm pretty sure I'll cry when I take him to his class for the first time. I've been fighting back tears for months. My baby boy is growing up. But he still likes to cuddle and give my kisses. I'll be so sad when he's older and won't let me do that anymore. Kael is such a funny kid. Seriously he's hilarious. The things he says and does just light up my day. Oh and he is got his stinker three year old attitude too. Oh man he can really push my buttons. I love that little boy so much. He has been keeping us busy that one. He loves his sister so much (most days) and he is her protector. He is obsessed with TV and movies right now. We have netflix instead of cable and he has been watching all the old super hero cartoons. So fun. But I wish he would go outside and play more. He loves to be outside once hes out there but just convincing him to go out there has been a challenge as of lately. I've never had to restrict his TV watching because he'll watch for a little bit then get bored and go play with his toys. But as of lately he has been big time restricted. He still takes a nap. I love that my three year old still takes a nap. I feel blessed because I know thats not a common thing. He is a major night owl though. Kael still loves his blankie though. And it has to be his "green" blankie. Such a goof.

Halloween was super fun this year. I made all of our costumes except Chase did most of his. Kael was a dinosaur, me and Claire were witches and Chase was the Koolaid man. I don't have a picture of all of us yet but I'll get one. Kael loved getting candy and Claire loved eating it.

Claire got a nice black eye. She fell off my mom's bed and hit her cheek bone just right. Everytime I looked at her I just felt so guilty. Poor thing.

Kael loves to dress up in uncle Hunter's boxing gear!! (i swear it wasn't Kael who gave her the black eye)

Big Boy Turned '3'!!!

Thanksgiving was at my mom's this year! We had my dad's family come down from Vegas this year so that the family in Texas could come and have it not be as far as a drive. Kael had fun with all the boys and Claire loved eating. haha

The weather has been so nice that we have been spending a lot of time in our backyard on our ghetto swing set that still needs to be fixed.

That was basically our October and November. My sister came home from her mission at the end of October but I don't have many pictures to put up here. Most are just everyone giving her hugs and crying haha. We are so glad to have her home! Bring it on December!!

Boutique!!!

2011-11-28T22:17:00.005-07:00

Ok. So I've been super busy the last couple weeks I forgot to tell you all about a boutique that I'm participating in. It's at the school down the street from my house and "THE CRAFTY SENORITAS" are going to be there selling some of their crafties. I have started a crafty blog with some friends of mine selling all things crafty. The blog is pretty sad right now. We have been putting a lot of energy into this boutique and the blog has obviously been neglected. :( But we will be getting more things up and for sale soon. Also we will have some great tutorials on how to do things as well. So keep checking back. For more info about the Boutique and to see pics of some of the things we will be selling click here.

" i sing you a song"

2011-11-23T01:13:00.003-07:00

Ok. I know its one in the morning but its one of those nights where i just cant turn my brain off and the neighbors pool cleaner keeps turning on. Seems i been having a lot of those nights. Anyways here's a couple stories about kael. So kael spilled his cereal and milk everywhere one morning. I said its ok it was an accident. He said oh i make a mess. I so happy. I said no im not happy i dont like messes. He says its ok mom i sing you a song.... Hmm. Ok. He proceeds to make up a song for me.... " i make a mess, and its ok, i no do it again...." i just smile and laugh. I ask chase did you get any of that? He just bust up laughing. Kael is just looking at us smiling like whats so funny. But he seemed proud that he made us so happy. Ha ha. Second story... We are sitting in church. First kael knows i have earrings because we call them my pretties. Anyways... Church. He is sitting on chases lap and he looks up at me puzzled. He says mommy you have it stuck in your ear. I laugh and say yes thats my pretty. He says it doesnt hurt. I confirm and say yes it doesnt hurt. He tells me to take it out. I say no they are my pretties. He says they stuck? I say yes. He says relax i take them out. I laugh and say no thats ok. He says no mommy, relax, k? Relax. Me and chase just bust up laughing. Again he just smiles. He apparently never noticed that my earrings were inside my ears ha ha. He is such a sweet heart. I love this little turd so much. He can be quite the little monster most of the time but he is my favorite little boy. He is the hilight of my day. Hes not a morning person by any means but he keeps me on my toes and makes sure i remember to be his best friend. Just the other morning i said happy birthday kael! He says i dont want a birthday. I said oh i guess i get your presents. Hes says in his grumpy morning voice, i dont care i dont like presents. I laugh and say well good morning to you too, mr grumpy gills. He stares, still somber and pissed off hes awake. Haha. I love my baby kael bug! Little turd.

Gassy Girl

2011-11-11T14:02:00.002-07:00

Dang Claire! So she decided to give us a little scare. She found sea foam which is pure petroleum gas. Yes gas, as in gasoline! Me and Chase were both standing right there and we heard her choking /coughing. We both panicked and knew immediately what she had just done. She drank the sea foam gasoline. Chase rushed her into the house to lean her up. I'm looking at the bottle to see what we need to do! In big bold red letters it reads: "Fatal if swallowed!". AHHH! She's gonna die!!!!! So I read further and it says call your physician! I do that he says call poison control. I do that! They ask a bunch of questions, is she. Coughing is puking is she crying is she breathing how much did she swallow and so on and so forth! They say it's ok...... Sigh. It happens. She sounds like she didn't drink any and it didn't get in her lungs. Sigh.... So they will call back in an hour and see how she is doing. Hour passes. No barfing and she's acting normal. We also gave her a priesthood blessing. They call back and say she is fine. No worries everthing is going to be ok. Sigh.... Cry.... Yay no death, no serious injury, and no hospital trip.

Claire Turned ONE!!!

2011-11-01T12:07:00.004-07:00

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to..."

My baby girl turned ONE!! Can you believe it?! I can't. It seemed to go so fast seems like only yesterday I was bringing her home for the first time. She was such a tiny little peanut. She was bigger than her brother when she was born. But she stayed so small. Now she is walking and sassing me already. Boy, does this little girl have attitude! She knows what she wants and she wants it her way and NOW!! She is so sweet at the same time. She is so caring and loving. Both her and her brother are such loving kids. Kael will just come up to me every so often and give me a hug and say I love you mom. Claire just loves, loves, loves to give hugs. And kisses but nobody really appreciates her open mouth slobbers. ha ha. She is so so busy. Kael never seem to get into things. He was more, 'out of sight, out of mind' and Claire just seems to think life is a treasure hunt and she is bound and determined to discover everything.

We had a party for her but I'll post that later. I made this outfit for her and I love the way the pictures I took turned out so I had to share. I love this little girl. Chase says she's "sweet 'n sour" which totally fits her perfectly. My kids are beautiful and I love them both to pieces. They are the reason I love being a mom so much.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

September Pictures

2011-10-30T00:41:00.011-07:00

Rogers' Reunion

Disneyland/Beach Trip

We found a clam!!

Claire getting her bangs trimed

Took the kiddos to Peter Piper Pizza for the first time

The New Ride!!!

August Pictures

2011-10-30T00:22:00.004-07:00

Rock Climbing Date. Super Fun!!!

Ugh, Really?

2011-10-22T00:39:00.001-07:00

So, what? Now I'm three months behind? Sad. Well it's almost one in the morning and I can't seem to sleep and I'm too lazy to go into the other room and get on my computer to post pictures. So here I am in bed with my hubby's laptop and I'm going to 'tell' you our updates for the last almost three months. I'll just do a picture post later. Ok so August... can I remember back that far? Oh yeah not much happened. We just hung out at home mostly. Chase started school so that was a little bit of an adjustment. He's doing well by the way. He makes me feel so dumb when he talks about what they learned in class. I think my mommy brain is really eatin' up my brain cells. ha ha. So me and the kids hung out and I also worked on some projects. Then September came... We had our annual Roger's reunion. Which is always a blast and super fun! Then we had the wonderful opportunity to go to disneyland again. OK, I know what your thinking? Do you go on any other vacations? Yes we do. But... I could do Disneyland once a week and not be sick of it. I love it! And the more we go. The more I love it. I think oh I'll scratch the itch if we just go and we won't want to go for a while. Ha. Nope. Every time Kael sees mickey mouse or donald duck he wants to go, every time I think, say, hear, see anything disney I want to go. We may not have enough money to pay our bills but hey who cares we get to go to disneyland every week. Ha ha. Ok, the responsible adult in me knows we can't do that but hey I can pretend right? So we actually made this trip to Cali a beach trip too. It was the kids first time. I love the beach. I forgot how much I love the beach. It made me miss the clear blue water in hawaii but Cali is still fun. The kids loved it! Claire couldn't get enough of the sand and Kael loved chasing those dang seagulls. Can't wait to take them again. Then the next weekend we hit up the family in Vegas for a missionary farewell. Its always great to see family. Family rocks! Then the next weekend was October and it was conference weekend. We decided to retreat north for conference. We went up to Chase's parents cabin with them to watch conference and enjoy the nice cool weather. We went on a fun little hike to the ice caves in between sessions. That was fun minus all the bikers who almost ran us over. Then the next weekend Chase went on an over night hike with his dad to Reavis Ranch. I stayed home with the little ones. They do this hike every year, I was going to go but all those weekends away were wearing me out. I was a successful hike. Everyone had fun, they got some apples, and nobody got hurt. Then the next weekend we went camping up at the Cinders in Flagstaff. That is always a fun trip. It also happened to be Claire's birthday. So we celebrated up there a little bit. Then we had a little party at home. My baby girl is one!! Can you believe it? I can't. She is still so small. But chunky. ha ha. She is getting so big. She is officially walking. Kael is in a stinker stage right now but he is still so fun. I just love my babies. They are just so funny and different. They definitely keep me on my toes. Never a dull moment with my munchkins. Well thats what we been up to. Hopefully I can get some pictures up soon of the last three months. We are doing well and staying super busy as you can tell. Tah tah for now.

July?

2011-09-06T12:46:00.009-07:00

So now that it's Sept and I thought things would've slowed down by now but things just seem to keep getting more busy. And the holidays are just around the corner and for us it just seems that we never have enough time when that hits.

Well over the 4th we went up to Chase's parents cabin. We have done that every year but last year I wanted to just stay home. So we made the trip this year and the fireworks were awesome as always. But the kids didn't think so. Claire just hid and closed her eyes and Kael shook the first half until he got ear plugs and got to snuggle with Nans. We went to the little fun park they had. Kael love the go carts and he like golfing for about half of it. I think he was just excited he was aloud to have a stick.

We got a 'new' swing set. It was free from a family in our ward. Some of the wood needs to be replaced but all the major parts are still in good condition. The kids thought it was pretty cool but its been to hot to go and play on it. Kael can't wait for it to cool off so he can get back outside. The kiddos swam while we put it together.

Kael did swim lessons this year for the first time and did so awesome. I was really surprised at how fast he picked it up. I am definitely going to be signing him up next year.

My kids are almost always super happy in the mornings and I am starting to like the mornings more because of it. I'm seriously not a morning person at all. Once I'm up I'm good, it's just the getting up part that is hard. Maybe if my bed wasn't so comfy. :)

My kids are usually up by seven and by about 9 or 10 this is what Kael's room looks like. And that's if I even get the chance to pick it up before he goes to sleep. ha ha. These kids have way too much crap. But how can I complain when they play so good together when they are in there with all that crap. Claire does really good if I'm not around. So I usually have to just sit in the other room and listen. Otherwise shes whines and wants me to hold her. I have to admit this is my favorite part of the day. When I just peek in on them and they are happily playing together.

So that was July. Not much. Hopefully I can get August on here soon too. Things are a little backed up at our house. Been trying to play catch up and it just seems I can never get caught up. Well till next time. tah tah for now.

So Long Honda, You've Been Good to Me

2011-08-04T12:04:00.002-07:00

I sold my car of 7 1/2 years. I had a Honda Civic, I bought it new in 2004 and it's been my buddy ever since. ha ha. This car was a great car and I'm sad to see it go but I am so excited about getting a bigger vehicle. Wish us luck on the hunt for a new car.

New Blog

2011-08-04T11:59:00.002-07:00

I started a projects blog, mostly for myself so that I can document my home improvements for my self. Just wanted to let you all know so if you want to check out what I been working on in my home click here. I finished my bathroom I was working on and have posted it there. So check it out.

Busy June...

2011-06-29T09:55:00.014-07:00

So Claire was hanging out under my feet while I was balancing the checkbook on the computer. Well she was happy and was leaving me alone, So I didn't really bother to look down at her, Until..... she touched my leg and she was really wet with slobber. I looked at her face and... what do you know? She found some chocolate and was is hog heaven to be left alone. I know she was happy because she wasn't bugging me. She was probably thinking to herself, 'I better be quite while I eat this delicious piece of heaven or she'll take it away.' Ha, ha. So gross but what can you do. At least it wasn't a bug or POOP.

Kael is starting to discover that having a sister might be kind of fun. I have been updating my bathroom, all by myself I might add, and they were giggling in the hall. So I peeked out and Kael had her in his wagon bus. So cute! She loves him to pieces but he's getting there.

Larson Reunion

We had our Larson reunion. We haven't gotten to go for the last two years so I was excited to go this year. It's always so fun. Mostly for the kids but I love watching them play and get dirty, (and not whine at me). he he. Claire was good until the last day. I think she was ready for her warm bed. We went fishing but didn't catch anything this year. Kael had fun though.

Trying to be quiet while dad tries to catch a fish. He almost add one four times but it kept getting away.

Father's Day at the reunion. My two handsome boys.

Claire L-O-V-E loves watermelon. She just bites and sucks the heck out of the thing. She seriously throws a tantrum if you take it away. I tried to just giver her a piece of mine. She looked at my hand, looked at me, then looked back at my hand and cried. She wanted the whole thing. Lil' brat.

Gardening

So our crop this year was quite disappointing. I told Chase I didn't have a green thumb but we decided we would try anyway. Well we had five plots along our back wall. Lets just say this year was a really BIG learning year. We are going to try again next year and hopefully it will turn out better.

This was the first plot. We planted radish, lettuce, and snow peas. The radish did amazing but was really fast. And I don't like radish and I thought Chase did too but he didn't. So we gave them all away. Haha. The lettuce got devoured by the birds. They just wouldn't leave my garden alone. So I decided we need a cat or dog or something to keep them away. Haha. Not going to happen but I seriously considered it. We got to eat a little bit but I waited too long to pick the heads and bolted. The snow peas were delicious but short lived because it's now too hot for them so they are dead now.

Yummy peas

The second box started out as four difference squash and melon. There was yellow squash, zuccini, watermelon, and cantelope. But everything that grew got pecked by the birds. So nothing survived. So Chase we and got Poblano pepper plants from Walmart. They were doing really good until he over fertilized them and they burned up. Now they are just sticks in the dirt. ha ha.

One random seed sprouted all by it's onesie, so we'll see if it survives the heat.

This is the third box. It was going to be the spot for our grape vine but decided on a different spot. So I planted pumpkins and watermelons (the small ones). The first batch of pumpkins didn't survive so I planted again, that's when I planted the watermelon. All three plants of my pumpkins are doing awesome!! They are taking over my garden and some of my yard!!! Only one plant of the four watermelon survived the birds.

My small and lonely watermelon plant. It's behind the HUGE pumpkin plant and it just got it's first blossoms a couple days ago so we will see if it even grows anything.

The start of my pumpkins!!

In the fourth box.... Honestly I don't even remember what I started in there. That box was replanted three different times. and the last time I just gave up, and thats when these random seeds sprouted. haha. Luckily in good spots. I think I had poblano seeds in there and tomato seeds and maybe some squash. I can't remember. It's hard to keep track when you RE plant so many different times. FREAKING BIRDS!!! is all I have to say. haha. So I have two small cherry tomato plants and three regular tomato plants that were all started from seeds. They are just now starting to blossom. So if they survive the summer heat they will give me a bunch of winter tomatoes. I had one plant that I got for my birthday and it got a disease. I didn't think it was going to survive but it's getting huge and I have to keep tying it up.

Fourth plot, see the pumpkin plant started to make its way over. ha ha. It is seriously HUGE!

This is the fifth and final plot. I planted corn, carrots, green onions and sunflowers. The birds ate all the seeds. And then when the sunflowers started to sprout they attacked those. A few survived. I have only two corn stalks. I REplanted THREE times and still only ended up with two stalks. I finally figured out by the third time it was the birds stealing my seeds. They stole all my carrot seeds too. my onions didn't do very good. I have a few random one that are just growing where ever. But you see that awesome rope holding up my sunflowers? Yeah I over watered on day, ha ha, forgot it was on, and my sunflowers fell over. So a rope is helping them out. Poor flowers.

First flower to bloom

corn stalk one

Corn stalk two is being hidden by the sunflowers but is has a corn husk on it! Yay!!

These were taken this morning!! My pumpkins are getting huge and almost all of my sunflowers have bloomed!! Yay!!

So my garden was pretty sad this year but I'm ready to start again next year. Those birds may have gotten the best of me this year but they won't be eating my garden next year!! mu ah ha ha.

Nans Swim Days

Becky has swim days for her grandkids before she heads up north for the summer. Kael loved it! Who would love cooling off with all 30 of your cousins?! Ha ha. It was super busy with all the munchkins running around but it was so fun as always.

Claire newest thing. She likes to be upside-down. So she sticks her butt in the air and tries to look between her legs. So is seriously such a goofy little girl.

Claire's First Piggies

Claire's hair is finally long enough for me to put piggies in her hair. Doesn't she look so big?

She is Eight months old now. I just can't believe she is that old already. It feels like just yesterday that we were bringing her home and I was thinking to myself, how the heck am I going to take care of TWO kids? Guess I managed. haha. I'm feeling pretty confident. I think I'm almost ready for 3. Ha ha. ALMOST. (no way)

My kids look like this on a daily basis. Kael with a filthy face and half dressed and Claire just happy to be by her brother.

I love being these kiddos mom. Kael is in the middle of potty training and he does okay most days. He has accidents but mostly if I'm not staying on top of it. He is likes Claire on most days. His favorite color is green and he loves to be outside, even when its hot. He is just a busy kid and loves being around other kids. He still loves his blankie and still loves to cuddle. Claire is crawling like a champ all over the house following me around. Her favorite person is her brother and mommy is a close second. She is now trying to walk. She pulls herself up and thinks she is hot stuff. She can eat more than her brother any day. She loves to be in the middle of everything her brother is doing and everyone else for that matter. She is into everything. She is spoiled rotten and seriously sassy. Seriously. But we still love her.

Lake, Hello's and Goodbye's, Treats and Just Being Busy, Busy

2011-06-13T08:26:00.002-07:00

We had lots of sickies at our house this year. First it was lots of breathing treatments then when we thought that was over we got the flu. And that lingered for months as well. I'm afraid to say it but I think we are FINALLY sickies free. (we'll see) Kael didn't mind his treatments so much, ha ha. He got to watch lots of movies. Claire would tolerate it then get mad towards the end. She is not a good sick kid. She is seriously a snot when she doesn't feel good. ha ha.

For Easter we didn't do anything big. Just had our annual Rogers' picnic. Kael had lots of fun in the water.

For Mother's Day we got to talk to Tori on Skype. It was so fun!! She is doing so good. Write her letters, she would love to her from you.

Claire has been loving eating big girl food. This little chunker is going to gain some lbs fast with how much she loves food. And don't you dare try to take it away or she will throw the biggest hissy fit. ha ha

We've made some lake trips this summer already. The water still has a little bite to it but we still have fun. Kael actually was brave enough to try some stuff this year. He just cried last year everytime we put him in the water. The tube is his favorite.

Claire mostly just soaked up the sun the first few times. And this last time all four of us got out on the knee boards. I don't have that picture yet. I was surprised she didn't scream.

I love this picture. I shows Claire's attitude perfectly towards having a life vest on. She was not thrilled, can you tell?

Mitchell had his farwell.

The house was filled and the yard was filled with family and friends. We had some family stay for a week. It was so fun to see everyone.

Aunt Melanie and Claire

She was naughty and gave Claire her first sweets. She was feeding her chocolate and cookies. Ha ha. Needless to say she was Claire's favorite after that.

Braiden, Jace and Kael being the presidency when Mitchell got set apart.

Ha ha such handsome boys

Claire's latest.

It's her favorite thing to stand and pretend she can walk like all the other kids

Nans and Kael.

This is a typical Kael face. The fine, I'll tolerate you hugging me for a picture, look.

Kael loves his uncle Mitchell, he wants to be just like him.

Mitchell was nice enough to share his drink with Kael.

When we took Mitchell to the airport, we were lucky enough to get to see him actually get on the airplane. Kael cried when it left and he said Where's Mitchell? I told him he left to go on his mission. He cried and said he wanted to go on a mission too. ha ha. I said ok when you get bigger you can go an a mission too. He was satisfied with that answer and said ok and stopped crying.

Kael enjoying his 'potty treat' I'm TRYING to potty train Kael. It's not going so well. He will go potty on the toilet if he is naked, but if he has any clothes on he just goes. It's going to be a long slow process. Hopefully we can get it before he turns three. ha ha.

Well that's the latest with us. Just trying to enjoy our summer, we have a super busy one ahead of us. Almost every weekend we have something going on. Hopefully I wont wait till the last month to try and update. ha ha.

So Long Mountain Man, Hello There Handsome!!

2011-04-04T22:04:00.006-07:00

So a here's a few things we've been up to lately...

Claire had her first bite of cereal. She gagged and threw up all over me. Not her favorite. ha ha.

She's starting to warm up to it and is getting better.

Chase is no longer a hairy beast of a Mountain Man. We took his beard off in pieces. It was quite hilarious! I'm just so happy the nappy beard is gone!! Yay!

The moment he got home we took the scissors to him.

Trimmed the beard up to make it even.

Love the chops. Don't get anymore white trash than that.

Goat man.

Cowboy?

Zorro?

???

Nacho Libre?

Raging Nose Hairs!!

Just Plain Wrong!

OH there you are Peter!

Gardening 101

So we decided that we wanted to do a garden this year. It was my birthday present. It was a lot of work but I'm so excited! We planted 16 different plants. They are just now starting to sprout. I was going to blog each stage but I can't even find the time to keep my house clean, the kiddos happy and myself bathed, let alone blog about my garden. ha ha.

Claire enjoyed the shade.

Kael enjoyed the mud.

A little too much.

I kept fixing his shirt but he kept taking the one side off. I was thinking maybe he wanted to be sexy. Chase said noooooo, He wants to be Tarzan. Ha ha.

Tilling the dirt! Oh joy, just what he wanted to do!

Our whole back wall is a garden now. I'll proudly show you my plants once they get bigger. They are just now starting to sprout.

Claire is Five months now! I have got a crafting bug in my butt again and I have been playing around with making hair bows and crocheting up a storm. Claire has the tiniest feet and newborn shoes don't even fit her. So I have been crocheting and sewing her some booties. I found this hat pattern too. I made a flower to go with it and it is to die for. This bow was the first one I made. It turned out HUGE!! So I put it with the hat for fun and now it will just get tucked away until she gets older. I've made some others that are drastically smaller and fit her much better ha ha.

Claire is rolling over like a champ now. It's her way of crawling around now. He tries so hard to sit up too. This last picture is her almost all the time when she lays down. She tries to sit up then gives up and rolls around like crazy. She does this crazy wiggle/dance thing too. Sometimes I worry that somethings wrong with her when she does it. Because she is such a spaz. Doc says she's fine. ha, ha. Yes I seriously asked the doctor. I will have to post it some time because it's seriously hilarious. Well better go. That's us lately.

Fluffy

2011-03-06T12:41:00.009-07:00

These two kiddos take up all my time. Especially the little one. She is such a mama's girl. I love that she loves me so much but I hate that I can't get anything done when she's around. Kael is warming up to her a little more now that she is getting more aware. He will share his toys with her sometimes and tells her not to chew on them. ha ha. He is the best at making her giggle. She sure loves to watch him.

Kael being silly for Claire

Chase is growing a beard for Mountain Man this year. He hasn't shaved since Claire was born. Gross. But it will be over soon. Yay.

We decided on a whim to go to Chase's parents cabin and play in the snow. There wasn't a lot but there was just enough to have some fun and build a couple snowmen.

Claire is now Four Months old. I have been slacking on my picture taking mostly because she doesn't let me have a second to myself. Anyways the other day was such a nice day so we decided to spend some time in the back yard. Kael ran around and she was being so good laying on her blanket so I decided it was a good opportunity to snap her four month pics. She is such a pretty girl. Such a stinker but I love her just the same.

I love how chubby she is but she is still so little. She is in the 25-10% range. She has two nicknames. Claire Bear, cause she's fluffy like a teddy bear (carebear) and Pigeon, because when she talks she coos like a pigeon. ha ha.

Got to love the drool. This girl can drool like a champ. Her shirt is always soaked and she is always blowing spit bubbles.

Look at those beautiful blue eyes. She has surprised me and kept the blue eyes. She started out so dark but has lightened up quite a bit. She still has brown hair but its not as dark as it was. Her beautiful dark curly hair all fell out but it still seems to be growing in brown. We will see if it changes any.

Well she is now awake and screaming so that means my time is up.

Over the Holidays

2011-01-24T14:24:00.008-07:00

So I never updated what we did over the holidays. We decorated our tree. Last year Kael wasn't very interested in the tree but this year he couldn't get enough of it. He de-decorated and decorated multiple times this year. It drove me nuts to find ornaments all around the house. And when I packed up the Christmas stuff and I was still finding random ornaments it didn't help. He had fun and thats what was important to me. ha ha.

Claire was so good and just watched most of the time

Our tree topper didn't really fit this year so it was our sad droopy star. I was kinda a scrooge this year when it came to decorating. I'm still in a funk ever since Claire was born. Trying to stay on top of things has been hard with her around. ha ha.

Nana and her two favorite grandkiddos

We got our family pictures done and the ones they took of the kids were terrible. So that Sunday after church we were enjoying the lovely weather so I decided to snap a couple pictures of the kids together. I have a bunch of them separate but not many together.

Aw Claire.... She's my demanding baby. She has been quite different from Kael. She is way more high strung and such a drama queen. She has been a great sleeper since the day she was born. And she has been smiling since she was two weeks old. No joke. She would mostly smile while looking at nothing, but smiling no the less. She is so moody too. She is super happy one minute and the next she is screaming her head off, ticked off about something. She loves her mama big time and hates to be alone. She loves watching Kael too. She is so wiggley and strong. Getting her diaper changed and getting her dressed is always a wrestling match. Kael hasn't been too interested in her but now that she can hold toys he likes to give them to her and loves to feed her the bottle whenever she gets one.

Christmas eve we went to the temple lights

And then over to nan's house to open our christmas pj's

christmas morning was so fun! kael loved opening presents!

This year is the first year all the stockings were done. it was an epic event for me.

Kael loves to help us whenever we are doing something. He is mostly in the way but its so cute how much he likes to help. He helped unload groceries one night.

Claire started whining like always while we were unloading. i looked over and this is what i saw.

I'd be annoyed if i couldn't see either. ha ha

Two's for you

2010-12-15T20:42:00.010-07:00

Claire at Three weeks

We took Kael to the Zoo for his birthday!! He had so much fun looking at the animals and, of course, chasing the birds.

Milking the fake cow

Claire's first experience at the zoo consisted of her napping the whole time, pooping and having it seep out all over her outfit, and more sleeping.

Nans and Kael.

On sunday the day after Kael's birthday we and some family and friends come over for cake and homemade ice cream.

Claire's blessing

This was only about half of everybody. Some had to leave and others scattered when they heard the word pictures. ha ha. Thanks to all of those who came!!

I made her little shoes.

They were the first pair I made. I actually made them when I was pregnant with Kael, hoping I would have a girl but knew I was having a boy. ha ha.

This is Claire's really happy smile. She loves to open her mouth and stick out her tongue when she is trying to smile.

Kael crashed hard right after everyone left. He asked to play with daddy's phone and he was gone before he even opened it.

Claire was being so silly. She was loving laying next to her still and sleeping brother.

2010-11-03T13:55:00.008-07:00

I look retarded in these pictures but the story of Claire's Birth is quite funny.

This growth I have coming out of my butt is not a baby. ha ha. It is a thing called the 'peanut ball' and it looks like a giant peanut. Claire wouldn't drop so that I could finish dilating, surprise, surprise. Her dang brother did the same thing. My labor nurse was a rock star and she had me doing all sorts of things to get this baby to move. Since I was high risk and couldn't get out of bed instead of sitting on the ball like you are suppose to, she just had me put it between my legs. Ha ha. We were all laughing pretty hard. Unfortunately, we were able to get to about an 8-9 and then I wouldn't progress anymore. So onto surgery yet again.

Chase in his space man suit

I was feeling pretty crappy by this point because me epidural wore off at the end again.

Chase got some really cool pictures of the surgery but they are pretty gross so I'll limit it to just one.

Claire was such a chunk when she was born

Yay! She's finally here!

Getting cleaned up

Snuggle time with daddy

Going Home YAY!!!

First Bath

One Week Old

Two Weeks Old

Halloween 2010

Picking out our pumpkins this year was quite a rush. Literally we were rushing and hurrying because I didn't want Claire out in public for too long. Kael had fun looking at all the pumpkins and Claire just cried the whole time because she was hungry.

Good thing Nana was there to save the day!

We went to our Parents' neighborhood block party. Kael had a blast running around and seeing all the stuff. Kael had cotton candy for the first time and didn't really know what to think of it.

We carved our pumpkins a couple days later and I have to say. The pumpkin Chase did this year has been my favorite so far. He did it all by himself with no template. It was his idea and his drawing. Clever.

Our costumes were fun to make this year mostly because they were so cheap to make. ha ha. Claire was a lady bug, I was a bee, Kael was Buzz lightyear and Chase was a sock monkey. We went to my friends Halloween Party on Friday and it was so fun. It's been forever since we went to a party and it was so nice to go out and have fun!! Saturday we went Trunk or Treating out our own Ward Party and then we met up with our parents at there Trunk or Treat.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for us and only about to get busier with the holidays just around the corner. Kael with be Two this month as well! My baby boy is growing up so fast!! I just love being a mommy to these little munchkins!!

She's Here!!

2010-10-18T02:49:00.003-07:00

So it's three in the morning at I can't sleep so I figured I would post some of her pictures from my phone because I don't know when I'm going to have time to load pictures from my camera. Well she finally made it on Friday, October 15th at 5:55 am. She weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 21 inches long. She is dark and hairy. She has a ton of curly black hair and so far she is a really good baby and loves to snuggle with her daddy. We had a hard time agreeing on a name for her but we finally picked Claire Anne Rogers.

Her delivery went like this....

I went to my doctor's appt Thursday morning. DR said I was at a two and about 50% effaced. He joked and said wish my nails were longer I just break your water right now. Well my blood pressure was a little high so he sent me over to triage to have it checked out. He asked me if I was ready to have the baby today if they needed to induce me. I said sure, and thought I was staying in the hospital. So I called Chase and had him come down just in case. Well my labs came back fine so they sent me home. DR said come back on Mon or Tues if I didn't go on my own. Well I was a little disappointed and started to think about it. It was the weekend, my Dr was on call that night, I was tired of being prego, and I really didn't want to drive back on Mon just to be induced if they could do it today. So I called the Dr back after lunch. He finally called back and said he was game for breaking my water. So we packed our crap and headed to the hospital at about 5:30 pm. We got into a room, hooked up to an iv and waited for the Dr to break my water. They tried to break it and was having trouble. So they took a break. They started me on a light dose of pitocin to get the baby to drop and see if it would help things progress. Dr came back and was finally able to break my water. Contractions started progressing. They started to get ugly so I got my epidural. Relief. After I got my epidural they checked me again I was at a 3-4 and 60% effaced. I continued to progress on schedule. I hit an eight about one and was fully effaced. Baby was still really high so they had me try a bunch of different things to get her to drop. Nothing worked. Because she wouldn't drop I got stuck at an eight. Finally about 5 am Dr said if I was still at an eight and the baby hadn't dropped they were going to throw in the towel. Nothing changed so cue C-section. They prepped me and she was born at 5:55 am.

We are home now and just trying to get back to life with our new little girl in the mix. Kael isn't really interested in her and just calls her the baby sister. And when she cries he just stares at her like, what's your problem? Maybe when she gets a little older he will like her more. ha ha. we will see. That's all folks.

Bucket Head!!

2010-10-12T10:41:00.003-07:00

This guy is seriously just one big bubble of personality. I think that's the only thing he got from his father. Seems he got my nerdyness and bossiness and my family's looks. He seriously cracks me up and tries my patience all at the same time. My sweet Aunt Kim gave Kael a bunch of little horsey figures and he loves to play with them. My mom had a bucket that she gave him to put all his little horsies in. He decided to use it has a hat the other day. Apparently when I was about his age I did the same thing with a halloween bucket. Then I would call my self a bucket head. So here's my little goofy bucket head. If I can get my hands on the picture in my baby book I'll do a comparison picture. We look so much a like it's crazy. He is a major mama's boy for sure.

So the count down for this baby to come is on. I was hoping I would have her on the tenth so her birthday would be 10-10-2010! Oh well, I tried but guess she wasn't ready. So I have only seven days left until my due date, which is the 18th by the way. I have been working on getting my house clean the last two weeks. Sad, I know, that it's taking me that long. Seems right when I got my "nesting" bug I got a super awesome sinus infection again. Seriously, I hate sinus infections!!!! When I'm pregnant, if I sneeze too much it turns into an infection and then it gets really bad with in a day. It will settle itself in my ears and chest. Grrrr. It will all be over soon. So last week I mostly took what drugs I could and sprayed lysol everywhere so that I didn't have sicky germs in the house if I had the baby. Now that I don't have a super migraine from all the sinus pressure I can disinfect my house, ha ha. So hopefully the next time I post I'll have a baby girl, and she'll have a name. ha ha. We seriously can't think of a name for this little girl so we are just going to wait until we see her. Hopefully that will be enough to help us make a decision. Well thats all folks.

Intussusception?! What's that?

2010-09-19T22:25:00.009-07:00

So this week was quite crazy for us. In my las post I was talking about the picture of the temple. Well this is the reason I am so thankful for the gospel in my life and that Chase and I were married in the temple and that the Lord is such a big part of my life and our little family's life. Kael had emergency surgery on Monday, Sept 13th for a condition called intussusception. It's something pretty rare and they don't really know what causes it, but our little monster got it. So here's the story......

We were over at my parents house on Sunday visiting and Kael was just fine and dandy. Being his normal monster self reeking mayhem in every possible moment. He started to get a little whinny. Which is totally normal for him when he starts to get tired. But it was only five so I figured it was because he hasn't been sleeping well the past couple weeks. He has been waking up in the middle of the night crying because he wants us to sleep with him. It was a long couple of weeks and just seems to keep getting longer. Anyways, my mom said he feels kind of clammy maybe he's not feeling good. So we decide to get him home and try to get him in bed early. We start getting our stuff together and he keeps whinning more and more and he starts complaining about his tummy. So we get home and right when we walk in the door he just brakes down and starts screaming and crying. So still not knowing what's wrong I figure lets give him a bath maybe that will calm him down. Well he's acting fine and like nothings wrong. I give him a bath and ready for bed. It was about seven by now. We sit down on his bed to read some books and about half way thru, "Are You My Mother?" he starts screaming, and he wants me to hold him then he screams more, and I put him down and he screams grabbing his tummy. So I run him into the other room where Chase is, saying something is wrong we need to take him in. Then all of a sudden he stops. Kael acts like nothing happened and he is fine. So we figure maybe he swallowed something and its trying to make its way out. So we call his sister who is an ER nurse to see what she suggested. While waiting to hear back from her, he has another episode. So I say panic and say we need to go in no matter what, something was seriously wrong and I could just feel it. So we head into the ER. We get into a room pretty quick and Kael is acting normal. Then right when the doctor walks in he starts having another episode. We tell the doctor that he has been doing this since about five and it seems to have a pattern of happening every 20 to 30 mins. She said it looks like he could have something called 'intussusception.' Huh? Well she described it like this... it's a condition where the intestines slide inside themselves like a telescope and contracts, which is where the pain is coming from. So she tells us that they are going to do an x-ray and then they would recommend going to the Children's hospital. So we get the x-ray done and then we get the paperwork and head over to the Children's ER. We made a pit stop at Chase's parents house so that Chase and his dad could give him a blessing. Once we got to the ER they got us into a room pretty quick to meet with the doctor. He came in and said the best way to figure out what exactly is going on was to do a procedure called a 'barium enema'. It's where they push fluid thru your intestines and watch it on a screen to see if there is a block or what is going on. Poor Kael was so sick of people violating him. He had to get a catheter in so they could take a urine sample, they took his blood, they kept taking his temp in his bum. Poor baby. And now they wanted to stick a tube up his bum and push fluid thru his intestines. The doctor explained that if he did actually have intussusception the barium enema could possibly fix it. Since I'm still pregnant I could go with them when they did the procedure. So I waited for an hour before Chase called me on his cell to let me know what happened. He said that Kael did have intussusception and the barium enema didn't fix the problem so now he has to have emergency surgery. Of course I freak, and start crying. The nurse comes and gets me to take me up to surgery so I can see Kael before they take him. The surgeon was really cool. He came in and explained what they were going to do. He said that they were going to make a small cut and pull out his intestines and see if they could fix the kink and if there were no tears or damage to the intestines then they tuck them back in and his recovery will be faster. If there was damage then he would have to cut out the yucky part, put it back together and his recovery would be longer. He also said that they were going to take out his appendix because the cut would be in the same spot. If he had any problems in the future with his appendix then doctors would think it couldn't be his appendix because it looks like they took it out already. So to avoid any future confusion or future surgeries they take it out. A few minutes later they take Kael away to surgery and the dreaded wait begins. They said it would take a couple hours for them to complete everything. My mom came down to wait with us and bring us some food, it was 2 a.m. by the time he left for surgery. About 1 1/2 hours later the surgeon came and told us everything went great. He was able to fix the problem with out having to cut any of the intestines out and his appendix came out with no problems. He said that the chances of him having intussusception again was about 1%. So hopefully he will never have to go thru this again. They finally get us settled into a room about 5 a.m. and my mom heads home. Chase and I are so revved up that we can't fall asleep. We were so relived that everything was okay now. We finally settle down and got some sleep. Kael had a few visitors that day and they brought him some fun toys. His grandmas and grandpas made sure he had plenty of fun stuff to keep him entertained. Luckily he recovered fast and by Tuesday afternoon we were being released. He is still a little tender, and caught some sort of cold bug, but other than that he is back to being a monster. He is eating fine, drinking fine, and going to the bathroom fine. He had a check up with his pediatrician and He freaked when he touched him, so I think it might be a while before he likes doctors or nurses. ha, ha. Poor baby. So thats basically the scoop. We have been just trying to take it easy and relax while his owie heals up.

Kael just after surgery. Us trying to get him to wake up was quite funny. He was so tired and did a really good job of ignoring us.

Right after he woke up, he went right back to sleep.

Monday this is all we did. Sleep. And watched some movies in between naps.

This was Kael 24hrs after the surgery. He was so ready to get down and play, even though he was still a little sore.

Showing us his owie.

Watching dad load the car so we could go home. He was jumping up and down, he was so thrilled he could see so many cars and trucks.

His tiny owie.

Relaxing at home watching plenty of movies.

This is from the last time we went to the lake. Kael went surfing with papa. You can tell by his face he wasn't too thrilled about it. But he still love going on the boat. Maybe when he gets older he will like it more.

Kael monster just being silly while waiting in line at the store. I love this little guy. My life would be incomplete without him.

Rainy Days can't keep me down...

2010-09-11T08:03:00.012-07:00

I love Arizona!!!

I have been wanting to go down to the temple and take pictures so I could put some up in my house. Well the clouds were gorgeous so I decided one day after work we would run over and snap some photos. Well we were there probably less than fifteen minutes and the clouds got super dark and it started pouring. I took only about five pictures but this one just look so freakin cool to me. Glowing temple with the storm surrounding it. So pretty. Sometimes life can get like that. Crazy storm out of now where and throw you off balance, but it always seems the darker things get the brighter the Lord light shines. The next post will explain more to my reflection. ha ha. So in this post is camping, and just some fun shots.

Kael decided he would be brave and help me vaccum then decided the vaccume is still a little scary.

Me and Chase have been dying to go camping for so long and we just never seemed to have the time. Well we were finally able to just take off and we all loved every minute of it. Chase brought a few of his guns and we shot some targets. Kael loved seeing all the chipmunks and feeding them daddy's sunflower seeds.

Chase and Kael love to play in the rain any chance they get. My silly boys.

We had our Rogers' Reunion again this year. It was so much fun! Kael loved running around like a crazy person getting as much dirt on him has possible. I was just glad he wasn't too fascinated with the fire, that always makes me so nervous when kids play with it. Kael absolutely loves, loves, loves playing with his cousins. The older kids had fun teaching him how to say different things and he just loved all the attention. We were talking about how many reunions I had been too and this was my fourth year, and we figured I have been pregnant every other year. My first year we were newly wedds, my second I was pregnant with Kael, my third I was Kael's first year and my fourth I'm pregnant with my no named child. Becky said keep up the tradition. Ha, ha. Coming from the woman who is going to have 30 grandkids!! So flipping cool.

Summer is almost over?

2010-07-27T19:23:00.009-07:00

Ok so it's been a really fast summer. I don't know where the time went? We didn't even go on any cool vacations. Mostly due to lack of funds. We did get to go camping FINALLY but it was for one night. So we will definitely be going again soon and for longer before I get too huge. My ever growing belly is becoming really inconvenient. Oh what's a prego moo cow to do. ha ha. Well I figured I would share some pictures of what we have been up to this summer. Playing in the hose has been a big hit this summer with Kael. He has learned to turn on the hose all by himself. This is not ideal when he is wearing clothes and we are about to leave the house. ha ha. oh well.

Swimming as much as possible. Isn't he so cute. He found these when we were swimming at my aunts house and wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

Playing soccer with daddy has been another favorite of Kael as well.

Decided to take a break

Then stopped to squish a bug

Then found some cool glasses to wear

Then decided to go for a drive.

He is such a goofy boy. I love him so much. He keeps me really busy and talks so much it can drive me crazy but I love him just the same.

Back in Business

2010-06-29T21:37:00.004-07:00

So as a few of you know I went to school a while ago to become an aesthetician (skin care). At my last house I started waxing friends and family until I had Kael and ran out of room. Well in my new house I still don't have a specific room like I would like to but I do have the space to do it again. I miss using my limited education, ha ha. So I just wanted to let all you know I'm back to being a waxing queen, ha ha. And with it being summer who wants to shave, seriously? Anyone for being hairless? Give me a call or shoot me an email if you don't have my number, shalysecancook@gmail.com and I can give your more info.

Only a mother could love this face, ha ha ha!

I seriously pee-my-pants-laugh everytime I see this picture. We were playing with the webcam on the laptop one day and this was the result. Hope it makes you smile!!

Yay!! Two Down!!

2010-05-27T18:24:00.006-07:00

I finally got two rooms completely done today! yay! This was Kael while I worked. I had my ipod going and Kael decided he wanted to wear his sunglasses and dance. ha ha. Such a goofy boy.

Kael's Room before....

And the Now!

Those weird rust color things are a kitchen set. They will eventually get painted and put in our little girls room. But for now all the toys are in Kael's room. Also the big blank wall, I haven't quite decided what to do yet, so it will just stay empty until then.

Also, I will eventually make curtains, but that's just another decision to be made.

The Hall Bathroom before....

And the Now!

I love these pictures I got from my mom. I painted the frames yellow because they were pretty scratched before from the move.

This is our Shower curtain. We got it on our honeymoon in California. I love all the old pictures of surfers. So fun!

Yay!! I'm so excited to have at least two rooms completely done!! Now..... a lot more to go..... ugh. I'll get there someday, I hope. ha, ha.

Home Sweet Home.... Sort of

2010-05-26T12:41:00.010-07:00

We had our family pictures done a few months ago by our friend Jared Halbert. I always love our pictures when he does them. These are just a few but I'm seriously in love will ALL the pictures he took. Look him up he's great!

My sister left for her mission so I've been trying to document everything with this pregnancy so that she won't miss much. This picture is so nerdy but I didn't just want to stand there. Ha ha. I'm 18 weeks in this picture. My belly was looking like I had just gain a bunch a wait until about a week before this picture. Then it just popped and it's only getting bigger. I look smaller in this picture than I do now at this was only last week. Crazy.

We are heading to the doctor to find out what we are having! Yay!

When we left the doctor we were trying to think of some fun way to tell our moms. So we headed to Target. We were thinking just get an outfit, but Chase thought that was too boring. So then we thought maybe if we just got some onesies and hid a bow inside one. Then when we were walking over to the hair bow section we passed the scrapbook section. So I thought why not get a sticker instead? So we headed to his mom's first since she had Kael.

That's right we are having a baby girl!!!!!

So then we headed to my mom's down the street and made her find the sticker in the onesie!

I can't believe we are having a girl, so now we just need to find a name for this little munchkin.

Our new House

Living Room/Office

Kitchen

Kitchen Dining Area

Laundry Room

Our Bathroom

Our Room

Spare Room

Kael's Room

Hall Bathroom

Front Room

So the after pictures are taking A LOT longer than I planned. We have so much crap that we had to have a yard sale just to make it a little more manageable. So for now here are the Before pictures of our home. Everything looks so different now its crazy. We are done painting for now. The only rooms we painted was Kael's room, our room and the laundry room. The spare room we didn't want to do anything until we found out what we were having. Now that we know I can start planning it out. Most likely it won't get done until after the baby is born, because she'll be in the portable crib until Kael is completely ready for his big boy bed. His crib is set up as a toddler bed now and he's been doing ok in it but he's not quite ready for the big boy bed. Hall bathroom we will eventually do a little remodeling so we didn't want to paint and then have to re paint later. And the rest of the house is a light tan color so it will stay that way until I figure out if i want to change it. We are loving being in our own home though and still trying to get things settled.

Lots of shinny NEW toys!

2010-05-01T09:03:00.002-07:00

So........ we finally got the keys to our house Yay!!!!! We also got a new laptop for Chase's work. I love Mac computers they rock! We are getting ready to go move our stuff into the house so I figured I would do a quick post on our new computer. I have been taking pictures of the house so I can do before and after shots. The house is basically move in ready but I wanted to paint the bedrooms to match my style a little more. But the rest of the house is this pretty neutral color so we are just going to leave it until I decide what colors I'm going to do. I have so many ideas crammed up in my head that I can't decide what to do. Plus we got so much furniture from when my grandma moved out of her house and I don't know where I'm going to put half of it. We are so flippin excited that we finally got the house, it was a long process but in the end it was worth the wait. I'll post pictures soon of the house. Once things get a little less crazy with my sister leaving in a week for her mission. I've been ignoring the fact that she's leaving because when I actually start to think about it I freak out. ugh. I'm getting all upset and teary eyed just typing about it. Anyways, one of the most sad things about my sister leaving besides I'm going to miss her like crazy is she is going to miss being there for our second baby. I am pregnant again and due in October and she won't get to be here. She's my only sister so when I found out she was officially going on a mission, and I found out we were pregnant I was little bummed and wished that we could have waited a little longer to have the baby. So she wouldn't miss the baby's whole first year of life. Don't get me wrong I am so excited to have this baby and can't wait to see him, but it's going to be very bitter sweet for me because my baby sister won't be there. I'll just have to send her lots of pictures and keep her updated and make sure I show the baby Tori's picture everyday! I'm so excited for Tori and her decision to serve the Lord, she is going to be an amazing missionary! For any one who knows Tori and wants to say good bye to her, Her farewell is on Sunday, May 9th at 11:15am at the church building on Stapley and Southern. Later that day if you want to come over and say good bye we will be at my parents all day. They are driving her up on Monday so Sunday will be her last day at home.

Well I need to go help unpack so I'll post pictures once we are moved.

No Play Like Snow Play

2010-03-29T15:35:00.008-07:00

A while ago when the weather was still a little chilly Kael was dying to go outside. Surprise, surprise. So I covered him up and we enjoyed the beautiful weather.

For our 3rd Anniversary, Chase and I went to Disneyland. It was a last minute decision. We have been wanting to go but finding the time has been hard. So we convinced my sweet sister to watch Kael and we took off. We ended up meeting some of our good friends there, so that made it that much better. I know I put a lot of pictures of Kael on here but look what happens when we take pictures of ourselves. ha ha.

Kael is such a funny boy. He is always finding new ways to entertain himself and us. He loves to be laughed at. Like father like son.

My little sister got her mission call to the Ohio Cleveland Mission and she will also be serving in the Kirtland Visitor's Center! My Mom and I are in the process of setting up a blog for her to keep all you family updated on how she's doing. She is so excited and she reports on May 12th!!

We took Kael on his first snow trip. I didn't think he would really like it because it was cold, but he loved it. He ran around most of the time and we chased him. He fell a lot but loved the cold white stuff that squished under him.

Kael really liked sledding. The hills were perfect for him to enjoy a few rides by himself.

We built a sad little snowman. Kael helped a little but he was more interested in running around in the fun white stuff.

Oh Yeah!! We finally got a closing date for our house we've been waiting on. Things are still moving really slow and we'll be lucky if we make the closing date because of the banks. But good news, we are moving closer to our goal of moving in. It looks like we'll make the date in time for the tax credit too!! Keep your fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly. :)

A few sour moments

2010-02-26T14:53:00.002-07:00

So being sick rocks, right?! UGH! I been feeling pretty crumby lately but it's all good. I don't have any picture updates but a few updates to share. Kael still walks like a drunk man, but manages to climb on everything like a monkey. He's amazing, seriously, sometimes I don't know how he ends up places. humph. I tried to upload a video of him playing but it no workie so all you get are the details of life. ha ha. Kael is a talk-talk-talkie-talker. This kid almost always has something to say. If I could only speak baby. I can understand a few things he says like, bir (bird, chicken), doe (dog), da da, pa pa, na nah (aka nana, nans and banana), nie nie (night, night/go sleepy), tank tu (thank you), uh-oh, mie (mine), NO, yeah, me maw (mean mom), ma ma ma ma and bye-bye. He loves to blow kisses to everybody and only give kisses to a few. He throws fits and is grouchy if he can't play outside, and is obsessed with birds. Any kind, chickens, pigeons, whatever resembles a bird he wants to chase it. He picked this up from my mom's dumb dog, Rocky. He knows how to bark and meow, and bak like a chicken. He still loves cars and going for rides on bikes. Chase fixed up his scooter recently and he has been lovin' the fun lil' short rides around the block. He is still ridiculously attached to his binkie. I haven't even tried to take it away because I dread that moment. I hate when kids still have freakin' binkies in their mouth but I just can't be mean yet and take it away. Maybe he'll make it easy for me and just decide he doesn't want it any more. Ha ha, yeah right I know. Soon enough I'll be a really "me maw" and take it away. Chase is still workin' hard at school and his job. I'm still a stay at home moma and I do Pampered Chef on the side. We found out recently that we might not get our house but we are still praying it goes thru, SOON! But in the mean time we are starting to look again. gag. It's just no fun anymore. Well that's the latest with us.

My Boys

2010-02-02T10:29:00.002-07:00

So the latest Rogers happenings.

Chase has started school again. He quit going right before we got married to start up his business and now that it's going pretty steady he felt it was time to go back and finish. He changed his major, so that's been a real bummer for him but most of his classes he took he can still use. I had to do a first day of school picture because this is where he has taken all his school pictures. Same place every year when he was younger. So since we are still at his parents house I thought it would be fun. Ha ha. We are still waiting to get our house. Short sales are such a bummer. We are suppose to hear back this week, but still don't really know what. Things have moved along but we don't really know what that means either. We just hope that things go thru FAST!!! Ha ha ha.

Kael is now officially a walking boy! We were helping my grandparents pack the other day and I brought my camera. So I took a couple snaps of him running around. This kid loves to be outside. Cold, rain, sun, heat. He doesn't care he just runs for the door anytime he hears it open. The little turkey has figured out that he doesn't have to stay in the grass in the front yard. So needless to say if you turn your back for a second he's running down the side walk, usually to chase and bark at the birds. A little trait he's picked up from my mom's irritation dog. Ba ha ha. And what's even funnier is that his bark (and meow) doesn't really sound anything like a dog (or cat). His bark sounds more like a monkey or owl. hoo hoo hoo. His cat noise, I can't even describe it. I'm giggling just thinking about it. He, like, sucks in his air and make this weird.... screeching sound I guess you could call it. I have no idea how he got that from Meow, meow. Kids. Oh yeah, this kid can talk your ear off. Man, when we go run errands he just jibber jabs the whole ride. And every thing can be turned into a phone. He's got the fake laugh down pretty good. He says quite a few words but only on his own time. If you try and get him to say it he usually ignores you. He only says mama, if hes whining and usually it's "me maw, me maw" which mean 'mean mom.' That would be my own fault. When he's whining and saying my name I would say to him, "I know, I'm just a mean mom." So needless to say, now I'm "Me Maw!" Ha ha, oh well. Any ways, if I can get any of his funny little noises on tape I'll be sure to show you, it will definitely make you smile.

The little run away

Ha, ha. His hat is so dorky but I love it. It was only 3 bucks at the Gap and it's such a Kael attitude hat right now. So it works.

Generations

2010-01-16T23:46:00.005-07:00

So I've been helping my Grandma Jeannie go thru her pictures and scanning them so that we have back ups. You so if there is a fire or water damage or if they get lost when she moves we have some copies. She is getting ready to move to Texas and has so much flippin stuff! So I'm going thru these pictures and laughing because it made me realize that I'm sealed to all these people. This is my eternal family. Generations, so many generations together forever. I also realized how much I look like my mom... and dad. And Kael is the spittin image of my mom. Put a dress on him, grow his hair out and ta dah. These were just a few of the many that we went thru but I just loved the pictures so I wanted to show you my generations.

My parents

Danette and Kevin

My grandma (Jeannie)

My Great Grandpa Crook.

I never got to meet him because he died very young. He is holding his daughter, my great aunt.

My Great Grandma Iva and My step-Grandpa Allen

He is the only GREAT Grandpa I got to know.

Ha ha. I love this one. It is my Great Grandpa Crook and his brother.

Check out that babe. This is my Grandma Jeannie on a post card because she was Miss Arizona in 1960. So crazy! She so beautiful!

My Grandma Jeannie and my Papa

Hey thats ME! And my cousins Jarid and Justin.

Aren't we just the cutest.

This is my mom and her sister.

See how much we look alike?

This is my mom and her brother.

Now this is Kael in a dress and with long her.

My Great Grandma Iva.

I'm not meaning to be mean but if she had wrinkles it would be what my great grandma looked like later. To me, her looks didn't change a whole lot. She was always so dang gorgeous!

Well I hope you enjoyed a glimpse of my generations. It's just simply amazing.

Going out with a Bang!

2010-01-07T22:32:00.007-07:00

Yay! My favorite and bestest sister had a birthday on the 17th of December! What better way to celebrate than at the cheesecake factory ending your meal with the best invention ever.... Red velvet cake layered with cheesecake!!!! yum!

Since we couldn't get a tree this year since we are basement dwellers for now. Here was our sad little replacement. At least it smelled like Christmas down here. :)

Christmas festivities!

Sunday Christmas we had a party with Chases family I neglected to take any pictures. I tend to do that when I'm too busy enjoying myself. Dan sang some great tunes to the grand kiddos. It was so fun. Kael just stared and had this funny look on his face. ha ha.

Christams eve we had a get together at my parents house. The Houston's from Houston were able to make it so it made Christmas so fun! We did our annual program and it was small but fun.

We had fun laughing at the old people who had to wear there glasses just to read their programs. ha ha.

Chase, Kael and I sang the Chipmunk Song as our part of the program. It was funny cause the Dog was freaking out at our funny voices. Guess he doesn't like chipmunks.

Chase has a tradition in his family were they get to open one gift before christmas morning and it was new pj's. We have adopted this tradition in our family so Kael actually got to open his all by himself this year and that was so fun to do.

He got batman pj's!

With a cape and everything! ha ha, so cute!

Christmas morning Chase set his alarm for 5:30am as always. I don't think he liked sleeping in 'til seven last year due to lack of sleep from one month old babe. So I was a little annoyed that on Christmas morning instead of just waking up and being excited I got to wake up to that obnoxious sound from his alarm. oh well, it was Christmas what can you do. Kael was a little confused at what was going on but soon was all happy to open more presents and play with his new toys. It was fun to have his parents there with us. Wish we could do that every year.

Chase got a crap load of hunting stuff (compliments of his wife and Cory McLaws) Cory helped me pick out a bunch of small stuff that he needed for hunting so Chase had a ton of stuff to open cause I wrapped every single thing individually. Ha, ha. My favorite though, was when he picked up in gun case thinking there was a gun in it and only found bullets and a broom stick. he he. I tricky! Then I pulled out the gun from under the couch. He was pretty surprised! I got a shopping spree for christmas and I couldn't more happy. I am in dire need of new clothes. Thanks babe.

And Kael had so much fun at Thanksgiving in that toy car that Nana got him one! He loves that thing. He plays with it all the time. So cute.

I had so much fun New year's eve that I forgot my camera. So this is what we did most of New Years Day because we had so much fun.

So we love the outdoors... and hiking.... but I don't love high places. Some friends invited us sto go hike Camelback Mountain with them. I was excited but worried cause I was so out of shape. Wow the whole way is uphill!!! and STEEP! there are some parts where they have cemented bars into the rock and you have to pull yourself up the mountain. My knees were shaking so bad. I was so freakin scared. I kept having flashes of me rolling down the mountain. So needless to say I only went up half way. Partly cause I was pooped from being out of shape, but mostly cause I'm just a big fat chicken. It started out great, just a few stairs and then a curvey dirt trail, then you hit the steep stuff. It was a lot of fun, and gave me a much needed work out. But I don't think I'll be going back to that mtn any time soon.

Check out that awesome smog. Gross!

Home for the Holidays!

2009-12-18T11:54:00.002-07:00

So I've gotten myself in the holiday festive mood, I suppose. Instead of a Christmas Tree this year we got a Holiday wreath to hang on our bedroom door. It smells of Christmas downstairs and I love to wake up every morning and get a sniffle of that wonderful wreath. I just can't help but get all festive and excited for Christmas! We have been busy with so many things. As you know we are not in our rental home anymore, we are in Chase's parents basement. Dang basement dwellers. Any who we have been working hard at trying to find a house to buy so we can get out of our dungeon and out of his parents way. We have never gotten any where near getting any of the houses we put an offer on until recently. We put an offer on a HUD home and we ended up being the first runner up. So we got all excited thinking well we made a little progress lets keep the ball rolling. We found a few really cute houses but one that was our favorite was a short sale. dun dun dun. I know short sales are just no fun. So we figured, eh why not at least just try, right? So we put an offer on the house knowing that we probably wouldn't hear anything for a month of so. But... to our surprise, they called that day to say that we would know the very next day if our offer was accepted. Plus # one! We wouldn't have to wait long just to find out we didn't get it. Wahoo! Then they called us back the next day and.... they .... accepted ..... our.... offer!!!! YAAAAAY! Plus # two! Man we are on a role. So after about a year of searching and rejections we finally got accepted. They like us, they really really like us. :) Ha ha. So of course there is always a catch when dealing with the dreaded short sales. They have a second mortgage. Poop. So instead of having to convince one bank to take a hit we have to convince two banks. So it might be a while before we even find out if our offer even gets accepted by the bank. So we aren't holding our breath on this house. But we don't care! We are just so stinkin excited that we got this far!! We are saying our prayers that it will go quick no matter what the outcome. Kael has been loving being at Nan's house. He gets to see at least one cousin everyday. So he always as a buddy to play with. He has been feeling pretty crumby though cause he is teething again. This poor kid doesn't just get one tooth at a time. His first six came in all at the same time and now all his molars are coming at a few others. I just feel so bad. He is a good kid and such a trooper but these teeth are really kickin his but this time. At least he's got his awesome cousin's to distract him and keep him busy. All 29 of them. :)

Picture Nazi

2009-12-02T21:44:00.020-07:00

*Warning..... Start from the bottom of this post, it's backwards, and I don't have the time to switch it (see previous post).*

Kael and his Great Grandma Alice.

Poor grandma can't remember anybody's name, but she did remember Kael's name the whole time we were there. :)

Such a beautiful Temple

We took the opportunity to go to the Las Vegas Temple while we were there. Oh my gosh. The celestial room glows when the light comes thru the windows at just the right time. It seriously took my breath away when I walked in.

Driving the big boy car

Kids took turns playing in the leaves

I guess I know what Kael is getting for Christmas. He sat in this toy car for so hours. He loved it!

We got to ride it Talon's cool dune buggie. I think that's what it was. It was freakin fast. no joke I about peed my pants.

It was really loud while they were playing games so Chase took a nap with Kael in the grass.

This is also for all yall texas family who wasn't there this year in Vegas with us. Just wanted you to see everybody and how much they've grown. It was so empty with out. Loves.

Cynthia and Amber this is for you.

Kael loves his bath time and now he has fun toys to make it even more fun. Thanks. Miss you guys. Loves from Kael.

He crashed the moment he was buckled in to go home. What a good first birthday.

no clothes, surrounded by toys.... thats the life for me

time to clean up

ramped it off the cake... wow check out that air.

He found his car candle and decided it needed a drive. He he, such a boy.

The first bite

He didn't really like us singing to him

He got so many gifts. Thank you everyone who got him stuff. He loves it all.

Kael didn't like his clothes. Ha, ha. He would throw them anytime we would put them on his lap. Silly boy has never like those confining things.

opening gifts

Kael's cake

daddy making birthday boy his breakfast

Kael's blanket I made him for his birthday

(my first blanket I've ever sewn)

So I've always known that I'm a picture freak. I have wanted a camera since I was little but wasn't aloud to have one until I was 12. My mom was smart and didn't want me wasting film. Cause you know back in the old days you actually had to by film and wait to see what your pictures looked like, and if they turned out. I remember the year I got my camera I would set up my barbies, yes I played with barbies when I was twelve, and then take their picture. I would make my family 'smile' and 'say cheese' too. It was this ghetto little box camera that you had to manually load and I remember it was a deep purple too. But I loved it and I love taking pictures. My next few cameras were 35mm and a little more high tech. (no manual turning required) Then the best invention ever!! Enter the digital camera. I think this is the coolest thing ever. No more waiting to see your pictures. So I get mine and I had the thing f...or....ev...er..... It was a pink kodak. My best friend. Enter the digital SLR!! Dun du da dun! I gotta have one. hum.... crap.... no money. So I hold off and keep using my pretty pink camera that I'm pretty sure I've had for like five years. I told you it was my best friend. Well it finally took a crap recently and my sweet hubby let me buy my sweet Canon Rebel XSi DIGITAL SLR camera. Whoop whoop. Hello new best friend. I did take two years of photography in high school and a semester of it in college. But I'm no expert photographer. I don't consider myself educated in the subject either. I just love love love taking pictures. So now that you know my silly story consider this my formal apology for the over load of picture taking. Over the past week and a half, no wait it was only on the weekends so technically only five days, I have managed to take 360 pictures. Yeah. Call that an accomplishment? I do. Holy crap. Was the camera glued to my face? Ha, ha. Well I'm not going to show you all 360 but I probably will have a lot to show you so...... Sorry and enjoy.

Homeless for Christmas....

2009-12-01T19:53:00.002-07:00

So we are officially homeless for Christmas. :( Do you want to know why? Of course you do, why else would you still be reading? So here's the scoop. We have been renting from our old Stake President while they were serving as mission presidents. Three years was the plan. That's how long you serve as mission presidents. July would have been three years. Only 7 months to go before we needed to be out. We have been house hunting for almost a year now with absolutely no flippin luck!!! Can you tell I'm irritated about that? It's just so just...... grrrrr...... because me and Chase have such a hard time even agreeing on a house. He wants these crap holes to fix up and I just want a home that's not going to fall apart while living in it or to cost a million dollars just to fix up. Husbands. Anyways, it has been a long, horrible experience. We have fought more in the last few months then we ever have because of this stupid house issue. So a horrible thing happened and the stake pres. that we are renting from had a heart attack. I know, so sad. So he was doing good after the fact but Salt Lake decided to send him home early. Great for them because they get to be home for the holidays. Not so great for us cause we still haven't gotten a home. Poop. The day we found out they were coming home was the day we found out we got rejected from another house. Surprise, surprise. We didn't know when exactly they would be home. They said it could be two weeks, or a couple months. Wow. So we planned on being ready in two weeks, just in case. Well Kael's birthdays was that first week and the second week was Thanksgiving and we were in Vegas with my dad's family this year. So needless to say not much time has been spent packing and we didn't have any time to go look for a new place to live. I did get a lot done before we left for Thanksgiving but we still had a lot to do. Anyway Sunday when we got back we went over to Chase's parents to say hello. His dad had heard when they were suppose to be home and it was next Monday!!! AHHHHH! So I have ONE week to get all of our crap out of the house... and....... we don't have enough time to find a place to live. So we are moving in with Chase's parents temporarily. The last few days all I've done from early morning to late night is pack, pack, pack. Fun! Talk about crazy. ha ha. Stress is my companion for now. I'm just so.... how do I describe it..... UGH..... about Christmas. It is my most favoritest holiday ever and we won't be able to do much this year. So sad. At least I am. I know Kael is too young for it to matter to him, but it matters to me. No Tree, no stockings, no putting up lights, no gingerbread house party, no baking goodies. I'm sure my mom in law won't mind letting me do a few of these things but it just won't be the same because we aren't in our own place. Maybe we'll be able to find something before Christmas. I don't know. Well if you don't hear from me for a while, thats why. Life will be major crazy.

Oh Dear...

2009-11-08T22:14:00.003-07:00

Oh my sweet baby Kael... where have you gone? I have been stuck with this mean ol' stinker of a friend. He's such a lil' sass, he steals my food, ignores me when I say 'no', and yells at me if I get up to take away what I just said 'no' to. Oh please tell my sweet baby Kael to come back. I miss his kisses, and how he would share his snacks with me, and how he love to share his toys. I miss this sweet heart who has been replaced by this lil' sass of an attitude. :)

Kael has taken on this lil' stinker of a 'tude lately. He has been throwing fits when you say no, or take away something he can't have. And I mean fits! He cries like you just broke his arm or something. Big ol' tears come pouring down his cheeks and he arches his back and kicks his legs. I mean if he was standing up he would be stampin' his feet kind of thing. I can't help but laugh because as soon as what you just took away appears those mysterious tears and crying "poof" vanish. Lil' turd. I laugh but it makes me so mad too because it's just pathetic the way he's figured out how to work us over. Ha, ha. Man are we suckers. Most of the time we stick to our 'NO' but sometimes, like tonight, when we just don't understand the 'want' followed by 'the fit' we cave. I know, BAD. But you have to hear this story to understand the hilariousness of it. So when Kael was younger, like just learned to sit up kind of young, I would set him in the bathroom sink while I got ready. Well he would be good for a while, then would get bored and start his destruction. He would always go for the Q-tips and then eat them. So I quickly learned that if you don't want it in the mouth, put a binkie in it. He won't take out the binkie because it's just too precious to him. Ha, ha, sneaky I know. Anyways, he got older and is now too curious and too big to be sitting up there now so its been a while since he's gotten to play with the fun stuff on the counter. Well my mom was babysitting Kael the other night and he found a random Q-tip. He played with that stupid thing FOR-EV-ER. He would hold it in the air, rub it on his toes, switch it from hand to hand, play with the cotton on the ends. I mean this kid thought he had just discovered the coolest thing. Well I came to pick him up and my mom told me what he's been doing. I laugh and then think 'gross! it's probably been used!' so I casually take it away, so I don't make a scene. Ha, Kael cried like I just killed his best friend. We all kind of stared for a second in shock, then laughed. I gave it back and immediately he stopped crying and smiled at the stupid Q-tip. The Q-tip. So, the mean mom that I am, I did it again to see what he would do. Yup threw an even bigger fit. Kicking legs, big ol' tears, and...... he dropped the binkie out of his mouth!! If you know Kael, his binkie is his best friend, won't sleep with out it. And so I showed him the Q-tip, and..... tah dah... no more tears. I laughed. What else could I do? It was just the oddest thing. Well tonight, my sis went and got a clean one and he did the same thing again. He is such an odd little boy, but I sure love him.

Kael loves, loves to read books. This was a couple Sundays ago and Chase was reading his book and Kael wanted his dad. So Chase picked him up, set him on his lap and handed him a book. Kael leaned back, opened his book and started talking in his own little baby language. It was just the cutest thing. Luckily I had my camera close by so I snapped some quick pics. He actually surprisingly stayed there for a while just chillin'. I know, just too cute.

Cowboys and Indians

2009-11-03T13:14:00.009-07:00

This was Halloween Day. We were major slackers this year and didn't do our pumpkins until the day of and forgot to light them before we went trick-or-treating so we had to go back. So sad. Kael liked rolling his pumpkin around on the floor while we worked on ours. Chase did a monkey face, it looked really cool but some how I didn't get a picture of it. Then me and Kael did a skull and a spider on ours. (in other words, mommy did Kael's pumpkin)

His hair was crackin' us up. It was standing on end before he went to bed last night and it was even wilder when he woke up that morning. I just had to leave it for a lil bit.

We went trick-or-treating most of the night. We started with my family then walked over to his parents and walked with his family for a bit and then we hit a couple friends houses on our own. Kael crashed about half way. It's so funny he had a sucker and then crashed, I'm so glad sugar doesn't affect him much. But then again he doesn't really get it that much to really know.

Cowboys and Indians

This was the night of our Halloween Party!! It was so fun, I hope everyone had has much fun as we did. The food was so yummy too. Every body did such a good job. The costumes were seriously so awesome this year. We had cavemen, gangsters, a toothbrush and toothpaste, cowboys and indians, little green monster, Danny and Sandy from grease, white trash couple, killer bees, rockin', tutu wearin' clown, an angel, halloween regurgitated, pirate, Turk and JD from scrubs, Ghost Busters, Indians from India, and more. It was seriously so awesome. Thanks to everyone who came. It's always fun to celebrate with friends!

Kael was a major party animal, can you tell?

This was at Chase's parents house. They have a Halloween Dinner Party every year with the grandkids. This is probably my favorite family activity because this party was the first and only family activity that I went to when Chase and I were dating. The next family activity I went to with his family was the night we got engaged. I had the honor of meeting his ENTIRE extended family on his mom's side. Yup, all 24 Aunts and uncles and a whole bunch more of cousins!! Whoop, whoop! So needless to say I love Halloween because it was sort of the start of our eternal journey together in our families.

Poor Nans, Kael has been a real stinker to her the last little while. Look at that 'tude he's giving her.

This was Kael's very first Halloween!! Last year I was hugely pregnant with him. So it was so fun that he was a little older for his very first trick-or-treating experience and get to actually eat the candy we collected. Almost all of the candy he got, he can eat himself. Everything else, mommy ate, ha ha. Sorry sugar is my weakness. All in all, it was a really fun Halloween!!

Growing up!!!

2009-10-27T11:37:00.010-07:00

He is such a ham and cheeser! He was being such a goof this time. I think this was my favorite bunch, because you can see his goofy personality. Ha ha.

I can't believe my baby boy is 11 months, and in exactly 24 days he will officially have an age in years! Well, year. I'm so excited for him to turn ONE, I don't really know why, either. I don't really want any of my babies to grow up, I want them to stay little forever. I especially don't want a naughty little toddler, or teenagers for that matter. Kael already has a little bit of a 'tude with me. For example, if you take away something that he does not want taken away, he will kick his legs and arch his back and cry. The other day I was at the bank and I sat him up on the counter and when I was trying to sign the receipt he reached for the pen. I moved his hand and told him 'no.' He didn't cry but he did the kick the legs and whine thing. And I had to keep from laughing. He can be such the little turd sometimes. Like when I'm trying to be firm when I say NO he will laugh and think it funny. Stinker. So I have to put on a fake mean face, but I think he can see right thru it. ha ha. He still has the same six teeth that came thru all at the same time, no new ones yet. He is a crawling and cruising machine, but he is not interested in walking at all. He is a little bit of a chicken. He is a major busy body. He gets into EVERYTHING. And if I have something stacked nice out of the way, and he can reach it. He will make sure the pile if spread across the room. He loves, loves, loves anything with wheels. He makes motor noises with anything and slides it across the floor. He likes any kind of toy ball, and he loves playing with books. One of my not so favorite 'discoveries' he has made recently it the 'TOILET' and he love to splash in the water. Luckily nothing has been in the toilet when this happens and luckily its only happened a couple of times. But on many occasions he has tried to make a bolt for it and failed to accomplish such task.

Coming Soon!!!

2009-10-22T15:16:00.002-07:00

Don't forget that our annual Halloween Bash is just around the corner. I hope you all have wicked, awesome costumes picked out!! Everyone is invited! So bring friends!

Friday, October 30th

6:30 p.m to WHENEVER

Come 'dressed' to show off your Halloween BEST! There will be a costume contest!

Prizes for the Scariest, Funniest, Sexiest, Over-all, and the Best Couple Costume!! Voting will take place around an hour or so after the start of the party so get there on time if you want to participate!

Pot Luck!!

Bring a tasty Halloween themed food to share.

(for example: pumpkin cookies, bone rice crispies, monkey 'brains' aka monkey bread, roasted pumpkin seeds, 'finger' sandwiches, bowl of bones aka buffalo wings)

You get the idea. It can be anything, just give it a 'halloween' name and whala!

Carved Pumpkin Contest!!

Bring your carved pumpkin and put it to the test. See everyone's creativity and vote on who's the best.

Crawl, Fly or Creep on over to our Haunted House at:

1459 E Glade Ave, Mesa

This is a party you definitely don't want to miss!!!

Leave a comment if yo have any questions.

Alphabet Attic

2009-10-15T23:15:00.002-07:00

So.... I know I post way too often but hey, I'm on the computer a lot so I always seem to find myself updating about our random life. Did you notice my NEW picture? So I'm first off going to say that this is not my idea, I got the idea from some lady I saw on the internet and I loved the pictures. So by no means am I taking credit for this remarkable idea. I did however take these pictures, among many others. I have had a few people tell me they wanted me to do one for them so I figured I would start to sell them. I can sell you the pictures or the whole thing all put together, whatever you would like. I'm not going to post ANY pictures on the internet, because I have worked really hard in accumulating the letters I have over the last three months. And I don't have all of them (pretty dang close though) so I'm still going to be working hard to find more. They have become really popular, I have been seeing these kinds of art sold in a bunch of stores, so I figured I would start letting people know I've been doing it. It started as just a gift to my mom, aunt and cousin for their birthdays and has turned into a bunch of people wanting their own. So if you are interested leave me a comment, send me an email (shalysecancook@gamil.com), or call or text me (4809939637).

Discoveries from Destruction

2009-10-12T00:06:00.003-07:00

So I've decided that having babies DESTROYS your body. Ha, ha. Now I know why ppl don't tell you all the 'sweet' details. Because anyone who truly knew what happened to your body after birth, they would seriously rethink their decision. Of course I love my baby and I'm excited to some day have more. But it stinks that such a wonderful thing has such a crapy downfall. I mean if you don't mind having 'flap jacks' for boobs, or a 'road map' of the entire world across numerous parts of your body, or even loosing a few brain cells, then you have nothing to worry about. Ha ha. Or how about the mysterious workings of the 'thass?' You know, where your thighs and your ass are so big that you can't tell where one begins or the other ends. You know, the 'thass.' Or when you swell up like a balloon when you are pregnant and look forward to the day you can put on your totally cute high heels once again, only to find out that your feet grew and you no longer can fit in any of those wonderful girly girl shoes. Oh and my personal favorite, you lose weight (finally) but find that when you go to buy new pants, the brand that used to be the "perfect pair" are no longer flattering on your newly found hips. Oh boy! Bahahahahahahaha!! Sorry to sound so dismal, but I'm not griping I promise. I was just laughing the other day about how screwed up your body gets after having a baby. Embarrassing story..... We had friends over the other day and I know Janette's name and Greg's... see I know it.... but I was introducing them to my cousins and I totally drew a blank. I felt just awful. Janette and Greg (not a couple) are spouses of my friends and I want them to know, I really do know your name, and I just had a horrible case of the brain farts. It was so sad. I seriously believe you lose brain cells when you have a baby. So what brought on the thoughts of 'screwed up body?' Well I went to try on my cute shoes for church today. I haven't worn them since I got pregnant so I was thinking they would be perfect for my outfit today. Well..... sadly they didn't fit. ALL of my shoes don't fit me any more. Ok, just one pair that I bought in a big size are the only ones that fit. And they happen to be my most favorite pair. (+) I think it is the weirdest thing that you can still grow even when you are done growing. I have found a new best friend in all of the post pregnancy fun. the PUSH UP BRA. ha ha ha. Oh so sad. Anyways, all of the 'wonderful' things that do happen to your body are NOTHING compared to having kids. Your heart seriously grows. I know so corny, but sometimes I can actually feel my heart growing. (picture the grinch) It seriously is the best thing in life!! Nothing compares. So I want to hear all about everyones post pregnancy 'discoveries' so we can all have a good laugh together. Oh please do tell. :)

Bruuuuuuuummmm.....

2009-10-07T11:01:00.002-07:00

Kael is a total boy. He was playing at my moms last month and started pushing around the toy cars and trucks making car noises. Ever since EVERYTHING is a car. Skateboard, bottle, my phone, you name it he scoots it across the floor and bruuuummm..... So cute! Needless to say my phone now has a few scratches, but oh well. He such a funny little boy.

Kael, Cinders and the ZOO!!

2009-10-02T10:56:00.001-07:00

Kael is Ten Months!!!

Actually he is ten and a half months now but I was a little slow to post. So we were camping again for his month-to-month pictures so I just did random shots for this month. If you are wondering what is on his ears? Well those would be Cheez-its that daddy tucked behind his ears. ha ha. He looks like yoda. Kael is busier than ever. He has been getting into EVERYTHING!!! I can't even walk out of the room for a second or hes into something he shouldn't be. And I have been hearing from mom's that it only gets worse when he learns to walk. Since Kael can pull himself up on anything, I'm hoping that this is the worst of it but we will see. He is officially off the baby food and eating big boy food. He still has 6 teeth but hes been cranky lately so I have a feeling that won't be for too much longer. This kid eats soooooo much! He loves going over Nana's house or Nans' house because they give him cookies or ice cream. ha ha. Stinkers. Thats ok though, that's what grandmas are suppose to do. :) You can't eat around Kael and not be prepared to share. He will throw a fit. Yes my little boy knows how to throw fits now. Turd. He knows how to 'cruise' around but he is still a chicken and won't even try to let go and balance on his own. I thought for sure he would be walking right after he started crawling but thank goodness he hasn't started yet. He knows how to say three words, mama, dada, bah bah; But he understands too many words to list. He is such a smart little boy. I'm sure every mom says that about their babies.

We went to the Cinders the other weekend. None of us have ever been so we thought we should go check it out. It was so much fun! Kael went riding with us in is back back carrier. He couldn't even care less when we were riding around with him. He did however love playing in the dirt and eating it. Gross. But that's what you do when you go camping. Play in the dirt!

Kael wanted to be a big boy and hold his banana so I figure, eh why not? Well when you place food in front of this kid he gets really excited and doesn't know when to stop putting more food in his mouth. So the result is over stuffed mouth with food=Choking Hazard. I have to admit he does really good, even with a crap load of food in his mouth. ha ha.

On Wednesday me and my sister took Kael to the Phx Zoo. I was so excited because I thought Kael would have fun seeing the animals because he attacks my mom's when we go to her house.

Well he was such a grouch and didn't even smile most of the morning. And then most of the animals were asleep when we walked by too. Guess it was just bad timing. Oh well. It was still fun because it was free.

The monkey's were so funny. They were just chillin under leaves staring at everybody. And the baby was so tiny.

Tori finally got Kael to smile and I tried to take a picture but he decided he wanted to pinch her nose instead.

When we stopped for snacks I said, "say cheese Kael" and this is what I got.

He is such a goofy boy. He looks like his mama but has daddy's goofy personality. Anyways, that is the latest with the Rogers' family.