The Rogers Neighborhood...

BINGHAM JACK ROGERS

2010-09-01T15:32:00.000-07:00

So...here's a little story...

since Arlee was so difficult to deliver...at 41 weeks, Dr. Huish decided to induce me the day before my due date. I had to go to the hospital at 3pm. Talk about a long day. It seemed like 3 would never get here! FINALLY it did! My sister Charlene and my niece Brittney watched Cooper and Arlee when we went. I'm so LUCKY to have such a GREAT family!

This is a picture of me a few minutes before we went to the hospital!

I had to make a face at Flint while he was taking the picture!

We got to the hospital and they started the pitocin at about 5:30 pm. I was dilated to a 2.

They kept increasing and increasing the pitocin and not much was happening. So finally at 3 in the morning on Friday Dr. Huish came in and broke my water. I was ONLY dilated to a 3! I was so frustrated! I wanted to have had this baby already! It was only a matter of like 15 minutes and I was wanting the oh so lovely EPIDURAL! And they could not give it to me fast enough! I was hating the pain! (I know I'm a wimp so stop laughing at me!) So at 4am I was dilated to a wopin 4! I was so mad! I told Flint " forget this, we are gonna be here FOREVER! I went to sleep...at 5 am 2 nurses came in and woke me up to tell me that they kept losing his heart rate on the monitor, so they wanted to put one on his head, I was like whatever and kinda dozed back off to sleep...then I hear all this commotion going on and I open my eyes and see like 6 people all doing stuff in my room. I panicked and asked the nurse if everything was okay. She goes "yes, you are going to have your baby, are you ready to push?" and then the Dr. walked in. I look over and Flint is asleep on the couch about 4 feet way from me. They put oxygen on me...I pulled the mask off and was like--hey someone wake him up! It was hee-haw funny Flint jumps up and comes to my side all disorientated and his hair was going everywhere I laughed right out loud at him! Dr. Huish said push and about 3 pushes later Bingham was born...the nurses came in at 5am and he was born at 5:25! I went from a 4 to a 10 in one hour and slept through it all! My kind of labor!!!

Bingham was born August 5, 2010 at 5:25 am.

He weighed 8 lbs and was 21" long. A HUGE baby if you ask me!

Our new family picture! Bingham is about 6 hours old!

Big brother and Big sister checking out their new brother!

This picture was taken on Friday August 6th, the day we came home from the hospital.

The grey tubing coming from Bingham is a bili-light. He was a little jaundice so he had to wear the bili-light until Monday.

Arlee holding Bingham. These two are so excited to have a baby to hold!

Raking leaves in JULY???

2010-09-01T15:20:00.000-07:00

I love this picture of Arlee in her jammies with her purse and her shopping cart with Curious George in it. She loves to push the cart around. I never know what I am going to find in her cart! It cracks me up!

Flint and Cooper raked the front yard...in the END of JULY! The stupid tree in our front yard like to drop its leaves in the summer!

Arlee didn't like to touch the yucky leaves! This is her "dirty look" haha

This is what happens after you play in the itchy leaves! A bath in the kitchen sink!

4th of July!

2010-08-25T20:04:00.000-07:00

Here we are in my brothers backyard at a BBQ!

We are all sunburned from swimming with my nieces!

Sierra Vista is our favorite place to go on the 4th!

It is so nice to go somewhere cooler and so fun to get to hang out with the family!

Arlee with Uncle Ron!

Me and Arlee...she is so tired!

Cooper helping Uncle Steve feed the calf! He loves Uncle Steves "FARM"

Grandma and Arlee. Arlee is named after her!

Sunday night we were hanging out at my parents house and the doorbell rings and someone says "Hi President Haymore...do you know who I am?" I was in the family room and I say...I do!

It was Jason Macdonald and his family. It was so fun to see him. We all went to high school together.

Little Miss MESS! Look who got into Coopers markers! It is a GOOD thing that she is CUTE!

June!

2010-08-25T10:01:00.000-07:00

Yes, I am so far behind that I am going by months! I'm almost caught up!
Joy came and stayed a few days with us. It was a lot of FUN! Cooper and Joy play so well together and always have a great time!
We went to the new AQUARIUM in Tempe. The kids loved it! Coopers favorite was the sharks...of course!

Cooper and Joy in front of "NEMO"

We have spent most of the summer in our pool! Arlee LOVES the pool. She likes to stand on the edge and count to three and jump in! It is hilarious to watch her. She is a super good sport too! Cooper LOVES to tease and splash her and for the most part doesn't care!
In case you were wondering...YES she has her daddy wrapped around her finger! She is his princess!

Our little fish...Cooper. He is a great swimmer. This summer he has gotten so good at diving! Yes, he can dive and I cant! He also has learned strokes and is always correcting me. I guess I really don't know how to do the back stroke or the butterfly, or free style for that matter! Cooper does!

Little Miss Arlee Bug!

Cooper was assigned to give a talk in primary. So for his talk I spelled out the word HOLY GHOST and for each letter there was a little sentence. So on Sunday morning I tell hm to come down stairs and practice his talk...he comes down wearing his SPIDERMAN costume from TWO years ago! This is a picture of him practicing his talk. It is hard to listen and concentrate when he was wearing that costume! This kids cracks me up sometimes! I never know what he is going to say or do!

Arlee's messy face...she loves chocolate...I wonder who she gets that from?!?

Our MAY adventures...

2010-08-15T12:43:00.001-07:00

This is how Cooper does his homework...with a pint of GOLDEN SPOON, juice and no shirt on! I can only imagine this is a glimpse of what he will look like doing his homework when he is 15!

Yeah for MAY!!! Time to swim in the pool! Cooper and Flint were willing to swim way before I was! I like it to be a little bit warmer and so does Arlee!

Yep, I'm playing catch-up! I have gotten so far behind on the blog! So here is a quick summery of our May. Warning...tons of pictures!

This is Cooper and the Neighbor kids plating basketball.

Flint and his infamous cannon bomb!

Flint getting the courage to jump in!

The twins--Justin and Mason came and visited us from Seattle! We LOVE it when our cousins come!

Cooper turned 6! I can't believe that he is getting so big! Where did the time go?

He had a party in the backyard with a few friends.

Flint is so proud of his garden. These are the 1st veggies we harvested! Yummy!

Arlee in her swim suit! She didn't like the water until it was warm.

EASTER!

Arlee liked the eggs with candy in them the best!

Cooper's 1st jump of the season into the pool! Brrrrrrrrr!

He did it in his underwear...of course!

We hiked up to "A" mountain. it was fun. Next time I'm not going to do it in flip flops!

Flint, Cooper and Arlee on the top, with Tempe in the background

Me with the kids.

Can you find Flint and Cooper????

I got to go chaperon the kindergarten kids at Phoenix Children Museum. Cooper loved this place and has begged to go back ever since.

Sweet Pea!

2010-08-15T12:33:00.000-07:00

Arlee was Flint's guinea pig for his new background. I LOVE these pictures! Wait...I love this girl!

Coopers Kindergarten Graduation May 2010

2010-08-13T18:38:00.004-07:00

My little Cooper is getting so big! He is such a good boy and we are so proud of him. I can't believe that he is such a good reader and can spell so well! He is awesome!

Me and Cooper!

He was so excited to graduate from Kindergarten!

Cooper and his pal Gavin Lloyd

Cooper and Maddy

Flint and Cooper!

As soon as graduation was over we headed for the mountains in Prescott. We had a great time.

It ended up being the last time that we used out travel trailer. So sad that

we sold it!

Cooper cried. Flint promised him we would buy another one soon!

Roasting Mallows was Arlee's favorite thing! She ate SIX of them!

Arlee with her bruised head. She fell out of the camper trailer door!

It was horrible!

I love her messy face! She loved her chili dog for dinner!

Spring Break and Amazing Jakes!

2010-06-24T19:55:00.000-07:00

I know, I know, I'm like 5 months behind! So here we go...be ready for a TON of pictures!

I'm gonna get all caught up before this baby gets here and all heck breaks loose! haha

THE CABIN

We went to my parents cabin for Cooper's spring break. It was a ton of fun! Wendy, Jason and kids went too! It was so nice to sit back a relax for a few days. While we were there my niece Lindsey came and hung out with us for 2 days and Dale and Amanda and kids came for a day trip. It was so much fun. Cooper was in heaven.

This is Cooper and Arlee in The Redwing's Rhino! Flint wants one soooo bad. I told him when he could pay cash for it! haha. It was so much fun!

Us in the Rhino---poor Arlee she was so cold in it and she hated the wind. We definitely want one with a windshield!

The Redwings with Cooper

Caleb, Cooper and Jacob in the back!

Cooper ate the nasty old snow. He was so excited to see the snow. We really need to take him out of the city more!

Lindsey playing with the kids in the creek. It was soooo cold, but they still got in!

Cooper, Caleb, Jacob and Joy on the bridge over the creek

Arlee at the Bingham reunion.

For Christmas Dale and Amanda gave us tickets to Amazing Jakes.

It is one of Flint and Cooper favorite places ( I like it too) We had a great ol time. Arlee even had fun.

Cooper climbing the rock wall.

Arlee eating her 1st ice cream cone...she started from the bottom! Never a good idea!

We played mini golf. Flint won...of course!

I love this WOMAN! She is awesome!

2010-04-12T19:28:00.000-07:00

Sad, but sometimes this video is so true! I saw this video on Pam's facebook today and had a great laugh...I just wanted to share it with all you other moms that are as tired as I am tonight!!!

Its a BOY!!!

2010-03-23T19:29:00.000-07:00

I had the ultrasound a few weeks ago...and found out that we are gonna have a BOY! We sent out mass texts and put it on facebook, and now I'm just getting around to blogging about it! We are so excited! Cooper is so happy. Everyday he tells me something that he is going to teach him...SCARY! Not really. Cooper is a great big brother to Arlee. He is so great with her. He tells us she ADORES him! My response is always "OF COURSE!" and she does love him! I am so blessed with great kids and a super husband!

Here is a picture of "HIM" we don't know what we are going to name him, names are such a hard thing for me!

Finally Arlee's 1 year pictures!

2010-03-19T13:55:00.000-07:00

Flint and Kacey FINALLY took Arlee's 1 year pictures! I LOVE them all! I got the 300 pictures narrowed down to 80! That is still so many that I LOVE! Maybe I could just make an Arlee wall!

Here are a few that I edited real quick!

Did I mention that I am so in LOVE with this girl???

Lovin the weather!

2010-02-26T12:40:00.000-08:00

I got this roll recipe from Michelle and it is awesome and so fast to make. You must try these! The are called Lion House Rolls. You can click here for the recipe.
YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY!

We planted a small garden this year. It started like this...

and after Flint hauled in over a TON of dirt...with Cooper helping

It started looking like this...(we had to do an elevated garden here, because the soil is so bad!

Planting squash(several kinds), cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and green beans

Now we have to just WAIT until we can have some yummy veggies to eat!

The weather has been so beautiful here, we have gone and done something outside EVERYDAY last week. It was so FUN!

This is Cooper and I at Papago park.

This is Flint and Arlee. Flint was scared of these GEESE, as you can tell he is getting ready to turn and run away. I was LAUGHING so hard!

Cooper found this window to sit in where he thought he was safe from the geese!

We hiked...more like walked up to the HOLE IN THE ROCK in Tempe. It was cool to lookout over the entire valley. It was so awesome. Cooper loved the climb all over the rocks.

Cooper...

2010-02-09T17:59:00.000-08:00

SO lately Cooper has decided that he doesn't need help saying his bedtime prayers. He does a GREAT job. However sometimes he goes on big tangents (wonder who he gets that from?) It is hilarious sometimes what gets blessed at our house. Tonight was NO exception. This was my most favorite phrase EVER! "and please bless Grandma Haymore that she will obey and do her chores and please bless her that she will eat her vegetables and be reverent at church and bless her that she can remember to choose the right!" I couldn't help it I laughed right out loud. He just kept going on and on and on blessing Grandma Haymore! We love our Grandma!

Cooper is learning to read and loves it! Arlee loves books, so Cooper reads to Arlee pretty much EVERYDAY. It makes me so happy when he is doing something nice for her instead of TEASING her! Who would have thought...5 years apart and they still fight! He is such a good boy!

Mia Maids and toilet paper!

2010-01-28T19:48:00.000-08:00

Did you ever wonder what eight 15 year old could do with a few rolls of toilet paper and some tape...besides "decorate" a house? Well I happen to know a few talented and creative girls. Here is what they came up with. The only instructions that I gave them was that it had to be modest! Thanks Flint for being a great sport and taking some pictures!

Soccer, Birthday, and Ultrasound

2010-01-22T14:32:00.000-08:00

Cooper had his 1st soccer game last Saturday. It was pretty funny to watch. I think that it is absolutely hilarious that the name of his team is the TORNADOS! That is EXACTLY what they looked like running down the field. Cooper loves playing and THINKS that he is the greatest player ever! Lets just say that he really needs some practice!

On January 21st was Arlee's 1st birthday! My baby is one! I realized something on her birthday...Why is she the one getting all the presents??? I was the one who delivered her! I now think that MOMS should get a present or two on EVERY child's birthday!

"ITS MY PARTY I"LL CRY IF I WANT TO!"

Arlee and Brittney share the same birthday! We absolutely love our Brittney. She is so fun...and amusing to have around! She has to live near us FOREVER!

My Arlee bug

Right before she tried to grab the burning candle!

She loved the CHOCOLATE cake!

You can't really tell in the picture, but she even had cake in her ear!

I had an ultrasound last week...here is one of the pictures. My FAVORITE part is hearing the heartbeat. It just does something to me...The nurse said "IT" is just less than 3 inches long from head to rump. WOW have we ever got a lot of growing to to do!

Only about 4-5 more weeks until we can find out what "IT" is! This "IT" stuff makes me crazy!

Cooper has an announcement

2010-01-15T14:41:00.000-08:00

December...randomness

2010-01-13T18:49:00.000-08:00

Christmas morning was fun. It was our 1st Christmas at home with the kids. My parents were here and so was Ron. It was so FUN having them here!

Cooper helped Arlee open EVERY present, because she just was not fast enough for him!

Arlee on her walker from SANTA. She actually HATES it when it is a walker. She has no intentions on walking anytime soon! She LOVES so sit on it as a scooter!

Arlee LOVES to swing outside. She laughs so hard the whole time. I love it!

The week before Christmas Isaac and Jenny came and stayed with us. It was a lot of fun. Cooper was in heaven having his cousins here to play with him. They got bored one afternoon, so Flint and I built them a "city" in the backyard. It worked out PERFECT for ME! They watched a movie in the monkey bar dome and didn't bug for 1 1/2 HOURS!

Arlee is in love with the fireplace. She seems to have a fetish with the ashes. I must not be a very good cook, because she LOVES to eat the ashes!

Ash face Arlee!!!

Cooper is learning to read and Arlee loves to look at books. I LOVE it when he reads to her. BUT It usually turns into nonstop yelling by Cooper "Arlee stop grabbing the book"

I told Cooper to pick up EVERYTHING off the family room floor and this is what he does!

Roasting marshmallows in the fireplace. No wonder my kids love their dad more than ME!!!

Guess who lost his 1st tooth!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

2009-12-28T10:06:00.000-08:00

so... I never got around to posting our family pictures and making the oh so cute Christmas card that I had all planned out! Life got a little crazy...
Here are some of the pictures that Kacey (Flint's assistant)took of us! She did a great job, I just wish that Cooper wasn't so naughty while we were doing them and that Arlee wasn't half asleep... another bad timing on my part...I should know better then to wake up a baby for pictures! DUH! And it completely slipped my mind that I wanted to lose about 20 more lbs before we took these! hahaha Oh well I think they turned out cute! Hope you all had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Jan, Arlee 11 mo's, Flint, and Cooper 5 1/2

I'm in LOVE!

2009-11-21T18:28:00.001-08:00

I FINALLY got my wheat grinder! I LOVE it! I got it a few days ago and have been wanting to make bread since. I am so happy to be able to grind my OWN wheat. What good is a million pounds of wheat without an ELECTRIC grinder! (we have a hand one, but lets be real, it would take about a month to grind enough wheat for a batch of bread...not to mention the arm pain!) I am so excited. I love how it worked, so easy, and not a lot of parts like some that I have seen.

Cooper was so excited to help me. He even said "Mom, take a picture of me with our new wheat flour" He did decide that he did not like how the plain flour tasted!

Arlee was at my feet wanting to help also! (please excuse her hair...it was a Saturday morning for goodness sakes!)

It was Coopers job to pour in the wheat to be ground. He didn't like the sound that it made while it was grinding that is why he is making such a funny face!

AHHHHH the finished product!!!! YUMMY, and so good for you! I got this awesome recipe from a friend and tweaked it a little bit, so it is a little better for ya!!! It has wheat flour, flax seed, and oatmeal in it...with a little bit of wheat germ. ewwww! It doesn't sound very good, but it is so delicious! I will post the recipe if ya want!

Can you tell that Flint has worked all day today?

I have been so productive. It is busy wedding season, so I must entertain myself...so I made these!

The finished product!

And yes, I climbed up on a bar stool and put these blocks up there all by myself!!!

Had to try something NEW! I had this amazing salad at my nephews wedding luncheon and I LOVED it, so I begged for the recipe! I have been waiting for the perfect time to make it...

I had BUNKO at my house last week and tried it out on the "girls" Most really liked it, but some are picky butts and didn't even try it! Flint told me it is "a Relief Society salad if he has ever seen one!" I will definitely make this again. (sorry for no finished salad picture, I forgot!)

The BIG UGLY thing in the bottom left corner is JICAMA. I have NEVER had it before. It was crunchy and yummy!

Here is the recipe!

JICAMA SALAD

1 large jicama, pealed and diced

4 large diced Roma tomatoes

4 Avocados diced

1 bunch green onions diced

1 bunch cilantro chopped

4-5 fresh green chili diced (I used a can of diced green chili's)

4-5 chopped garlic buttons (used garlic in jar already diced)

Dressing

1/4 C rice vinegar

1/2 C Canola oil

1 tbs chicken bouillon

juice of 1 lime

salt and pepper

pour over veggies and give it a good stir. It was SUPER YUMMY after it had marinated about an hour! It is a good recipe for my weight watcher pals...it is basically CORE! gotta love that.

It is a strange recipe (at least to me it was) but give it a try and try something NEW!

Why my husband LOVES his job...

2009-11-10T10:54:00.000-08:00

This is a video that Flint took at a wedding last weekend. I have watched it many times and still laugh every time...so watch and enjoy. Be sure to watch it ALL so you can see what she does to Flint when she realizes she is be photographed. BAHA!

Just when you think you have seen it all...

I can only hope that that my legs will be as sexy as hers at her age...and that I can move like her!!! I wonder if Flint blushed when she did that to him??? probably NOT!

October pictures...

2009-11-05T19:22:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of us this past month!

This is Arlee reading "Mimi's Toes" while I was canning chicken!

I hate RAW chicken! I did about 20 lbs. It is sooo Yummy and so convenient!

Ahhh... the finished product!

Arlee in her high chair. I love the faces that she makes. She ALWAYS smiles when she sees the camera! How does she know to do that?

This is Madison and Arlee. They are 2nd cousins...I guess. She is my niece Marlees beautiful daughter. They came and hung out with us. We Love it when cousins come to see us!

PUMPKIN CARVIN!!! Flint had the patience to help Cooper carve a really cool spider on his pumpkin this year. Flint did an awesome carving this year on his pumpkin and I am such a loser that I didn't even take a picture of it!!! woops!

The scary spider!

All these years and I had NEVER made salsa...so I decided to try! Can you say yummy! I had no idea that it was SO EASY! I added mango for MANGO SALSA to about half of the batch. It was awesome!

This is Arlee eating the mango seed. She LOVED it! She also made a horrible mess with it.

Cooper the Pirate "bones" and Arlee the lady bug!
Thank you to the Children's Place--I did not have to make costumes this year!!!

My little bug crawling on the floor. (really sweeping the floor!) I could not believe it. She left her hood on her head at trunk or treat and Halloween night. She is such a sweetie!

Friday night was our ward "TRUNK or TREAT" wow! Coopers bucket was completely full in like 20 minutes! I talked Wendy into coming and bringing her football players since both our husbands were working. It was a lot of fun!

Dale and Amanda were here on Halloween night, so Cooper got to go trick or treating with some of his Rogers cousins. He was SO EXCITED. Eli was Tigger, Joy was a beautiful mermaid and Lucy was a cute little cheerleader! Great times! Flint had a wedding on Halloween (who gets married on Halloween anyway??) so he missed out on all the festivities this year. He was pretty bummed.

Funniest Story of the MONTH!
So Cooper wins this little pumpkin at his school Halloween party. He told me that he wanted to draw a face on it. So I assume that he is going to get some markers and make a face...this is what he did...

no big deal right??? I look at it closer and asked him "what are those lines above his eyes?" Cooper looks at me like DUH and says "those are the lines in dads forehead!" I laughed so hard that I cried! soooo here is Flint giving me a MY WIFE is ridiculous look, so I could show you the lines that Cooper was talking about! Who know Cooper was so observant?!? HAHAHAHAHA

Here is Arlee in the "KITCHEN SHOWER" She loves the bath, and sometimes she gets in in the kitchen sink!

The LOVES the water to spray on her!

Sugar Cookies with Aunt Sarah! They were not as good as the ones SHE makes!!!

NEW MOTTO!

2009-10-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

"I want to have a nice body but not as much as I want dessert!"
Amen! Amen! Amen!
I love yummy treats....
So my niece (BRITTNEY) comes over and tells me has this yummy recipe that she is going to make for me...so her and her "friend" make us this oh so yummy Halloween treat! It was so yummy! Did I tell you that it was super YUMMY?? I could not stay out of it. I even took it off my counter and put it in the pantry...ya know outta sight outta mind...NOT! It was like a little person in the pantry was in there calling my name! So I would HAVE go in there and get a piece! I am ashamed to tell you this is all that is left and she just made it on Tuesday night! (In my defense, I did however share it with my YW on Wednesday night when they came over...)
SOOO..when I go to Weight Watchers in the morning I was thinking of taking the last three pieces to "Julie" our director and letting her have a taste and then she will understand why
I did not lose any weight this week! Sound like a good idea? Here is a picture that Kacey took of me and what we now call "the devils candy"

Since misery LOVE company here is Brittney's recipe...and no I didn't ask her if I could post it oops!
THE DEVILS CANDY
15 oreos crushed
1 1/2 cup pretzel sticks broken up
candy corn--a hand full (I don't even like candy corn and this stuff was YUMMY)
Toffee Bits (optional)
1 lb. vanilla almond bark
Halloween sprinkles
mix together oreos, pretzels, candy corn and toffee bits spread on baking sheet covered with wax paper
melt almond bark in microwave for 2 minutes, stir and microwave for 30 seconds...until melted
pour over mixture and give it a spread.
Top with a handful of candy corn and sprinkle with the Halloween sprinkles.
Refrigerate until firm...(or put in freezer like we did, because we just had no patience to wait any longer!!!)
break into pieces and ENJOY!!! (I suggest you share with a friend or it will call you name in the pantry!)
Thanks Brittney for this yummy recipe that you didn't even say I could have, but hey...you left your sticky note with the recipe on it sitting on my counter!

What's for dinner?

2009-10-21T11:04:00.000-07:00

Some of my friends have asked me to post some of my Weight Watcher recipes, so here is what's for dinner tonight at our house! I am so happy it is finally soup weather! (it's really not, it is gonna be in the 80's today, but I am gonna pretend!)

This is a recipe I have had for a long time, I just lightened it up! Some of you have probably had this at my house, it is one of my "pantry stand bys"

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Taco seasoning packet (0r 2 TBS Costco Taco seasoning)
1 1/2 cups water
1 can tomato sauce
1 can 98% fat free Cream of Chicken Soup
1 cup fat free milk
2 large chicken breasts (boneless, skinless)
2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can corn, 1 can Rotel or (1 can diced green chili and 1 can diced tomatoes)

In crock pot, mix the taco seasoning with the water and the tomato sauce. Add cream of chicken soup and milk. Add in whole chicken breasts. On top of the breasts dump black beans, corn and Rotel. Don't stir!
Cook on high for 3-4 hours or low for 6-8 (check your chicken after a few hours...my crock pot cook HOT)
Shred chicken (you can pull it out, then dump back in, but I just do it in the crock pot).

Top with fat free sour cream, shredded cheese (if I use cheese I use 2%), diced avocado, a squeeze of lime over the top is also yummy!
Flint eats this with tortilla chips and if I want some I use baked Tostidos!
YUMMY! YUMMY!

If any of you have some yummy recipes that are WW friendly, I am ALWAYS looking for some new ones, please share! I believe that the way to stay eating healthy is to have some options!

UPDATE!!!!
I just shredded my chicken and made a few adjustments... I added another can of black beans (so a total of 2 cans and added 1 1/2 cups of wheat berry's ( if you want to know how to do wheat berry's I can tell you) I usually make a batch of the berry's in the crock pot so I have them ready to add to things! YUMMY!

Catching up...

2009-10-15T18:42:00.001-07:00

I canned 40 lbs of pears a few weeks ago! I also froze and made freezer jam with 30 lbs of peaches! (oops no pictures of the peaches) YUMMY, YUMMY! I absolutely LOVE looking in my pantry and my freezer and seeing all the delicious food! Yes, as a matter of fact FOOD does make me happy!
Don't I look so happy pealing and pealing ALL of the pears?!?
The pears BEFORE

AFTER

This is sweet Arlee bug playing with her toys while I am pealing pears! She is such a GOOD baby!

FALL BREAK-
This week is "FALL BREAK" so Cooper was out of school, so we went camping. The weather was awesome and we had a great time!
This is us getting ready to leave!

Flint with his most BEAUTIFUL hair-do and Arlee. This is a cute little game that they play. Arlee takes Flint's hat and then he puts it on her and they both laugh so hard. It is so funny to watch. He is such a sucker for his daughter!

Me with the kids by the fire! It was cold when the sun went down! I was SO thankful for the heater in the camper!

Flint with the kids!

We are such goof-balls! We ACTUALLY road on the 4-wheeler like this! It was a little crazy!

We need a RHINO!

Flint and Arlee on the 4-wheeler. She wasn't a huge fan of it. She would always CRY/SCREAM when he would start it!

The cutest little bug ever! She loved camping.

LOOK I took a picture of leaves...I thought Flint would be so proud of me, and when I showed him, he looked at it and goes OH leaves. That was all he said!!!!

I LOVE FALL

This is Cooper on our hike to the falls. He was a SUPER hiker.

Arlee ALWAYS has to have her feet up on her stroller, table etc..geee I wonder where she gets that???

WIND CAVES--
We came home last night from camping and then got up and hiked to the WIND CAVES at USERY PASS this morning.

The weather is so beautiful right now, we just CAN'T stay INSIDE!!!

Arlee slept all the way back!

I KNOW

2009-10-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

I had the awesome chance to go to Time Out For Women this past weekend. I LOVED it and think that ya'll need to make plans to attend next year...YES, it was that awesome!
The theme was "SWEET ASSURANCE...the certainty that comes when you know life's truths."
One of the things they had us do was right down what I know for sure, no matter what.
Here is my list (just in the order that I thought of them, not really of importance to me)

I KNOW...
1. I love Flint
2. I love Cooper and Arlee
3. miracles happen to ordinary people
4. Jesus lives
5. the Gospel is important to me
6. the Holy Ghost comforts
7. laughter heals
8. service makes me happy
9. hugs make me feel better
10. the Savior makes hard things bearable
11. I am a child of God
12. Heavenly Father loves my kids as much as I do
13. exercise makes me feel happy
14. Families are forever
15. the Lord has a plan for me
16. chocolate desserts make me happy
17. a clean home gives me peace
18. giving is better then receiving
19. I am blessed
20. I am loved

I would encourage you to grab a pencil and set your timer for 5 or 6 minutes and write down what you KNOW for sure, no matter what. This list has really made me think about who I am and what I am...something to really think about! It is my new favorite thing I have right now...yes, a list!
Re-reading this list makes me laugh and want to cry all at the same time. Its kinda funny that I actually wrote that chocolate make me happy, but I do really know that it does! Another one of my favorites is that miracles happen to ordinary people. I know that my two kids are truly miracles, no denying it!
At TOFW another favorite was listening to Kenneth Cope sing. He is an awesome performer. I have always loved his music and was very excited when I found out that he was going to be there. I also loved John Bytheway, I have been reading his books since I was a teenager. One of the things that he talked about was the word DELIGHTFUL. He asked us to ask ourselves "What is it like to be married to me?" He said we need to "Choose to be delightful." It is such a funny word to me, but it is my word right now...
I could go on and on...It was simply an amazing conference!
Well Cooper is out of school for the WHOLE next week (for FALL BREAK...who ever heard of that??? Where was that when I was in school??) so we are loading up the RV and are headed to the mountains for one last hurrah of the year. (personally I would rather stay home and get some things done around the house) but Flint and Cooper are so excited to go...so I am choosing to be DELIGHTFUL...so off we go! Don't worry I bought a few good books at the conference so I am well armed with something to do! Nature here we come!

Cooper makes me laugh!

2009-09-24T20:33:00.001-07:00

Okay, here is the deal...

Flint and Kacey FINALLY took some pictures of Arlee at 6 mo's, so I printed one to go on the wall going up the stairs (by Coopers pic) well I searched and hunted the valley over for the perfect frames and then hung the oh so cute picture of Arlee up. Well then I realized that the picture of Cooper was slightly OLD (it was his 3 year old picture and he is 5!) That is so unacceptable and embarrassing! Are you kidding me? My husband is a photographer!!! I can't believe that I have not replaced the picture in so many years.

So Flint and Kacey were working in the office and I go in and ask Flint if he would go outside and take a QUICK picture of Cooper for my wall. He rolled his eyes at me and said "Look at our last family pictures and see if there is one there you like" well obviously there wasn't or I would have printed IT! So I looked and I didn't want any of them for this wall...so I asked again. He finally agrees and then he goes and tells Cooper "come on Mom (I'm ALWAYS the jerk!) wants a picture of you to hang up by Arlee, lets just go take some pictures, I PROMISE it will be fast!" Well the weeping and whaling began! Flint looks at me and says "this is why we don't have a picture of him! He HATES it!" so they finally go outside and come back a few minutes later. Flint hands me the camera and says " Hope there is one in there that will work, I don't like to photograph HIM!" I say thank you and start to look through the pictures and this is what I see...

are you kidding me? I was laughing so hard but was so frustrated, ALL I wanted is one decent picture of my sweet and adorable 5 year old! ba ha!

Since neither Flint nor Cooper would cooperate with me I asked Kacey if she would take one for me. I bribed Cooper with a treat and this is what we got!

YEAH a picture of Cooper with a some-what normal look on his face!

Now to print it and hang him up!

(I really dont know if Flint or Kacey actually took this picture...thanks both of you)

You all need to feel sorry for Flints wonderful assistant Kacey. She has to put up with all the crazy ANTICS here at the Rogers house!

Labor Day - Haymore family reunion 2009

2009-09-19T21:40:00.000-07:00

Apparently we only got our camera out for the pinata! Here are a few pictures. It was a fun reunion. Cooper loved playing with his cousins and Arlee loved having someone different holding her every second! I missed not having my parents there, it just wasn't the same! Flint loved getting to ride his 4-wheeler! Cooper cried when it was time to go home!

some of the gang!

Arlee and I...obviously I had slept in a tent and had not looked in a MIRROR!

Cooper hitting the pinata...alota good the blind fold is down around his NECK!

Hunter and Cooper! These two boys had a blast. I'm not sure who was dirtier or who ate more candy! I love that these two little boys like to play together! Hunter is my nephew Dagen's oldest son!

to CHANGE THE SUBJECT...
These are Arlee's 6 month pictures that I had printed for the house. It was so hard to decide! I am so in love with this girl!!!

ANOTHER subject change!
I LOVE this picture...there are just so many things wrong with it that it makes me laugh EVERY time!
She is sitting in her bumbo on the COUNTER swiggin DIET MT. DEW! I also love that her feet are on the jug too! PLEASE dont call CPS on me!haha

My Mamma's gonna be so proud of ME!

2009-08-30T21:10:00.000-07:00

Okay, lets start at the very beginning--- two Sundays ago at Stake Conference our Stake President asked all of our stake to have a 3 month supply of food, water and medications by SEPTEMBER 30th. WOW WEE! Have you ever sat down and really thought about what it would take to have a full 3 month supply for FOOD? Talk about overwhelming! I was a little besides myself, but knew that it was something that we needed to do. The spirit was so undeniably strong when President Ostler asked this of our stake. Flint and I sat down and talked about how we were gonna do this and decided we needed a plan, cuz you just can go to the store and start buying all sorts of random things! So luckyfor me one of my good friends mom is the "food storage lady" in her ward and she gave me all sorts of great information. Flint and I made a plan and have been working for the past two weeks to obtain a 3 month supply. It has been a very interesting and a HUGE learning process for me. First we made a menu for two weeks, then figured out what ingredients we needed for all these meals and multiplied it by six...wow it was so amazing to figure out what we needed to have to feed our small family for three months!!! Flint has been building storage shelves, I have been VERY busy learning new things and think that just maybe I have a new hobby...here are some pictures of my most proudest (is that even a word?) accomplishments!

NOPE, not dog food, HAMBURGER! Yep I canned almost 40 lbs of hamburger! It looks so disgusting, but I just don't have a freezer big enough (who does?)for all the chicken, roast, fish, hamburger, veggies, ice cream, etc. for a thee month supply. So the hamburger got the boot from the freezer! I hear that is tastes just like chicken hahaha just kidding, I've been promised that I would never know it was canned when we eat it! We shall see.
pardon the photography, Flint was at a church meeting tonight when I wanted the picture taken!

I also figured out that you can can somethings with the "Food Saver machine", so the experimenting began...
here is some powdered milk...did you know that if you DON'T put a napkin or paper towel in the top of your jar of powdered milk before you dry can it, that it can cover an entire kitchen in a fine dust in a matter of a few seconds? Trust me on this!

potato flakes, pecans, and of course CHOCOLATE CHIPS! (I also did brown sugar, but was too lazy to go get it from the storage closet for a stupid picture)

My food storage would not have been complete without some CHOCOLATE!

YIPEE for me I learned how to can food and now I want to can EVERYTHING in sight!

The next items I want to can is chicken and beans. I really want a pressure caner of my own, maybe Santa Clause will some through for me! I do still believe!

As of today all we lack to finish is more chicken and frozen veggies, and a few more cases of water! YEE HA

HELP...I need help

2009-08-26T13:13:00.000-07:00

Calling all my crafty friends, please help your craft challenged friend out!!!
I was just asked to be on a little committee for enrichment activities. I need some ideas for some crafts. (can be Halloween, Fall, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or just as a gift or any craft idea!) I just have NO idea what new and cool things are out there, so I need your in-put. What did your ward do for Super Saturday etc... You can either leave me a comment or e-mail me at jan@fotosbyflint.com or of course call me! Please let me know ASAP our meeting is next week and I'm clueless.
also...I still work in YW with the Mia Maids, and if you have any Wednesday night activity ideas, they would also be GREATLY appreciated!
THANKS TONS!

I LOVE MY KIDS!!!

2009-08-15T21:31:00.001-07:00

Here is a picture of Cooper on his 1st day of Kindergarten. I can't believe that my little boy is going to school. It is all day, so he is gone from 7:45 until 2:15! That is sooo long for him! He has had 3 days of school and everyday he comes home and lays on the couch and says "I'm gonna just relax for awhile" That is SO unlike him! He is asleep every night by 7:30 on his own free will! I'm still trying to figure out what to do while he is at school. He has consumed all my hours of the day for the past 5 years and now I feel so LOST!

He is very proud of his transformer lunch box. That is all he cared about. I kept asking him what he wanted to wear on the 1st day of school and he was like-"who cares! Do I get to take my Transformer lunch box to school?"

Arlee still takes 3 naps so I feel like I have so much free time. I feel like a free woman!!! I even started a BOOK! On Monday, I'm gonna go to HOBBY LOBBY with just a baby...I'm sooo excited! (yes, simple things like shopping without a kid that touches everything makes me happy!)

Here are some pictures of Arlee that Flint took for our friend Kelly. She owns a baby clothes company, and need a picture of a baby in this onesie! I LOVE this onesie and think that Arlee is the best model EVER! Her smile makes me smile!

Kelly's company can be found online at

itsybitsyhearts.com

This is my FAVORITE one!

I took Arlee to her 6 month Dr. visit this week and she weighed in at 14.1 lbs (7%) and is 26 inches long (85%). I guess that means she is tall and skinny for her age! I wish that was the case for ME!!! haha

Colorado

2009-08-12T10:41:00.000-07:00

HOME AT LAST

What a crazy summer! Flint and I figured out that since the end of June we have been gone for 21 nights! I am so ready to stay home for a while...until Labor Day!

Our latest trip was to one of our favoritest places in the WORLD! It is this little town outside of Durango Colorado where it was about 55 degrees when we wake up each morning and tops out in the low 80s during the day. Beautiful! We always have a great time at the JACK REUNION. Cooper loves going because there is so many cousins to play with. (unlike my family were his cousins are having thier own kids!) We stayed for nine nights, YES, nine nights in our trailor, and I actually loved it! Its so nice to relax and hang out, with no place to be!

This year was extra fun cuz DeAnn and the twins got to go. It was great having them there! We can't wait until next year!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

AMAZING VACATION

2009-07-26T21:32:00.000-07:00

I have put off blogging about this vacation for a week now, because it was so awesome and just way too much to tell...so feel free to just look at the pictures!

Sunday July 12th we (Me, Flint, Arlee, Ron, Maurine and Tracy) all left for Kansas City. We arrived there and went straight to get some good ol KC BBQ at Arthur Bryant's. It was yummy. Then we went to Independence MO. It was a very interesting place. My favorite (haha) was the 'tower' on top of the "other" churches temple. Ron said it looked like an ice cream cone. Flint called it the 'Tower of Babel'.

After we left there we went to Liberty MO to see Liberty Jail. It was so humbling to see the SMALL room that the Prophet and others were forced to stay in for about 5 months. They couldn't even stand up straight! I cant believe how unfairly treated they were!

After Liberty, we headed to Far West...a much happier place. It was so beautiful there. The temple corner stones are located on a hill that has an amazing view. I can't imagine how sad and frustrated the Saints must have been to be forced from such beautiful land. I could really feel the spirit at the temple site. I'm so glad that we visited Far West.

Our last stop before heading to Nauvoo was Adam-ondi-Ahman. This was definitely one of my favorite places that we visited on our trip. We arrived there just before sunset. It was so beautiful...actually, BEAUTIFUL really just doesn't do it justice. I was speechless. The spirit at Amam-ondi-Ahman was so strong. I read somewhere that Adam-ondi-Ahman means "valley of God" WOW. I could have sat there for hours. I loved being there with Flint.

We arrived in "Beautiful Nauvoo" after midnight we are all so exhausted.

In the flats looking up at the temple

The Nauvoo Temple

The Temple taken at night with the flag. I LOVE this picture!

Monday morning we FIRST went to have breakfast at Elder and Sister Haymore's house. (mom and dad) It was so fun to see them! They are so happy there and it shows!

Then we were off to see all the sites in Nauvoo. Did I say it was beautiful in Nauvoo? Green grass and trees were everywhere. We were busy crazy people while we were there, so we could see all that there was to see. On Tuesday we went to Carthage Jail. It is so hard to put feelings into words...once again I was so amazed at the spirit that is at Carthage. There is such a reverence there. Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God.

That night we went to the pageant. It was spectacular. I wish that I could have seen it a second time. I love that the Temple is in the background of this picture. What a beautiful backdrop!

Maurine, Mom, Arlee and Me at the Women's Garden.

This is a picture of the Temple with statues that depict Joseph and Hyrum leaving Nauvoo for Carthage.

Wednesday we did a session at the Nauvoo Temple. It was such a wonderful experience. Dad and Mom did the session with us (as workers). I LOVED being there with them. Definitely the highlight of my trip. Dad took us to some of his favorite places to see the Mississippi River on Wed afternoon. It is a HUGE river. It is amazing to see the HUGE barges go up and down the river.

I had to say good bye to Mom and Dad that night...but only until Saturday. On Thursday we went to St. Louis. We stopped by Hannibal MO on our way there. We did a Mississippi River boat cruise. It was fun. Hannibal is the home of Mark Twain.

Thursday night we decided to go eat at a restaurant by Busch Stadium. (walking distance to our Hotel) It was called Mike Shannon's. While we were there several of the D-backs came in to eat dinner also. I was so excited I was shaking. I so bad wanted to get my picture takin with them! I finally worked up the courage and I walked up between Brandon Webb and Doug Davis and asked if I could get my picture taken with them. I was so excited and nervous, I felt like I was 14 yrs old again.

Friday morning we went to the famous ARCH. It was crazy tall!

After the arch we went out to see the St. Louis Temple. After seeing the temple we went to get some St. Louis BBQ. We ended up at a restaurant called Ms. Piggy's. It is a long funny story, you can ask me about it sometime...lets just say we were a minority in this neighborhood, the people were so funny and cool to us, and the BBQ was to die for!!! I am so MAD that I didn't get a picture with the owner who called herself as Ms Piggy! After a yummy dinner we headed off to the D-back game. It was fun to go to Busch Stadium, too bad the D-back lost.

Saturday EARLY we got up and headed back to Nauvoo for my nieces wedding. It was neat to be in the temple with my parents again. Dad did the sealing. It was special to be there with my parents, sisters, Ron and Flint. Melindy was a beautiful bride.

Sunday we headed home. I was ready to see my Cooper. I missed him so MUCH while we were gone. I cried myself to sleep on Saturday night, because I just knew that he missed me and needed me! (really he was having the time of his life with Lindsey and the Redwings!!!

It was a trip I will never forget. My testimony was strengthened, we laughed a ton and had a great time...what a great trip!

Spontaneous little vacation

2009-07-02T14:09:00.000-07:00

Have you ever just wanted to get away??? I did last Thursday!!!

So last Thursday after swim lessons, Flint and I were sitting on the back porch watching Cooper and his friend Caleb swim and I told Flint..."lets go somewhere!" I thought that maybe it would be fun to go to Prescott and stay in a hotel and while we were there we could check out places to take our trailer and just hang out. Flint says "Ya we can do that or we can drive a few more hours and go to San Diego!" I told him to find us a nice hotel for a good price and I'm in! This was about 12:30. We were packed and in the car on our way by 2:30! (not bad considering we had to feed Arlee, eat lunch, pack, take Caleb home, and find a hotel)

We had SOOO much fun. We got there Thursday about 8:30pm and just hung out in the hotel. We woke up Friday and decided to go to Sea World. It was a ton of fun. Cooper LOVED it! He was so excited to see all the "sea creatures" he loved Ship Wreck Rapids (where you get wet riding these big tire looking things) but when it came to riding the roller coaster he had a love/hate relationship with it. He didn't like the dark, or the unknown, but when he could see what was gonna happen, he LOVED it! I rode it with him and decided that it hurt my incisions (from my gall bladder surgery 2 weeks prior) to much to ride it again! I have to admit I guess I'm just not as much of an adrenaline junkie as I used to be. I think that next time I will stick to riding the tea cups with him! We stayed there ALL DAY and saw the night shows. They were AWESOME. I absolutely LOVED Cirque de la Mer. It is the show that is done down on the bay/ocean. It was amazing to watch these guys perform. We also the LOVED Ignight. It is the nighttime dolphin show. It was spectacular! Arlee held so still watching it. I was so surprised!
We got back to our hotel about 10pm and crashed! The next day we went to Children's Beach (we call it seal beach, because there are most always seals on the beach). We played there for a couple of hours. Cooper was nervous about the ocean, as the day before he had seen all the creatures that lived in the ocean and was a little worried that they might get him. After a few minutes he decided that he LOVED it and had a great time playing in the ocean and in the sand. Arlee got to hang out in her stroller the whole time, cuz I didn't want her to get sunburned! We headed home about 4pm. It was a great little trip...we decided it was a little too short, we needed one more day!

HERE ARE A FEW PICTURES--

Me with the kids

Flint with the kids...

Flint and Cooper on Ship Wreck Rapids

Us at a show

Cooper feeding a seal some fish...the white bird is trying to get the fish 1st!!

Cute Arlee bug in her big hat!

I LOVE this picture of Cooper at Seal beach in La Jolla

Arlee at the beach..she woke up from a nap on the beach!

Flint buried Cooper in the sand

Playing in the ocean

We LOVE San Diego...

Good times

2009-06-24T21:25:00.000-07:00

Cooper and his second cousin Rylee had what they called a "PIRATE PICNIC" in the backyard the other day. It consisted of water and gold fish crackers! We love it when our cousins come and stay with us. Cooper is always sad when his "cousin friends" have to go home!

This is what happens to Arlee's skirt when dad changes her. She ends up with things where they don't belong

We went to Thatcher for Big Bucks blessing. (Dale and Amanda's baby boy Eli.) I Failed to get the camera out on Sunday.

On Saturday we got to go on another ROGERS BROTHERS ADVENTURE. Sam's Family, Dale's Family and us went to the river and played...the kids all had a great time playing together! It is ALWAYS guaranteed to be a fun time when the brothers are together...you never know what will happen!

Cooper, Joy and Lucy playing in the dirt.

Sam holding Will, Cooper, Flint and Joy in the river.

Look a WATER DOG--Cooper swimming in the River. It took a few minutes for him to get used to the river. He didn't like that he couldn't see the bottom. He is such a city boy!

LOOK 3 WATER BUFFALO!!! These SPECIAL BOYS (Dale, Sam and Flint) trying to see who can stick their stomachs out of the water the most! Something women would NEVER do! I'm not sure where they come up with these contests!

This is me walking Ivan the IV while I was waiting to have my gall bladder taken out!

This is Arlee with the handsome Cole Isaacson (Bryna and Tyler's Baby) This was taken on Fathers Day. Cole was 9 days old and Arlee is 5 months old. We LOVE having these guys here in Mesa with us and wish that they were going to be here longer!

Arlee went swimming for the first time today. She absolutely LOVED it! She had a great time. The most surprising thing was that she didn't even cry when Cooper would splash her. She is such a good baby. I can't believe that my baby is 5 months old! Flint is holding her...any guesses where she gets her WHITE skin????

Flint holding Arlee and Cooper swimming underwater.

Cooper loves to swim under water!

This had been a fun month of swim classes, hospital visits and fun time together as a family!

You never know...

2009-06-12T14:12:00.000-07:00

so...here is my sad story! On Wednesday evening, I started feeling like a didn't feel so well, so I took 2 Advil and went to bed! At about 3am and 5 hours of rolling around in my bed, I woke up Flint and told him I couldn't take the pain anymore, so we decided to go to the ER. This is the 1st time at I have EVER been to the ER (hopefully the LAST) So here it is Friday afternoon and I am still in the HOSPITAL! They did a "procedure" where they went down my throat and got out some stones that were blocking my pancreas and who knows what else it was blocking... now I am WAITING to have my gallbladder out on Saturday morning. Did I say that I HATE the hospital, it is so boring. I feel fine and would much rather be home. I MISS my Arlee bug and Cooper. I am so in debt to Isaac and Jenny for watching our kids. You guys are GREAT! They came to stay at our house and I leave and go to the hospital!!! They told me that I can go home after the surgery on Saturday! YIPPEE!!! I cant wait! This is NOT the vacation that I was wanting!

Arlee is 4 months old

2009-05-25T20:48:00.000-07:00

Arlee is 4 months old. We took some pictures of her while we were in Thatcher last week. I can't believe how big she is getting. I LOVE that she smiles with her mouth WIDE open most of the time. Here are a few of my favorites!

Cooper before he was bribed with a snow cone and after the bribe!!!

(can you tell that Flint and I yelled at him" TURN YOUR HEAD AND SMILE AT ME NOW!)

Major Catching up...hope you have a few minutes!

2009-05-25T18:23:00.000-07:00

Matt Whatcott turned 40!!!

Flint, Me and Arlee
Lisa and Spencer

A aron and Kelly

Da ncing...Darcy hired a live band for the party. It was so much fun!

If Darcy would have held still for a second, I would have gotten a picture of her and Matt together!

When did I get old enough to have friends that are turning 40???

Cooper got to take something for show and tell on his birthday at school. I asked him if he was going to take his new skate board. He said NO! I want to take ARLEE! So I let him! I cried when he stood up there and said "this is my baby sister, if you talk to her she will smile and laugh!" He was such a proud big brother!

Cooper and Arlee playing on the swing set!

Cooper got into the play pen with Arlee! When I went in there, they were just taking way to each other!

We just spent 7 fun days in Thatcher with our family! Cooper had the time of his life...his motto while we were there was "so many people, so little time" He wanted to spend all his time with his cousin Joy, his cousin Lindsey, his cousins Callie and Gavin...he wanted to ride horses with Brittney and Austin, He wanted to go back to Paige's house and "un-bury her dolls", he wanted to play with Joby...he seriously would cry at night because he didn't get to do everything he wanted to do in a day! He thinks that THATCHER is the best place on EARTH! Most of his favorite people live there!

We went to my nephew Heath and Shannel's wedding reception on Saturday night and the played with the Rogers cousins on Sunday. It was a fun day. On Monday-Wednesday, Flint and I worked at Jenny's dance studio and took pictures of about 250 dancers! It was good times! Flint is so patient with these obsessive parents that have a gallon of make-up on their 5 year olds face and a can of hair spray in their hair! (much like most of his brides) hahah It is always fun to get out of Mesa and do something different for a change! We love going down and taking these pictures. Flint is gonna put some on his blog in the next few days.

On Thursday afternoon we went over to our old friends house and hung out with the Walkers. We miss Bracken and Kristen not living in Mesa. We had a ton of great times with them back when we didn't have kids and now they have 3 and us 2! Times have sure changed!

On Friday Flint left to come home for weddings on Friday and Saturday and I stayed to go to

Lindsey's HS graduation!

Cooper was so tired!

Shanna came home with me on Saturday morning.
I am so glad to be home and start our summer!

Cooper's 5th birthday!

2009-05-10T22:18:00.000-07:00

Cooper had his 1st real "friend" party this year. We rented out JUMP AND SHOUT it was a ton of fun and so worth it...all I had to do was show up! Here are some pictures from his big day.
We missed Grandma and Grandpa Haymore, they have been able to be at all of his other birthdays!

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LAUGHING

2009-05-05T18:21:00.000-07:00

Nothing is better than the laughter of children!

We had just gotten home form Costco and put Arlee on the floor, and this is what we hear when we come back into the house! I LOVE that Cooper and Arlee love each other! I have the BEST kids!

Sierra Vista...

2009-04-20T22:50:00.001-07:00

Okay...so my niece Brittney, me and my kids (Flint had a wedding so he came on Sunday am) all head off to Sierra Vista on Saturday afternoon for a SHORT 3 hour drive to S.V. NO...it was more like a 5 1/2 hour crawl!!! We sat on I-10 for about 1 1/2 hours, with a 5 yr. old and a 2 1/2 mo old...not good! about 45 minutes into the stand still Cooper says " Are we there yet? I have to go POOP!" Brittney and I look at each other and bust out laughing. We were stuck and it didn't look like we were gong anywhere anytime soon. I tell him he has to hold it. He proceeds to tell me that he couldn't and gives us a description of how his bum and tummy were feeling. ( I will spare you all his details) Brittney and I were trying so had not to laugh. And then he says "this traffic is RE-DON-CU-LUS" (his version of the word ridiculous) Brittney was laughing so hard she was crying! So after our 1 1/2 hour delay we take the 1st exit and of course Cooper COULD NT GO!!! Poor kid. He ended up waiting until we got to grandma's house. He was such a good kid, when he could have made our traffic jam a huge nightmare! Arlee started to scream, but stopped as soon as I fed her and then she slept the rest of the way. My kids are the BEST!!!

Thanks Brittney for the ride to S.V. It was so fun to be with you! Glad we could provide you with a few laughs...

We went to the big S.V. because Sunday was my parents last Sunday before they leave to go on their mission. They leave on Tuesday to go to work in the Nauvoo Temple. I am so excited for them, but am so sad cuz I'm gonna miss 'em. We have been so spoiled to have them come work here in the Mesa Temple for one week a month for the past 12 years! Cooper is going to really miss them. He loves to go to "Grandpa's Temple House"

We had a big lunch after church with my family. Of course the food was excellent...and I will NEVER admit how many cookies I ate on Sunday...lets just say all my WW points are GONE!!!

It was so much fun to see everyone and to chat. I love my family!

Here is a picture of the motley crew...(why didn't someone tell me to sit up straight????)

HAPPY EASTER

2009-04-14T17:16:00.001-07:00

Here we are just before church.

Thanks Lindsey for coming a spending Easter with us.

Rogers Look-alike Meter

2009-04-02T22:33:00.001-07:00

EVERYONE tells me she looks like Flint! These meters are ridiculous but my curiosity go the best of me...I was just hoping that the computer saw something that the human eye didn't!!! Of course it thinks she looks like Flint!!!

MyHeritage: Fam ily trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

by the way--I FINALLY got my own Facebook profile...Flint was tired of me talking to my friends like it was him!

New website design!

2009-03-26T10:18:00.000-07:00

Flint just went live with his new website design. Take a look at it. www.fotosbyflint.com
I think he did a great job putting it all together! Of course I think the pictures are amazing...
I also LOVE some of the songs that are on it! Way to go Kacey!!!
Let us know what you think!
Some of you might even see yourself on the sight!
If you find an error let me know!

I'm excited for this weekend, we are going to Sierra Vista to see my parents before they leave for their mission to work in the Nauvoo Temple. I'm gonna miss them so so much!

Impromptu camping trip

2009-03-20T15:35:00.001-07:00

I LOVE this time of year! The weather is so beautiful!

So on Tuesday morning we went and ran some errands and then went to Costco to pick up a few things and have lunch (gotta love the hot dog and soda for $1.50!)...while we were eating our lunch, we see the Stant's there having lunch and we decided to all go camping at the river! We loaded up the trailer and were gone in less then 2 hours! It was nice to get away...even if it was only for 24 hours. I called Wendy and told them we were going to the river to come join us, so they came the next morning to play in the river. The kids had a great time playing and getting filthy. Lisa said the Spencer had to wash Lana's hair 4 times to get all the dirt out...now that shows you had a good time!

Here are a few pictures...I'm so mad, it was Arlee's 1st camping trip and I didnt even take a picture of her!!!

Crazy weekend!

2009-03-05T15:30:00.000-08:00

Warning LONG blog
This is Arlee bug in her blessing dress
We did these pictures a few days before, and I decided that I didn't like this bow so she wore a flower instead!

This past Sunday Arlee was blessed at church. It was a very special weekend for us! We had a great weekend. It was so fun to have most of our family here. We had all my brothers and sisters here except for Kevin, but his kids were here! All of Flint's family was here except for DeAnn's family who lives in Seattle (We missed you!). THANKS everyone for coming, some of you traveled a long ways. It means a lot to us! We are so thankful to have such a great family! We figured that we had over 60 people here for dinner! HUGE thanks to Lisa and Spencer Stant for ALL that they did, the kalua pig was amazing, thanks also to the Allred family (my sister)Maurine you did it all! I owe you big! Thanks to everyone who helped out! We have the greatest friends and family! Of course we didn't take very many pictures at the dinner, but here are a few...

Wendy Redwing, Marsha Coon, Kelly Kuc era, Georgia Whatcott, Darcy Whatcott, Lisa Stant

The Jones clan...

Bryna looking at Shannel's engagement ring! Congrats Heath and Shannel!

Kylee Jones, Megan Haymore, Bryna Isaacson, Marsha Haymore, Amanda Goodman holding Paige Goodman.

Here is a picture of Cooper riding his bike while he waiting for the Allreds and Grandma and Grandpa Haymore to come so we could go out to eat dinner on Friday night( for my b-day). I swore that my kids whould never have a snotty nose and they would always look decent... well not today! Flint sent him in the house to get his shoes on and this is what he came out with...froggie boots, then he was riding his bike and the sun was in his eyes so he got his swim goggles on to to keep the sun out of his eyes!!! Gotta love it! He makes me laugh everyday!

Since Flint and my birthdays are only five days apart we decided to go to the Cubs/Diamondback's spring training game to celebrate. We had second row seats, thanks to the Redwings! We love the D-backs and had a great time at the game. I was a little sad that I didn't get to see Eric Burnes, he is my favorite...he didn't even play, some punk from AAA or AA was in left field...how disappointing! Here are a few pics-

Jan with Arlee in the front back and Cooper at the D-back gameJan eating Cracker Jacks and Arlee sleeping...She slept most of the gameFlint and Cooper

I said we had a busy, fun weekend!

HERE ARE SOME FAMILY PICTURES THAT KACEY TOOK LAST WEEK. WE DID THEM ON OUR BED!

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EVER FELT OUT OF PLACE???

2009-02-23T21:21:00.000-08:00

Before I tell the story of the day, here is a picture of Arlee that the wonderful Kacey took of Arlee. (Kacey is Flint's assistant)
Flint and Kacey took a ton of amazing pics, but you'll have to wait to see them all...

Now for the story of the day
Dale and Amanda came to town to visit and "the boys" (Dale, Flint and Sam)decide that they NEED to go the the skate park in Scottsdale and ride their new 'long boards'...long story short...
Sam gets a 'long board' and tells Flint and Dale (his two OLDER brothers)that he loves his skate board and that they NEED one...so guess who has long boards...Dale and Flint. So we load up the kids and off to the park we go. The boys take off on their boards and Amanda and I hang out at the playground with the kids. We decided to take a walk. Cooper and Joy are riding their scooters and Cooper sees the "bowl" (I learned a lot of new lingo today) and sees all the teenagers skating down into the "bowl" so off he goes, never mind that I am yelling at him to wait for me...So I find myself at the "bowl" watching Cooper and Joy trying to break their necks and after a few minutes I look around... I realized that I just did not fit in!!! There I was an almost 37 year old, white, Mormon, mom with a stroller, laughing my head off at the kids in the bowl. I all of a sudden felt very uncomfortable, I just didn't belong there...and where was my husband...they had skated to the other end of the park. After awhile Flint, Dale and Sam came back and tried out the "bowl" I laugh to myself as I watched and thought, we just don't belong here...my husband and 2 brother in-laws were skating at the skate park, having the time of their lives clueless that all the teenagers where looking at each other wondering...who these "OLD" dudes are? The funniest thing was that Dale was wearing a bright orange shirt that said "RESPECT your elders" We ended the day at Tempe Marketplace and had Chipolte for dinner and a Paradise sugar cookie for desert! YUM!!! I love that Flint loves to be out doors, do fun things and doesn't ever seem to remember that we are getting old. He tells me "You are only as old as you feel" Well honey, I had a baby 4 weeks ago and I feel OLD!!!
We always have a great time when the 'brothers' are together!
Here are a few pictures!
Sam, Dale and Flint with their new loves...

Cooper in the 'BOWL'

No fear and no common sense

Cooper ready to go home, Joy in the background, still going strong

UPDATE

2009-02-16T09:45:00.000-08:00

Hey family and friends---We are blessing Arlee on Sunday March 1st at 11:30 am. We are going to have dinner at our house after...(Stants are cooking Hawaiian food) YUM!!! We hope that everyone can come. Let us know if you can make it!
Time has flown by...Arlee is three weeks old. I took her to the Dr. and she weighed in at 8 lbs 10oz. (She was down to 7 lbs. 2 oz when we went to the Dr. two weeks prior) and I was worried that she wasn't getting anything to eat! According to her Dr. she is well on her way to be a fat healthy baby. She is growing so fast. She loves to eat, sleep and poop. That is pretty much my life right now. I told Flint that if I had a dollar for ever hour I have spent in the rocking chair, I could buy several boxes of diapers! I love having a little girl. Everyday I get her dressed and tell her..."All dressed up and no where to go" I can't wait until she is a little bit older so we are free from RSV and can do what we want, I still feel home bound!
Flint left for Vegas this morning to go to the WPPI (photography convention). WE usually go together every year, but we figured smokey casinos were not a good place for a 3 week old! So now I am home this week without Flint and have to figure out life without him around to help out. I am so spoiled to have him always here. We are going to miss him! Cooper came and got in my bed at 7 this morning and said "I miss dad, when is he going to be home?" Flint had only been gone 2 hours! Its gonna be a long couple of days!!!
Here are some pictures of Arlee when she was two weeks old.

She didnt care much for the huge flower that kept slipping down into her eyes!

Life is good

2009-02-01T10:07:00.002-08:00

We survived the 1st week! Arlee is now 10 days old! It has gone by so fast.
I think that I have spent all 10 days feeding her! She is a good eater...it took US a few days to get the hang of it, but we seem to have it figured out... for the most part! Thanks to all who have given advise and especially to my friend Gena Johnson (Staples) who gave me the best bucket of essentials ever! I love that my Mom got to come and help us out for several days. She was a ton of help and we loved having her here with us. We wish she could come back!
Cooper is the best big brother. He has done so well with Arlee. The other day I was changing laundry and he came and hugged my leg and said "thanks mom for going to the hospital and bring Princess Arlee home with you." I had to choke back the tears. He loves to hold her...especially if someone else is holding her. Everyday when he comes home from preschool he shows Arlee his homework and tells her about school. He has showed her all his toys too.
We have been so blessed. Arlee is an easy good baby and Cooper is a super brother!
Here are a few pictures of our 1st week.

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Arlee

2009-01-24T12:26:00.000-08:00

Just a couple more pictures of Arlee I took this morning.

Arlee has arrived!

2009-01-21T21:20:00.000-08:00

Arlee Rogers

Born January 21, 2009 at 5:42 pm

7 lbs 9 oz
21.5 inches

WAITING!!!

2009-01-14T18:07:00.000-08:00

I HATE THIS STUPID BABY TICKER ACROSS THE TOP OF OUR BLOG. I WAS SO EXCITED TO PUT UP THE COUNT DOWN...TODAY IT MAKES ME CRAZY, IT NEEDS AN OVERDUE BUTTON!!!
Okay...who ever said 40 weeks and you were done??? I'm still waiting. I went to the Dr. this afternoon and he said that everything was going great and he wasn't worried a bit, that babies ALWAYS come....

Easy for him to say! He is going to induce me on NEXT Tuesday evening if I haven't delivered on my own by then. So my light at the end of the tunnel is 6 days away.

If you have any ideas on how to move this along, I'm open to suggestions! I've tried everything that I know of! I even ran around the block tonight (I waited for dark, so as not to startle anyone or be a freak show...a nine month pregnant Jan running down the street is a funny sight, I am sure!)

Flint will post when she gets here! Wish us luck!

Here is a picture of Cooper and I taken last night at Christy Lynn's wedding. My nose is about to pop! I seriously think that by next Tuesday I will have stretch marks on my nose!

Christmas 2008

2008-12-30T21:16:00.000-08:00

We went to Sierra Vista for Christmas with Jan's family. Christmas Eve all the family there got together for dinner and a then a short program. Last time Cooper and Hunter were the angels, notice this year they were shepherds, probably more appropriate.

Christmas morning we opened presents with Jan's parents and Uncle Ron. Cooper wanted this game so badly when he saw it in the store.

The rest of Christmas Day was spent visiting families and seeing what everyone got, and all together again for Christmas dinner. We all had a wonderful Christmas and are so glad we got to spend it with family and we are so glad we made it home without Jan delivering on the Freeway!

Us again...

2008-12-08T15:07:00.000-08:00

So last Sunday, I had to go to a youth fireside and when I came home, Flint and Cooper we putting up the Christmas Tree. They had started to put away the fall decorations and even did some dusting! I have the best husband and kid ever! Cooper is so excited for Christmas. He was so happy when I told him that he could get more then one present!

This is Flint at our 1st delivery and hospital orientation class. He was so excited to go! It really wasn't has bad as either of us thought. We were prepared for it to be like the scene in the movie "Baby Mama" we were almost disappointed. Our teacher was very normal and nice. I am a little freaked out at this whole labor thing! I'm a WIMP and I know it...its not gonna be pretty!

So the other morning I was putting my mascara on and I hear this click, click. So I turn around and my SWEET husband is standing about a foot away with his WIDE angle lens on his camera...I say ( a few words left out) "what are you doing?" he is laughing and says, "lets take some pictures of you" I say "You should never aim that camera at me with your super wide angle lens on...get away!" He couldn't understand why I was not going along with his plan...He tried to tell me it was just the last lens that he had used at his last shoot...Well I don't care, I am only 5 weeks away from delivery and don't think that he is very FUNNY! He thought he was so funny! I told him he could take two pictures and that was it, IF he took that lens OFF! So here is a picture of me at almost 35 weeks. (with a normal lens!)

I have the best calling!!!

2008-11-24T16:41:00.000-08:00

I love my calling as Mia Maids advisor! We have the best YW in our ward. They are always so much fun to be around.

I must say, I was a little disappointed ( a lot disappointed) when a year ago I got this calling, because I have had it before and DIDN'T like it at all. These girls make it so fun.

Last week for our activity we decided to watch a church movie and have s'mores in our backyard. We watched "The Award" It was so funny to me to watch this movie that was obviously made in the 80's. The girls laughed and laughed at their hair and clothes. I was like...wow am I ever OLD. This is how I used to dress in High School.

I cant believe I am closer to 40 then 30!!! Strange I don't feel this old (most days).

Here are some pics of the girls. We have 20 Mia Maids, but it was band concert practice night, so we only had about 10 girls. You can tell Cooper loves it when they come over. He thinks its a party for HIM.

Thanks Flint for putting up the screen and all the equipment for the movie and for your fire skills. The girls had a great time! AND no one junped in the pool!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

We are going to Thatcher for 2 days to have Thanksgiving with the Rogers at Isaac and Jenny's house. (Flint's brother) Cooper is excited to play with his cousins. We get the best of both worlds going to Thatcher, because we get to stay with my sister and see Flint's family too. We are sad we don't get to stay for the weekend, as Flint has weddings on Friday and Saturday...its okay, I gotta finish my shopping on Friday! I had a goal to have Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving, but it didn't happen.

30 WEEKS

2008-11-05T18:59:00.000-08:00

Today I went to the Dr. for my 30 week visit. He said all was going great. I found out that my glucose test was fine and so was my iron. YIPEE...no extra iron pills and no SUGAR FREE FOR ME!!! just kidding I usually eat sugar free anyway, thanks to all my months at weight watchers. He said my weight gain was also good, I was glad to hear him say that! I would have been very depressed if he told me to not gain too much weight my last 10 weeks! I HAVE to have pie on Thanksgiving (several pieces) and treats at Christmas! I put a pound limit on myself though, so I don't get too out of control!
I am praying that I don't swell up like a stuffed pig the last few weeks! This is my BIGGEST fear! So far I have no swelling. Well except for my NOSE. At the rate my nose is growing, I'm gonna get stretch marks on it! I will have to have Flint take a picture of me at 30 weeks and post it, so ya'll can have a good laugh at my large nose! Whoever heard of a nose swelling anyway? I feel like it has grown more then my stomach has!

We also did a 3D ultrasound...talk about a little freaky. Here are some semi-disturbing photos and a video clip. I loved having the 3D thing done, but it was just a little strange to me. I just can't believe that there is a real human inside of me. I keep waiting to be woke up from this weird dream. Nope its real, I saw her today and feel her move all the time.

During the ultrasound, she would not move her foot away from her face, at one point, she had both feet on her forehead. She is Flint's daughter (part monkey), pretty sure I cant touch my foot to my forehead! She also opened one eye and her mouth, it looked so strange to me.

I can't wait to really get to see her and hold her!

Here is the video

HALLOWEEN 2008

2008-11-05T18:28:00.000-08:00

It was more like Halloween WEEK, a party on Tuesday at school, Trunk or Treat on Wednesday, and finally trick or treating on Friday!

Cooper came home from pre-school with this spider hat, the funny glasses and the green tinted fangs! He thought he was so scarry looking!

The ghost and the pirate!!!
Cooper and Crew at the ward 'trunk or treat' party. They got so much candy so fast!

Cooper with his pumpkins on Halloween night!
He agreed with me that he had a TON of candy from the ward trunk or treat party and so he helped me pass out candy to all the neighborhood kids. He loved seeing and watching all the kids costumes. He only went trick or treating to the neighbors.
Cooper and I were a little sad on Halloween night because Flint had a WEDDING...who gets married on Halloween anyway??

Amazing...

2008-10-13T20:51:00.000-07:00

So we are on our way home from church and I was trying to be a good mom, so I asked Cooper

"What did you learn in primary?"
He responds "i don't know"

I say "well what does your head band say?" ( he was wearing a headband that said "I can be HONEST")

He says "we learned about being honest"

I asked him "what does that mean?"

He says" we don't take things that aren't ours"

I say "what else did you learn?'

He says "HOW MUCH LONGER ARE WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS?"

I could not believe that he actually had the nerve to say this to me!

I was floored!! I looked at Flint and he is laughing, shaking his head...

I didn't respond. I'm in so much trouble when he is a teenager!

I wanted to laugh so hard, but I was so shocked, seriously, where does he come up with these things?
He leaves me speechless...he amazes me...

So speaking of AMAZING...

Here is a picture of Cooper riding his bike without training wheels.

love that smile

Flint took them off on Saturday morning and he had bike riding down pat in just a few minutes. Well, all except the stopping, he thought that using parked cars on the side of the road was the best thing to use to stop him. Flint had to tell him the neighbors probably wouldn't think it was a good idea! His first big adventure was to ride to the LeSueurs house. (about 6 houses away) He made it all by himself! Becca told him that he was a professional bike rider, he believed her, and now tells everyone he is a 'professional no training wheel bike rider', do you wanna see? So he has shown everyone that has come over his new skill.

Here is Bryna and Tyler riding with him on Sunday. (Tyler really liked riding my pink bike.)

I missed getting a picture of Uncle Sam and Tyler riding my pink beach cruiser bike. I was laughing so hard watching them ride my bike...They looked so ridicules!

I'm sure that I look as ridicules as they do riding my bike, but I love my bike!!!

I love Cooper, my life would be so boring without him!!!

It's about time...

2008-10-05T20:26:00.000-07:00

Okay, so it has been awhile since I have last blogged. So I will play catch-up.
Cooper started pre-school at the elementary school. He goes three days a week and loves it. I love it! He thinks all the kids are great and wishes that it lasted longer. I am so amazed at what he has learned. He can write his name...I didn't say perfectly...(I'm afraid he has handwriting like Flint's) He can spell several colors and can tell you the 'Little Jack Horner sat in the corner...'nursery rhyme. He LOVES to color. This is so amazing to us, because last school year he hated crafts and coloring at pre-school. Now He will sit and color for a long time. He is almost a coloring freak. Here are some pictures of him on the 1st day of pre-school.

Why does he ALWAYS have to make weird faces when I try to take a picture?

Last Sunday was our Primary Program. We taught Cooper his part and he was all prepped and ready to say it...Well they put his class on little chairs up on the stand (in front of the permanent chairs) Just perfect to hang over the edge of the stand. Which he did when he wasn't standing ON his chair waving to us in the audience. I was mortified that it was my kid standing up there on his chair waving, mouthing HI MOM, HI DAD!!! I wanted to die! He did this many times during the longest hour of sacrament meeting of my life!!! I realized that the reason that he kept getting up on his chair was because he couldn't see us very good if he was sitting in his chair, lesson for me...sit where your child can see you or he WILL stand on his chair and embarrass you!!! He was so wiggly up there I wanted to DIE. He is my good little boy Right? So anyway he says his part, but before he says it he covers his eyes so he couldn't see the audience and says loudly into the microphone "Keep Still" the audience all laughs because the kid that keeps standing on his chair has the part...keep still. I told our Primary Pres. that shes not funny giving Cooper that part. I think she was hoping that maybe he would sit still! Didn't work!!!

Oh the best part...after his class finished their parts Cooper once again gets up on his chair and looks right at us and gives us two thumbs up! I ducked down I was so mad at his at this point I seriously wanted to cry.

We had a lesson on how we act in church last Sunday night.

Okay enough of the Cooper antics.

We are starting to get one of the extra bedrooms ready for our baby girl... I am so excited. I didn't realize there were so many choices. For Cooper (boys) we had three choices...sports, bugs or trucks...for girls, wow I was so overwhelmed with all the choices.
I didn't want to be limited to just pink or just pink and another color, so I found the bed skit and was a little worried that I would be stuck with pink and green, then I found this curtain and decided that it would be perfect. I love yellow and was so glad that I would work it in...so here is a picture of Flint painting her room.

Here it is with the curtain and boarder up. (the coloring is more accurate on the 1st picture, but not really the true color either...I'm too lazy to fix the coloring...

We still have to finish the baseboards and the crown molding and of course accessorize it..

I'm so glad to have this project mostly done...Flint started his super busy wedding season from October to January and I wanted to have this done before I had to do it by myself, because I'm not good at this painting, nailing stuff...THANKS FLINT for all you have done, you are the bestest!!!I love you!

LABOR DAY 2008

2008-09-04T16:52:00.000-07:00

We had a great time at the cabin for Labor Day. It was a great reunion. There was over 70 of us there!!!
We only had Brittney missing because she was on a mission (she comes home in a few weeks and I can't wait! Allison & Landon and Kade weren't there because Allison had her baby!!)
We went up on Wednesday, but most people came up on Friday or Saturday morning.
Cooper had a blast playing with his cousins. He keeps asking when he gets to see Hunter and Carly again.
He told me that he wants to move to Thatcher, he thinks that is were all his cousins live, because he LOVES the Allreds so much, little does he know most of them live in Sierra Vista. I am so jealous most of my family lives in S.V. and I DON'T!!! And it makes matters worse now that you have started BUNKO!!! NOT FAIR!!!
I didn't taken very many pictures until the last day...that seems to be my norm...

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Youth Conference

2008-08-24T21:16:00.000-07:00

On Friday I left to go to our ward youth conference. We had it at Camp Lo Mia. (our girls camp in Pine) It was an awesome experience. I really didn't want to go. I had a long list of reasons why I shouldn't be going (distance to the closest bathroom in the middle of the night being my greatest fear!), but I knew I needed to go so I went...I'm so glad I did. These kids in our ward are stinkin amazing.
The theme was 'A Sure Foundation' and we used Helaman 5:12 as the scripture. We even memorized it to a song! Wish you all could hear me sing it!!! ( We also learned to Salsa dance so I will be sing and dancing in no time!!!) I sing as well as I dance!
Our keynote speaker was my brother in-law Tracy's cousin that is an institute instructor and a speaker for EFY. He was super. One thing that he talked on is how the Lord works miracles in our lives. He taught us that miracles happen everyday and we don't ever notice them or thank Heavenly Father for them. I never really thought that a miracle can be as simple as a change of heart to something that can be physically seen... I really appreciated it because I feel like us having a baby is a miracle!!!

Another one of my FAVORITE things from conference was this little movie that was shown in one of the mini-classes. I really, really liked it, so here is a link to the movie (it's only about 2 minutes long) It is called 'The Dash' you should watch it, it really made me think about what is really important in life... http://www.thedashmovie.com/ tell me what you think of it!

Here is a group picture (some of the cars had already left so some of the kids are missing) We had about 100 14-18 year old boys and girls there!!!) Can you say hormones!!

These are some of my Mia Maids...nice skunk hair Kimee!

By the way, now that we know we are having a girl, we need some name ideas, so lets hear them!!! Just don't give me names that you want to use if you are in my family...or I just might want to steal it!!!

2008-08-22T16:14:00.000-07:00

It's going to be a girl!!!

We had the ultrasound today and guess what...

It's a girl!!!

Jan usually does the posting on the blog, but she went to youth conference this weekend so I'm (Flint) doing this post for those waiting to hear.

2008-08-15T12:06:00.001-07:00

We had a great time in Colorado! It was fun hanging out with Isaac, Jenny and kids and the Luna Family before the reunion. We did a rafting tour on the Animas River. It was fun...all until Jenny had to pull me back into the raft and all I could do was laugh and not even help my self. I landed on my face in the bottom of the raft. I KNOW it was GRACEFUL! Guess what... we don't have a picture of it! LAME!!! We look forward to going to Colorado every year.

The Jack reunion was so fun. I am a picture retard...I didn't take one picture once everyone got there. (The reunion was where we were camped) We played in the river, played "do you know Jack"...Lynn did a great job making up the game. It was fun. It was great to see everyone!!! The Luna's were in charge and did a great job. There was fun for everyone!!! Can't wait until next year.

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Summers are for RELAXING????

2008-07-20T12:26:00.000-07:00

Every time summer comes Flint and I get excited because business slows down and we get to relax and hang out....WRONG!!! We are still waiting for time to relax and just hang out. We have had a busy summer. I can't believe it is almost August. I haven't even found a pre-school for Cooper for next year! Its time to panic.

Let's catch up...

The last week of June we GOT to go to 4th year girls camp. It was so much fun. I even survived sleeping in a tent for 2 nights and no shower! NASTY! There were about 45 girls (15 year olds)and 5 couples. The couples that went were awesome and the girls amaze me. They are so talented and good. I loved that Flint got to go with me. The girls loved Flint. He was a favorite, because he played right along with them. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't do all the activities because I'm pregnant. No Zip line, No horse back riding, no swinging into the lake etc...Flint however pushed the girls on the rope, raced them on the zip line, rode horses with them and played like a kid. I had to remind him several times that he was the ADULT. We had a great time.

This is our group...the PINK team. These are girls from various wards in the stake...none of my mia maids got to be in our group!

The day after we got home form girls camp we went to Sierra Vista for the 4th of July. Sierra Vista has the best fireworks. We love to go there and see all the family and friends and enjoy the not so HOT weather. Cooper LOVED the cannons that went off before the fireworks. He said he need sunglasses for the fireworks because they are so bright. He also loved the loud noise. He is such a BOY!

Us in Mom and Dad's backyard, before the ward breakfast!

Ron with Mike and Brenda

Cooper with Grandma and Grandpa waiting for the fireworks to start.

Us...we look pretty pathetic in this pic...

Since the 4th we had my nephew-Austins wedding. so we spent a few days in Thatcher for the reception. Cooper thinks that Thatcher is the best place on earth. He gets to see Lindsey, Uncle Ron and Joy...his favorite cousins and favorite uncle.

We have had lots of visits from family and love when they come to see us.

So, this pretty much sums up our month so far.

This week I go to the Dr. for another visit. I have my hopes up that he will do an ultrasound and tell me what we are having, but I've been told it's too early...I don't believe it, I know people who have found out at 15 weeks!

Cooper is positive I am having a boy. And even has several name picked out---Scooby Do and Shaggy are his top two. Flint said that if our baby is BALD (all Haymore babies are bald aren't they????) I can name it whatever I want, but that him and Cooper are going to call it Shaggy! See what I have to deal with...Cooper learned that Shaggy's real name is Norville. He said that we can name him Norville and call him Shaggy! What a smart kid...not happening!!!

Right after the Dr. appointment we leave for Colorado for about 12 days. I'm excited to go. I can't wait to get to wear a sweatshirt....hard to imagine when it is 110 here! I'm a little nervous about sleeping in the camper trailer for 11 nights...good thing it has a great bed! We will have to see how that goes!!!

YOUR NEVER GONNA BELIEVE THIS ONE!!!

2008-06-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

...So I kept feeling funny, like the flu wouldn't go away...
I kept complaining to my friend Darcy, after a few weeks of my complaining, she said "Jan could you be pregnant?" I told her she was crazy.........but after her comment, I couldn't stop thinking about it...so we did a test and much to our surprise...it was POSITIVE!!!!!
Yes positive!
So we are having a BABY!

I have had two ultrasounds (the Dr. didn't believe it either) We saw our little gummy bear and everything is going great.
Today I went to the Dr. for my 12 week appt. and heard the heartbeat again, and I still don't really believe it! Flint and I are super excited and still in disbelief.

I've realized that we are not totally in control of our lives. The Lord has his hand in all things. Flint and I have accepted how we thought our lives would be and have gone forward living our lives, and just when we get comfortable with how things are going and life gets "easy" things change. We are here to learn and grow right? I've also re-learned that heavenly Father has a sense of humor!
We're having a baby!

Camping Trip...New Truck

2008-06-25T20:05:00.000-07:00

I am so lame...all I ever blog about is our trips...so here we go again...

We went camping with Dale & Amanda and kids and Sam & Sarah and Will. It was a lot of fun. We camped between Mormon Lake (swamp hole) and Lake Mary (just outside of Flagstaff) It was super cold at night and pretty warm during the day! I was thankful for our camper.

We went kayaking on Lake Mary several times. Lets just say that I need some more practice rowing. I can go in a mean circle!!!

We had dinner at Black Barts in Flagstaff...this is where Aunt Sarah used to work.

This is our family self portrait at Black Barts! Cooper loves his picture taken. We told him to smile big and this is what we got!!! My Angel!

Cooper had tons of fun playing with Joy. Those two make me laugh...They loved the tree swing that Flint and Dale made. It made me nervous to watch how high Flint swung those kids. They also loved to ride their bikes down the hill going what seemed like 55 mph...luckily no one was injured...but the training wheels are almost all burned off!

We all had a great time at the Deer Farm (by Williams) It was hilarious how the deer would just try to eat your shirt if you didn't give them food. They also like to bite your rear or in Dales case he nearly lost a nipple!!! The kids LOVED it and we all had a good laugh. I learned that Flint is very scared of reindeer. This huge (fenced in) reindeer snorted at Flint and he jumped so fast he nearly fell down. I had a stomach ache from laughing so hard. (either from laughing or the smell I'm not sure which)

It was a great time, and nice to just relax and not have phone service for a few days...I wish I would have taken more pictures...

AFTER we got home, Flint decided that he NEEDED to buy a new truck. Actually he has been drooling and wishing for over a year...He finally found what he wanted. He has not stopped smiling YET! He is in love. (In case you couldn't tell by the picture)

Tagged From Kara!

2008-05-08T13:26:00.000-07:00

Okay...so I have to quit my blogging strike! I have no good excuse for my delinquency, except...I'm busy! Just not sure what I am busy doing....

Kara tagged me and so now I get to tell ya'll 7 reasons why I love Cooper

( I could do a 100)

1. I love his SMILE. He makes ME smile every day!
(this picture was taken last weekend in Holbrook at Maki's wedding)

2. I love it when he falls asleep in the red chair, two seconds after telling me that he's NOT tired!!! oh I also love his long eyelashes.

3. I love that he has no sense of style, and doesn't care what other people think, I mean if he did care, he surely wouldn't wear these boots to the grocery store, riding his bike all over the neighborhood, to our friends house, etc...I did have to put my foot down and not let him wear these to church!

4. I love that last night he tried to steal silk flowers out of Sam and Sarah's bathroom for me for Mothers Day! He came home and told me "Mom I wanted to get you pretty flowers for Mothers Day and Daddy said NO!"

5. I love that he rhymes all his words...at least I'm trying to not get annoyed by it. I'm trying to love it anyway...

6. I LOVE that he loves his Dad! Okay I actually get jealous.

7. I love that he is ours forever...
This is him at the Temple when get he got sealed to us.

Okay I tag Sarah Rogers, Alexys, Suzette, DeAnn, and Allison

LET'S HEAR IT FOR MEXICO!!!

2008-03-14T14:58:00.000-07:00

Okay...so I hate Rocky Point. I associate it with vomiting and diarrhea. Now that sounds like a great vacation!!!
I would much rather go to San Diego...at least you can drink the water there and go to the ER if you need...

I have managed to talk Flint out of going for several years...but I lost this battle with Flint and so off we went to Mexico.

I have to take back MOST (but not all) of my complaints. We had a really good time. Maybe it was the company we had...Isaac and Jenny (and friends) were a lot of fun. We took my nieces, Lindsey and Shanna. Cooper was in heaven with those two around.

I forgot to take pictures except for the last day that we were there. So here are a few...

Cooper playing at the beach

Our family picture...

This is our trailer. We camped so close to the beach. It was awesome.

Cooper and Flint looking for shells while the tide was out.

Shanna, Lindsey, and I going to look for sand dollars

Shanna with her cute braids

We searched and searched for sand dollars at Cholla Bay. All we found were sand quarters...

This is what Flint looks like after he flipped his 4-wheeeler going about 45 miles per hour. He pretty much totaled his bike. Good thing he has nine lives...too bad he is like number 8!!!

He actually looks a lot worse now, because all the bruising.
Anyway, we had a great time. We are looking forward to going again soon.

San Diego!!!

2008-02-22T22:47:00.000-08:00

Our wedding this weekend cancelled so we decided to load up the camper and go to San Diego.

We found an RV park right on the beach at Mission Bay.

This is the beach where we are camped. Flint & Cooper worked hard to spell Cooper's name in the sand. Too bad the tide is going to erase it in a few minutes!!!

It is kind of cold and stormy today, so kite flying was the perfect activity. Cooper's is of course Spiderman and Flint's is an alligator. The ducks and seagulls are not afraid of the people...the people are however afraid of them!!!

This is us at the aquarium in La Jolla...way cool.

Cooper's favorite sea life were the sharks and the octopus! This octopus was huge and ugly.

This was the COOLEST ever. All those brown dots behind Cooper and Flint are seals...about 50 of them!!! (This is the best place to swim with seals, last time we came here Flint and my niece Brittney got in the water and swam with them. It is in La Jolla)

Cooper loved watching the huge waves crash on the rocks.

Cooper and me on the carousel at Seaport Village.
So now ya'll are caught up on our last two days! To bad we have to come home in a few days!!!

A laugh a day...

2008-02-10T21:09:00.000-08:00

Funny story of the day
Okay so today Isaac and Jenny are in town and Sam and Sarah were here and we were all eating Sunday dinner. I tell Cooper to say the pledge of Alegience that he learned in Mommy school. So he starts saying it...he says the whole thing word for word (Flint and I were so proud) and ends with...with liberty and justice for all--in the name of Jesus Christ amen!!!! I about died laughing! I'm laughing right now. I love being a Mom. Cooper makes me laugh everyday!

Where's Waldo?

2008-02-09T14:29:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I am now the Mia Maids Advisor... there are 22 girls in just Mia Maids!!!Insane!

So last Wednesday night the Teachers and the Mia Maids played--

Where is Waldo at the Walmart? (who ever thinks of this crap?)

Well guess who was Waldo!!! Yep Flint and I!!!

We are such suckers. There were actually five of us that they had to find. It was so halarious...until we got kicked out. So here are some sweet pictures of us.

Such a slacker...

2008-01-14T19:28:00.000-08:00

I'm skipping posting about the holidays...they were awesome and so much fun!!! We had a great time with all the Rogers at my parents cabin. Good times!!! New Years was fun with all my nieces and nephews in Sierra Vista. Good food, Good fun!!! Thanks everyone for all the memories.

I'm too lazy to post pictures from Christmas so look at Derrick and Alexys or Sam and Sarahs blog for a ton of great cabin pics, and Kara or Camille's for New Year pics. How's that for passing the buck???

OKAY, so today is Monday and we went to this fun place called Bounce U. It is a place with a ton of blow up bouncy things. I have never laughed so hard in my life. Flint and I were like two little kids. Cooper should have been embarrassed for us! We played non stop for almost two hours!!! I even skipped the elliptical tonight, because it was such a good work out!

Here are some pictures from tonight taken with Flint's camera phone:

2007-12-16T21:10:00.000-08:00

I was tagged by Mary Anne... so here it is: (Sorry Mary Anne it took so long!)
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. I got married just over 10 years ago...
2. Working at a dr office
3. learning to look before you sit...on the toilet (learning to live with a man)
4. having the time of my life! poor and in love
5. playing Chinese Checkers with Flint ( he wont play now, cuz he always loses) We were too poor to go out so we played games at home...the good ol days!!!

5 Things on my to-do list today:
1. finish my Christmas cards...only 9 days till Christmas!
2. wrap presents
3. deliver treats to neighbors and friends
4. take a nap...it is Sunday!
5. read to Cooper

5 Snacks I enjoy:
1. Microwave popcorn
2. candy canes
3. anything chocolate
4. anything baked
5. GOLDEN SPOON frozen yogurt

5 Things I would do if I were a Billionaire:
1. do some serious vacationing
2. Let Flint build the photo studio of his dreams
3. Move from Mesa
4. Buy Cooper what ever he wants(like he doesnt have enough crap as it is)
5. adopt another kid/pay for my friends to adopt

3 of my bad habits:
1. I hate that I bite my nails!
2. Complain to Flint
3. I want to Tivo (DVR) everything!

5 places I have lived:
1. Douglas
2. Sierra Vista
3. Thatcher
4. Tennessee
5. Mesa

5 Jobs I’ve had:
1. Worked at a video store
2. Nanny
3. Medical Assistant/life insurance examiner
4. Photography assistant
5. Mom/slave

5 Things people probably don’t know about me:
1. I'm doing weight watchers...so far lost 40 lbs!!!
2. I'm shy (stop laughing)
3. I can't think of anything...my life is an open book!

I tag: Suzette, Allison, Alexis, Sarah, DeAnn

Look I updated our blog!

2007-12-01T21:52:00.000-08:00

Make a slide show, scrapbook, or ecard

Check out my Slide Show!

2007-11-04T21:20:00.001-08:00

We has a super fun Halloween WEEK. I was ready for the Superman costume to go away by the time Halloween got here. For pre-school on the Tuesday before Halloween we went to the City of Mesa Halloween carnival. That is when Cooper decided that he would not wear the mask, after not even bribing worked, we did the face paint. I'm glad Flint was around to do it, I have no idea what Superman's face looks like.
On Halloween day Flint's parents decided to come to town for a visit. We carved pumpkins with them. Grandpa's was the "baddest" according to Cooper...it even had eyebrows!!! We took Cooper trick or treating to just the house closest to us. He thought it was the coolest thing that people would give him candy. Then we came back to our house and gave out candy. Cooper loved to see all the kids and their costumes. We gave way over $20 of candy by 7:30. We ran out...who knew so many kids...
Hope ya'll had a fun one!
oh, the two MONSTERS (holding Cooper)are Rachel and Kacey. They are Flint's assistants and came to work dressed as Sully and Mike Wazowshi. They rule!

FUN WEEKEND!!!

2007-10-29T22:04:00.000-07:00

On Sunday we went down to Sierra Visa to celebrate my mom's 75th birthday. It was so fun. We did a surprise party for her and it actually WORKED! She had no idea. She was so shocked when she walked into Gary's house and we were all there. It was so great that everyone made a special effort to be there. It meant so much too her! She told me this morning "I can't believe all of you came to celebrate me getting old...I couldn't sleep last night, I just laid there in bed a thought about my party and was so happy!" She loved her party!!! So thanks, for all of you who traveled and helped with the dinner, and all the set-up etc. I'm soo lucky to have such a great family. I love getting to hang out with all of you.
Here is a picture of the "gang" we are missing a few who had to leave before we took the picture.

For those of you who took pictures too, PLEASE e-mail me your pictures or send me a disk...I want to put togehter a little photo album of grandma's party for her. Thanks!

Schneph Farms

2007-10-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

We have started this little tradition of going to the Schnepf Pumpkin and Chili party out in Queen Creek. This was our second year.
Cooper was so excited to go to the "Farm" His favorite was the train, the pumpkin patch, the roller coaster, and the corn on the cob and and and...He was so excited about it all. It was fun to watch him. He couldn't do it all fast enough!
Here are some pictures. It was soo dark, that they aren't very good.

Camping

2007-10-16T07:09:00.000-07:00

Okay, so Flint has had this itch to take the RV out "one last time before its too cold!" so we went on Sunday after church up near Payson. It was nice to go somewhere where the air is chilly and feels a little like fall. I actutally got to wear a long sleeved shirt! So we go to this place that has full hook-ups, meaning water, electricity, cable, etc...I was happy. After we get the trailor all set up I look out across the street and this donkey is looking at me. We had a good laugh that we were camped next to a donkey. We have become so used to the city that even a donkey amuses us!!! I forgot to take a picture of him! Another funny thing was that we were the only people there under 65!
Anyway on Monday we got up and decided to go for a bike ride. We found this really cool park with a lake and some great play ground equipment. Cooper was in heaven. We played at the park until noon. It was fun to get away and be outside. I love this time of the year!

Here we are on our bike...gotta love the pink beach cruiser!

Cooper with his gun and jerky...what more could a 3 year old want?

Can anyone relate???

2007-10-07T16:06:00.000-07:00

My assistant showed this video to me and we all laughed so hard!!!
I have watched it again and again and continue to laugh out loud everytime!!! For some reason I think its funnier then Jan does...Thanks Kacey for the funny video!

RON

2007-10-06T19:31:00.000-07:00

Okay, so yesterday was a very sad day for us here at the Rogers house/Fotos by Flint. My brother Ron has been working for us for about nine months. He has been our main editor, this basically means he got the pictures after Flint finished a wedding and did all the color balancing and special effects. He is awesome at it. Well now he is moving on and I mean MOVING on. He is moving to Thatcher next week. He got a great job for a bank. We're excited for him to start this new chapter in his life, but we are so sad to see him leave us. I mean who is gonna play with Flint, play with Cooper and take out my trash??? Thanks for all the many, many good laughs. I mean who's gonona make fun of the ugly brides or the too pretty grooms? We are sad our best friend is moving. Love you Ron!
By the way this picture was taken one day when his hair was long and we combed out the curles into a frizzy mop! Gotta love the do.

Crazy Life!!!

2007-10-06T16:04:00.000-07:00

My high school friend just e-mailed this video to me and I thaught this described parenthood very nicely!!! All the frustrations and precious moments of being a parent...all sung to good ol' Pachabel!
Make sure you volume is up, its not super loud!

Guess who learned to dance!!!

2007-10-03T10:46:00.001-07:00

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!WOW

Spiderman!

2007-09-26T15:11:00.000-07:00

This was so funny...Cooper would chase Joy in his Spiderman costume around the house. She was so freaked out, she jumped up on the chair so Amanda would save her...

not Lana, she gave spiderman a big hug. Lana would chase Cooper around the house yelling Coopa, Coopa.

Look its Spiderman and Mary Jane...

Canoeing in the Pool

2007-09-25T12:24:00.000-07:00

Strange things happen when the Rogers boys get together...like a sea canoe in the swimming pool!!! These guys were so funny, Sarah, Amanda and I were laughing at them! Cooper thaught it was the best thing ever!!!

OOPS!!!turn over

2007-09-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

We had Isaac and Jenny's kids at our house this weekend. It was a lot of fun. Cooper loves having kids to play with. I think their favorite thing to do was swim. They had so much fun going down the slide.

Cooper, Gavin and Callie.

like dad...

2007-09-20T10:26:00.000-07:00

These are some pictures of Cooper this past week. I had to laugh as I looked at them, becaue he is so much like Flint... Playing computer games in his underware, sleeping in the middle of the bed, and playing guitar hero...I love it!

Pre-school

2007-09-16T21:36:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Mommy Pre-school while it was at our house last week!

What cute kids!!!

backrow: Madeline, Maddy

on the floor: Charlie

on the bean bag: Cooper, Jackson and Amber

This is Cooper doing his show and tell...it is a turtle from his happy meal that Flint put together. What a prized posession!!! Most of the time Flint is more excited about the kids meal toy than Cooper!

So Cooper is in Mommy pre-school. There are six kids in his class and it is every Tuesday and Thursday mornings. We have it at our house every six weeks. Here is a picture of him on his first day of school. He was very excited to go until he realized that I was not staying with him. He screamed and through the biggest fit ever! I was so mad!

He is over it now and loves to go to school.

First day of school

more Labor Day pics

2007-09-14T21:21:00.000-07:00

Better late then never...

Here are some pictures from the cabin. It was so much fun!
Cooper with his cousins...Lindsay, Kassidee and Shanna.

Cooper hitting the pinata at the cabin on Labor DayCooper and his candy
Gotta love the pinata hat!

Hawaii pics

2007-09-06T22:01:00.000-07:00

Here we are in Hawaii. It was so fun. This is at the cafe that we ate at several times while we where there. Yummy!!!

Snorkling at Turtle Beach

Us at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Lisa and I with the leis that Spencer and Flint made for us at Paradise Cove Luau. We had a blast!!! Thanks Lisa and Spencer for showing us how Hawaii should be done!

What a nerd

2007-09-06T15:59:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that I actually did a blog!!! I'm an official nerd. Hopefully it will be a fun way to keep in touch.
We just got home from Labor Day at the cabin. It was a lot of fun to be with the whole family. I think there were about 60 of us there...and only one shower??? Wow!
Now we have to get back to work...finish later