Last Day of Preschool

Today was Adelie's last day of preschool. They had a pizza party and watched a movie and had a show and tell day. She said she had a lot of fun. She loves her teacher who is her aunt Janet. She was such a great teacher and we are going to miss having her be Adelie's teacher. Adelie never complained about going to school. Now it is time for her to move on and go to Kindergarten next year and she is so excited to go! I cannot believe how fast they grow up.

The kids in her class are from left to right: Kynli Anderson, Adelie Rogers, Adriana Duvall, Isabell Hallows, Ethne Tilley, Treygon Tulley, and Brody Duvall. Adelie got along with everyone in her class, even the boys. Thanks Janet for being such a great teacher!!

6 Random Things About Me

I was tagged by Chelsey to post 6 random things about me awhile ago and I kind of forgot about it until I saw that Shannon finally posted hers (cause Chelsey tagged her too) and that reminded me to do it. I have to admit it was kind of hard to think of but here it goes:

1. I love to cook but I hate to bake. I love getting new recipes for dinner and making something new for my family. It is seriously my favorite thing to try something new out and have it turn out and my family love it. But I hate to bake breads, cookies, and goodies. I love to eat them but hate to bake them. So if you ever have any yummy new recipes that you want to share with me send them my way.

2. One of my favorite restaurants is Outback Steakhouse BUT I never eat steak there. I always get this pasta that I love there. In fact, I never eat steak at any steakhouse. I usually get their pasta if they have one. And this totally drives Carrie my sister CRAZY! She says you cannot go to a steakhouse and not get steak but I just am not a big fan of steak and if I do have it it has to be a really thin piece of steak and VERY well done, we are talking almost burnt and crispy. If it is cooked that way then we are talking about a really yummy steak but no one ever cooks it the way I like so I never get it and I am a huge fan of pasta.

3. I can fold my ear. I know that sounds really weird but I have been able to do it since I was really little. I used to suck my finger and fold my ear. It was always my favorite thing to do. I don't suck my finger anymore but I still fold my ear on occasion. :) Now this may sound really weird but my favorite was always when I would come in from the cold and my ear was really cold, I would love to fold my ear at that time because it just felt good. Next time you see me you can ask me to fold my ear for you and I might do it. But the only problem is if I smile or laugh it makes it pop out and will not work so you cannot make me laugh. My family used to make fun that my ears had no cartilage in them but I think they do they are just really soft. Sometimes I wonder how I ever thought to fold my ear and how it all started but I have no idea.

4. I am obsessed with having my house clean when I go on vacation. I cannot relax on my vacation unless I know that my house it spotless back at home and that is what I will be coming home too. There has been many times that we are leaving for somewhere really early in the morning and my whole family is in the car waiting while I am vacuuming and doing the finish touches before we leave. It drives Brett crazy sometimes and we fight over it almost every time because he thinks it isn't necessary. So then it is really crappy because we are grumpy with each other for a little bit until we both decide to get over it. Usually, he gets over it faster than I do. I guess I am stubborn.

5. I always buy myself some kind of treat when I go grocery shopping that I think I will crave during the week and will need that little extra something. But I always hide this special treat and eat it while nobody it watching cause I don't want to share it with anyone. And believe me it always comes in handy and pretty much gets eaten every week.

6. My favorite thing to do is scare Brett. I love to hide and when he comes I jump out and scare him. It gets him every time! It seriously never gets old and it works almost every time! And I do this a lot too. I sometimes will pretend to go to bed and ask him to come here or if I know that he is going to be coming upstairs I will hide at the top of the stairs and jump out to scare him. I have even gone as far as turning on the water in the sink in the bathroom to make him think I am in there getting ready for bed. Sometimes I feel like such a kid sitting there giggling to myself just waiting for the right moment. I got this from my dad, he used to do this to us all the time growing up and it was seriously I think his favorite thing to do too.

Now I tag Carrie, Kellye, Melissa, Elizabeth, Lacey, and Laura.

Adelie & Adriana's Birthday Slumber Party

On Friday night Stephanie decided to have all of Adelie and Adriana's friends sleep over at her house and have it be their birthday party combined. We always combine their birthday party since they are only 6 days apart and they basically have all the same friends (which pretty much consist of their cousins and Isabell Hallows). Anyway, I was not going to complain since she was the crazy one to have them all sleep over and I was not the one having them all at my house sleeping over. The girls had a great time. The night consisted of them playing outside, eating pizza, opening presents, painting their nails, watching a movie (High School Musical), and eating lots of candy. They stayed up until 12:30 in the morning and woke up at 6:45 in the morning. So needless to say Stephanie had a great time with that. (I was only there at her house until 9:00pm so she had to deal with all of that) Then she was so great and made them pancakes and bacon and then of course the girls had to put their makeup on that Adelie and Adriana got as some of their gifts. They all had a blast and I think Stephanie is ready to do it again REALLY soon! :)

Another Photo Shoot with Aunt Lacey

I had Lacey do some more pictures of my kids and I think they just turned out so dang cute! She is just so good at taking pictures. I am in love with these pictures and there are so many more to come but she did not have time to show them all to me because she is leaving for a trip tomorrow morning. I will be posting more as they come. She is up for hire if anyone is interested. She is amazing with kids and so patient. She only charges $75 and that includes your session time, 4x6 printed proofs, and all photos saved on a CD. Her sessions are not timed, but usually take 1-2 hours long. During this time you are welcome to change outfits, and do whatever may be needed to keep your little ones happy. Session prices also include her editing time, and converting your proofs to color, black and white or sepia tones. Then you receive everything on your CD, so you can make as many copies in as many different sizes as you want. If you want to check out more of her pictures go to her blog at http://www.lacey-revolutionphotography.blogspot.com/ and check out some of her recent pictures. She did some recently of Stephanie's kids that are just to die for. I love them all! You can contact her by her email at laceyrcollins@gmail.com if you are interested in getting any pictures done.

Mother's Day Fun

I started out my Mother's Day on Friday by going to lunch with my mother-in-law LeeAnn and my 2 sisters-in-law Melissa and Elizabeth and also Haley (Robi's girlfriend). We went to Ruby River because Lacey my other sister-in-law was working as well as her husband Kellen. So we decided to go there and have them serve us. It was a lot of fun (even if I don't like Ruby River all that much).

Saturday Brett worked hard on our yard that we are redoing and that is my Mother's Day gift so that I can enjoy a nice new yard this summer. Included in that he will be getting a drinking fountain that I have wanted for our backyard that will make my life so much easier in the summer.

Sunday, I started out my day with a ice cold bucket of water being dumped on top of me when I was in the shower by my lovely husband Brett. As he dumped it on top of me he said "Happy Mother's Day!" I then felt a pinch on my arm and it is him saying "give me a smoochy dear!" I wasn't really in the mood but he wouldn't leave until I gave him one. After I got out I told him worst Mother's Day present ever. There is another part to the story I guess, which is that I did the same thing to him about 2 weeks before that. But mine was only with a glass of water. I guess I did do it twice while he was in the shower and I sure thought it was funny. So I guess I had it coming but on Mother's Day? He said he remembered today and had to do it while he remembered because he usually is not home when I shower except for on Sundays. Father's Day is always coming up, I guess we will see what happens that day that I happen to remember.

After Brett's fun he decided to be nice and make me breakfast burritos. They were delicious! And Whytli & Adelie gave me some more cute cards and books that they made for me at school. As always those are fun to get. Brett's family came over at noon to call his brother Robi who is on a mission in Italy. That was great fun talking with him and hearing how he is doing. I am so jealous that he is in Italy and we hope to go there one day.

We were only able to make it to the last half of church because we talked to his brother for so long. During Relief Society all the men of the ward took over all the callings for the women in the whole ward so that everyone could come into the cultural hall and there were chairs set up all around in circles and the bishopric served the women all different kinds of cheesecakes and milk and water. It was so fun and such a great idea! Everyone really enjoyed it.

After church we went to the park with my family to have a barbecue. It was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time playing on the playground. Then we went to Brett's moms house to have dessert were she made creme brulee. It was delicious too!

It was a great Mother's Day and even though my day started out with a cold bucket of water (I wasn't too mad) I had a great day and I am so thankful for my wonderful husband, my wonderful kids and both of my great families! I am also so grateful to my mom who is such a wonderful person and a great example to me. I am grateful to LeeAnn too who is also a wonderful person and great example. I want all my family to know that I love them very much!

Do you love me? Yes or No?

Today Whytli brought a flower home from school for me for Mother's Day and a card that she had made at school. This is a picture of the card. On the front she tells me that I rock, she loves me, I am great, and the best mom ever. On the inside I open it up and it says "Dear Mom, I love you! You are the best mom ever! You are pretty! Do you love me, sign yes or no on this line. Love, Whytli." She had drawn a line for me to sign yes or no and taped a pencil for me to answer her question with. I thought it was pretty cute and really funny. I had just gotten home and got distracted with Nash and feeding him and had Carrie's kids there waiting for me to babysit them so I did not write my answer down right away. Well she asked me a couple of times if I was going to put my answer down. When Brett got home she told him about the card and said that mom hadn't answered her question yet. He did not know what she was talking about until I showed him the card. He got quite a kick out of it. Aren't kids just funny. Whytli always makes the cutest cards, books, letters, etc. So to answer your question Whytli "yes, I love you very much and think you are really cute! Thanks for the great card, it made my day!"

Girls Playing

Now this is a sight that I like to see! Playing well together with no fighting, crying, whining, or telling on each other for every little thing. I just love it when they can play for several hours together and play well like this. And most of the time they do - they are the best of friends. But we do get the occasional fighting and not getting along so I decided this was worth recording and showing how cute they are when they are getting along. They really enjoy playing dress ups, polly pockets, barbies, house and pretty much any little girly thing you can think of.

Nash's Blessing Pictures

These are some of the pictures that Lacey (with Revolution Photography) took of Nash in his blessing outfit. We ended using the first picture below for his blessing invitation. It turned out really cute. We had all the writing in the blank space with the background and it had Nash down in the corner. It made it look like this little doll down at the bottom. I was really happy with how they turned out. She did a great job! Boy blessing outfits definitely aren't as fun as little girls blessing outfits but we did the best we could with what you can get. Isn't he just a little cutie?! I love him so much!

Nash's Baby Blessing

On Sunday Brett gave Nash his name and blessing. We named him Nash Brett Rogers. It was a really nice blessing. Thankfully, Brett was able to do it. He got sick on Friday night and was sick all day Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday morning I asked my dad and Jeff to come give Brett a blessing so that he could feel better so that he could give Nash his blessing. He did end up feeling a lot better and was able to do it himself. If you can tell in the family pictures of us (which isn't that great) Brett's eyes do not look so great. You can tell he doesn't feel the best. Anyway, it turned out to be a great day. Brett's brother Bryce also blessed their son August on Sunday as well. However, we were not able to attend in the morning before ours due to Brett not feeling well and I was getting everything ready. We are truly sorry we were not able to attend but are happy that they could share the same day together. We had a lot of family and friends who came to the blessing. Afterwards we had a luncheon at my mom's house with all our family and friends. It was a great time had by all. We are so thankful to have Nash in our family and happy that he could get his official name and blessing on Sunday. As you can see in the second picture, his sisters really love him too. They just can't get enough of him.

Nash's Baby Blessing Luncheon

Revolution Photography

Lacey (my sister-in-law) now has officially got a blog for her photography. She is just starting out doing photography and her pictures are seriously some of the most unique, fun and creative pictures ever. I love them! I just thought I would do a post about her photography and have everyone check it out. If you want some fun, different and very creative pictures taken of your children or family you need to give her a call. She will be posting more pictures as she gets them edited. So keep checking back to see her fun ideas. She is going to be doing some pictures of Carrie's kids really soon that are going to be really fun. So check back soon for that post. Click on the link to check her photography blog out:
http://www.lacey-revolutionphotography.blogspot.com/

Mallory's Look-alike Meter

Interesting.... everyone always says she looks like Brett and Whytli so I thought this would for sure lean more towards Brett than me. But it seems to have gotten the rest right so maybe she does look a little more like me, who knows. I guess we will see as she gets a little older.

Adelie's Look-alike Meter

Well, everyone says she looks like me so I guess this is right. My mom says she looks just like I did as a kid.

Whytli's Look-alike Meter

Not surprised, she does look more like Brett so this is right.

Nash's Look-alike Meter

I found this on someone elses blog and thought it was kind of fun so I thought I would try it out. I am quite surprised to see that Nash looks 4% more like me. Everyone always says he looks like Brett so it took me by surprise. But, I guess alot have said that he looks like Adelie and she looks more like me. I can usually never tell with kids but definately I have always thought Whytli and Mallory look like Brett. All the girls have gotten Brett's blue eye color so I guess it will be interesting to see what color of eyes Nash has. Brett and the girls are hoping for blue so I can be singled out.

Click on the link above and go try it out for yourself. It will be fun to see who everyone elses kids look more like.