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Blake turns 10!!!!!!!

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My little boy turned 10 on Sept 11th!!! I just cant believe the great son that I have!! He is just a blessing to us. Blake’s actual birthday was an extremely BUSY day to say the least ( first day of co-op, his birthday party, soccer game, Lads to Leaders scrapbooking….which we missed because we were wiped out!!

Below is Chloe giving Blake some loving …which in front of his friends, he didnt respond well.:)

Blake with his “slingshot cake”….his dad made for him!:)


Blake and Caleb enjoying his new chair..


Blake and his friends…he had a great time!! Thanks!!!

Idlewild~~SoakZone~~~Storybook Forrest

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Our family headed to Idlewild/SoakZone/StoryBook Forest Labor Day weekend….the Saturday before Labor Day is known as “Church of Christ” day. So a bunch of us take advantage of the discount and head that way every year. This is our 4th year to go!! We all take crockpots of food and set up in a pavillion, so we eat for free all day!!!

Our family standing outside the entrance of Storybook Forrest:)


The FIRST and ONLY request for Paul of the day…I need to get in the balls!!

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe….


Paul pulling a heavy load…

Blake having fun at Soakzone!!!


Camye jumping around..:)

My kids and Adam and Jonah Armstrong!!!

Ocean City, Maryland!!! Awesome time!!

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Kenny and I have been thinking all summer we needed to take a REAL family vacation!! We usually just spend our off time visiting family. And they dont live in vacation spots!!!LOL!! But if my sister in law would EVER move to back to the states….she will live in a vacation spot!!! No pressure..I just know her well.:)

Anyway so we polled all our family and friends and went with the majority vote of Ocean City, Maryland!!! It was alot of fun. Although the rip tides were very strong from Hurricane Danny but for my wild kids that just made the beach more fun!!

Although they did close the beach on Saturday night…

Our underwater camera is the best!!

Chloe standing onherhead!!


Blake showing me some Karate moves…

Playing on thebeach!!

Blake…


Paul!!!


Camye!!

Just the 6 of us!:)


Chloe!! I think she looks so much older here!!!

Pool Fun at the Bairen’s

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Our great friends the Bairen’s got an awesome new pool this summer!! We were dieing to go over and visit, but I couldnt just up and invite ourselves. My friend Tammie and her husband kept posting the progress they were making on the pool and how great it felt and whoever wanted could come on over!!!

Well I kept biding my time…and sure enough, she called andinvited us!! I almost forgot to take some pics but I threw my underwater camera to the kids and they took care of it for me.:)

Paul loved it!!! And would like to move there he said!!

Nathan Bairen!!


Paige Bairen!!


Jacob and Blake….as you can see…my kids had the camera most of the time!!

Church Family Picnic

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Life has been crazy busy here!! But we have alot of fun!!! In the summer our church tries to plan at least one picnic per month. We meet at this great park way out in the middle of nowhere!!!

Here is Paul being silly with his friends..always posing for the camera!!!

Camye and her friend Jesse teeter-totering..okay I have no idea how to spell that..!!LOL!!

Blake had a great time finding all sorts of goodies..what you cant see in there is minnows and crawdaddies….

Chloe plays with the adults now…she loves volleyball!!! I know this a short and sweet blog!! Just catching up:)

Trip to Pittsburgh Zoo

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Last Saturday we headed to the zoo with several friends from church!! It was a lot of fun..but very HOT!! We are all a little spoiled with having such a great summer that when it got to the 90’s for one week we all were ready for Fall.

Below is a picture of the shark tunnel…it is new at the zoo this year. It is really neat!! Our new family picture was taken in the same spot.

Below is one of the few pictures I have of Chloe at the zoo. She stayed a bit ahead of us with some of her friends. That is a monkey peaking over the tree at us.


We got to see the lions at an awesome time. But this lion was growling at the crowd. It went for several minutes….very neat.

Below is a place to measure how tall you to an elephant or a giraffe. Or Ben Roethlisberger …of course…only in Pittsburgh..LOL!!

Paul and his little friend Hannah pulling him along….

I think the polar bears were the best thing to see at the zoo!! They kept swimming around and we could watch them!!! They are soo cute…behind glass walls of course!!

Camye on a camel…

Kiddy Kingdom…here Paul comes!!

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie…

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Today we start we start school, soccer, Kenny has outpatient surgery and the Frankferd co-op order comes in. So this is a very busy day. I would like add that Kenny was added as a deacon at our congregation yesterday morning. I am so proud of him!

Last week we went to this cute play, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…at Little Lake Theatre. The kids have always loved this book.

These were the 2 stars. The kids loved it and after it they all felt like they met ‘movie stars’!!

Little Lake Theatre is a dinner theatre, although this play was only an hour so dinner was served. You can see my 4 kids at the first table but our group was about 25 and extended as far as you can see in the picture.:)

Stay tuned for the Pinkalicious Tea Party we are attending at Little Lake Theatre in October. The girls are ecstatic! Thanks to my great friend Tracy who does all the planning for our outings.

Olgebay Good Zoo

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Well I have been going field trip crazy here!! But we are having so much fun!:)We decided to purchase a zoo pass this year. Thursday we headed to the Olgebay Good Zoo, it is a very nice little zoo and only about 20 minutes from our house

They have a little animal hospital that the kids loved doctoring up there animals there.:)

They had this bird aviar that was really awesome..the birds were landing all over us!!

Paul and Camye were so nervous to let a bird land on them but they did it!!! IT was really cool!:)

Blake was a little nervous as well but did great:) Thanks to my friend Sandra that was helping them with the birds.

The zoo had just got in a 18 foot python….very…big..:)

It was great fun and counts as school. We did find out that starting in 7th grade they have a volunteer program. Chloe is VERY interested in this, so we will see if she decides to do this.:)

Fun at the Park..:)

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The entire Rogers Family are officially Roller Coaster riders!!! I didnt think it was going to happen. But Paul and Camye surprised us all by wanting to ride the roller coasters and were actually sad they werent tall enough for some!!

We all went to Kennywood earlier this month with new friends that just moved here from Florida and another family from our church. Our families mesh very easily!! We all had such an awesome time!

Paul and Camye on the elephants!!

I kow I can not believe I put this picture of myself on here. But I thought it was too hilarious to pass up!! Thank goodness for that water proof camera. Kenny took it on all the water rides and this is once when my friend Sandra and I were hit by a waterfall!! Yes we look like we are enjoying ourselves a tad…ya think???

Camye and her new friend Emelia!!

Paul right after the waterfall…He is just the most adorable baby!!!

Blake on Raging Rapids….he had a great time with his friend Jacob, who totally encouraged him to ride his first roller coaster as well!!

For some reason..Camye thought it was HILARIOUS that me and Miss Sandra were getting drenched.

Soaking wet and still beautiful!! We invited another family from church too so that Chloe would have someone to ride with…I didnt get any good shots of them together. But that is Chloes friend Kianna right behind her..:):)

Paul riding his “Bengal Tiger”…Paul has loved Bengals..as he refers to them since he was barely a year old.


Paul and his little friend Elaina…are just hilarious together!!! I mean hilarious. They walked in our church the other day and were waving hysterically at one another…unfortunatley we were in the fourth pew from the front!!! They do play great together!!

Camp~we are officially done for the summer!!

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We are officially done with camps this year. I am so relieved. Chloe left on July 12th for Secondary week, she returned on July 18th. Chloe, Blake, Camye and I left on July 19th for another week of camp and returned home on July 25th (our anniversary ❤ !!!) ….then the next day Camye and Blake left for Junior week and just returned on August 1st!!! I am so glad they are home! I was a little worried since we had been at another camp the week before and thought they might be too tired.

Camye had a great time at camp and we were both very glad she had a friend from church going with her. Her and Heather got along great and made some great camp memories!! Camye won 3 ribbons but lost them and was just devastated….the whole sobbing …because we couldnt find them and she didnt know what she won them for. I am calling around today to at least find out what she won. Blake did great !!! When I went to take more clothes to him on Wednesday (couldnt get caught up from the week at camp before)…he played Mr. Cool guy..and greeted me cooley…Camye on the other hand had both arms around my neck and both legs around my waist!! It is such a nice feeling to be missed.
Blake had all his awards and his trophy when I arrived and was beaming!! Blake won 1st place Checkers (highly sought after)(big trophy), 1st place-Frisbee Throw, Soccer and Long Jump 2nd place- Cleanest Cabin and 3rd place-kickball and 100 meters. He also recieved a Camp Concern Athelete 2009. We are very proud of him!!
These pics are of the cabins they stayed in all week, Chloe too. Although her pic is on her camera right now, 4 campers stay in the cabin.


I am very glad that Blake had a great friend Nathan to go with him. They had a great week!!