Camye’s Webkinz Birthday Party….lots of fun!!


Well her party was a success. She had 10 little girls come to the party. They all had such great time. They made webkinz sleeping bags, which was total success. I had helpers here Chloe and 2 of her friends, so that took the load off of me and I was able to visit and work on other party things.
As you can notice in all the pictures.. Paul was all over the place! He hung on every girl who sat by Camye when it was their turn. He was the life of the party. I am not sure what go into him. It was hilarious. He did get in the box and was even stuck there for awhile.
The weather is slowly turning bad here. It is icing (as I like to call it)(sleet), icicles hanging off all the branches. And we are supposed to get 4-5 inches on top of the ice. SOoo…very slippery. Kenny drives in any weather..so getting church tomorrow HOPEFULLY wont be a problem.
But Chloe is supposed to go ice skating tonight with the teens..that may be a problem. I hope not for her sake.
Today we are just hanging around the house. Kenny and I signed up for NetFlix the other night because we had paying a fortune to rent from Blockbuster lately. As most of you know I teach a WW2 class this semester, so we renting all those we can find. Although our first delivery came today….and Oops..it was a chic flick!! And Blake wanted to rent Space Chimps…thanks to Parker:)

LIfe….

Not too much going in the Rogers household..just the usual busy stuff. It seems January is a slow month but this year has been one thing after another. We are trying to wrap up our Lads to Leaders programs. Chloe is doing a scrapbook. I have to say I may be partial but I think it is really good. I had a progressive dinner at my house (well the white elephant gift and main course was at my house)for my MOPS group..it was alot of fun.

. We are using this new curriculum for Camye, to learn how to manuever around the kitchen a little better. She is having great fun learning to make frency toast and cinnamon toast and several other things.

A VERY large group of people (LOL) from our church go bowling every 1st Friday…lots of fun. The kids have a great time..Camye spends alot of time in the bathroom giggling with friends in this little setting room..but she did come out to bowl one game. Paul LOVES to bowl and has soo much fun. He is more into than the others..they are more into socializing. Wonder where they get that from????

The rest of the day….

After Christmas morning, we run off to Mamaws and have to get their by 1. Always such fun..we have went to my Mamaws since I can remember every Christmas.It always bring such wonderful memories. My all time favorite memory was my Papaw Wells in his red pants handing out all the Christmas presents..with his grandchildren crowded around. This year my dad and Uncle Doug handed them out. My mamaw always hands out gifts that are a memory to him. This year the kids recieved coins that belonged to him……okay now I am crying….

We had such great fun, food and family time. Some of the pics are just candid…I just love my family. After visiting at my mamaws, went to my parents to open a MASSIVE amount of wonderful gifts and visit with my other Mamaw and Papaw.Then we went home and crashed…………………..

Christmas Morning….it has arrived!!!

Christmas morning was soo fun!! I was the first one up!!! I couldnt believe the kids were up at 6:30…whats wrong with these kids?? Actually was up cooking for my Mamaws Christmas get together later… The kids were sooo much fun to watch as they ran down the stairs to the tree.

The kids were so thankful for all their gifts… especailly for the Wii that Uncle Nathan and Aunt Natalie for them….that we all immediatly had to take our turn for tennis and bowling. Of course Kenny and I had to check out first to make sure that it was safe for the kids and all.

Other than the Wii…the kids fave gifts were…although they loved everything..
Chloe- digital camera, her long awaited Aeropostale clothes, webkinz

Blake- digital camera, night vision goggles and Pokemon cards, webkinz

Camye- digital camera, DS My little pony game and her webkinz

Paul- Little Einstein laptop, Leapster 2

Thank you to everyone!! We are so blessed with wonderful families!!

Christmas Eve….family fun


Well Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning..I always insist we are home with the family. Anyone is welcome here..but I want the kids to wake up on in their beds and come down to their living room and their Christmas tree. Although I do say always…we are currently discussing being in Texas for Christmas next year. But our norm is….we are home.

We are very blessed because we have soooo many people that buy for our kids. So we like to spread it out some….so on Christmas Eve we open presents from Kenny’s side….they do open their traditional Christmas jammies on Christmas Eve. Blake made date/nut balls for Mamaws and I did make Kennys favorite sour cream fudge.

Aunt Kimberly, Uncle Tom, Alycia, Elizabeth and Austin came thru with some great crafts sets for the girls and a crochet project book for the girls, a magnetic puzzle set for Paul and a Pokemon marble case with marbles…pleasing everyone greatly…
Kenny’s mom and dad…bought Chloe, Blake and Camye a devotional book and ornaments…and a few other items…that we hid till Christmas morning…will tell more later. Paul recieved Boz, a Boz DVD and the Littel Einsteins laptop to which he yells….MY OWN LAPTOP!!! Kenny’s dad, Ken…had my name and I received the Chronological Bible and a Beth Moore devotional. Which I loved both!
Uncle Nathan, Aunt Natalie and Lucille…..ALWAYS ALWAYS buy the coolest….top everyone elses presents. Not just for us…for anyone they buy for…its kind of well known fact that Uncle Nathan and Aunt Natalies presents are always the long awaited present. But this year it was soooo awesome…we made the kids wait until Christmas

Decorating Cookies and Jingling…

Just a quick blog…

Well we finally finished decorating cookies…with 4 kids…it takes an awful lot of cookies. But it was great fun!!

…we went jingling..that was a blast!! The kids were so much fun..I was the driver…at the first house…a little slow..because we had to go twice because we didnt know that there doorbell was broken. The second house some friends from church..we had a little more confidence. We were up by the door, all there lights were on. Our plan was to ring and run..well these were Chloe’s friends and I think she wanted to get caught. She ran and hid really close to the front door. But nothing…so we went and rang again…everyone was back to the van but Chloe and GUESS WHO pulls in the driveway!! You guessed it….they did. And they yell Hey guys!! Come on in…I was so scared and nervous..I just pulled away!!! But then called her later to apologize…we had a good laugh. Then on to the Walton’s..that was the most fun for Kenny and I …the kids ran and then hid behind their suburban. Richard and the girls open the door and Jesse leans out and picks up the ornament and jingling papers. Richard stands there looking around….even though he had to have heard giggling from behind the suburban..but then Sadie came out and said Mommy (Molly was at work)…LOL!! Richard says..that ain’t Mommy..LOL!!! And they go back inside..now we havent been jingled back…but I wont be surprised if we are.

My mom, brother and I went to finish up Christmas shopping. We first went to our favortie outlet mall, Tanger Outlets in Washington. They are fairly new. But lots of great deals…clearance at TCP and Gymboree was great. I love those $2.99 and under deals:)

Christmas Crafts and More….

Okay so I just liked this picture and wanted to add it. It was before bible study last night:)

Okay so I stole this idea from my cousin Stephanie, check out her blog “Lovin’ Every Minute of It”, her and her mother (my Aunt Jo) are the craftiest people I have ever known in my life. Anyways I loved this idea, and I think she realizes I am craft challenged and doesnt mind that I do this.>LOL!!! I made these for friends and the kids bible class teachers and co-op teacher.:)

Below are pics of our Reindeer Food and Snowman Soup the kids made for their friends at co-op and church.

We had lots of fun working all day long (after school of course) on these crafts and baking cookies. Today we need to finish decorating cookies and will blog more in the morning!!!:):)

Have a wonderful day!!