First of all I am a planner..I have 3 calanders…an event planner on my phone and a pocket calander. All of these I keep up to date.

Thanks Stephanie! My cousin tagged me and I am glad as I needed something to blog about.

1. I have a WONDERFUL, talented, handsome hubby named Kenny Rogers. He truelly is the love of my life.

2. We have 4 Fabulous children together Chloe Jade-12, Kennith Blake-9, Camye Renee-8 and Austin Paul-3.

3. We have two dogs…Maltese/Shihztu’s Tex and Penny. We have 47 hens. We have a little turtle that is as least 8 years old. We are very attached.

4. I homeschool our kiddos. We have so much fun with it.

5. I teach at our homeschool co-op. Last semseter my friend Tammie and I taught World War 1 and this semester we teach World War 2. We teach the 6th-8th graders. We find this sort of topic to be rather depressing and find ourselves tearing up quite often and have decided next year we may teach a class on Rainbows and Flowers. Much more uplifting.:)

6. I have lost 50 pounds in the last two years. I have no problem losing the weight. Its maintaining it that is my issue. I really like to eat. So I have resorted to eating extremely healthy but counting Weight Watcher points to maintain.

7. I have 2 brothers, Rob and Wes.

8. I am at my parents this evening but home from services because Paul is sick ..or should I say screaming with a toothache. he has oral surgery on February 17th. I am able to blog because he passed out…well maybe just fell asleep.

9. I love to plan our family menus and grocery shop. I love Sam’s Club.

10. I have awesome friends.

11. I love Panera Bread and Olive Garden.

12. I have been trying to get in the habit of studying my bible every day. I do have 2 devotion books that I have read everyday since January 1st. I hope to continue that.

13. I love to bake, cook, garden, scrapbook, quilt, sew, and read.

14. I read about 2 fiction books per week.

15. I am currently in 3 different bible studies with 3 different books. That really keeps me reading. But it helps keep me in the word.

16. My husband and I are working together to improve each others self esteem. We both think each other need to have higher self esteem.

17. I love the song These Are the Days of Elijah.

18. I collect cookbooks.

19. My hubby and I have a date night once a month, but would love to up this to once a week. Maybe when the kids get older…or when we have more time.

20. I love being a stay at home mom. I mean truelly feel like the luckiest person alive to stay at home.

21. I love that my hubby gets home at 4:30.

22. I am humming the song We Bow Down…have been all day.

23. I love my grandparents, actually all my family. I am greatly blessed with a loving family.

24. I love when it is early spring, kind of a cool morning and I am awaken by birds singing in my open bedroom window.

25. I love bubble baths.

Okay there you go…pretty random..But I tag, Heather, Stacey and my sister in law Kimberly..although I dont know if she reads my blogs.

First, let me say. It is cold!! We have been in the house most of the week. But we are having lots of fun!! I like to be snowed in or in this case “colded” in. We do have about 4-5 inches of snow. But the roads are clear. So we have made the best of our week AT HOME!!

Our house can be drafty at -9.4 degrees..so we have a couple of space heaters around..the dogs are really smart.:):)

This is the coldest we have seen..this was at 7:03 am.ALmost everything has been cancelled this week. Chloe did have youth group Tuesday night…but Wednesday night bible study was cancelled, Friday night- game night was cancelled and tonights Lads to Leaders spaghetti dinner was cancelled. The windchill is supposed to be -20 until noon. Tomorrow is supposed to be 32 degrees!! I cant wait to feel the heat wave!!

So we have stayed home..the kids and I love to watch the Food Network. We love Paula Deen, Rachel Ray, Barefoot Contessa..the list goes on. So Camye and I decided to try out some goodies. Recipes are at the end. The top right is our Vanishing Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies, then our Buttermilk Biscuits and our first attempt at Blueberry Scones (which Camye did the whole thing and they were AWESOME) Great job Camye!! We watched a show on how to make scones and Camye kept saying Now Mommy the key to a perfect scone is not mix it much, which is what they kept saying on the show.

VANISHING OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

1/2 pound butter

1 cup brown sugar (we used Sucanat)

1/2 cup cane sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour ( you could use all purpose flour)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 cups of Any Oats

1 Cup of Chocolate Chips

1. Heat oven to 350

2 Beat butter and sugars until creamy

3. Add eggs and vanilla, Beat well.

4. Add dry ingredients, mix well.

5. Stir in oats and chips

6. Drop on cookie sheet

7. Bake 10-12 minutes.

Blueberry Scones

1 cup of all purpose flour

3 TBSP of cane sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Pinch of Salt

2 TBSP of COLD butter

1 egg

3-5 tbsp of heavy whipping cream

1/2 cup of Blueberries

1. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut butter in until crumbly. In a small bowl add egg and cream, stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in chips.

2. Turn onto a floured surface, kenad gently 6-8 times. Pat into 6 inch circle. Cut dough into 6 wedges and palce 1 inch apart on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 18-20 minutes.

Enjoy!!!

My cousin Stephanie gave me a letter to write 10 things about….this is a very hard letter for me. Okay here goes..

1. Trip- Today Kenny and I were discussing when and where we are taking our 10 year anniversary trip too. AND it looks like a cruise!! YAY!!
2.Taco Soup- My cousin Stephanie put the recipe on her blog the other day and we had it for supper. Definetly something we will fix again. Everyone loved it.
3. Taste of Home- I just bought their new cookbook at Walmart yesterday. The new baking one. I love it!
4.Teaching- I did teach today..lots of fun. We are working toward the International Fair on January 31st and our country is Israel.
5. Tulips- These are what I wish were popping up in my flower beds right now. But I can really see anything but..
6. Tons of Snow- Yes we have about 4 inches of snow and it is still coming down.
7.Tennis on the Wii- A very very fun game..and great workout.
8. Talking- I couldnt function without talking. I love to talk all the time. When I am cleaning, taking a bath, gardening…anything. I probably call Kenny 15 times a day at least.
9. Today- We are snowbound. They even cancelled church. First time since we moved here over 3 years ago. After school, we baked all day. Not too much outside time right now because of the tempature. It was 3° when we got up…LOL!! That was 8am!!
10.Tomorrow-We have school…I am sure we will be snowbound again. I will work on laundry.

This little game was fun!. It made me really look at me and think of different things. Want a letter too? Leave me a comment and let me know.

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????

Here’s a funny video of the kiddos from last night, …thought you’d enjoy!

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 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!!