Family Portraits

We had family portraits taken with the whole Rogers family right before Thanksgiving.  I'm really happy with how the pictures turned out.  I love my family!

 We had a nice Thanksgiving and we're looking forward to a happy Christmas.  Love you all!  Merry Christmas!  Love, Aubrey

Handsome Andy!

I just wanted to share these cute pictures of my handsome Andy.  He is such a happy, bright boy.  He keeps us busy but gives us so much joy.  Today at the grocery store, Andy was riding in the cart and I asked him, "Who needs a kiss?" and he smiled and looked up and leaned his head towards me.  Then I gave him a kiss on his forehead.  Then he giggled and leaned his head forward again for another kiss and giggled again.  This went on for several minutes.  It was so cute.  

Andy had a little unexpected surgery last week for an infected sore on his back.  It was not a fun day, but he's getting better now.  I'm so grateful for modern medicine and for a happy, healthy Andy.  

I hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving, I wish we could all be together.

Love,

Aubrey

 

Halloween 2014

We had lots of fun yesterday on Halloween.  

 Grace was an Egyptian Princess

 Joy was a pretty witch with pink hair

 Andy was a toddler who likes to climb and not hold still for pictures.

And sweet BethAnne was Glinda the good witch

 

Mark had fun this year dressing up with his team at work.  They were the characters of Monty Python.  Mark was the squire (in brown on the right).  He worked hard on his costume and I think he did a great job. 

He made his "backpack" frame from big sticks and then he used rope to strap a bunch of stuff to it, including things from D.I. and boxes that he painted.  He also used some bedding to make a bedroll to strap on the bottom.

 On Halloween.  Mark and his friends went galloping (Monty Python style) around downtown Boise.  They won the costume contest at work and had a good time all around.

 I worked hard this week putting together a small party for the girls and a few of their friends, and they had a great time overall.  Now, I'm looking forward to listening to Christmas music in earnest and getting ready for the Holidays.  In the next couple of months Lisa and I are going to try to raise some money for one of the Reece's Rainbow orphans.  I'll be posting more about that soon.  Happy November!

Love,

Aubrey

Autumn Time!

Happy October!  I hope you are all well.  We are having a nice autumn.  I'm am feeling quite a bit better, and I'm hoping to get stronger in the months to come.  Joy is in preschool and loving it.  Grace is enjoying school and gaining some fame for her singing abilities.  She has a big solo in a school program in a couple months.   BethAnne is doing well with homeschool and she is very helpful and sweet as always.  Andy has discovered pulling hair and trying to give his parents heart attacks by seeing how high he can climb on everything.  But he's a happy, sweet boy and we adore him.  A few weeks ago Mark and the kids went to the pumpkin patch with his family (while I got my MRI to check for MS, which came out clean).  They had a great time at the pumpkin patch.

Here's Joy riding the cow train. 

 Pretty BethAnne in jail  

Grace got buried in dried corn.  

Then tonight we went to a school festival and book fair and then we came home and decorated pumpkins.  Why carve the pumpkins when you can decorate with paint and glitter and jewel stickers?  The girls are quite artistic and it looked like so much fun that Mark and I decorated pumpkins too.  It was a great family activity.

 

This is BethAnne's pumpkin.  It has white glitter on it too, that's hard to see.  I love it!

This is Grace's pumpkin.  So many colors and jewels and glitter.  Fabulous!

Then Joy's pumpkin.  She painted the dog herself.  Then I helped with the jewels and the pink circle (which is made from glitter, so it's more sparkly in person).  Then she put Frozen stickers all over the back of the pumpkin. 

 This is Mark's pumpkin, very cute!  And mine is below.  Mine is just lots of colors of glitter and you can't really get the full effect in this picture, but it's very sparkly and colorful.

 So, that's my report for this month.  I hope you are all well and happy.  We love you!

Love,

Aubrey

Summer Fun!

The summer is coming to an end, and I've got some pictures to post to document some great times.  Pioneer Elementary has a great tradition of having a picnic on the last day of school.  That was around the middle of June.  We found a beautiful spot in the shade and we had a lovely picnic.  Also that day, we went to BethAnne's 5th grade graduation, where she received an academic achievement award.

 Pretty Grace and BethAnne and Joy (below)

My handsome guys.

Then we had a few quiet weeks of summer, and then our favorite time of summer came- when Suzie and the kids come to visit.  We had so much fun.  One day we went kite flying, it was a great, windy day.  The kites practically flew themselves.  There were even several instances of the kites flying away from the kids (and out of their hands), but I think they were all (or almost all) recovered, in miraculous fashion.

Then we went to Utah and had lots of fun in Logan.  It was so great to see everyone and be all together for a day.  After we left Logan, we went to visit Grandma Shurtliff and then the next day we had a wonderful time with the Bousquets at Temple Square, the BYU Bookstore and Grandma and Grandpa Baker's house.

Here's Andy at Temple square.  He's so cute. 

 I love this picture of BethAnne in the Tabernacle.  The lighting makes her look like an angel, which she often seems to be.  It was a special day on Temple Square.  There is a really special spirit there and I resolved that we should go there at least every few years.  We had a great time in Utah, but it kind of wore me out.  I ended up with a terrible cold.  Luckily I got better just in time for our yearly Fair trip.  And this time, someone special came with us- Grandma!  It was an especially fun trip this year and I felt blessed to be strong enough to enjoy it and that Mark and BethAnne didn't come down with a bad cold until the next day.

Here's Grandma and BethAnne and Grace on the Ferris Wheel.  Very fun!

 Here's Grandma again and in the background you can see some of the quilts.  It's amazing to see the quilts and crafts that people enter in the Fair every year.

Potato farmer Grace

 Corny Joy!

 Joy in a Kangaroo ride.  Her favorite was the dragon roller coaster.  It's really small, but she loves it.

This picture sums up Andy's feelings about the Fair.  He wasn't necessarily fussy, but he looked fairly disgruntled the whole time.  I'm not sure why.  It was not a hot day and there was lots to see.  Hopefully he'll like it better next year. 

 One of the girls' favorite rides is the pony ride.  They love it!

  We love the fair.  You're all welcome to join us next year.  

And that's my report for the end of summer.  Have a great week!

The Zoo!!

 We went to the Zoo with Suzie and her kids last week and we had lots of fun.

 This picture of Andy wasn't at the zoo, it was last night, but it's super cute so I thought I'd include it.

 Here's Grace at the Zoo.  We stopped and had some snacks while Suzie looked for a lost binky and fed Leeya.  The kids loved their popcorn and cotton candy.

 Another fun picture!  Such cute kids!

 And here they are with the truck.  We had a great time at the Zoo.  We love playing with the Bousquets!