This thing wiggling inside me actually has a face..A cute one at that!

We had an ultrasound on Tuesday and we have a cute little one inside. These photos don't do a lot of justice... but here is the profile and and one with an arm in there. And if you are wondering.....we did NOT find out the sex of the baby so you will all be surprised with us. Everything looks good. With all the kicking it will have very large muscles when it is born.

Back to School

Matthew waiting for Blake's bus to get home from school; Blake coming off the bus.

Blake's first day of school.

Blake started all day Kindergarten this year, it was exciting for him. He has the same teacher Matthew had for Kindergarten (which Matthew was excited for Blake to get). He is doing good and I am excited for him to learn lots of new things.

Matthew started Middle School this year Yikes!!!! Matthew was very prepared for his first day. His school had a transition day where we learned rules, got his schedule and his locker number and combination. On his way to the transition Matthew said, "Mom I am excited but, I am so nervous I want to puke too." I told him I am very nervous too and want to puke for him. The transition went well and he soon master the art of opening his own locker. Soon he was getting very excited. His first day of school went well and he was very excited for it, he saw lots of friends that went to Haggerty Elementary and of course being Matthew and making friends easy he said he made lots of new friends. I hope I have being teaching him well the gospel because these are the tough years of learning to stand up for what you believe. We study the Book of Mormon together this summer and I also study with the boys in the new Missionary Handbook its great learning tool. We had some really great gospel discussions this summer.

Now that both boys are in school all day I have lots of time on my hands. I plan on getting lots of projects done, I have lots of painting to do in the house. Matthew decided he wanted his bedroom to have a change so I have been busy helping him with that. I also wrote two children's books this summer and am going to work hard to get them published. Hopefully they will get in print and maybe I can read them to Blake's class someday. That would be really cool.

Reunion Cleanup

I've been thinking about posting ever since the reunion. Boy how life gets busy and in the way of doing things that we feel are important! I really enjoyed seeing all of you and had a lot of fun!!
Still, I didn't feel satisfied with how I handled a couple of things.

I realized that as soon as a film festival was suggested, that to also do the Olympics would probably be too much to try to fit into a night. Still I prepared it thinking it would be a fun way to involve everyone. I put in the Love Language quiz especially to help us get to know each other better. Kind of like Jon said, I feel like I don't know you as well as I'd like to. Due to several factors, I never followed up with that activity. I'd like to remedy that now.

If you didn't know my Love Language - it is primarily Words of Affirmation. Verbal or written expressions of appreciation mean a lot to me. Likewise verbal (or written) criticism is taken very much to heart. Sometimes I'm not as good as I'd like to be at learning and recovering from such criticism and so I miss opportunities to really connect with people. I'm sorry for those missed opportunities - especially the ones I missed while we were all together.

To make up for it a little, I'd like to invite you to share your love languages as you comment or add posts. If you don't remember or didn't take the quiz and would like to, it's at : http://www.fivelovelanguages.com/30sec.html#love

Love Ya!
Rebecca

News Flash

I am eating a blow pop right now.

I haven't had one of these in years. Not since we would ride our bikes to Snyders drug store in E.P.

Happy Birthday Dad!

I posted a video tribute to you on my blog: http://www.clintrogersonline.com/blog/2008/06/09/a-tribute-to-my-dad/

This is from the ride Spaceship earth at Epcot. They updated the ride to include the ability to see what you are going to look like in the future. They let you pick a few things for example do you like liesure or work or home the best, and then builds a little world for you. It was way fun. Then you can email your picture home, heres the kicker for free. I didnt think anything at disney would ever be free, but here it is!!!


Ashlyn and her cousin Cassie
Josh and Rylan
Uncle Craig and Jayden

Favorite Memories from Florida

I miss being with everyone already! Eliah woke up sad this morning that everyone was gone, and I knew exactly how she felt.

In memory of how much fun we had, I created a list of a few of the funny memories and quotes that I could remember. Do you have any you would like to add?

10 "I have a secret. Let me whisper in your ear. Knock knock - Who's there? - Why did the banana go to the doctor? - Because he wanted to go to the doctor." (Jayden)

9 Funny kid moments:

• “My name is Jenny!” and “When I go on a mission, I want to live with you.” (Eliah)
• “Mom, did you know that Sparta and Athens are city-states, like Washington DC is a city state.” (Jeremiah)
• “My teacher limited the amount of questions that I can ask in class.” (Matthew)
  
• Brayton’s book – and his collecting of invalid fastpass cards.
• “Then Brayton heard the most terrifying sound…” “meep meep” (During the telling of the story "Why Brayton was afraid of Loch-ness turtle")
  
• Eliah was kindly brushing my leg hair, which it badly needed as I hadn't done it for years - then later she was brushing my Gerald’s chest hair too!
• Blake cuddling up and telling me “I love you.” And my reply “I love you too.” Me telling Eliah “I love you.” And her reply “I love juice.”
• Craig finding Alexander hiding in the closet, stuffing his mouth full of pez.
• T.J. seeing Gerald driving in front of us, “Dad, that is a dirty car, huh?” “Yep T.J.” “Need a wash, huh dad?” Also – him being excited any time he saw a race car.
• Not this trip, but still a great memory – (Playing balderdash – reading about a certain date: “This was the day when the biggest earthquake in California’s history happened in Texas.” (Shaelyn)

  

8 “But mom, can I please do my homework?” (“Homework Goody Rogers.” aka Jeremiah)

7 Immediately following Ashlyn’s genii dance performance, Jayden gave another kind of a show by making a naked streak across the room to get his swim suit on, according to his mom’s promise.

6 Josh’s love of mermaids – and so after the choreographed Little Mermaid dance number by Cassie and Ashlyn – he got a little too excited and decided to jump in with all his clothes on and two phones in his pocket.

5 “Please make an illegal u-turn as soon as possible." (Magellan - the auto navigation system)

4 “Angi, you know what you said about cows earlier? Did you mean it?” (Clint)

3 “Scott is kind of like the underdog because no one ever expects him to win.” "That's the nice thing about being you, Scott." "Yeah - it is easy to exceed people's expectations"

2 “I didn't know you were on a first-name basis with Billy Satan.” (Craig to Jon)

1 Putting at the end of every sentence, “...if you know what I mean!”

Then I love the comment dad made when I asked him how he was enjoying the trip. He talked about having all kids gather - and just hearing them laughing and playing: "I just thought, this is heaven."

What do you think? Do you have any you would like to add?