Photo Mania

Roasting hot dogs in the rain.

Ok! a little racey but too cute and there is nothing like roasting hot dogs in the buff in the rain. And she is so cute.
Catching minnows with butterfly nets.

Coloring easter eggs...safely.
Jeremiah reading "The Mightly Ghangis Khan" to his class.

Fun at the park.

Trip to the temple.

Photo taken by Eliah. She is quite the photographer. We need to get her her own camera.

Eliah entered these in the fair and the flower one got an honorable mention and the one of Serena and I won 1st place. She also made chocolate chip cookies which won 2nd place.
Jeremiah took this at Sea World and we entered it into the fair and it won an award. I can't remember which place but he won 3 first places and a couple of honorable mentions. I think he won a 2nd place but he doesn't believe me. He made molasses sugar cookies which won 1st place!!

Other than disney options

I was asked to post this list so here it is.—Jana

Ideas for What to do in Florida (besides Disney)

Blue Man Group www.universalorlando.com/bmg_overview.html
Cirque du Soliel www.disneyworld.com/cirque
Kennedy Space Center www.kennedyspacecenter.com
Green Meadows Farm www.greenmeadowsfarm.com
Sea World www.seaworld.com
Discovery Cove www.discoverycove.com (Swim in aquarium or with dolphins, includes a 7 day pass to Sea World)
Mini golfing
Bowling
Old Town- (pay per ride sort of deal, have one bungee jumping-free falling sort of ride)
Inflatable slide parks
Holy Land Experience www.holyland-orlando.com
Gatorland www.gatorland.com
Medieval Times www.medievaltimes.com
Fossil digging in Lakeland (FREE)
Universal City Walk- restaurants, carnival games, street performers, free boat ride
Downtown Disney- restaurants, Lego land (with building zone), performers some nights and days.
Ripleys Believe it or Not
Wonderworks (ages 5-12) www.wonderworksonline.com
Titanic Experience
Lots of things to do on International Drive
Walk around downtown Celebration (Disney owned city, restaurants, shops)


Beaches- Atlantic side (Body boarding, surfing, some skim boarding, sand castles)
Ponce Inlet-(our favorite) Light house and sea turtle conservatory
Cocoa Beach- Ron Jon’s Surf shop
Daytona Beach
Banana River
(We have a surf board, body boards, and a skim board for your ocean needs)

Beaches- Gulf Side (Clearer water, snorkeling, better shelling, tiny waves, skim boarding, aggressive seagulls)
Clearwater- pier 66
Lots of areas of Beach….

Outdoors
See Manatees at Blue Springs (winter time)
Canoeing/kayaking –Fort Maitland Park (Go with Greg?- www.adventuresinflorida.com)
Air boat rides
Deseret Ranch- Tour of Ranch and we can line up to go Hog Huntin’ (FREE)
Tortoise Mueseum- Oviedo
Merrit Island Wildlife Refuge (By Kennedy Space Center)
Leu Gardens (Free entrance Monday mornings until noon) www.leugardens.org
Mead Gardens
Letterboxing (like Geocaching but without the technology)
Catching minnows at Lake Mills
Central Winds playground/park
Strawberry picking (Dec-May)



Orlando Science Center www.osc.org
Orlando Museum of Art www.omart.org
Movies in the Park- Winter Park
Central Florida Zoo www.centralfloridazoo.org
Pool Hopping at the resorts
Biking and Walking trails
LDS Temple
Make home movies with the Rogers
Library Storytimes
Visit Brewsters- Gerald’s favorite Ice Cream shop ever!


LDS Church in Kissimmee
2016 N. John Young Parkway
Kissimmee, FL 34741

Pleasant Hills ward 11:00 am
Kissimmee Ward 2:00 pm


Oviedo Ward will meet at 1:00pm for the year 2008

What do Mormons believe?

Hi everyone,

After Priesthood Session of General Conference, I thought of posting this new blog entry:
What do Mormons believe?

You'll have to let me know what you think of it, and if I can make any improvements to it.

Love ya.

Let's play a game...

At least one of the following people is a child of one of someone
who I have known for some years...

Who is that friend or who are the people in this photo?

Family Call Wrap Up

So to summarize the call from tonight, for those of you there, and not there is this...

Starting Mon we will all go to the park in the morning together, so what we want to do there, and go home for lunch, either all together or on our own, whatever we decide. Then that afternoon each family will do what they want, either Disney, the beach, the petting zoo Gerald talked about, the temple, or anything else you want to do.

Sunday sometime we will have a special viewing of the Rogers Family Film Festival where each family prior to coming will make their own version of some fairy tale or Disney Movie, less than 10 minutes long. Clint please make one and send it on, make sure Grandma is in there somewhere. Also if Becky wants to we can do the Olypics she was talking about.

Gerald wanted to do something special Sat night, so we need to know if you are planning on going to Disney that night or not. Please also post your times for arrival. Michelle if you want to go to Disney Sat night you can give me a list of things to get from the store for you so you dont have to take time to do that, we will probably go earlier that day. Or anyone else, can give us their list as well if they wont make it in time for shopping.

As for food we will only have one big meal together, which will probably be Sun night, so if everyone wants to pick a part of the meal to provide that would be great. Any suggestions on what the main course should be would be great, or whoever picks that part of the meal can decide. Im thinking we will need a dessert, drinks, bread, main course, salad and side. Any volunteers? Gerald was wanting to have some healthy breakfasts, and we will need lots of snacks, drinks, and sandwich stuff for disney and lunch. I think everyone should get what they like, and if theres extras we can all just share, like we did at the beach, unless we want to split it up, but because we all have very different eating habits, and likes, this will probably be easiest.

Other than that if anyone has any questions or concerns please feel free to voice them here. It looks like the parks open at 9 everyday and close somewhere between 7-11 depeinding on the park and the night. See ya all soon.

Disney fun!

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone is excited as me that May is getting closer; I am looking forward to the trip. I have a few questions probaly Marie could answer but, we all should. Are we going to have our big meal at lunch time and each of us take a turn again like we did in Texas? I figure that if were going to relax a couple of hours at lunch time we could have our big meal than and just have sandwiches at night that we bring with us. Does that sound good to everyone? How did you guys work seeing the Disney Parks last time time you went ? My mom says the best way is a Park Hopper pass but, I have know idea. I haven't bought my park tickets yet but will be buying them in advance because I have a Disney Visa so I have $208 bucks I can get off my tickets, which I will be taking advantage of finally. ( I finally have a reason for this credit card)
Anyway if doing the meals the way I suggested sounds good let me know than we can just decide which day were taking. I figure me, Marie, Jana, Becky, and Monica can take one day Monday through Friday. Sunday we can all help together on a meal. Saturday the day we fly in we could just buy our food get pizza or something quick, easy and cheap. I don't think your parents should have to cook because they are paying for the house. Does that sound good? We can all just pitch in again on buying breakfast food and lunch food. Last time we had more than enough food. Just let me know how this sounds and when is everyone getting in to Florida.

Disney Fun

We think we've figured out a little of what we want to do. We are going to drive down from Connecticut. We'll start Friday night and stop at Cory's sister's house in Virginia. We'll stay there until after church (or at least after Sacrament) before heading the rest of the way to Orlando. So we'll probably make it in late Sunday. We are planning on buying a five day park pass - without the park hopper option. We decided we didn't want to pay the extra $135 ($45 per ticket) just to be able to go to more than one park each day. We hope to join every body for at least the evening portion, but hope that for at least two days we might all be able to go to the same park for both parts of the day. ( I liked Marie's idea of coming home for lunch and relaxing and having naps as necessary.) I also hope that at least one evening during the week we'll be able to have some family time to try those Olympic games that I enjoyed on New Years' Eve and mentioned on Skype. I hope we can also schedule a family picture sometime. If others are interested in switching off to allow others to go to the temple - we'd be in for that too.

The only draw back to our plan for driving is that we'll need to head out again on Saturday. I'm not sure how quickly. But I hope that is enough details from us to help others plan.