Finished Project

Here are the photo's of my finished blinds. I think they turned out great! No sewing required.

missing my kids

Ruben's birthday is in just a few days. I can't believe he's going to be 5 already! I'm missing them all a lot right now. I'm usually in KS at this time and get to go on the school field trip to the pumpkin patch. Gwen went on the field trip today, and Ruben and Addi go tomorrow. Wish I was there!

recipe exchange

I invited Del and Lisa to get in on our recipe exchange(since they're kind of family). Their address is :

Adela and Lisa Lay
PO BX 253
Gowanda, NY 14070

: for those of you who don't know, Lisa is Tims girlfriend, and Del is my best friend from 20 yrs ago, she moved to New Mexico more than 15 yrs ago, and shes been back in NY for almost a year.

Sandi

National Coffee day!

Don't forget to pick up your free coffee today at 7/11 or kispy kreme. If anyone knows of any other place that's participating, let us know.
Sandi

Cameron

Keep Cameron in your prayers. He hurt his shoulder in lacrosse practice yesterday, and can't see the trainer till Thursday. Were hoping everything is fine, and he gets the ok to continue practicing so that he can play in his first scrimmage on Saturday.
Sandi

My first post as a Rogers Blogger!

First, I want to say Happy Birthday to Timmy! Hope you have a great day.

So, today marks the 6th week that I've been on bed rest. It's really not as bad as it sounds. I'm sure it would be worse if I stayed in bed 100% of the time, but I escape every once in a while.. :) And luckily, we're not losing any money from me being off because state workers are donating time to me. (So really I'm saving money because I don't have to drive anywhere!) I'm very grateful for that.

I'm going to the Doctor about 2-3 times a week now. They're keeping a close eye on us. So far everything is going great! I'll be 34 weeks tomorrow, so there are only a few weeks left before he's here!

I had dreams about him all night. Conveniently enough, I couldn't remember any of the labor part (I really wanted to know how that went!), but he was such a happy baby, and I woke up in a great mood. Oh, and he had red hair...haha. I can't wait to hold him.



Since I've been home so much lately, I've had a lot of time to read and do crafty things. So far I've read about 12 books. I recommend Heaven is for Real and The Hunger Games trilogy! I also knitted some washcloths for Carter, drew some pictures for his room, and drew a mural on the wall to match his bedding. Tami and Julie helped me paint it (ladders are not my friends right now), and I love it!

I'm so glad Autumn is here. It's my happiest season.
I hope all is well with you guys. We miss you all.

Cookies

I'm baking cake mix cookies this morning. Funfetti and chocolate! They are so easy(1 cake mix, 1/3 c oil and 2 eggs, mix, roll ,put on cookie sheet, and flatten, bake 6-7 min) and really good, and they have so many different flavors, and eggs and cake mixes were on sale this week! I stocked up. I wonder if they turn out the same with sugar free mixes. Has anyone tried?
Tim's 21 birthday is today, he could use a lot of encouragement, hes having a hard time being at school ,and away from Lisa.
Have a great day! Love ya
Sandi

HI FROM GRAM BEV

I can't believe it, I go away for 3 days and when I get home I see everyone's been writting and I got Brandi's mail with recipe and PICTURES. This is wonderful! I think it easier to slow down in Sept. You all have been so busy with neat projects! I love the pictures on the blog and it sure helps to feel closer. Gram T is doing well and I am determained to make some happy memories with her before God calls her home. We took a ride in the countryside out near North Syracuse and she was so pleased. We ate out a couple times and I took an extra day off next month so that I could spend a bit more time. So now I'm home and will start packing again so that when and if I get the house I'll be ready. Thanks for the recipes I hope to try one a week starting this week. Love ya all Grandma

Bev

green tomatoes

Last week I picked most of my green tomatoes, because they really weren't getting ripe, and I found some recipes to use them in. So, today was the day to try them out. I made 3 quarts of green tomato mincemeat ( it turned out really yummy I cant wait to bake cookies with it , they are Wes favorite), and I also made a quart of green tomato salsa, not as good as the mincemeat, but not bad. Our weather has been beautiful the past few days, sunny and 80s (love it)
have a good night
love ya
Sandi

Life Adventure Center

I got picture of our rock climbing date today! Sadly no pictures of us actually rock climbing or on the zip line. We are walking on a cable in these pictures, we had a great time. Life adventure center is one of my favorite places to go. In October they have their last date for this year, they take us on a wagon ride, and have a big fire, it's so much fun. Last year it was one of my first big outings after I had my surgery. Can't believe it's been a year already!

Proverbs

The ladies at school and my office assistant have been studying Proverbs we have only gotten through the first two chapters, but the first chapter warns us about temptation of evil men, my favorite verse is verse 8-9 I have it on a post it on my computer it says, "listen my son to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mothers teaching. They are a garland to grace your head, and a chain to adorn your neck." love you guys!

YAY!!!!

Brandi I love the pics of the girls and your art wall is so cute! The pics above are of the diy project we are working on right now, as soon as I have a finished project I'll show more pictures.

Sandi I've been thinking about how we let ourselves believe lies so easily, and the only way to combat the lies is with the truth, just like you did. There are so many ways satan lies to us - he uses guilt, envy, lonliness, doubt . . . it's so easy to let those things take over. Today in church the speaker talked about how these things start like a little spark and can soon become a fire and we can be taken over by them. We need to fight fire with fire, the Holy Spirit, and the way to do that is with the truth of scripture. I bought dry erase crayons today to write some scriptures on my mirrors so I can start fighting some of the lies that are becoming traps for me.

I'm so thankful for all of you! I miss you all! Tami

Just me and the girlys

its just me and the girls today. We had a great morning, we went to church together, then shopping and to lunch. I started my first BIY project last night and finsished it also today. Its to hang up the kids art work. We have all four of them in preschool and I feel like I never have enough fridge room, so I found this in Pinterest. avery fun and addicting website, that I need to stay away from., but I did it and its so cute. I also worked on organizing some photos of the girls, Chirstmas break will be here before I know it and I need to get started on Jensen's scrap book. Well I hope everyone enjoys their sunday. We are going to make corn bread to eat with a soup recipe I found on Pinterest yesterday also.

I sent out my recipes, but I forget to put what kind it is, Its beef franks, stoup.

love you all, Brandi

Come on Everyone!

Brandis right everyone needs to get back on. I just got my computer back it was down for about a month. I've been taking inventory of what we did this summer and what we spent on what. We spent a lot of money on eating out and we went to a lot of concerts and stuff that we normally don't do, but what we didn't do were actually the things that we really enjoy doing, like going to the lake ,and hiking in the woods. It seemed like we were so busy all summer that we substituted what was fast and easy for what we really enjoyed, and now i think were kind of feeling like we really missed out. (and we did) So now that fall (my favorite time of year) is here I'm trying to slow things down,to stop letting the lure of fast and easy, get in the way of what is really important and fulfilling for us as a family. (spending time in nature, and with each other). Wes and I got to ride the 4wheeler yesterday for a couple hours, that's actually the first time all week that we really got to see each other. It was so nice, i had almost forgotten how much i love riding in the woods.
I had kind of a bad week last week ,I was feeling sorry for myself, Cam and Tim are gone Ash went and got a full time job!(Ashley I like to pick on you about it , but I'm really proud of you and I'm glad that you found a job where you can do the things you really like to do and get paid) My good friend Dell was busy all week moving into her new house(everyone is getting a new house except for poor me) Well, while I was having my pity party I found a couple verses that found a permanent place on my kitchen wall.
"...I've learned the secret of how to live when I'm full, or when I'm hungry, when I have too much , or when I have too little. I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:12-13

"A godly life brings huge profit to people who are content with what they have"
1 Timothy 6:6

And guess what happened after I took these verses as my own? My Friend Dell made me breakfast. I text with my sister for a while. I got to enjoy the company of Ashley while we went to pick up Cameron. Wes and I went riding for a couple hours then stopped in to visit with Rich and Geri.We had a nice birthday dinner at Dells for Tims 21st birthday. We had breakfast with Dan and Ashley after church this morning. Dan , Ashley , Cam and Alyssa will be here later to watch the football game and eat together. And Dell and Lisa are supposed to take the 5 hr weekend ride to deliver the boys back to college. My life is full to overflowing as long as I keep my eyes where they are supposed to be, but as soon as I look away, loneliness, self pity, and jealousy push their way right in.
I love you guys, have a great Sunday, and come on everyone, lets get back together!
Love Sandi

Looking back

I am missing my family today, so I went back and read some of the blogs from September last year, it makes me hope we can all get back in and start giving thanks, I cant beleive all we went through just in September.
Love you all
Brandi

Soup

I got 3 soup recipe's today, and I can't wait to try them!

Holiday Fun

Well the holidays are approaching and I really enjoy exchanging recipes every year. So mom and I were talking at we thought we came up with some good ideas.

September-soup recipes October- Warm drink recipes, November- pumpkin recipes, December- candy recipes, and Janaury-a good healthy recipes to start off the year. We though we would stick to recipes because everyone uses them and they dont cost oo much to mail. Love you all let try to mail them out by the 15th each month. If you moved post your new address.

Brandi

Pedicure

I dont know what I did!

Lazy Day

We are being so lazy this morning, we have been watching Yo Gabba Gabba (nick show) my kids love it, it's kind of silly but it teaches really good songs about cleaning up and lying, and sharing. We have had coffee and animal crackers, and looking at old pictures. I was just looking online to find some soup ideas to try because its been chilly here the last couple of days and then I was thinking its almost October, and we normally send some soup recipes around. I hope we still will. We still have not been to the park down the road at our new house so I hope we will get to go today, we planned to go after nap yesterday but it started raining. We'll I thought I would just say hi. Love you all.

This is Gwen and I pedicure day. She got her first pedicure at the nail salon and loved it. She got green with white polka dots.

Lyle

When I was home over the weekend Lyle asked me to put some of his lacrosse pictures on the blog so here they are Lyle!

Wow!!!

I miss the post on the Blog. I really need to get better at it. I think since things are finally slowing down for me it will be easier. It funny that I think slowing down in starting a enw school year and a full time job. But I cant wait to ge tinto a normal scedule.

Ruben will be in Pre-K this year he is the best artist, yesterday he drew a wildebeest it was so awsome. i am going to have to scan some of his work on to the blog.

Gwen is not feeling like herself lately she has had tummy aches, and we were at the doctor yesterday. I think she is ready to get back to school also she is really a people person.

Addisen just finished her second week of ballet and tap dance classes, she cried and threw a fit at first but she is really loving it now. Cant wait to see her forst perfomance, she walk around in her leotard all day long, saying I princess.

Jensen is quite the climber, nothing is to tall or too tough for her. She can do anything she see her big brother and sisters do. She not longer waskes up at night or uses a bottle. Too Big.

Big Ruben has enjoyed a long week off with the kids so I have kept him busy building cot rollers and sensory table for the preschool. He really is good with wood.

Well we love you all , hope to hear from everyone soon.

Brandi