The Rogers' went camping?!

That's right, we went camping!! We bought a tent about 7 years ago, when we were first married, because I grew up camping and loving it. I thought I could convince Chris to go, because we live near tons of awesome camping sites. However, Chris' idea of camping is sleeping with the window open. Needless to say, our tent has never been used. That is until this last weekend. And here's the crazy part: it was Chris' idea!

About 2 months ago I convinced Chris to take Liam on the Father-Son Camp Out our ward does every year. They packed up and left for their Guy's Night, and Nolan (too young to go) stayed home with Mommy. Nolan and I had a fun Girl's Night with friends, pizza, nail polish, and cheesecake. Chris and Liam had a ton of fun, too. Chris was on the computer looking at camping equipment within minutes of getting back from the camp out! Here are some pictures of all the fun they had.

Father-Son Camp Out 2011 with the Snow's

Chris and Liam tagged along with a friend/neighbor and his 2 boys.


Timmy, Spencer and Liam eating dinner.



They slept in the Snow's very nice tent.



Liam playing in the tent.




They went swimming in a hot springs pool that had a slide (jealous)! I guess Liam had no fear when it came to the water and would run and jump into the pool, even if Chris wasn't around (scary!)!

The Hot Springs Pool




And cereal for breakfast.








Camping with the Martins July 2011


Our little family.




We decided to stay close to home (just in case things went bad) and invited some friends to join us.


The Martin's




Mommy and Nolan.




The guys making a fire.



Liam and Daddy roasting hot dogs and cheddar wursts (yum!).



For dessert we had Smores (of course) and roasted Starbursts. I'd forgotten how much I love Smores (so, so good!). Roasting Starbursts was a first for us and we really liked them too.

Liam liked the Smores too!



Nolan trying to eat graham crackers with his friend Annie. She only wanted to eat his. :)



Bedtime = The boys went to bed really easy and we were hoping they would sleep-in. Haha, what were we thinking! We stayed up until 1am talking, not very smart because the boys woke up at 4:30am! Nolan finally went back to sleep at 5:30am, but Liam wouldn't lay down at all, so I took him on a walk. We hiked about a 1/2 mile when I thought I smelled a bear (I've heard they're very smelly). I started to freak out, so I grabbed Liam and we headed back down the trail as quick as we could. On the way, I realized I was holding a very smelly baby bear in my arms. I didn't get attacked but I did have to change my little bear's stinky diaper. Haha.


We made a hot breakfast over the fire. (Chris says: This was seriously my favorite part. The fire was kinda dying down, so we had to add little strips of wood to get it going again and some of Chrissa's really nice pot got melted, but it wasn't damaged too bad. Cooking over a fire and having hashbrowns, egg, and bacon in a tortilla was super good. Seriously. My favorite part of camping.)



Nolan trying to escape our tent.



All in all we had an amazing time. Though we'll probably be investing into a bigger tent and an air mattress before we go again.

Chick-Fil-A and cooling off!

Last week my friend and her 4 kids came over to our house while our husbands were working so we could make cow costumes. Yes I said Cow costumes. We all dressed up like cows for Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-Fil-A. If you dressed like a cow you got a free meal! Free food = one happy mama. Chris joined us for lunch and they even gave him a free meal (he just happened to be wearing black and white that day). He's not in the picture though. Our lunch tasted even better since it was free!!!


After our very yummy lunch, we busted out my friend's kiddie pool. We set it up in our backyard and let the kids get wet and have fun. You can also see my tree we won at our HOA 4th of July party.


There was a glider that had been flying around all day and the kids saw it, so I snapped a good one of them looking up at it. It was really cool, there was a plane that would drag the glider to a high altitude and then let it go, so we would watch the whole thing. Very fun!

New dinners and Veggies please!

So, I have decided that our dinner menu is in a funk. I make the same meals over and over and over... They're good meals but they're starting to get old. So, I've decided to start making new and exciting meals especially for dinner. Our lunch may just end up consisting of leftovers and sandwiches but I'm okay with that.

My sister and I went in on a bountiful basket (a co-op for fresh fruits and veggies). We got some vegetables that we don't normally eat such as; asparagus, zucchini, spinach and sweet potatoes. Chris and I aren't a fan of sweet potatoes but luckily Nolan loves them. Now, when it comes to zucchini, Chris wont touch them with a ten foot pole! But I've gotten him to agree on trying them my favorite way: fried! I want to try and be a little more healthy and change up our diet. It'll make things more interesting and hopefully a little more healthy.

So tonight I started our revamp on dinner. I made stuffed chicken, roasted asparagus, and a sweet potato casserole. Chris thought the chicken was great and I was really proud of how good they looked. The asparagus didn't turn out like I wanted, but it was good and Chris enjoyed it. We both had a little of the sweet potato, but since we've never really eaten it I didn't know how much sugar to add. I probably added a little too much! So tonight was a success.

Can't wait to try the fried zucchini tomorrow.

Life So Far

When we started this blog, we thought we'd post more. Chasing a toddler, putting your home on the market, looking for a new job, giving birth to another boy, taking your home off the market on a leap of faith, getting a new job close to home that means you were correct in taking your home off the market, and trying to get situated in a new job ended up tasking our priorities, so we're sorry to the millions of readers who refresh every moment of every day just waiting for an update.

We have our little Nolan. Nolan Xavier, born 9/8/10. He's already big enough to nurse *and* eat a whole container of baby food before feeling full. He rolls around all over the place. We're very happy our little surprise is with us.

His older brother, Liam, just celebrated his 2nd birthday. We're really excited to see him go so nuts over his trains. His aunt and Grandmother bought him a few Ikea train sets a few Saturdays ago, and when he got the package torn apart he didn't put his trains down until bedtime. All said, it was a good 5 hour train session.

Chrissa is still a rockstar mom and wife. She finds time to entertain her friends, keep the house a home, take care of her boys, and keep her husband unbelievably happy.

Chris started a new job. He's really excited at the new opportunity. His commute dropped from 55 minutes to 2 minutes. Every day he comes home for lunch, so no more late night scrambles to figure out what to eat the following day. Much better all around.

This year we plan to do better with the blog, and make it more of a public journal of the fun our family has. We're looking forward to Baby Animal Days, the Cruise-In, a Bear Lake trip (or two!!), Raspberry Days, Peach Days, the Gardener's Market, and on and on.