December 10, 2009
Dear Family and Friends-
As the days begin to get shorter and the weather turns cool, we enter a wonderful season when we take time to give thanks for all our blessings, and to focus our attention on the Savior’s birth and the blessing that this event has afforded all of us. This last year has brought countless blessings to our family and we would like to take the opportunity to share these with you.
On Easter Sunday, Eli Rogers was born. Eli is a happy healthy 8 month old monster of a boy. Eli loves to play with his sisters and is rarely found without a smile on his face. Eli’s favorite thing to do is eat, and eating he does! Everything he finds goes into his mouth. Eli is the fastest army crawler the world has ever seen. He is quick to follow his sisters everywhere they go.
During Thanksgiving, we paused to celebrate the 3rd Birthday of our little Lucy. Lucy has really grown this last year and her personality is quickly developing. Lucy has learned a thousand new words and has begun to communicate with others besides her immediate family. Lucy loves to ask questions such as, “What would happen if an alligator bites you?” Lucy has begun taking “big girl” dance classes and is excited to perform in her first recital this next week.
Joy turned five this year and has begun kindergarten. Joy is thrilled at this new stage of her life and is anxious to learn as much as she can. Joy loves to practice reading and is getting quite good as this new found talent. Joy also loves her social life. As everyone knows, Joy is always surrounded by friends and does not know a stranger.
In October, Amanda got one of her heart’s greatest desires for her birthday as we moved into our new house. Our house was begun in June and was finished in time for Amanda’s birthday. We got to plan and select many items for our house. At times this was a bit stressful, but in the end was so worth it. Amanda works full time raising her family and feels blessed to have this opportunity.
Dale is still at Home Depot where he works as an assistant manager. Dale enjoys his position and the challenges that it brings. Dale was able to lay tile in our new house with his bothers and friends to help out. Dale loves his new garage and has spent countless hours in there building shelves, a work bench, and organizing tools and toys.
We hope that this past year has been as good to all our friends and family as it has been for us. We feel so grateful for the blessings we have received this past year. Thank you to everyone for your love towards us. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Love Dale, Amanda, Joy, Lucy, and Eli Rogers
Here is a picture of Joy doing her Hula Hoop. Joy got this for Christmas and loves it. The other day Joy had me time her. She hula hooped for 35 minutes without dropping and would have kept going if I had not made her go to bed.
Here is a classic Eli picture. He now has two teeth.
Joy wants we to tell you this is her own fashion costume.
Myself and Amanda got new callings in our ward. I was called as an assistant Scout master and Amanda was called to be wolf cubscout leader. Amanda had her first meeting today and then had to go to roundtable tonight. After the girls shower tonight this is how they dressed themselves and then they came to the living room to dance. I thought these picture were pretty funny so I posted them for all to see.
This is Dale's favorite jacket for Eli. Yes, this is the dishwasher Eli is holding on to. This is where he pulled himself up to standing for the first time. He's a little stinker and is ALWAYS getting into something. He is so busy. 
The girls in their Christmas dresses...and Eli with something in his mouth, of course.
While we were at Target doing our Christmas shopping, Dale spied this Tonka Truck and practically drooled over it. I told him that Eli was too little to care about it and that his sisters would probably play with it more than he would, so we didn't get it. The next thing I know, UPS is dropping this huge box off at my door. I just laughed when I found out what it was. Dale is so excited to get "boy toys" for his little man. As you can see, both Eli and the girls have fun with it.
"Your laughter was the sun. Your smile, the moon. Even your burps were bells, since we loved you."
Here are a couple of pictures of our new house. We might not have internet for a couple of days and we wanted to post some photos.
