Quick note

Hi Everyone! I just wanted to let you know that BethAnne and I are headed to Cincinnati tomorrow (Wednesday morning). We'll let you know how things go. We appreciate everyone's prayers for us and the doctors. I hope you are all doing well. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you at Thanksgiving. We had a fun halloween (a day early). Mom got a bunch of her neighbors to let us come and trick or treat a day early. (I'll post pictures soon). It was so fun! I'm so grateful for Mom's help with that and with watching Grace while Mark's at work this week. Love you all!

Mark's job is safe!

I just wanted to let you know that Mark has been told that he is staying with Micron! Wahoo! We are very glad. You don't know how much you like a job until you might lose it. We feel blessed and I'm very proud of Mark. They must like him because they are laying off 1/2 of the department. We would also like to introduce you to the new photographer of the family- BethAnne! She has become very interested in taking pictures and she has become quite good at it. She took the above picture of Grace. My kids are very cute and talented! I hope you are all well. Love, Aubrey

Rogers Family Update

Hi all! It's so fun to read your updates! Things here are going well. BethAnne started preschool and she really likes it most of the time. We decorated our pumpkins with Mr Potato head decorating kits. We were going to paint them, but we couldn't figure out how to do that and keep Grace happy. The other pictures show pretty BethAnne and Grace in lovely new outfits from Nana.

BethAnne and I are going to Cincinnati for a couple of days on the 17th. She's having some tests to determine how extensive her surgery needs to be. Depending on the difficulty of the surgery, it will be in December or January. We could be there for up to a month for that. We're praying that she will not require an extensive surgery. We appreciate your prayers in behalf of BethAnne and her doctors. This short trip on the 17th shouldn't be difficult, it may be even a fun s outing. We hope to see the aquarium and maybe have dinner on a river boat.

Mark will probably find out next week if he will be affected by the upcoming layoffs at Micron. We also found out that Mark will soon have to go back to commuting to the main site or to Nampa if he has a job to commute to :) To save money, Micron is not renewing the lease on their location close to us. We have hope that everything will be fine, no matter what that looks like. We have been blessed so much and Mark has a good education and good skills. We welcome your prayers on that front also.

Grace has been sick and fussy and teething on and off for a couple weeks, but she's doing better today. BethAnne is doing well. She can now swallow pills, which allows her to have an extended release form of her medicine which means she doesn't have to have that medicine three times a day. She's such a big ! Mark's sister Lisa is coming tomorrow to visit for a couple of days, so we're looking forward to that. I'm trying to keep up on housework, though it's been a losing battle lately :) I'm grateful for all our blessings and for a wonderful family. Love you all! Have a great week!

Rogers Family Update

Hi Family! Sorry I haven't posted anything yet. When you first started the blog, I tried to post through Picasa so I could easily include pictures, but I can't get Picasa's blog function to work. I keep getting lots of error messages. Mark and I can't figure out what the problem is. So I kind of forgot about the blog for awhile. I will try to be better. Suzie's been very busy moving and repainting her whole new house, so I think we should give her some slack about not posting yet ;) When I talked to her the other day she was taking a door off it's hinges in order to replace the hinges. Go Suzie! I'm very impressed with Suzie and Lisa's remodeling skills.
Things are going pretty well here. I got to attend Deseret Book's "Time Out for Women" with Mom yesterday. It's like a mini-EFY for women. We had a really nice time. There were lots of good talks and Kenneth Cope sang. Some of the songs were new to me and they were very touching. (I don't suppose this blog lets you post songs). The songs were both by Kenneth Cope, titled "Come unto Jesus" and "Broken". You can find them on I-tunes for 99 cents each.
We've been doing pretty well lately. Mark has been a fabulous help this weekend, I feel like I've had the whole weekend off. I'm so blessed. The girls are doing pretty well. Grace has been rather fussy lately, but I think she's okay. Maybe she's teething again. BethAnne is also doing well. She started Preschool last week and she loves it! It's so fun to watch her learn and grow and make friends. It's really nice to that she doesn't have poopy diapers anymore, and she stays fairly dry too. She wears pullups, but we only have to change them in the morning and at night and she can do that herself. Right when we got back to Boise, the Bishop set me apart as a Nursery worker and in the blessing he said that I wouldn't have to spend so much time with BethAnne's health maintenance things. It was a really sweet blessing. At that time I was still overwhelmed with everything and I didn't understand what the blessing was talking about. It's clear now though. I spend so much less time with diapers and things. BethAnne changes her own pullups and we only have to do the enemas every other day and she's completely clean in between (most kids have to do the enemas every day for them to be effective). That saves me a ton of time. We've been really blessed. She still has about a 50/50 chance of potty training her bowel when she's a little older. But the enemas are working well and she doesn't mind them too much. We are going back to Cincinnati in October for more testing on BethAnne's urinary tract and then she will have surgery in December or January. That will keep us in Cincinnati for 2 to 4 weeks probably. With the surgery and regular catheterization, we will hopefully be able to keep BethAnne's kidneys healthy enough for many more years.
Mark and his family are doing better lately, for the most part. It has been a hard summer, but we are grateful for the "good news" of the Gospel and the peace of the Comforter. We know we will see Todd again. We appreciate all your thoughts and prayers. Mark's brother, Scott, is moving to Lehi in the next couple of weeks to start work at Micron there. We're excited to have him on this side of the country. Mark's parents are planning to retire to Boise in about 1 1/2 years. That will be great!
Well, I'm sorry this was a little long and redundant for those of you who may have heard a lot of it. I love all of you so much! Hope you are well.
Love, Aubrey and family