Rogers Family News: New Year's Eve Day

Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Year's Eve Day

Wyatt getting ready for some fun. Notice Kristin's twins, Dallas and Rylee. So cute!

Paintball wars coming up!

Sam, ready for battle

Wyatt, Jake and Sam with friends and cousins, ready to rumble!

Livy- happy as usual!

Nikki and Bobby, soon to be a family of three!

We've been blessed with not only wonderful children-in-laws, but wonderful parents-in-laws! Claudia is Steve's mom and a very good friend.

Livy and Sam~ buddies already

This New Years tradition of spending a lovely afternoon in the desert is really great. The kids have so many fun things to do, thanks to Steve, and the rest of us enjoy watching them, eating, visiting and just being in the beautiful outdoors, Arizona style. I love Mother Nature!!

1 Friends Say...:

Pam Hill said...: Jealous; January 5, 2012 5:09 PM

Inauguration Day

Is there a more wonderful country than ours? Even though the outcome of the election may or may not have been the way you wanted, take time to thank the Lord for the privilege of living here and say a prayer for the brave men and women who are serving in the armed forces all over the world. I love to go to games where the band plays the national anthem really loudly because I can sing at the top of my lungs and no one can hear me :) I love to look around and see those with their hands over their hearts and singing, too! Take a minute, click HERE , crank it up and sing along with enthusiasm and gratitude!! Click HERE for another beautiful rendition by Jordin Sparks, our very own Arizona American Idol! God Bless America!!

Great advice from Louisiana

The other day I was driving home from exercise when my daughter called me on my cell. I started telling her about a somewhat obnoxious woman that had hindered my workout when the phone immediately went dead. I guess I had hit one of the infamous “dead zones” where there is no reception. Before calling my daughter back, however, I pondered on what had just happened. I was about to speak ill of another. Wanting to vent my feelings of having been wronged but the phone went dead as soon as I started my rant. How great would it be, if whenever we started to say something negative about another we would be prevented from it happening? How often does the still small voice whisper for us not to say what we intend to say but we ignore the twinge of guilt and plow on? Our mouths may not be stopped but one thing I do know…we place ourselves in a “dead zone” when we speak ill of another, for the Holy Spirit withdraws from us when we do so. As the hymn pleads:

“Nay, speak no Ill; a kindly word can never leave a sting behind;

And, oh, to breathe each tale we’ve heard is far beneath a noble mind.

Full oft a better seed is sown by choosing thus the kinder plan.

For, if but little good is known, still let us speak the best we can.

Give me the heart that fain would hide, would fain another’s faults efface.

How can it please the human pride to prove humanity but base?

No, let us reach a higher mood, a nobler estimate of man;

Be earnest in the search for good, and speak of all the best we can.

Then speak no ill, but lenient be to others’ failings as your own.

If you’re the first a fault to see; be not the first to make it known,

For life is but a passing day; no lip may tell how brief its span.

Then, oh, the little time we stay, let’s speak of all the best we can.”