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Oh how he makes me laugh!

2010-03-28T08:45:00.000-07:00

Yesterday in the car on our way home from picking up my bountiful basket Kiel and I had a little conversation. This is how it went.

Mom- When we went by Grandma's house did you notice to see if her car was home?

Kiel- no I didn't, but today is Saturday so she should be home, nobody works on Saturday's.

Mom- yes people work on Saturday's

Kiel-They do? ( with a total disgusted look on his face)

Mom- yah, stores are open on Saturday's

Kiel- stupid boss', they should not make people work on Saturday, I mean it is the WEEKEND isn't it?

mom-yah!

Kiel- well we get the weekend off from school, I am not going to grow up and work, that is just not right. You should have the weekend off to relax not to work. ( he is totally mad at this point and can not understand that people have to work on the weekends)

I was laughing at him the whole time, he was so funny from his facial expressions to his tone of voice. Funny Kid!

Kiel's Undefeated Basketball season........... Go mini firth-ites.....

2010-02-21T08:34:00.000-08:00

What a season these boys have had! Here is Kiel dribbling against Shelley, bringing his team a win by 12 points with him having 6 points.

Here is Kiel's last game of the season, they have not lost yet this season in the Shelley league, and this whole game they were going back and forth. Blake told Kiel to just drive and shoot, and that is what Kiel did. He went to the free throw line a lot this game, bringing his team a win by 3 points. Kiel having 16 of the 25 points. AWESOME KIEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Getting the strategy plays down before the game.

Kiel's 11th birthday party.......................

2010-02-21T08:21:00.000-08:00

Kiel again got spoiled just like every other year..........

He got money......... Madden 09'............ Cabela's hunting 10'............. Narnia 2 dvd...............and more money.............. I would have to say he had a good birthday :)

Kiel's 11th birthday party at Golden Corral, oh such yummy food! He brought Kelby Dye with him this year, and they had so much fun. Aren't they growing up fast? They already have facial hair!

Will someone TURN up the HEAT...................

2010-02-11T11:21:00.000-08:00

Blake woke up this morning with icecicles in his nose and my eyes were frozen shut.

No not really, but it sure felt like it. Come to find out our stupid heater broke AGAIN. It seems that this stupid part breaks evey other year.

I am so glad I am married to a handy man, he went and picked up the part this morning and had it fixed before 10am today. The last 2 times it has broken has been either on a Holiday weekend or just a weekend, so we had to sit in front of space heaters and turn on the gas stove with fans blowing the heat out. Thankfully we don't have to do that this time.

So the heat is turned up and on, at least in the house it is.

1...2...3... BREATH............

2010-02-01T17:49:00.000-08:00

WHAT a week it has

been! Parent teacher

conference was just

last week and boy was

it a good report.

Kiel is in the

5th grade

and doing awesome. He came

home with 4 A's, 2 B's

and 1 C. I am so proud of him, he is working

so hard. So far this year we have seen so

signs of his anxiety what-so-ever, YAH!

He is doing awesome with basketball only losing

1 game so far. Last week he played shelley "with

strep-throat" bringing his team a win by 12. He is

also the water boy for the 7th/8th grade boys

basketball team and LOVING IT!

Jordan brought home 5 A's, 1 B, and 1 C. I am

sooooo proud of him also. He is enjoying the 8th

grade and having fun. Starting off the week, he

played at Shelley. This game they doubled teamed

Jordan holding him to only 8 points, and they lost

by 7. Then on Thursday they played South Fremont

at home going into double-overtime we WON by 7.

What a game, Jordan had 17 points this game.

WOW!!!!

Between 2 boys playing basketball and Blake

coaching both teams I hardly see my boys all

week, but it is so much fun to see them

spending time together with something they

all enjoy.

My water boy and player! ha ha :)

And the fun has started.................

2010-01-21T09:55:00.000-08:00

Well as you most know we live for Basketball season in our home. Kiel has started off the Jazz season with his dad as the coach. He had his 1st game last week with the stands full of Grandma-pa Chapman, Aunt Angie, Courtney and Nate, Uncle Troy and Lacey, cousin Kyra, Josh, karrissa and Chauncey. Gosh he had a cheering crowd for him, and Kiel loved every minute of it. He did awesome as guard and had 4 points. His team won my 12 points, what a game!

Jordan started his season this last Tuesday also with his dad being the assistant 7th and 8th grade boys Coach. Jordan plays on the 8th grade team. His game was against Shelley at home, Jordan had the 1st 7 points of the game, he was on fire the 1st guarter and then they started double teaming him, he ended up with 17 points though. He did awesome, although they lost by 7 i am sure they will win when they play at Shelley next Tuesday, hopefully!

They both had tons of fun and love to play the game, it is so much fun to watch both them grow and have fun.

Crazyness in our Home.............

2009-12-18T09:45:00.000-08:00

Oh, life in our home has been crazy. Thanksgiving came and went. We had such a good weekend. My brother Troy and his wife and daughter Karissa made it home safe from Romaina for good. They stayed with me for the weekend and we had a good time. Dinner was GREAT! We ate at Blakes grandparents home with lots of cousins, the house was full. I even talked Blake into going shopping with me at 3:30 in the morning for ROCKBAND for X-box, and yes, I got one! GO me! We are so thankfull for good family and friends. We love you all.
Well Kiel just got done with Premier basketball and now starts Jazz. Jordan and Kiel both had hoop-shoot at school and both took 2nd ( to0 bad they don't take the top 2 ) but did awesome. I am so proud of both of them. It kind of bummed Jordan out since last year he made it all the way to the State finals and did awesome. But for this year he says oh well know I can consentrate on school ball. Jordan started basketball tryouts this week and will find out on Monday or Tuesday if he made the team ( ha ha ), this year Blake has been asked to help with the 7th and 8th grade boys basketball team. He is so excited to help out. We will see how well it works, he tends to sometimes be too much of a "Coach" to Jordan instead of a "Dad". But none-the-less they both enjoy it.

Christmas is just a week away and coming fast. I still a lot to do and no time to accomplish what needs to be done. We have our family Christmas party tomorrow ( so i will be posting pictures from that soon ) it should be tons of fun, i am so excited for that. Have a good weekend!

Happy Day!

2009-10-07T11:22:00.000-07:00

Today for the fun of it is going to be my HAPPY DAY!!!!

I am going to happy, excited, outgoing, funny and smiling all day long. Wanna see?
I am going to do something nice for someone and make someone smile today.
I just want to be happy and have a good day. So if you are reading this I hope this makes you smile and if you do something nice for someone or make someone smile, please leave a comment.

Thanks and have a happy WEDNESDAY.

Football Season coming to an end!!!

2009-10-01T06:50:00.000-07:00

I am torn between being excited and sad to see football coming to an end.

Jordan has grown so much this season, it has been so much fun to see him come out of his shell and be real aggressive this year and have so much fun. He played wide receiver, and safety.

Last night he played his last season game at home. It was raining, snowing and blowing and was like 33 degrees. It was so cold! The first kick off of the game went right to Jordan, he picked it up and ran it back for the 1st touchdown of the game ( yah Jordan ). He also scored 2 more touchdown's in the 4th quarter. He had an awesome game. They had to score over 30 points, and keep the opponents scoreless to make it into the playoffs. The score was 36 to 0.

WAY TO GO FIRTH!!!!!

Kiel also played his last season game last night and did awesome. Kiel plays line, ( and doesn't love it!) But he had some nice blocks and tackles. It is hard to get him to be excited and to do something. He played a lot in this game. He doesn't have much excitement in his game to talk about yet, but we try to encourage him to hit hard and be aggressive. Needless to say they lost and will have 1 playoff game no matter what, if they win or lose it does not matter, they will be done. Kiel is very excited about this. I would have to say he is ready to be done. He says it means basketball is around the corner.

Football Season '09 underway

2009-09-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

Football season is underway for us here in Firth. Jordan is playing 8th grade grid-kid and loving it. He wasn't going to play this year because he hasn't really enjoyed it that much and he didn't want to get hurt for basketball season. Well everyday for a whole week he had either parents or teammates stop by to beg him to play. Finally the coach stopped by and pleaded with him to just come and try it for one practice, so needless to say he tried it and loved it this year. He is playing wide receiver and free safety. In the second game of the season Jordan scored the winning touchdown with 3 seconds left on the clock. The crowed went wild, it was awesome. (I don't have pictures of that touchdown, dang-it.)

These are pictures of Firth playing Rigby, we lost this game but Jordan had an awesome game.

He scored 2 touchdowns, and had some awesome tackles. The second picture is of his 1st touchdown

of the game.

Kiel is playing 5th grade grid-kid. This year he is playing line, a step up from last year.

Here is Kiel ( #31 ) playing against Taylorview Idaho Falls. Unfortunately Firth lost big time, but Kiel enjoyed his time playing. He has a lot to learn playing line but this is only his 2nd year playing so it will come.
He got in on some of the plays and on others just stood their to watch the game.

He is on the end with the white socks on and long white sleeves.
On this "both" picture he is pushing someone. Go Kiel!
I am glad they both seem to be having fun, at least this keeps them busy and gives them something to do.

Anita Stansfield fan club....... sign up and join!

2009-09-09T22:01:00.001-07:00

I am so excited to tell you all about my favorite LDS author, Anita Stansfield. She has a new fan club blog where you can stay up to date on all of her new happings.. Check it out, it is awesome. If you sign up to follow up be sure to mention my name in your comment box, this next week she is doing a contest so help me out. SIGN UP AND JOIN ASAP!

Go to unofficialanita.blogspot.com

have fun and good luck!

HALLOWEEN GIVE AWAYS!

2009-09-03T21:10:00.000-07:00

Do you want to see the cutest blog i have ever seen? She always has such cute ideas, and fun things posted. This week she is having a halloween give away. Get on and check it out at thepolka-dotdaisy.blogspot.com.

Potter Family Reunion 2009Oh Oh

2009-08-22T20:45:00.001-07:00

Oh we had so much fun being together as a family. This year was the Potter family bi-annual reunion. My dad being the oldest of 4 children was in charge of putting on the big bash. We held it at Lava Hot Springs and camped at Big Springs Camp area. It was a beautiful area, where we had it all to our selves to enjoy everyones company.

Everyone, i believe swam to their heart content or until they were so sun-burned that they had to stop out of misery. Everyone had fun seeing who were the bigger chickens (or in my eyes the smart ones) to jump off a 33ft. platform or the 2nd one (25ft) and the 1st one is (17ft). They had lots of fun trying that out. The next family gathering will be in 2 years wherever my Aunt Nan and Uncle Jack decide. Can't wait to see everyone again.

Bust A Gut..........

2009-08-16T10:26:00.000-07:00

Oh being around Kiel is never a dull moment. This kid makes you laugh all the time.

My boys have chores to do everyday. They usually have 2 chores (clean their room, bathroom, and dirty clothes in hallway) that are the same everyday and then i give them a 3rd chore Kiel unload dishwasher, Jordan helps and then loads it. So anyways they earn $1.00 a day if all of these are completed by the time Blake or I get home from work. Not so hard if you ask me. It may be cheap by hey we don't have a lot of money and $5.00 a week is a lot, i think. Anyways so Friday night we went to the Chukars baseball game and Kiel is just like his dad, if he has money in his pocket he has to spend it fast before it burns a hole in his pants. So Kiel chose to spend his money on who knows what and Jordan is a saver ( like me ). So on Saturday we spent the day in town and Jordan wanted some hot cheetos so he decided to get some and Kiel asked for some gum. I said well where is your money? He bows his head and says I spent it all last night. I said well that sucks for you, ( normally i would have just bought him some but i am trying to teach him to spend wisely and not be a impulsive buyer ) so he then goes up to Jordan and asks Jordan if he would buy him some gum. Jordan says well what are you going to do for me? Kiel says well nothing, just be a nice brother and buy me some gum would you? So Jordan does it, but says you have to do something for me.

So i told Kiel the pack of gum if worth one day of chores for Jordan, but he does not have to do Jordan's room for him, but the other chores he has to do for him. Kiel kind of shakes his head at me, all in good standing being funny of corse. Well we get in the car to come home and Kiel says hey Jordan since we are brothers don't i get a brother discount or something? Blake and I laughed so hard at him, it was so funny. Were does he come up with these things?

Summer Clips

2009-08-02T17:15:00.001-07:00

We are off and starting another year of baseball this year. Jordan is playing in the Babe-Ruth league in Idaho Falls this year, and Blake of course will be coaching again. He loves it! Jordan played 2nd base all season and did an awesome job at it. His team only lost 1 game all year long and took 3rd place in the end of the year tournament. Blake was way excited to do so well the 1st year in the league. The beginning of the season they put Firth in the JV league and they killed every team, so they were to put us in the varsity league the 2nd half of the season and messed up and didn't do that, so we stayed JV the whole season. Well when tournament time came they all decided that Firth was too good to stay JV for tournament and put us in the Varsity, so we ended up taking 3rd. It was good for the boys to have a winning season and go into tournament and take 3rd. Jordan had fun and learned a lot. He was the only one on the team that was a consistent hitter all season. WAY TO GO BUD!!!!

Here is Kiel pitching in his 1st All-Star tournament in St. Anthony. He got chosen to be on 2 different All-Star teams this year. Kiel played 3rd base and Pitcher throughout the season for his team this year and in the All-Stars. He is more at home on the mound though!

This year for the 4th we decided to get away and go to Island Park for the weekend with Blake's

family and grandparents. It was so much fun and relaxing. It was a hot weekend and the water felt good.

Blake enjoying the lakeside view, while Jordan and Kiel decide who is going to take a swim, i think Jordan won!~~

Kiel and Courtney ( Kiel's cousin) on a tube ride with water splashing in their face.

Saturday afternoon before the fireworks we took a drive to Big Springs to see the fish, we got eaten alive by mosquitos so we left really fast. Up above we are all waiting for the parade to start. They had a parade around the Island early Saturday morning, my boys ended up with a bag 1/2 full of candy. It was a really nice day full of festivities.

The Chapman reunion was held in the middle of July this year at Grandma & Grandpa's place. We started off the reunion with a hotdog roast at our home on Friday night. It was fun to all sit around the campfire roasting hotdogs and laughing. We had all kinds of fun! Lots of food, laughter, and games. Volleyball is always a big hit in the heat, and the kids played some water games with grandpa Blaine getting in the middle of it.

Kiel was chosen to be on a Firth All-Star team this year, they played in Blackfoot and did awesome. Kiel pitched 2 games holding the 1st team to only 2 points, and bringing Firth their 1st win of the tournament. The 2nd game he pitched he held the other team to only 4 points, and Firth another win. Kiel did awesome, and he enjoyed every minute of it. He had a couple of nice hits with a 3 RBI's, and some nice playes and catches for his team.

This summer we are lucky enough to be building a garage, FINALLY! We have only been waiting for 10 years for one. It has taken us longer then we had thought, but we are happy to get it done. Here is my brother Troy ( who flew all the way from Romaina to help us with it ), Blake and Kiel. Troy and Blake are teaching Kiel how to work! lol :) I will be posting more pictures soon of the progress on the garage. As we are all so excited for it. We also have Ben Mackowiak ( Blake's cousin), Blaine ( Blake's dad ) Ted ( My dad ) and Jeff ( Blake's brother in law ) all giving their time to help us build this monster of a building. Thanks to all of you for your help we really appreciate all your hard work and time.

Summer is going by so fast we don't have enough time to do all that we plan to do, but we have had lots of fun doing all that we have so far. The end of July we are planning our big potter reunion that we can not wait for, we are so excited. Have a happy and safe summer.

Everything Hits at once

2009-06-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I wonder why everything has to hit at once, is it to teach us patience or if that is the way life goes.

Anyways this last 2 weeks has really taught us patience, if that is the word you could use.

4 days before Blake's week vacation started ( he had a week left to use before July 1st when his new vacation starts, if he does not use this week he loses it, not worth losing so he took it) his car just decided to stop in the middle of the road while he was driving it. Go figure right! Well he started working on it over the weekend and on his 1st day of vacation he worked on it and decided he could not fix it. The timing belt broke and blew the engine. How nice........ He towed it to Blackfoot to have the place be bought it from look at it. They said they could fix it for $1,000.00 WOW. Blake and I have always owned Honda's and have never had any of them break down to where he could not fix them, so I guess 1 out of 14 years is not bad, but unexpected. We have been in the process of refinancing our home, it has been over a month of waiting they keep telling us oh next week, or in a couple of days and then something else needs to be evaluated. Our home appraised for enough for us to build a garage ( we are so excited) and now we have to pay $1,000 to fix the car. I hope we have enough for the garage.

And then my dryer was making a noise so Blake tour that apart on Thursday and came to the conclusion that a fan is broken ( that would be why i have to dry my clothes at least 3 times) and needs to be replaced. $30 for a new one. So I am hanging clothes up all around my deck and home, it kind of looks like white trash. How embarrassing. OH well!

Sometimes I just want to scream, Blake keeps telling me it could be worse, I guess he is right about that but still frustrating at this moment. So instead of enjoying his vacation much he has been trying to fix everything that needed fixing or done around the house. Bless his heart, my house was even clean when i came home from work. What a gem he is.

I guess I will keep him around as well. :)

I think I will keep him around for a while :)

2009-06-12T20:53:00.000-07:00

The other day just out of the blue Jordan came up to me and gave me a hug. I would have fallen over if he were not hugging me and holding me up at the same time. It just seems that since he turned 13 he does not like to show affection much, and that is ok, I have given him his space but have still told him daily that I love him and appreciate him( even if some days he is not easy to love) So for him to come give me hug MADE MY DAY.

Well on Wednesday this week, I already told you that i had a house full of boys all week. I had to work everyday on so on Wednesday when i came home my house was a little unkept. I could tell everything they ate, it was all over the table and counter. So I called for all 4 boys to come to the kitchen and fast, so in they came i started by asking them what color I was? They looked at me like I was stupid and answered white, so i said so why should i have to clean up your mess? How old are all of you? they answered, and so it went. Well Jordan just finally looked at me and said Mom are not feeling loved, do you need a hug? I could not help myself from laughing, he gave me a big hug and said do you feel better? Yes actually I do, I responded it's just what I needed. But just between us, I think he needed it more then me! ha ha. yah right!

This is why i have kids, boys actually, it makes being a parent worth every thing we go through. I do have a feeling that it will get worse until about ---------- well heck his dad is 33 and still difficult so who knows. jk

Why I only have 2 boys!!!!

2009-06-11T22:30:00.000-07:00

Well this week has been interesting enough. Every year firth high school's boys basketball coach puts on a camp for 3rd-8th grade boys. My sister lives in Star Valley Wy. and has 2 boys close to the same age as my boys. So every year she sends her boys to come and stay with me to go to the camp, and it was this week.

It is not so bad during the day as all the boys are at camp all day long until 4 pm. And then usually they have baseball every night to keep them even more busy and gets them really tired, or so I thought :) This week went relatively well until the rain set in and cancelled all the baseball games, then i had to think of what to make for dinner or how to entertain them :(

Well Wednesday night my brother called and asked if his son could stay over as well, I said sure why not. I had 5 boys stuck in my small home on a rainy night. What to do? So Blake decided we have a movie night, they picked Open Season, if you have not seen that you need to watch it. It is so funny, those boys (even Blake) laughed and laughed.

Anyways the moral of my story is, I have not picked up more dirty underwear or socks in my entire life! and my house stunk so bad and I cooked more food to feed any army or so I thought again! But i hope they all had fun, and enjoyed their stay at the Chapman Hotel. My house is now quite and semi clean and smells like lemon. AHHHHH!

I love that my nephews love coming and staying at my home. It is fun and good memories.

love you all!

lots of fun on Memorial Weekend

2009-05-31T10:33:00.001-07:00

What a weekend! Earlier in the week my Dad turned 70, all of us kids just called him and acted like no big deal. Well on Saturday we threw him a surprise party. His younger brother and sister came from Utah to be in on the surprise. And surprise it was, my dad has never had a surprise party before and he was so excited and grateful. We all had a good time and yummy food.

Here is Jordan and Kiel with their grandpa.

On Monday we kicked off the Summer with our annual Chapman hot dog roast. It was nice weather and lots of yummy food.

Here is a picture of my mothers headstone. Every year my dad buys a new precious moments and glues it on her headstone in remembrance of her. She collected precious moments so he decided to continue it for her. No one has ever bothered them to took any off. It is so neat and something us kids look forward to every year to see what one he picks every year. this year was for the boys. It is neat, and the grandkids love it.

He is 70, boy he does not look it or act it. This year on his birthday he was finishing a big job of concrete. Do you know anyone who is 70 and still does concrete work? AMAZING!

This is everyone (almost) who showed up for the grand event. On Sunday morning Dad and Chris made dutch oven breakfast for everyone and then we went to the grave. So we were busy all weekend. It was fun. We love everyone and thanks for making it a great weekend.

KARISSA'S GRADUATION DAY

2009-05-21T07:52:00.000-07:00

SHE DID IT! Congratulations Karissa............ She is absolutely beautiful. We were lucky enough to be able to attend my nieces graduation. And it turned it nicely and it was fast 1hr and 5 min. WOW!
Katie and Liberty having fun at the graduation. Liberty and Karissa share the same birthday. May 28th Liberty will the BIG #1 and aunt Karissa will be the BIG 18. and gets to go to
Romania to spend time with her dad. What a graduation gift.

have fun Rissa, we love you!

Kiel's baseball game

2009-05-21T07:41:00.002-07:00

Oh how I love baseball season, except for the weather that is.

Here is Kiel's 1st game of the season. Blake was lucky enough to have to umpire this game so he could watch Kiel play. Kiel got to pitch to close the game, and close he did. He got 3 up 3 down. Blake was a little nervous because he did not want to look like he was favoring Kiel but, no problem with that this kid of ours can throw and has good aim. He was so excited, he struck out one of his good friends that is pretty competitive with Kiel. They won the game. GOOD JOB BUD!

Busy May

2009-05-19T07:02:00.000-07:00

Wow What a busy Month May has been so far, it will only get crazier this next week for us.

Mother's day was just another day, good thing I have an amazing grandmother that makes it special for all of us moms. She always goes all out. We had a big dinner, yummy dessert, good company and Blake doing the cleaning and dishes ( I had to post a picture so you all would believe me, and I could remember it always ). My nieces Katie ( and her daughter Liberty ) and Karissa came and joined us, it was nice to visit with them. Liberty is just so cute, and fun it was a nice visit.

Blake bought a new toy, as you can see it kept him and the boys occupied for many hours the other day. Then it was time to re-paint the basketball court. This year Blake wanted to add the jumpman symbol to it, so he spent some time to cut it out and paint it on the court. It was a nice finish! Mylie ( our cat ) decided it wanted to add to the finishing touches and so we have some paw prints on our court. I am sure you know how that made Blake feel!

blogging has become boring........

2009-05-01T07:16:00.000-07:00

For some reason everyone has gone to facebook and has forgotten about staying in touch through blogging. I for one love blogging and check everyones blog for updates only to be rebuked.

Life around the Chapman's has gotten crazy. Jordan has started Babe Ruth baseball and has practice every night from 6:30-8:30. So I kind of enjoy 2 hrs a night to myself. Blake coaches and Kiel goes with them to play as well. I have kept myself busy with working out, reading and cooking dinner. But none the less it is down time for me. :) Love it!

Kiel has started baseball as well but he has practice after school. I can not wait for their games to start.

IT SUCKS, MAY I ADD SUCKS! Having new neighbors. I keep (after 2 months) looking across the street looking for Deonne to be outside mowing or working in the garden, and all i see is a bunch of old trailers, junk, trucks, junk out in the yard. It is not fun. And no one to talk to. I guess Blake and I will become hermits again.

Jordan is getting excited for the end of this month he gets to go to The Grand Canyon with my Dad and his 3 cousins for a week. he is nervous and excited. He is not looking forward to the long, long, long drive in the car but looking forward to being with his grandpa and cousins.

And also about school almost being out for the summer. Ugh, but I am happy for them, they need some fun times ahead.

HAPPY FRIDAY! HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

A teenager in the house!

2009-04-17T07:48:00.001-07:00

Wow, where have the last 13 years gone! I can not believe Jordan is 13 years old already. I have a teenager, I believe I will be in denial for the next 5 years at least.

Jordan I believe had a good birthday. He has decide again to change the colors of his room. He now wants to do North Carolina colors. So I will be painting his room again! He got a NC trash can filled with his favorite, HOT CHEETOS from his aunt Melaine. He got money, Nike clothes, and a gift card for ITUNES and mom and Dad gave him a IPOD video nano, North Carolina Championship shirt, and North Carolina banner. I would say he had a good birthday. Oh yah and Kiel gave him his favorite candy bar COOKIES AND CREAM HERSEY.

I can not believe how time flies while your raising kids!

Here comes Peter Cotton Tail..........

2009-04-13T10:32:00.000-07:00

Playing games at Grandma's. Courtney discovered how to blow the middle of an egg out of it's shell without breaking the shell. Then they decided to play blow the egg around on the table. I have no idea what to call a bunch of people sitting around a table blowing an egg around! Any ideas? Oh well it looks like they had a bunch of fun. Jamie and Aaron came down from Rexburg for the day, it was fun to spend the day with them. $5.00 Oh Yah......

Jordan found his animal

Kiel loves reeses peanut butter cups

Jordan is a closet eater!

Don't tell Mom you found me

eating chocolate in the laundry room!

Happy Easter! Luckily the Easter bunny hopped on over to our place Saturday night. We didn't think he was going to make it. The boys were up until about midnight. But SURPRISE! he made it. They were lucky with a $5 bill in their basket and lots of candy. We spent the day over at Blake's grandparents. His grandma Loraine had surgery on her back on friday, so we brought her dinner on Saturday night and on Sunday we cooked and cleaned so she could rest and relax.

We had dinner and then hid the easter eggs for the kids. They also had a stuffed animal for each of them that they had to find. Jordan had more fun helping the little boys find their eggs and stuffed animal, and Courtney had fun finding Jordan's stuffed animal for him that we hid harder for him! Oh well they all had fun, and got lot's of candy.

I found my stuffed Froggie!

My trip to Vegas

2009-04-06T07:39:00.000-07:00

My trip to vegas was long but worth it. We left friday morning from Salt Lake at 7 am. It rained or snowed the entire way. It should have only taken us 6 hrs to get to vegas and it took us almost 71/2 hrs. It was crazy, I am glad I was not driving. We stopped just outside of Saint George at In & Out burgers for lunch. That was kind of fun, they were yummy. Friday night was the wedding at the Luxor. It was a beautiful wedding and Shylee looked so beautiful and happy. Afterwards we went on an interesting drive all around Vegas trying to find the reception area, the directions they gave us were totally wacky, and we were following Travis ( the brides father) and were completely lost it was horrible, but kind of funny. The dinner was very yummy, and lots of fun.

We left the reception and went and walked the strip until about 1am our time in Idaho. It was so cold

and windy my face was frozen.

On Saturday we got up early and started our way down the strip again. We had a yummy breakfast

at the Rainforest in the MGM hotel, were Thayne won $50 on the slot machines, that was a blast!

We totally wore ourselves out on Saturday, we walked up and back and through almost every hotel and shop

We were so tired we did not make it back at night to watch all the shows at Treasure Island or the Volcan

show we did catch the water show at the Belligo that was so beautiful. We just had lots of fun.

Talia and I got our picture with some strippers from the " American Storm " and they gave us free tickets

to their show for that night. Talia I thought was going to faint when she saw these guys on the street

she stopped me and showed me them, I asked her if she wanted her picture with them and she,

no kidding could not even talk to me, she was stumbling her words. So i asked them for her and they said

sure. When they put their arms around her, the look on her face was so funny. It was worth it.

I wanted to go to the show but she would not go with me, what a party popper she is!

Luckily the drive home on Sunday was nice weather. It took us 10 hours, I am beat

Happy Birthday to me!!

2009-04-01T08:16:00.001-07:00

It was a good day. Kiel got right up and wished me a happy birthday with a hug. He is such a sweet little boy. I told him I was going tanning and would be right back, he was so excited because he wanted to make me breakfast. Gosh now i was excited, so I hurried home, when I got back he made me a fried egg, toast and a glass of milk, he also made Jordan breakfast as well and he cleaned up the mess. Then later on I surprised them with the news that they get to make my birthday cake for me. Needless to say Kiel was thrilled, while Jordan not so much. But he did a good job and it turned out nicely, and yummy. Strawberry shortcake, yummy! Blake called all his family and my dad, Chris, Thayne and Kade showed up as well. It was a goon day. I got lots of money to spend in Vegas and a full body massage coming from my hubby ( the best gift ever, if I ever receive it ha ha).

The boys making my cake and eating the batter as they go.

Jordan mixing up my birthday cake against his wishes! But he was sweet to do it for me.

Oh I just love birthdays, aren't these just beautiful?

These flowers were given to me by my visiting teachers from my church. Oh my goodness they are so beautiful and smell up my whole house. I love tulips! I just hope I do not kill them, if you know me at all you will know I do not have a green thumb.

I leave for Salt lake in the morning, and then leave for vegas on Friday morning, the nerves are setting in. I hate leaving my family behind and it is soo far to go. I know everything will be alright but as a mother I get nervous. But I am a little excited it should be fun.

VEGAS HERE I COME!!!

2009-03-25T07:26:00.000-07:00

Only 9 days until I am in Vegas for my 1st time. And only 6 days until my birthday. Holy Cow! I think I will be 31, I am an old girl!

I am going to Vegas for my niece's wedding on April 3rd. I am riding with my Dad and Mom. Blake is unable to go do to his vacation days. So he told me to just go ahead. My brother Thayne is riding with us and Tanya and Talia (both my sisters) are meeting us in Vegas. It will be a fast trip but fun. I am really excited, but disappointed Blake won't be with me.

SPRING INTO ACTION! DO SOMETHING FUN FOR YOURSELF TODAY AND POST IT ON YOUR BLOG.

Normal life, What is that?

2009-03-25T07:12:00.000-07:00

Well basketball is finally done. Blake says we can finally go back to our normal lives, and I asked him if he remembers what that actually is, his comment was "not really but I do know it is boring". Well there you have it, that is our lives.

Jordan and Kiel both had basketball tournaments this last week end. Jordan had a 7th grade tourny. in Shelley that Blake helped with. They didn't do too well but had lots of fun and a great experience for next year.

Kiel had a tournament in Firth for 5th graders and since he is only in the 4th grade they wanted him to play up, so we let him. His team went undeafeted and he had so much fun, he is just more excited that they beat Shelley (our biggest rival ). So with these two boys we spent all night Thursday, Friday and all day Saturday watching basketball. We are officially sick of it. You all probably never thought that was possible.

Well unlucky for Blake he has been asked to coach the 7th grade Babe Ruth baseball ( like he has every year), so he has this week only off until baseball starts next week. I do not think we ever get a break from sports. The head high school football coach came and asked him to coach the 8th grade football for this coming fall. That is one sport Blake has never had anything to do with, and told him so hoping he will get out of that one. GOOD LUCK!

Any way we are off to baseball season in one week, Kiel will start in about 1 month.

Happy Spring to all of you!!!!!

Vacation, Vacation, Vacation

2009-03-05T08:14:00.000-08:00

Okay, so my home goes from being loud, messy, and full to being quite, still, empty, clean, and lonely this week. Blake and the boys headed out yesterday morning to Boise for Firth State basketball until Saturday night. I stayed home to work and relax. (how stupid of me) I am walking around my home thinking what should I do, maybe i should clean out drawers or closets, or maybe cupboards, or maybe sit down with a good book and relax. Well reading won of course, why should I clean when they are off playing and eating out. Am I right or am I right? I feel like I am right. Maybe the house will get clean by Saturday night, maybe!

Have a happy go lucky day, and do something crazy today:)

Love, Laughter, and a full house

2009-03-02T19:54:00.000-08:00

What is better then a full house of family? Nothing! So, with a full house this weekend, we sure had a lot of love and laughter in-side these 4 walls.

My brother Troy and his wife Lacey flew home from Romania (he is working for Dome tech.and is stationed In Romania for about 1yr.) for 2 weeks to visit with family and see Troy's kids, so my little sister Talia and her family came to town to see him and they all stayed at my home this weekend. It was sure fun to visit with all of them. We watched movies, played games, ate lots of food, told stories and barbecued steaks (they were yummy & juicy). My brother Travis celebrated his 40th birthday on Saturday, we tried calling him and he was gone to work, we were going to let him know we were not able to celebrate with him (cause he lives in Arizona) but we were defiantly celebrating his birthday eating steaks, and thinking of him.

Any ways we had a fun weekend, and we were so happy to be able to see Troy, Lacey, Talia and Matt. On Sunday Dad and Chris had everyone over for dinner and to give Troy and Lacey their Christmas present's. Again yummy food! Saturday our neighbors officially moved to Idaho Falls. We feel so bad we were unable to help, do to all of our company but we do love them dearly and will miss them. So all of you that are just dying to move to Firth, the house across the street is for sale, I know all of you would love to be neighbors with the Chapman's! haha!

I love a house full of giggles and love!

Kiel turns the big #10

2009-02-23T19:41:00.000-08:00

Kiel celebrated his 10th birthday on the same day Michael Jordan celebrated his 46th. Yup, thats right, Kiel and Michael have the same birthday, and there is not a year that goes by that Kiel likes to remind his older brother of this fact. This was actually the 1st year Kiel has had to go to school on his birthday since kindergarten. Since presidents day is the day before he has always missed school. He is in the 4th grade this year, and I felt so bad for him, he called me when he got home from school and I asked him how his day went and he said" just like any other day", and I said "Oh how is that?" "nothing great happened today!" I asked if anyone said happy birthday or anything, and he said "no, no one knew it was my birthday, they could care less" I felt so bad for him I almost started crying for him. But come to find out for some reason they sang to him on Friday, why? I have no idea. Oh well he survived it.

Here are some pictures of Kiel opening his presents with the Chapmans. Here he got a Chris Paul jersey, high school musical 3 ( he does look a little overely excited about this one), he got pistachios from great grandpa-ma Chapman,(he tells us they are his favorite), and he got lots of money as well as candy.

Here he got a tiger from Grandma-pa Chapman with a gift card hooked onto it.

He got NFL fantasy football monopoly game from Grandpa-ma Potter. they could not make his party that night so they dropped off his present. Here we are playing it as a family, we had so much fun that we played it for 3 hrs on sunday night. We are hoping we played it right! It was fun! So he tells us he had a good birthday. He ended up with $65, we asked him what he is going to do with it (since he has his fathers mentality, if he has it, he spends it without thinking about it) he says he is saving it for Boise. Blake and the boys are going to Boise next weekend for Firth Boys State basketball with my dad (grandpa Potter) again this year. They had so much fun last year, that they are going back again. So Kiel wants to save his money for that. Some times they do surprise you! I just can't wait to see what he brings home from Boise, that he bought with his own money. Remember his Dad is going with him! This should be interesting to see.

What I want to be when I grow up!

2009-02-21T17:59:00.000-08:00

Okay, are you checking your childrens homework? Well after seeing this, you might want to start checking it more closely. My sister-in-law posted this on her blog and I thought it was too funny not to post on mine. Kids' minds are amazing! HOw funny!

when asked to draw a picture of what they wanted to be when they grew up, second-grader "Sarah" turned in the lovely drawing shown below. Needless to say, the teacher was a bit surprised -- Mrs. Smith had always seemed like such a conservative woman. So she sent a note home to the girl's mother asking for clarification as to the picture's meaning.

(Here's the reply the teacher received the following day)

Dear Mrs. Jones,

I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot. From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Smith

What have the Chapman's been up to?

2009-02-20T17:48:00.002-08:00

Well we have been pretty busy doing a whole lot of nuttin. Both of the boys are still in basketball and having lots of fun. They both had reports going at the same time. Jordan had to write one on John Quincy Adams, and thank goodness we are done with that one, and he had to make a stupid puppet of him. How stupid is that? Kiel has one for Idaho History due next week. So I have been really busy helping both of them get their reports typed and written so they make sense and readable ( that is a bigger job then you think, try reading Kiel's writing, let alone Jordan's ). Kiel has had a lot of fun the past week at school. He had all in one day a Valentine's party, 100 days of school party where they watched The Fox and the Hound, and cupcakes for his birthday, all in 1 day. Wow, what a day! I will post pictures from Kiel's birthday tomorrow when I down load pictures. So stay posted.

Jordan had his first school dance last friday, WoW, a little much for mom to handle. Blake and I talked to him the night before about dancing with girls and the rules and how to never turn a girl down and then dance with the next girl. He was so embarrassed just talking about it. He said don't worry mom I will just stand on the sides against the wall and dance with no one! Well some of the teachers paired him up with some girls to dance with, one being the teachers daughter. Jordan said he about died from embarrassment, Blake and I would have loved to seen that. He did say he had fun though, so that is good, at least if didn't scare him away!

Well our dear friends, adopted parents and grandparents across the street are leaving us next weekend to move to Idaho Falls. blake and I are just devastated over this turn of events. We are so worried about who is going to be our new neighbors it just kills us. We always thought they would be across the street for ever. They keep an eye on us and our kids and we just love them to death. It will be a very long hard week for us in this house hold. But we love them and wish them well on their journey in Idaho falls.

Other then that boring stuff that is about all we have going on here. Oh yah, we have been glued to the t.v on Tuesday and Wed. nights. AMERICAN IDOL is back on, we are huge fans of that show and love to watch it every week. We can not wait for it.

25 Random things about ME!

2009-02-04T07:00:00.000-08:00

Here is 25 random things about me!

I was married at age 17 ( I do not really recommend this)
Blake and I have been together for 14 1/2 years
I love love love the color purple
dolphins are my favorite
I have always wanted to own a horse ( a clydesdale)
I have never broken a bone in my body
I love, I mean live to read romance novels
I fall asleep during movies ( any movie)
my dream has always been to have a little girl named after my mother
all I have ever owned is Honda vehicles
I have never been on a plane
Blake and I have never been anywhere for 1 night by oursleves ( how have we made it 13 yrs)
I have 2 of the best boys ever
I love to cook
I hate hate hate the snow
I love watching sports on t.v and in person
I would love to see a dolphin in person some day
my dream is to bring my boys to Chicago in 2 yrs from now ( including Blake) ha ha
it makes me happy when my family is having fun
I love to laugh
I love the smell of a new born baby
I love spring
I love fall
I love to make other people happy
I am looking forward to our next big Potter family reunion this year in Bear Lake

Gosh that was harder then I thought. thinking of random things about yourself off the top of your head it tough.

Thanks for letting me share with you just how crazy and odd I am.

What's for dinner?

2009-01-27T17:52:00.001-08:00

I am so thankful to a dear friend of mine who decided to start a cooking blog. Her blog and campbell's kitchen home cooking website and has saved me several times when i come home late or just can not decide what to make for dinner, when everything sounds the same, or you are tired of everything you know how to make.

Her blog gives me good ideas and tips to use as well. So thanks for all the time it takes to post your ideas, it helps me out. For the rest of you, if you need ideas as well check it out.

tested-tried-true.blogspot.com

January Recap

2009-01-24T18:19:00.000-08:00

This is a recap of January. (It is all backwards on how I wanted it, but I do not want to fix it. So enjoy a little crazyness). It is only the 24th of January and Blake and I feel like it has been 3 months since New Years Eve. We have had a busy month with birthdays, basketball, and hoop shoots.

We had District hoop shoot in Blackfoot ( 12 miles south of Firth) for Jordan. He made 19 out of 25 and won 1st place. 2nd and 3rd place tied with 18, they had a shoot out. We are so proud of Jordan and very surprised he won with 19, last time he got 21 out of 25. So now he goes to State in Blackfoot again, on Feb. 7th. Blake and I are very proud of both of our boys.

Then Kiel's basketball started for the year. Kiel is #13 with the ball. He is having so much fun and loving every minute of it. He loves learning from his older brother, but that does not mean he takes the advice very well.
Then we had Jordan's season start for basketball. This is his second game at South Fremont. They lost the first game at Shelley and they beat South Fremont by 1 point. Then they played Teton and beat them by 8 points, and lost to Sugar in over-time. They are 2-4. His coach said they are on a winning streak! Jordan is having a lot of fun. I am not sure if you can see him good enough, he is at the top of the 3 point line in the blue with out the ball.
We started January out with a bang, we had New Year's then Jordan's hoop shoot then we had Blake's 33rd birthday. We celebrated by going out to eat at his favorite place, RED LOBSTER of course! He loves to get the King Crab, then the next day we had cake and ice cream with his family and then on Monday we had my dad and Chris over for dinner and peach cobbler (peaches that i canned this fall). So we basically parted all weekend for his birthday, it was a lot of fun. Then his dad's birthday is 3 days after his, so we had cake and ice cream again. His grandpa's is on the 1st, so we pretty much party all month long.

Hoop Shoot 21 out of 25

2009-01-12T07:39:00.000-08:00

Jordan made the finals for hoop shoot in Firth he made 18 out of 25, so he was sent to Blackfoot this last Saturday. Blake was unable to go with us he had to coach Kiel's team, so Jordan and his friend Conner and myself went to Blackfoot. Jordan was so nervous he has never been here before. He made it last year but they told Firth and Shelley the wrong date so we missed it and they would not redo it for us. So this is the 1st time he made it. Conner went down and warmed up with him. They got started and as I was watching I got more nervous for him. The 1st round he made 7 out of 10. The kid before him was from Shelley and he made 8 out of 10. Jordan shows no emotion what so ever and they do not tell the kids how many each kid makes so they have no idea where they are at. They get to the 2nd round and the kid in front of Jordan made 11 out of 15. Jordan is next and he made 7 in a row then he missed one then he made 5 and was tied with the Shelley kid, Conner and I were about to lose control. Because you have to be so quite you can not say anything at all. So here we are keeping score and freaking out he is tied. The other boys were not competition at all. So Jordan really needed to make the next 2 shots to win. He made the next one and they say last shot, he sinks it no problem the relief on his face was so funny I could not help to laugh. The parents from Shelley kind of gave me a dirty look because they knew he won. Well Jordan gets done they tell them to go sit in the stands until the girl's finish. Jordan comes and sits down and says very quietly how did I do? I said you made 21 out of 25, he says what about the Fredrickson kid from Shelley I said 19 out of 25 he says YES! But mom I am nervous what if they messed up on my score? ( This happened 2 years ago in Firth with Jordan and his best friend Mason, Jordan won by 1 point and they gave it to Mason so Jordan lost, we were so mad but could do nothing about it) I said well buddy that is not something we can fix, lets just see what happens. Well when it was time to announce the boys they said " 1st place boys goes to Tyler Fredrickson with 19 out of, Oh wait a minute excuse me it goes to Jordan Chapman with 21 out of 25" I thought we were going to die for a minute both Jordan and I held our breath the parents from Shelley had the shock look on their face and then they said Jordan. He had a big smile on his face he was so happy. He did it! He know goes back to blackfoot on January 24th for District. We will keep you all updated on his progress. He also has his first game against Shelley tomorrow.

GO JORDAN!!!!

Jordan being presented with 1st place with 21 out of 25.

Jordan is warming up for the hoop shoot. His friend Conner is helping him get ready.

The waiting is over............

2009-01-08T18:14:00.000-08:00

Jordan is a "Panther". He had tryouts for 7th grade basketball the week before Christmas, and surprise he made the team! Blake and I were so proud of him and very excited. Now the fun begins, making sure he had good enough grades the Friday before games, practices and driving to all the away games! HOW EXCITING! Actually if any of you know us very well you will know that we really are excited and can not wait. This is what Blake and I live for is to watch our boys have fun and play sports.

Well the 1st week of practice Jordan's best friend and also a guard went sledding and guess what? Yup, broke his arm. We were shocked, for one if you are on the school team you do not go skiing or sledding in the winter for that reason. maybe I know that because I grew up as a coach's daughter and my whole family played sports, you just do not do things like that. Well the coach wasn't too happy, for this boy was backup to Jordan. So when Jordan goes out for a rest he has no one to put in as shooting guard. Well tonight Jordan had a practice game and what does he do, he thinks he should go in and help rebound and rolls his ankle. I thought Blake and his coach were going to lose control. Luckily it is not bad and with some ice should be fine for practice tomorrow. The whole way home Blake told Jordan " you do not rebound, you are a guard you stay out from under the basket see what happens when you go inside to rebound? let the bigger guys get the ball" poor Jordan! Any ways he is doing better.

At school this week they had the hoop shoot contest and Jordan won for the 12 and 13 yrs old. He made 18 out of 25. Kiel won for his class but they have not finished the whole 4th grade yet so we will find out tomorrow if he wins. Jordan goes to Blackfoot for the finals this Saturday. Keep your fingers crossed for him. He made it last year as well but Blackfoot told us the wrong date so we missed the finals, we were so mad. So we wish him luck this year. :)

OMG its 2009!

2009-01-01T19:21:00.000-08:00

OMG, I can not believe 2009 is here! This last year went by so fast, it is scary. Well I do have to say this New Year's eve sucked. It was so boring. We had my sister Lezlie and her family with us, and that was okay and would have been fun but both of our husbands are BORING! All they did was sit in front of the T.V we tried to play games but that is only fun for about 5 min with kids.We tried leg wrestling, arm wrestling and was both fun for a minute. Jordan and Kohl are both over the age of 12 so they are old enough to play but Kiel and Kyler are not. We tried playing Clue thinking okay they are over 8 yrs. so they should catch on, oh no don't try it. It was a night mare, Lez and I tried to have fun and not yell, but it was pointless, and then to make matters worse Kyler kept telling us 4 min, 3 min and then 1 min and Lezlie was reading the directions and was not paying attention to him and we missed the New Year coming in. Me trying to keep my mothers tradition of banging pans, yelling, honking horns and trying to make as much noise as possible alive, and then we missed it this year! I think my neighbors were wondering if we were in bed or gone or maybe they were so delighted in the peace and quite that they celebrated their own way and will thank me later. Well the kids were sure mad at us, they were so mad and almost crying it made Lezlie and I feel so bad, we still tried to celebrate ( we were only 30 sec. late) but they would not go for it. So we failed big time this year. I think I may be the only one in our family that still carries the tradition on. I love it and look forward to it. Blake on the other hand has always thought us Potter's were too loud. He lets us do our thing and he stands back and watches while shaking his head. Actually I believe he is just jealous he didn't think of it first! ha ha. So needless to say we had a QUITE New Year's Eve. New Year's day we went over to Blake's grandparent for a lunch. It is his grandpa's birthday today so we helped celebrate that with him. Lezlie's family left to go to the movies and Katie and Brandon and Karissa came down to play games with us. That was fun, we played "ticket to ride" and Blake and Brandon played with us. Wow! that was fun! When they decide to live a little it can be fun. Then Blake and Jordan mostly played with Katie's baby Liberty, she is so cute and fun. She is 7 months old and such a cutie. We were glad they came down.

Christmas day

2008-12-26T08:36:00.000-08:00

Wow what a beautiful day. It snowed all day on Christmas, it was just beautiful. We had a good day. The boys each got $100 from Blake and I and then 2 small presents and then the Santa gift, santa gave them a plaque. Jordan got Labron James, and Kiel got Chris Paul. They were so happy. Kiel says he is going to save his 100 bill, (yah we will see about that), Jordan says he will too ( now I believe that). They are so funny! Blake and I got stadium chairs and a new Honda Pilot for christmas. We are happy. We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Chapmans for a huge Christmas dinner, gifts and games. We had such a good time over there we stayed until 9 p.m. I can not believe Christmas is over, it is kind of depressing when you look out side and see all the snow and then under the tree all the gifts are gone and your house is a mess, it makes me want to crawl back into bed and stay until January 1st. Why, i have no idea!

Family party

2008-12-25T10:09:00.000-08:00

This year the family party was at Thayne's home again. Thayne and Tricia planned everything and it was so much fun. We missed Troy and Lacey, and Travis, Jennifer and their family this year. Todd and his family finally made it after a 6 hr. drive from Salt Lake City. They were 1 hr. behind a 37 car pile up and stuck in traffic. Todd told us he went 3 miles in 1 hr. They missed all the games but we were so glad they made it and safely. Grandma and Grandpa gave all of the boys a blanket made by grandma some got their favorite sports team or animals, the girls grandpa drew them all a precious moments picture and the little ones also got an apron made by grandma. The adults got a Greg Olsen picture of the savior. It was a nice Christmas for everyone. We played the bubble gum game to see what team could unwrap the gum and blow the first bubble. We played a matching game that Blake won, we played name that tune, witch the men beat the women ( they were all christmas songs) and the white elephant game. All of them were very fun. Thanks Tricia for all you hard work and yummy food. This year as a family we raised money at our family reunion and took all the money to help a family in need in the area. We provided a Christmas dinner along with gifts for all the kids and the parents. Dad and Chris put in a little extra as well. I hope everyone had a good time and a Merry Christmas.

Potter family christmas party

2008-12-25T09:51:00.000-08:00

12 Days of Christmas

2008-12-18T19:57:00.002-08:00

This year Blake and I decided to do something a little different. We did the 12 days of christmas to my dad and Mom (step) and to Blake's grandparents. It was so fun putting the gifts together and seeing the look on their faces when we dropped off the gifts. This way they can enjoy Christmas a little bit each day. Here are some pictures of Blake delivering to his grandma and of my Dad and Chris putting on their festive holiday socks. It is so fun! We hope to make it a tradition every year.

2008-12-04T19:07:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving was a fun, loud, busy weekend with lots of food. Here I am making my 1st homemade apple pie, gosh it was sooo yummy. I canned the apple pie filling this fall. It was worth it. We had dinner this year with my family at my Dad's home. It was yummy food! After dinner we played games. We played what we call spoons, and if you do not end up with a spoon you get a letter. We were spelling monkey, the person who gets monkey 1st has to get on the table and act like that animal. Well grandma LOST so she had to act like a monkey it was sooo funny. She is in deed a good loser ( for her 1st time playing that is). We had a good time. My sister Lezlie and her family stayed at our home for the weekend we had a good time shopping, playing games, making candy, and all the boys went to the ISU vs BYU mens basketball game in Pocatello on Saturday night. They had a good time, they loved it. SO it was a great Holiday weekend for us with not much sleep.

Jazz vs. Suns

2008-11-22T20:36:00.001-08:00

Last week Jordan was the lucky winner in our home to attend the Jazz vs. Suns game with his Grandpa Potter on row 23. Grandpa called and invited Blake, but Blake says maybe I will send Jordan, he has never been before and would love it. So Blake and Jordan went back and forth for the next day saying " no you go, you would love it, no you go you have never been before" it was so funny. Finally Jordan says "fine you lost, I am going to go with grandpa" and he did. Uncle Thayne, Aunt Tricia and his cousin Kade also were in attendance that night but were on row 2 of the floor, it was Kade's 12th birthday present from his parents. They were feed dinner and snacks, Kade was nice and shared with Jordan, lucky him. Jordan had the time of his life. Jordan decided not to wear his Korver jersey since he was going to be cheering for preferably the suns, but grandpa told him he has to cheer for both if he was going to sit by him ( ha ha). To Jordan's dismay the Jazz won that night. Jordan likes both teams a lot thought so he was not too disappointed. Grandpa and Jordan went and did some sight seeing before the game, they went to Temple square, the museum, and some other things. This is all the pictures I have until grandpa sends me some.

2008-11-20T19:07:00.001-08:00

Boyz will be Boyz

2008-11-19T20:40:00.001-08:00

Family wedding

2008-11-19T20:01:00.000-08:00

Isn't this the sweetest picture of Father of the Bride? She looks beautiful and he looks good sporting his new glasses, they do make him look distinguished, don't you think? It was so fun to go to the wedding and see all the family and friends. It was a beautiful wedding. Katie (Kyra's older sister) was the maid of honor ( and boy did she earn that title). I have no idea who the brides maid was, Talia's girls(Alexia's and Marisa) were the flower girls and they were beautiful of course! Kyra's mom ( pam) made the cake, she always does such a beautiful job. Troy has 3 children married and Karissa is a senior. What a good looking family.

I have officially been Tagged :)

2008-11-03T08:31:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Kari, I have been tagged.

8 things

8 T.V shows I like to watch

1- Sports center

2- Hannah montana

3- Drake and Josh

4- Zach and Cody

5- Monday night football

6- Dr.Phil

7- CMT

8- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

8 things that happened yesterday

1-had to set the clocks back 1 hr. ( oh how i hate that)

2-It rained almost all day

3- changed my room around ( Blakes idea)

4- watched football ( I had 11 teams out of 13 win, GO ME!)

5- made Snicker doodles

6- ate pizza

7- watched what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

8- updated my blog

8 favorite places to eat

1- Texas Road House

2- Olive Garden

3- Jalesicos ( Mexican)

4- Red Lobster

5- Sizzler

6- Arby's

7-Taco Bell

8- I have no idea

8 things I look forward to

1- Being sealed in the temple

2- Seeing my mom again

3- Our 13th anniversary

4- Christmas this year

5- My boys growing into young men

6- Blake and I having a 2nd honeymoon

8 things on my wish list

1- Blake winning the lottery ( because I do not play)

2- going to Chicago

3- going to Hawaii

4- Swimming with a dolphin

5- Jordan and Kiel getting full ride scholorships

6- getting a garage

7- Having one more baby

8- going to school

okay maybe not in that order

HALLOWEEN

2008-11-02T19:36:00.000-08:00

Halloween is always a pain for me. I am just not into it. Lucky for me, my boys took after me. They have never been into dressing up and all that jazz. The only thing I do is wear Halloween earings (that I got from my mom) every day until Halloween. And that I love. Well this year Kiel dressed up for his school parade and that was it. He decided to be a clown ( that actually fits his personality to the "T"). At Kiel's school they have a Halloween parade at 2:45 that kicks off their party. Parents are invited to come and enjoy the parade. They line the hallways with chairs on both sides and in the gum, at let me tell you it is the event of the season. Everyone comes out to see these kids dressed up.

None of Jordan's friends dressed up so he said he didn't want to either. And neither of them wanted to go Trick or Treating so we let a friend come over and they watched movies and had pizza while Blake and I had a date out to dinner and browsing for christmas ideas. It was a nice date for all of us. However we did miss the Halloween party at grandma and grandpa Potters home this year, they decided not to have it or they didn't have time, we have a lot of fun at that party. So we look forward to it next year.

Fall is in the air.....

2008-11-02T19:21:00.000-08:00

Wow how time flies anymore. Football is now over, thank goodness! No it was a lot of fun. This was Jordan's 1st year on the school team and he loved it. He tried a new position this year, he played wide receiver and said it was okay. His coach is not a passing coach so Jordan hardly had any passes thrown to him but he had fun he says. He had to travel to some far schools. He traveled to Salmon, and Teton in one week, they are both over 3 hrs away and on a school night. That week was hard on him but nice to get it over with in one week.

Kiel also played football this year and his 1st year playing tackle, very different for him and not so sure about it. He did not have a fair year or coaches but next year will be different so we called this year a learning experience for him and for us. He played the line and on the special kickoff teams.

Now with football over we are looking forward to basketball and practicing a lot.

Family reunion in Star Valley Wy.

2008-08-17T10:54:00.000-07:00

August 8th-10th we had my Potter family reunion at my sisters in Star Valley Wy. We had such a good time. We all slept in tents and got wet. Even though it rained all day Friday and most of Saturday we had lots of fun. On Saturday we hiked up to Intermitten springs in Afton Wy. It is the biggest spring in the world and the coldest. It was a easy hike and fun for everyone. IT was nice to all be together and enjoy everyones company. Out of 8 kids only 2 were not with us this year. Hope fully they will make it next year. Thanks to Lezlie and Mike for a fun weekend. My family is looking forward to next year all ready.