Flashback 20+ years !!!

Gary 7th grade North Davis Jr.

Okay so yesterday was Logans first JR. High basketball game and let me tell you I was cracking up the entire game !!! Its been 20 something years since I have been to a Jr. High anything and let me tell you NOTHING has changed !!! Well except the cheerleader skirts are shorter and some boys had facial hair !!! They still put all the playere names on basketballs around the gym and the cheers were the exact same...I thought we made them up !!! " A Wha A Wha A Wha A What you got spirt yeah yeah we got spirit yeah yeah yeah we got spirt !!! Holy crap !!! Logan even had to wear church clothes on game day!!! The varsity team lost but JV won !!! And just so you know...The cutest kid on the court is still a CHAPMAN !!! (At least I think so!!!)

Kinda looks like a missionary with the back pack !!!

A little blurry...I yelled for him to stand still for a sec...then Gary yelled at me...this is basketball not a photo op he says !!! RUDE !!!

When he got his jersey he was really excited about the number !!! Those who know basketball will understand !!!

The Ugly Witch

Today I went to Abby's class for scarey stories. Those kids are so creative with story telling and Abby is one of them !!! Most of their stories were about a 1 1/2 pages when it was Abby's turn she kept reading and reading...yes in true Abby fashion her story turned out to be 4 pages !!! I complimented her afterwards and said "Wow you wrote a long story". She laughed and said "Yeah when we were practicing I only got to read half of it". I thought it was so funny I had to share.



One day I wasn't good at school and my teacher made me stay at school but she forgot about me and left. I looked at the clock and it was 7:00 so I thought, "I live close to the school, and I left I saw a bush moving and I heard HE!HE!HE!" I looked and I was a Witch! She had long black hair with cob webs and rat hairs and cat hairs she also had at the end of her long, pointy green nose. The mole had a wart on it in the same spot it had hair out of it. Her skin was light green she had red eyes. She was wareing a black dress and a cape. She asked me where I lived and I said, "where do you live?" she whispered "I live in a fores where theres a cave with other witches and I flew here where do you live?" she screamed I said "I live just down the road why?" "Because I want you and your family to try my soup." she said smiling. "Sorry but I'm not allowed to try stuff without my Mom or Dad trying it first I'll talk to you tomorrow after school bye" I said quickly. I ran quickly home and I told my Mom I saw a witch. She said NO WAY! So I ate my dinner and I went to bed. That night I got out of bed and I ran down to the school and I ran in the bush where the was. The witch said HI! and her cat said Meow! Then I thought I'm tired and I ran back home and went back to bed and slept good. I got ready for school. I walked to school I was half way there and the witch swooped me on her broom stick and took me to school I told my teacher I saw a witch but she didn't believe me. That day I was so good in school that Mrs. Hendericks let me go home when everbody else did I went in the bush and the witch swooped me on her broom stick again I got home and she came inside my house. My family met the witch and we even had her soup for dinner !


Abby told me that when her teached edited the story "she crossed out like a million ands"....really... so now there are only 1/2 million !!!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins and Seeds...

Saturday we went to Black Island Forrest in Syracuse with Lisa, Melissa, and Tiffany's families. The kids had so much fun and I had never been there...we went on a hayride and each kid got to pick a pumpkin...it cracked me up because the guy who drove the tractor told all the kids when they found one they wanted to raise their hands and he would come cut it off the vine for them...not only did he cut it off but throughly inspected the pumpkin to make sure it was ok...and I mean throughly inspected...he rubbed them all over...I was like what the heck its just a pumpkin but I guess I should be grateful we could have taken home a rotten one I guess. They have lots of other things as well slides, little tractor rides, pig races, and food.

The funniest thing was when all the little ones went on the little tractor ride...Lisa and Marty HAD to go because a couple of their kids were kinda scared...I thought me and Tiffany were going to pee our pants laughing at Lisa and Marty !!!

Afterwards the girls and I went to a Pumpkin Party at Jasons house where they got more pumpkins...the reason they want so many pumpkins is to make pumpkin seeds. Every since they had them at Grandma Westbroeks house this is a must for us each year. I make them get the seeds out cause it makes me gag.

I had so many pictures that I decided to make a slide show ...hopefully it turns out !!! Also the random pictures of the carrotts were taken by my girls lately that is their thing to take dumb pictures and they just show up when I down load them !!!

Quirks

I have been tagged and this time it is QUIRKS !!! You have to list 6 quirks about yourself soooo in no particular order...

1. Dishes - I have to have all my plates and bowls stacked the same way...all the patterns and styles have to be together. Same with the silverware...I have to put all the big forks and small forks in separate dividers.

2. Ear wax - This must be blamed on my mom but it drives me crazy...Qtips everyone !!!

3. Pantry - No one in this house knows how to throw empty food packages away...I open the pantry to EMPTIES everyday...no matter how much I say "If you take the last one throw the package in the garbage" so now it seems that its easier to hide it some where in the pantry rather than walk 4 feet to the trash can !!! I will survive the next few years right !!!

4. Sunflower Seeds - Everyone knows how much my family all loves sunflower seeds me included...but it drives me crazy how many I find throughout the house...and stuck in the bottom of glasses....eeeewwww...I swear we live in a bird cage !!!

5. Feet - I am with Tiffany on this one...can't stand them...maybe its cause I have the Westbroek curse...LONG toes !!! or maybe its cause Gary's are so dry and nasty !!! Either way...yuck !!!

6. Mail - All the junk mail that comes...I just throw it away but Gary has to open everything and read it and then...LEAVES it where ever he read it...on the counter...next to the toilet...anywhere. THROW it away already !!!

Gosh this almost makes me sound -itchy !!! You all know I'm not though right !!!

I tag:

Lisa
Lindsey
Whitney
Lacee
Shaleece
Jenny

My baby's Baptism

Its hard to believe that I'm at this point in life where all my kids are born, blessed and baptized. Yesterday was Abbys baptism, it was a very nice day, I enjoyed having my family all here with us for Abby. She has been looking forward to this day for 2 years since Kadee was baptized...I'm not sure if it was being baptized or being able to have her own scriptures !!! She has been hyper ALL WEEK...driving everyone in this house CRAZY. I believe it is true the closer you get to 8 the harder Satan works on you !!! Abby has pushed it to the limits all week long...not listening to anything you ask her to do and....walking home from school Thursday she decides she needs to go to the bathroom....those of you who know how close we live to the school it would have been no problem to hold it right....WRONG....she finds a bush in the parking lot of the park and squats !!! Around 7 that night Kadee decides its time to out her sister for what she did on the way home....can you imagine my surprise....that my little girl would do such a thing ??? Oh wait this IS Abby we are talking about....so there wasn't much surprise!!! Needless to say she spent the rest of the night in her room!!! When I told Gary he just LAUGHED for a few minutes then he says I understand why little boys would do that but what would make a girl want to do it ??? Good question....Abbys answer....well mom I really had to go !!!

The baptism was really nice....my dad did the baptism and confirmation....I love him so much for doing this for my kids....he has been there for them from the delivery room on....yes he was in the delivery room for all 3....I didn't have the guts to tell him he couldn't !!!! He takes that VERY personal!!! (Family joke there!!!) But I am grateful for him and the example he is for my family. Aaron gave the talk on Baptism, he used the example of Alice in Wonderland and how she stayed on the right path and found her way back home....he did awesome !!! Thanks Aaron !!! Lisa gave the talk on the Holy Ghost she does so good speaking in front of people....the thing Abby took from her talk was that if she is fighting with Logan and Kadee and I ask her to stop even though they really deserved it she HAS TO STOP !!! (Thanks Lisa I will let you know how that goes !!!) And I loved the stories about Tanners experiences when he learned about the Holy Ghost....he is so funny !!!

At the end of the meeting the counselor from the bishop brick spoke and asked Abby if she felt any different....she thought for a minute and said "NO"!!! I could have died !!! Not sure what she was expecting !!! I don't think the counselor expected that answer either he wasn't sure what to say !!! One thing I'm sure he learned is that with Abby anything can happen !!! My dad even held her under for a few seconds and then asked me if I thought that was long enough apparently it wasn't!!! I know that she felt something when you receive the Holy Ghost it is something you never forget its something that stays with you forever.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make this a special day for Abby !!! We really appreciate it !!! And that is the last for a FEW years....next time will be if Logan decides to go on a mission....

Abby in her baptism dress Sunday morning....can you believe one day it is nice and green and the next there is 5 inches of snow !!!

Tagged

8 TV Shows

*Young and the Restless
*Dancing with the Stars
*Survivor
*ER
*Greys Anatomy
*Ellen
*CSI
*Dateline

8 Restaurants

*Tonys Pizza
*Tepenyaki (?spelling)
*Wingers
*Chick fil a
*Great Harvest sandwich
*Maddox
*Elmadador
*Goodwood

8 Things I did yesterday

*Made soup for Abby's baptism (two different kinds so this should count as two)
*Went to Abby's baptism
*Listened to Aaron and Lisa give two really good talks...its great having family that will do this for you
*Had my family over for lunch
*Cleaned up the mess from lunch
*Listened to Danielle defend Obama to my parents and brother in law Jason (GOOD TIMES !!!)
*Helped Abby do her baptism book....answered a million questions
*Yelled at kids to clean stuff up

8 Things I'm looking forward to

*Kids that clean up after themselves without asking
*Having all my projects finished
*Thanksgiving
*Christmas
*Sleeping in
*Elections
*Economy improving !!!!
*Working

8 Things on my wish list (....only 8 thats not enough !!!)

*Food Storage
*House paid for
*Family vacation....some where warm and tropical
*Brand new wardrobe
*Good skin
*Never having to work out and have a body that looks like I do !!!
*My kids to grow up and never have trials !!!
*Good job

8 People I'm tagging (Lisa took all the sisters so I'm going after cousins and friends)

*Jenny
*Lacee
*Haley
*April
*Kami
*Kristi
*Tiffany
*Shaleece

Rain, Rain go away....

Do you ever wish you could have a "do over" day ? Well today would be one of the days I would pick !!! Cold, wet and misserable...I'm sure that Logans whole team would as well...yes they lost today. I was so afraid this was going to happen...they got behind and didn't stay in the fight !!! They had a great season...the opponents only scored 21 points on them all season...what is the worst of that is 13 of those points came today and we only scored 6 so we lost....BUMMER!!!

I was really worried about spending the day with Logan after that cause he was really down...I told Logan on the way home I would take him to lunch anywhere he wanted...then 10 minutes after we got home the door bell rang and it was one of Logans coaches' wife...she wanted to take him and 3 other kids from the team to Little America to spend the night and hang out at Gateway....hum...go to LUNCH with my family or LITTLE AMERICAfor the night...tough choice right Logan...so he is in SLC and I'm sitting here blogging...They were also going to the Conference Center for a tour after conference today where they might even get to see the prophet. The coach that took them is also an usher at the Conference Center so he has access to do that. They are the nicest friends and just didn't want the boys to sit around feeling down so they took them to do something up lifting...awesome people...love them.

One other nice thing was that my cousin Shaleece came to the game...she was in town from Idaho and said she might stop by if the weather wasn't too cold...and it was cold...so I didn't expect to see her but she came anyway. It was nice to chat and see her...I think it has been at least 9 to 10 months. So thanks for coming down Shaleece !!!

GO FALCONS !!!

I can't believe the season has finally reached the playoff time. Saturdays game is the first game of the playoffs, so its win or go home time. I'm about as anxious for this as the NBA playoffs !!! I know you all probably think I'm crazy...but that's OK I AM !!! Our team has played so well together this year I think all games combined the other team as only scored on us twice...which is awesome but what worries me is that our team could be playing some more intense games and if they start loosing they will give up and not fight for the win.



Here are the team pictures Logan brought home last night. Football pictures crack me up !!! They try to make themselves look all big and tough !!! And his hair...this faux hawk stuff kinda reminds me of little babies whose moms try to put a curl on the top of their head !!!




"Whatever" is what I'm sure to hear Logan say after he reads this !!!



What a stud...too bad pictures aren't interactive so you could get a "wiff" of the uniform and pads!!!

THE TEAM !!!

Notice how big the coaches are ? Well last Saturday night they had a party for the team at the aquatic center...bad idea coaches...unless you want to get wet...yep you guessed it...those little brats threw everyone of their coaches in the pool. The one on the far left was a bit of a challenge...they had to push him while he was sitting on a chair because there is no other way to move that man. Just in case you cant tell which one is Logan...he is 3rd from the right on the back row.