Monday, October 31, 2011

Mandy

This post is dedicated to Mandy.........So Mandy doesn't feel that there are many post on the family blog about her..... When I was in Ut. I got to spend the week end with her, and Josh.......We went to In N Out, and met up with Ian and Andrew Potts, and than went to the corn maze.
Ben is next to Mandy, We drug him around with us every where.....even to our tradition of walking threw Wal Mart at all crazy hours..... He was a very good sport.
We did some bowling up on the BYU campus. I'm not sure who won, but I know it was not me!! I have more pictures of Mandy on our fun week end, I just Have to find them......

Mandy & Ben They look so happy to gather!!

Friday Night Football

There were lots of news stations at the game, along with a radio station.... channel 3 took these great pictures, I raced home after the game to watch the news and see if I could catch the high lights....Jessie was on channel 40 and channel 3. It was a very fun and exciting night!! Go Eagles
Joanne A., Gina W. and I were watching the game and selling sweat shirts..... It was a very good game against Folsom. In the end we won.....We are now the Delta River Champs
Jessie and her squad

HALLOWEEN 2011

Jacob sorted all he's treats to see which kind of candy he got the most of.... I think crunch bars won.
Jacob's loot from halloween, The apples and twix were from Bel Air, the grocery story gave them out free, if you brought in, a child in a costume. It was a very fun night!!
For the ward Halloween party Jacob was a zombie clown!! He was very scary!! His friend Paul was Frankenstein. Jacob and Paul had fun running around and trunker treating.......
So for Halloween Jacob was a clown, he had lots of fun!!

Monday, October 24, 2011

Jeremy Leaving......

So Jeremy Left for his mission, he wasn't able to go straight to Brazil, due to the fact his visa has not come in. He was a little bummed by this but still anxious to get going on his 2 yr. church mission. Jessie and I surprised him and flew to Ut. with him and than meet up with Josh, and we all dropped him off at the MTC in Provo. We have been waiting to get an email from him, we got our second one today.And true to Jeremy's form it was about 5 sentences long!! We expressed to him before leaving that we would be anticipating these weekly emails, and that he MUST keep us up to date, with what is going on with him...... lets just say next weeks email better be alot longer, with alot more information and details!!


Jacob wanting to dress like his big brother Elder chandler.

The Turtle

Today on my way to pick Jacob up from school, there was a turtle crossing the road. So I stopped picked up the turtle from the road, put him in the back of the truck. I was a little late picking Jacob up, but when I told him why I was late and he saw the turtle in the back of the truck, all ways well!! So of course when we got home, we had to put the turtle in the pond. Thats country life at it's finest!!

Pumpkin Carving





Tonight we had a very fun family night, we went to the Smith/Pack's annual Halloween pumpkin carving party. There was good food, fun with family and friends...and of course the carving of the pumpkins!! Jacob made a vampire pumpkin, while jessie free hand a design and carved out haunted houses. There were judges who, judge the pumpkins in the end. Jessie got 3rd place!! Below are Jessie and Jacob's pumpkins

Sunday, September 18, 2011

TAYLOR SWIFT CONCERT





Jessie and I were lucky to score Taylor swift tickets for our birthdays!! Thanks John!! Mandy came to town to go and Jessie invited her friend Sierra. We had a great time........ but before the concert Jessie had a football game to cheer at. It was 100 degrees out, we left after the half time. Taylor Swift put on an amazing concert!! She is a very talented young lady!! We also had amazing seats that night section 101, nothing but the best for us!!

HOMECOMING 2011

This past week has been homecoming week, which ended with a football game on Friday night and a dance on Saturday night. Jessie went to the homecoming dance with her friend Caleb. The dance wound up not being as much fun, so they left with a group of people and went to the movies. She said she had a fun night, later that night she had some friends over for ice cream and movies. This is our last homecoming week for a few years.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Jacob chandler


This kid cracks me up!! Jacob is in second grade this year. Mrs. Smock is his wonderful teacher for the year. We have been lucky to have 3 other children have Mrs. Smock as their teacher. Mandy,Jeremy and Jessie all have been in her class. we are off to a great school year, I'm sure we will have many adventures this year in second grade, and lots of learning experiences!!! We will see how Mrs. smock does with having a 4th Chandler in her class!!

High School Reunions

Tonight was John's 30 year high school reunion. It does not feel or seem like it has been 30 years since we were in high school. It was a very interesting and fun evening..... Its always fun to see if you can recognize people, and to hear what others have been doing with their lives for the past 30 years. Well after going to John's class reunion, I really don't need to go to mine next year, since the class of 81 always thinks I was in their class. When actually I was class 0f 82.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

CHANGES




I finally did it!! I should have taken a before picture, but I didn't think of it until after the old blinds were down. I had been wanting to do a change for awhile, because the blinds in the family room where old and broken. And try as I may to fix them and get a few more years out of them, it wasn't happening......... So when John was gone out of town, out with the old and in with the new!! It really does look alot better. I still have a few things to do to the new curtains, let the hem out, stitch the panels to gather, and steam them to get out all of the wrinkles......... But the change is good!!

FOOTBALL SEASON






It's that time of year again at our house, Friday night football games!! I love high school football games..... this year Jessie is on the varsity cheer squad, she has cheered all 4 years of high school. This year she is a captain on the varsity squad, she is front row, center position and she loves it!! Our first game was not on a friday night, but on a saturday night, because it was being televised on ESPN2. This was a very exciting game!! Jessie was on tv at least 4 times, and our team won!! We are off to a great season, so if you are looking for me on a friday night, you wont find me at home. I'll be at the high school football game, cheering on the players and the cheerleaders!!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Riding the Lite Rail and visiting the State Capital


During the summer Jacob and I, got to gather with Trevor and Alison Busch once a week for some summer adventures. We had lots of fun doing all kinds of fun things....... visiting the State Capital was alot of fun and educational!! We had our last summer adventure last week. We went to chick fila , and Cars in 3D. I'm going to miss our weekly adventures.

some pictures of the green beans that got canned, and apple sauce ready to be put in jars.

What We Have Been Doing......




Well, we have been busy around here this last week, Harvesting the garden and fruit trees. It was a family effort to get every thing on the list done. Here is a list of a few things we did~ Apple sauce, Apple pie filling, Pear sauce, Green beans, Salsa, tons of peaches sliced and frozen in the freezer, Zucchini bread and Banana muffins. And the house even got cleaned, laundry all done, including the ironing..........It sure feels good to have this all done!!

Sunday, July 10, 2011



So after our trip to Hawaii John was complaining about not being able to hear out of his left ear, he had a sinus thing going on, so we thought that was maybe the problem and he took antibiotics for 10 days and still he could not hear out of his ear.......so i bought an ear wax softner and we put drops in his ear, but he said it was worst!! so on mothers day I made him go to the urgent care. ( he had refused to goto the doctors because it would just be a waste of time) So while we are waiting to see the Dr. at the urgent care john tells me how he's gonna be telling me I told you so when we are done!! Ya to bad I got to tell him told you so!! He had so much wax build up, that the Dr. could not see inside his ear!! so 8 flushes with w surrenge and look what came out!! Yes that is a huge piece of wax!! He can now hear!! and we have hidden the Q-tips from him since he loves to clean his ears out daily, which is what caused his problem!! Lesson learned-DO NOT use Q-tips every day!! Also listen to your wife, cause the wax softner would have eventually solved your problem :)

LAST DAY OF FIRST GRADE

Jacob was in first grade this year, and he had an amazing teacher. I got to help out in his class 2 times a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I also got to help with class parties or any other fun thing that was going on. This was a very fun year at school for Jacob, he learned so much, and became really good at reading, spelling and math. We will miss Mrs. Hengle, I told her she could Keep Jacob back in first grade and we could have her next year, But when we got his report card it was recommend he move onto second grade. On a happy note we will see Mrs. Hengle this next year school, at all the football games because her daughter is on the varsity squad with Jessie. Also another fun thing-Jessie had Mrs. Hengle for first grade....


This is just a few things I have been doing. Strawberry jam and lots of it!! I thought I had made plenty, but Jeremy calculated that what I had made was not enough, so more jam was made!! I think we have plenty now!! Also cherries, when they finally ripened we had a ton this year, we could not pick them fast enough or invite friends over to pick them. Jacob help me pit the cherries we froze a lot of them, he became very good at using the pitter!!