Football is OVER :{ Not sure how to feel?

Well Stone's team finished their season today with a real exciting game! The Mity Mite Purple Team ended season play at 6-3 , 4th seed in their division. They played the #1 team today The Brighton Bengals, probably the hardest loss they had up to this point, because it was such a head to head match-up. So the picture show the captains on the field having the coin toss. Stone is #5 with White towel hanging. Another memorable event, the boys were able to play on Cottonwood High School's Astro-turf field.

The boys were just ecstatic and were beaming. At the beginning of the game they other team had a small presentation and news clip for a team mate who is currently going through cancer treatments, this was very touching and meaningful and I do believe it touched all the boys in a positive way! The Silverwolves gave the ailing boy a signed Riverton Jersey as a token of their support in his battle against cancer. Stone ended the season playing Starting QB, Running Back, Corner, Safety, Kicker - He was well utilized and he was voted by his teammates "MOST VALUABLE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR". This made him feel really good, knowing that being Quarterback you either are blamed for the loss or complimented for the win, Its a catch 22 any way you look at it.

(So according to our local statistician, (Dad) Stone finished the year with 14 TD's - 12 Run In - 2 reception TD's - 4 more completed TD passes. What a season, not including the 3 that were called back in different games due to team penalties..)

Way to Go Gibby! Not only a star on the field but Off!

Halloween has definately changed at our house!

Front: (Colton) Back: (Natalie, Sam & Zoey)
This is Zoey (far right) and her friends on Halloween Night along with one of our neighbor boys who wanted to be with all the Jedi's. Chris and I did our normal fire pit in the front yard and handed out our treats, and No Kids.....Alissa worked until 7:30 and hung out with friends, Zoey went Trick-or-treating, at 15, I don't get it, but I have bigger battles to fight than that one. Jocelyn was with some neighbor girls, trick-or-treating, also, and Stone went to Frightmares at Lagoon with his friend. That leaves us with Hunter and he wanted to go trick-or-treating with his friends and left us to rot... Needless to say we had a lot of fun talking with all the neighbors out front hanging out and seeing all the fun trick-or treaters come by!

Okey Dokey October is almost Over!

So many days, so many things to report, sorry it has taken so long to update the blog, but here we go!

October 11th was a big day for Stone, he was ordained to the office of a "Deacon" in the Aaronic Priesthood. What a proud day for all especially Stone and his Dad ! We were so lucky to have some incredible priesthood holders there to help with his ordination; Dad (Chris Gibbons), Grandpa Rowbotham, Grandpa Gibbons and Uncle Vic Naccarato and of of course our amazing Bishopric.

Gev, Lizette, Craig, Shanique, Lindsey (The Professional Choreographers) & ZOEY!

On October 17th We had our hands full of many events, Alice took a week off from helping out at the Football Fields and did driving instead, Zoey attended a Hip-Hop convention in Murray at Murray High School called "Rap it Up",

Uncle Brett (Bishop Brett) and Aunt Lisa were there to see Stone's Winning TD!

Chris attended the Regional Priesthood Leadership Training at the Conference Center up town, Stone had a game at Olympus which they won in overtime, 16 to 12 (Stone ran in the winning TD)


Bronson & Alissa, officially "Ghostbusters"

And the Annual Girls Pref Dance (Costume Party) was about to begin, where we had 44 people to the house afterwords for a backyard, or back garage, projector movie. The days events were awesome and quite eventful and it ended up being a great weekend!

October 20th Alissa had her 1st High School A'capella Choir Concert at the High School. We had a good time, as we saw many of the neighborhood teenagers and many of Alissa's friends in the performance and they were great!


Chris & Alice "The other Ghostbusters"

Zoey "The Jedi Night" Alissa aka "80's, Let's Get Physical"

Hunter aka "Peter Pan"


Joceyn aka "The Nerd" missing in Action Stone aka "At Football Practice" missing in Action

October 26th the Official Gibbons Family Halloween Party, a little craziness, and a lot of good food and FUN!

October 27th, The first official SNOW STORM of the YEAR.....YUCK!!!!!!! Did I forget to tell you all I Hate the Winter!

Jocey, Zoey, Natalie, Samantha, Alissa, Tessa & Britta and of course (Michael Jackson)

October 28th "This is It!" The Michael Jackson Movie, we decided as a group of females, mostly neighborhood teenagers, but there were a few oldies like me!!! It was AWESOME!!!! Well worth staying up late and well worth full price for the 2 week playing of this movie!

More Fun October Adventures to Come, Just you Wait and See!!!!!

Look Who - is the big 1-2!

Andrew "Stone" Gibbons 7 days old 1997

Stone - 6 months old! 1998

My blue-eyed boys! 1998

He truly is superman, beginning at 1 year old! 1998

Just so Sticking Cute...1999 (clean though)

BFF's forever Chandler Burns and Stone Gibbons (Football Times 2008)

Primary Children's Hospital 9/28/09 EKG we think it is the last!!YEAH

Stone 12 years old! Took the day off from school
and we went to Primary Children's for his EKG and
he passed with flying Colors!

OK I am almost in denial of this day! My 1st born son is now 12 and I can't believe it...He has been counting down the days until his birthday for at least a month. He has a lot of friends in the neighborhood who have birthdays all around each other and he could not wait until his turn. Like on past posts I like to tell a little about each person in our family that celebrates a birthday, and how they have influenced our lives.

Andrew "Stone" Gibbons was born on September 28, 1997. After mom being sent home 2 other times with false labor, he finally came into this world only 9 days early. Mind you, Jocelyn , the last baby that was born in our home was 6 weeks early, so we were very cautious and careful when any labor pains began.....We knew we were having a boy from 17 weeks on, and so a name was the big hurdle - Having 3 older sisters we needed something masculine - So after watching Dateline one evening we decided that a strong boy name would be Stone! Many people who heard his name were a little thrown back at first, but then they all would get used to it and start to love it like we did! Stone is one in a million, he keeps us on our toes as well as everyone he comes in contact with. If it has anything to do with sports, he does it. We make the rounds for each season, Football, Basketball and Baseball. Stone from has amazed us from time to time; AT 1, he had tubes put in his ears and didn't even mind, at 2 he was diagnose d with a stage 4 heart murmur, but it did not slow him down a bit. At 3 he taught himself to ride a 2-wheeler all by himself, At 4, he began his sports career with T-ball, as it goes we are still focused on all seasons and all sports, but Baseball is his first love!

On this Birthday we went to Primary Children's Medical Center to have an Appointment with his Heart Specialist, Ronald Day. He was given a physical and EKG, and after all the tests, they announced he still had a murmur, there was no further leakage from his main valve and that he hoped to never have to see us again. Sad, yet Awesome! Stone has only been to Dr. Day 4 total times, but hopefully there will be no more need to visit him. We continued our day by going to lunch at Chili's and getting him a new suit for his upcoming ordination in our Church. I can't believe he will be a priesthood holder and passing the sacrament, I am so proud of him and the decisions he is already making in his young life. Stone has a way about him that attracts those around him, he makes friends easily and keeps them.
Happy Birthday "Gibby"
I will always be your biggest FAN! Love Mom!

FOOTBALL Update!

SO we have just finished week 3 of the real season for Stone's Purple Mity Mite team. Last week on September 12, 2009 Stone's team played Highland Black and they were able to pull off another victory of 25 to 12. The first half ended at 12 - 12 and the 2 TD"s in the 2nd half were the "Gibby" running them in. He has a little knack about keeping us on our toes.

This week September 19, 2009 we played Brighton at Brighton. Rumors were flying that they had heard we were a really good team, so they were ready for us! With both teams coming head to head with 2-0 each, the game was a rough one. Never the less, We lost the game 14-6, and played really hard. Kudos to the Brighton team, they were tall, big and FAST! They had some great plays in their playbook and we defended them pretty tough. The last 2 games that this team played slaughtered their opponents, so we feel really good about what we did and know we will probably be meeting up with them in the playoffs.

RHS Homecoming 2009

So here we are again, another dance and we are sending off our little girl! Well she looked awesome and so did her date "Jacob" Of course, Dad was a little upset that he had to postpone the watching of the BYU game until after she was picked up, but I am pretty sure he will live!

By the way is September 19, 2009 and 88 degrees outside in Riverton, Utah - does not seem like Football and Homecoming weather But I will never complain about Mr. Winter not coming around yet!!!!

The 1st official Game of Mity Mite Purple!

Just a quick update on Stone's first game, 9-5-09 Riverton Purple vs Jordan Gray (Mity Mite Division 11-12 year olds) Stone at QB & Kicker, 33-0 Win over Jordan. Stone 4 hand off TD's to McCleary, Downs & Guss & 1 Run In TD by himself. Eventful and fun! You can see it in his face that he loves to play when he is on the field.