Submission by Brad

Mom, you sent me this small card with this painting on it when we lived in Guam. It was your way of reminding me to be safe and to rely on inspiration from Heavenly Father and Jesus to stay safe. I would tell you about  the typhoons and earthquakes and I know that you were concerned about me so far away. Thank you for your tenderness and loving kindness.

I love you with all of my heart.   

Brad

Thanks, Grandma Chapman!

Gage got so excited yesterday when we checked the mail and there was a cute Christmas envelope just for him!

We opened it up together and he picked up the McDonald's card and said,

"This is my debit card."

Ha!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Chapman! We are going to take him to get an ice cream sundae tomorrow and we'll be thinking about you the whole time!

(Gage holding the gift card next to his face for the picture)

Family Photo at Jeff & Diane's on Thanksgiving!

Submission by Brad - I Spent Saturday with Grandma & Grandpa C.

I spent Saturday with Mom and Dad. I arrived Saturday night and left Sunday morning. Mom got a neat walker that she can sit down on when she gets tired and I helped her do some exercises with it. There was an inversion going on in the valley so it was foggy and gloomy outside while I was there.

When I was getting ready to go on my mission, I worked at a place called Hatfield Wire and Cable. It was a company that made all kinds of insulated copper wire. At one point I was put on the graveyard shift and it wasn't fun. I would go to work at 11 pm and get home at 7am in the morning. Mom would stay up with me until I left for work and it meant a lot to me. She would make me a boloney, cheese, lettuce, and pickle sandwich which was my favorite. It wasn't a fun job. At one am in the morning when I ate my sandwich it was a nice little break from a very monotonous job. The place was huge and had forklift streets inside of the building that had stop signs and traffic signs. To stay awake some of the workers took illegal drugs so there was a narcotics agent that worked incognito  at the plant. The guys I worked with were scary. When I got home in the morning Mom would greet  me as I took off my coat and collapsed in my bed. I eventually got laid off which was a blessing to me. The price of copper dropped and the plant shut down for a time. Mom was with me when I drove to Wasatch Shadows Nursery and got a job for the last couple of months before I went on my mission. Thanks, Mom, for being there for me. I love you with all of my heart.    Brad

Nice Aliens and Swirls

Dear Grandma,

We love you more than alien battles and flower swirls.

Love, 

Caci and Jace

The evergreen in Grandma & Grandpa's front yard is decorated!

I (Brad) just arrived at G & G Chapman's house to spend the weekend.

Bishop Buck, a former Bishop of G & G Chapman decorated the evergreen in their front yard for Christmas. It is BEAUTIFUL!

This is a photo taken with the flash but you can see how many lights are on the tree.

Alien Faces and Love Birds

Dear Grandma,

We love you as much as alien faces and love birds.

Love, 

Caci and Jace

i LOVE grandma! post by azure

i would just like to get it out there that.......




I LOVE GRANDMA! she is someone i can always talk to , and is ALWAYS there for me. She is one of my best friends and i always have fun when im with her, its like shes a teenager :) 


I LOVE YOU GRANDMA! :) <3

Flowers and Alien Vehicles

Dear Grandma,

We love you as much as alien vehicles and flowers.

Love,

Caci and Jace

Peacocks and Aliens

Dear Grandma,

Jace and I have decided that the best medicine is some cheery artwork!  For the next few days we are going to make you a new picture so you will know how much WE LOVE YOU!

Love,

Caci and Jace

Jace's Picture for Grandma

Dear Grandma,

Jace's favorite thing in the whole world is Halo (and Golden Grahams).  So when I asked him if he would like to draw you a picture, his face lit up and he said, "YES!!  I am going to draw her a Halo battle!  And she will LOVE it!  It's going to make her SOOOOOOOOOO excited!!  She's going to jump on the couch and say 'I LOVE THIS HALO BATTLE!'."

Jace also wants you to know he LOVES YOU!

Gage Loves Grandma!

Dear Grandma Chapman,

I love you! Santa is coming soon!

Love,

Gage

Grandma is my FAVORITE.

From the moment I met Grandma, she has always been so radient, happy, cheerful, charismatic, joyful and full of fun.  I remember the first time Trevor took me to meet Grandma and Grandpa; she gave me a big hug and made me feel as if I was already part of the family.  She told me all kinds of stories of Trevor growing up, then she brought out the big family picture album, dropped down on the floor, and poured over pictures with me as if we were two sixteen year olds at a slumber party.  It was so fun!

Grandma always has a cookie jar full of my very favorite chewy chocolate chip cookies that I just *know* she has in the house only for me.  She usually tries to sneak the whole bag along with Jace as we pack up to leave after a visit.

I love the picture of Grandma in her sassy red dress when she was a young women with Grandpa-- she is the perfect mix of beauty, grace, and charm.

I have spent more time with Grandma in these short six years than I have with all of my Grandmas on my side.  I truly feel that Grandma is my Grandma and I love and appreciate her so much and hope I can be just as fun, happy, spirited, witty, charming, charismatic, gracious, graceful, beautiful, and loving as she is when I am in my golden years.

I love you, Grandma!

Love,

Caci

.. (:

I love you more than cupcakes.

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i love you more than money

 

i love you more than icecream

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i love you more than sushi.

i love you more than DAVID ARCHULETA!!

LOVE AZURE!

Mom, you've always been right there for me. I love you and appreciate you!

Mom, helping me coil the new GOLDLINE climbing rope that I got for my birthday. This is at a favorite place of ours, a place called Fool Creek. It is down by Oak City, Utah. The date on the photo says - MAY 74 - so I would have been 16 years old.

Lizzy and Kathy,  climbing around on the rocks at Fool Creek.

 Me, rappelling off of the big cliff at Fool Creek. My dad took all of these photos with a camera that I also got for my birthday.

I LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF MY HEART,  BRAD

Submission By Brad - An unexpected gift of love from my mom!

I was scared!  I was walking out on the tarmac to the plane that was going to take me away for two years. I was trying to act brave. I had just left the arms of my tearful parents and siblings. I sat down on the plane and desperately searched out the window to get a last look at my family. The plane pulled away from the terminal and I leaned back in the seat with my eyes closed and prayed to Father in Heaven to give me strength and courage. For some reason I reached down into the pocket of my suit coat and felt a paper that I hadn't noticed before. I pulled out the object and was immediately filled with courage and hope and happiness and joy. I have treasured this object my whole life and have shared it with very few. I carefully put it back in my pocket, looked out the window to see Salt Lake City disappear in the distance and with a tear and a smile and squared shoulders I laid my head back on the seat as the plane banked and headed for Japan.

Mom, I love you with all of my heart!    Brad

Lovin' my Mom!

I'm sorry it's taking me so long to post. I saw this poem and it spoke my feelings for me:

Dear Mom

by Anonymous

Dear Mom, I said a prayer for you to thank the Lord above For blessing me with a lifetime of your tenderhearted love. I thanked God for the caring you've shown me through the years, For the closeness we've enjoyed in time of laughter and of tears. And so, I thank you from the heart for all you've done for me And I bless the Lord for giving me the best mother there could be

I LOVE YOU MAMA!!

Submission by Brad

Photo taken in Zion National Park last Friday

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God"

Elder Orson F. Whitney

Photo taken in Zion National Park last Friday

To Mom,   I love you with all my heart.                 Brad

Royal Robbins ROCK CLIMBING BOOTS

PHOTO TAKEN NOVEMBER 8, 2011

When I was 15 or 16 I loved rock climbing. I told my Mom about the blue boots with red laces called Royal Robins after a famous rock climber in Yosemite. I wanted those boots so bad. All of the climbers had them back in those days. They weren't cheap.  80 or 90 dollars as I can remember. I loved and still love everything about climbing. My birthday came and there in the box were the blue boots. It was one of my best birthdays ever.

Thanks Mom.  I love you with all of my heart

Me, with my new Royal Robbins rock climbing boots.
Jeff, preparing to leave on his mission very soon.

:)

Great!
Really fun!
Amazing!
Not serious ( always funny :)
Dang fun!
Miraculous!
Awesome!
Caring, always makes sure were doing ok!
Happy!
A REALLY fun grandma!
Positive!
Magnificant!
A silly grandma!
Not grouchy EVER! always happy!


<3 love you grandma!
Love, Azure


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Being with Grandma - Post by Sierra

Every time that I get to spend with Grandma is so enjoyable! This summer me and Azure went to her organ lesson with her. It was so much fun to just spend time with her. She also always tells me stories of her life and I love hearing them. Her and Grandpa came for Thanksgiving last year and I loved sharing that time with them. She cracks me up EVERY time that I'm with her and has the most joyful spirit. Whenever we visit she says, "Now I'm not with you guys a lot, so we're going to go shopping and I am going to buy you whatever you want." Of course that's not the reason that I love her, but it definitely makes me happy! (: She loves seeing her family happy and is a great hostess. There are so many more AMAZING traits about Grandma, but I think it would take up everyone elses space to post! (:

I love you Grandma! <3 

The Temple (posted by Denalee)

A year or so ago each time I came for a business trip and stayed with Mom & Dad, Mom and I would take a couple of hours and go to the temple.


The last time we went was my first trip to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. SO beautiful!


I love my time at the temple with Mom.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Picture of Yoda the cute one. I love you great grandma

Part of the Clarkson, Chapman Clan

We love when great grandma chapman comes to visit. We can't wait for Thanksgiving.
We love you

Sam, Cody, Brauner, Eli, Abram , Annabelle, Hazel, Luke, Karson and Shelby

Beautiful Mother/Grandmother

Look at this picture of this beautiful Mom/grandma!

coolest grandma ever!

Grandma is so fun! She took me bike riding one time and we had a blast!


You're so fun grandma!!!!! LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH!


Love - Azure (:

I love Grandma! Post by Sierra

In this picture, Grandma saw how Azure put a piece of paper on their picture. The word-bubble from Grandma's mouth in the photo of her and Grandpa says something like, "Azure and Sierra are my favorite grandchildren!' (and a little bit more) (: 

A few months ago, me, Azure, and Grandma went to go and get Blizzards from Dairy Queen. Grandpa's blue stick-shift truck was parked in the drive-way, so Grandma decided to drive it. She had told us she haden't driven it for a while but she would be fine. We got into the truck and she tried turning on the car...but for some reason she couldn't get it to start. This was the beginning of our little adventure. As soon as she realized how to start it, we were off. We got to the stop-light and stopped. The light then turned green. The truck being as old as it is, did not want to go...well atleast very fast. Cars started honking and we started panicking. Grandma began saying "Let's go! Let's go!"with real emotion. Her head was down by the wheel and she was concentrated, while smiling of course, on getting us going. We laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed about that! (: We got to Dairy Queen safely, enjoyed our ice cream (the second day we had enjoyed it that week), and hoped that we would return home in one piece. ;) We did get home safely and laughed about it all that night. I cherish this memory with Grandma because we became closer and got to see the silly and youthful side of her. (Even though she always acts like she's our age..which I love!) I'll ALWAYS remember this and laugh about it often...in fact, I was laughing while I was writing this! (Az walked in and asked what I was laughing about, because I was actually laughing out loud!) (: I love you soooo much Grandma!

Great Grandmother is the bell of the ball

West Jordan PTA

When I was in elementary school I could always count on my Mom being involved in all my activities.
She was always ready to help.
I could also count on her being to my Baseball Games and cheering rather we won or lost.
Thank for all you have done for me and my family.
Jeff

I needed to talk to my Mom! By Brad

Photo taken today - Nov 6th, 2011

I remember when I was 15 years old I went on the National Jamboree to Farragut State Park Boy Scout facility up in Idaho. We were gone for 2 weeks and the first week was spent touring up through Montana and Southern Alberta.  I had never been away from home for so long and I got quite home sick. I was with Danny Jensen and the rest of the boys on the bus were rowdy and wild. When we got to the Jamboree there were tens of thousands of scouts there and as I wandered through the exhibits and activities I got this terrible pang of homesickness. I needed to talk to my Mom. I remember finding the phones. There were about 50 phones in a line and I couldn’t figure out how to call home.  I can’t remember if I didn’t have the correct change to get the phone going or what the problem was but I was distraught. Eventually I figured it out and when I finally heard your voice and talked to you I was relieved and then went on and finished the rest of the Jamboree with no problems. Looking back on that jamboree, that was my most poignant memory.

November 6, 2011

A message to all of my family.

I love you all very much.

Thank you!

Grandma C

Photo submission from Jeff

Who is that lovely senorita?