Go Frogs, Happy Birthday Trev, and Viva Mexico!

The Facts are these:
*The TCU Horned Frogs played The BYU Cougars on Thursday 16 October at TCU's Amon G. Carter Stadium.
*My mom and dad, Trevor, Cami, Kevin, Ashley, Spencer, their little girl Sophie, Lance, and nearly every other mormon within 5 hours driving distance, who weren't on their missions, were in attendance at this game.
*TCU was ranked number 24 and BYU was ranked number 8 at the time this game was played.
*After this game, TCU is ranked number 14 and BYU is ranked number 21.
*The day this intense fall in the polls happened, as previously mentioned on October 16, which was also the 16th birthday of Trevor, diehard BYU fan.
*The final score was TCU- 32, BYU- 7

Poor Trevor.

Despite the polar feelings between me, a horned frog, and the rest of my family who came to the game, cougars 'till the end, it was a fun night which we ended with dinner for Trevor's birthday at Ihop!


This is Spencer, Ashley, and Sophie, who made the five hour drive from Lubbock, Texas to see their cougars play. That is dedication, my friend.

Sophie was so cute all decked out in blue- she had the CUTEST blue ribbons adorning her pigtails! Ashley has some really cute pictures of her with the pretty fall flowers on campus. Thanks Again Ashley and Spencer for giving up your extra ticket so Lance could watch the game with us!


This is my mom, Cami, and Kevin ready to cheer on their BYU cougars...


My mom is really a horned frog at heart... As evidenced by the horned frog symbol. I know, I know, you want to taunt her and make fun of her- I just ask you to be kind.


This is during half time, when Lance and I came to the BYU section to taunt-- I mean, console, my family at the 23-0 lead TCU had over BYU. Yes, Lance was wearing blue. Don't even get me started...


Cami, too, is a horned frog at heart. I ask you to be nice to her as well. She can't help her true feelings- she was born that way.


This is one of the MANY reasons why I love Texas- look at that sunset! GO HORNED FROGS! :)

So, Because Trevor's birthday was on the 16th, and he got to cheer on the victorious horned frogs on that special day, we had a family celebration the next night. I was able to come home for the weekend, and since Lance was on Fall Break, he got to tag along. He's beginning to become more of a permanent fixture in our family, which- I love. It is so wonderful seeing him in all sorts of new situations; it has been really good for us to be able to see each other more this year.

The celebration kicked off Friday night with a good ol' fashioned pizza-making party. It was so much fun- but my mom has those pictures, so I'll let you read about it on her blog. While the pizzas were baking, Trevor opened his presents. He got cologne, clothes, and candy- what more could a boy who is 16 want-- oh, besides a car and a macbook (which, much to his chagrin, he didn't get)!


This was handsdown the best gift of the evening: Cam admitted IN WRITING on Trevor's birthday card that she was glad he was born a boy. When my mom brought our new baby brother home from the hospital 16 years ago, my sister and I were very unamused that she brought home a boy and not a girl. WELL, 16 years later, we have both decided God knew what he was doing- the Lesueur family probably would have reached its untimely demise if there was another girl in our blessed little family. Trev, we're ALL glad you are a Trevor and not a Trevina! :)


When asked what kind of birthday cake he would like my momma and me to MAKE for his birthday, he replied, "I want an icecream cake from Wal-Mart." You can imagine my little Martha Stewart heart fell. So begrudgengly, we bought this cake from Wal-Mart, and he loved it.

Another specific Trevor gave us about his birthday is, he wanted a Mexican dinner with just the family and Kendra. So, we got out our best chimichanga and enchilada recipes, a bag of chips, and a lot of red white and green decorations

This is our mexican flag table, complete with mexican sodas and mexican flag place cards.


Here's my mom and dad and their cute place cards.


Cam and Kevin are sweet!


Trevor and his beloved Kendra. Note the piniata in the background- its hanging from the balcony. I really love having a balcony in that house!


Here is Lance and me, stuffing the piniata. we do everything with a smile :) Just so you know-- it was my dad who ended up breaking the piniata, it was fun to feel like a 10-year-old at a birthday party again!!

This was a super fun weekend, and it was so great to spend it with those I love most!

The Blogging Bug

SO, I caught the blogging fever from my cute cousins and my brother-in-law. I blame them for all future procrastination that takes place on this blog!

In the world of Chelsea, A LOT has been happening lately. Namely, I am a junior theatre student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. I am definitely loving it- it is wonderful to be so close to my family and especially my sister now that she will be giving me a little niece or nephew soon. Being a patron of the theatrical arts, and a HUGE fan of Shakespeare, you can imagine my joy when I found out Baby J, as we lovingly refer their little blessing, will be making his/her sure to be dramatic entrance on none other than The Ides of March, March 15! E tu Brute?


I was actually here for my momma's birthday this year! She turned 29. Again. My dad got her a charm bracelet and each of us children got her a charm. My mom, Cami, and I spent the day shopping, that was fun until pregnant Cami got Baby J nausea, and I got sympathy nausia. Poor mom- we were such debbie downers!



It is also nice to be close to Lance. We have been dating off and on since March of 2006, and I couldn't be happier than I am right now. This last weekend, he and I went to my parent's house in Prosper to watch General Conference with them- what a fun experience that was to watch the prophet and apostles speak on the importance of family and other spiritual matters with those I love most!


My family is doing very well; in light of the suckishness of the economy right now, I think we are turning inwards and recognizing the importance of the things that are important! Newport Homebuilders is my dad's company and it is indeed a family affair! Seeing as how about 80% of the company is LDS, they have monthly Newport Night at the Temple, which from the outside looking in, I can see has made a difference in demeanor. The Lord surely does bless those who follow the commandments!

This is part of the Newport crew at the Mongolian Grill post temple. It should be noted that Cami was also there, but due once again to Baby J's nausea, had to skip out on dinner.


On 16 September, my family received the disheartening news that my Grandpa Jones passed away at 3:56 in the morning, Arizona time. My whole family gathered together that weekend for the funeral; it was wonderful to get together to share our favorite memories of grandpa- he was feisty until the very end, and I hope that is a quality I received and will maintain until my the very end- just like him! Just a little anecdote, the day before he passed away, he was checking into the ER; when being asked the routine questions he cooperated politely until they asked him if he smoked or drank, to which he replied, "Do I look stupid?". He was never afraid to set people straight... Here are some of my favorite pictures from that weekend:

Here are the cute boys of our family at my Aunt Melodee's house. There's also a great picture of trevor sitting on my dad's lap with a smirk on his face- in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with by darling brother, I will refrain from putting it up. I'm not sure what Kevin is doing here though...












And here's one of the girls! Can you see the family resemblance?












You know how they say when children are quiet, they're probably making a mess... here is photo evidence! This is Aden and Westin, My cousins Celeste and Harmony's little boys, finding fun in dominoes. They are too cute!













This little beauty is my cousin Connie's daughter Kaydance. This was taken at the Arizona temple when we were taking family pictures.























Here are all the cousins with grandma.

These darling little girls belong to my cousins Jared and Ashley. Their Grandma Neeenee, my aunt Lisa, got them these precious dresses. They both LOVED the flowers on the temple grounds.












This is the ever-energetic Kade. He is my cousin Shalynn's son, and he is a HOOT! At the viewing, he was running up to everyone in the line, introducing himself and shaking their hands. This was when he was all introduced out. What a cute kid...

















These were the Navy men present at my grandpa's grave site service. Their salute was so neat to watch, I'm sure Grandpa was proud :)












My cousins, the pallbearers












My cute Aunt Kim and her girls Jamie and Annie. At the funeral we had an arrangement of red roses, one representing each child, grandchild, and great-grandchild. When everything was all said and done, we each got to keep our rose.












Clayton, with his rose.









One of my favorite pictures, the Arizona temple with some beautiful yellow flowers.

























This is at my Tick-Tock Grandma's house. I have so many memories around this table!














My family, sans my momma, in front of the fireplace where we always take pictures.














Trevor being so cute and musical. Family Von Trapp anyone?


The Little Red Caboose was my daddy's favorite book as a child. He rediscovered it, and read out loud to us, this was such a cute moment that I hope to always remember!












Another nostalgic moment: my grandma, in an effort to clean out, had this little memento from my daddy's childhood sitting on the trashcan. When my dad walked up to the house and saw his Bobby Hall Hockey game heading for the city dump, he let out a, "Nooooo!" then he turned to my grandma and said, "you're not throwing this out, are you?" It was a cute glimpse into my dad's sentimental side- he has memories of playing hockey tournaments with his dad and brothers. This is a picture of Trevor and Daddy carrying on the father-son tournament tradition.