Farm Expo 2009

We went to the Farm Expo last weekend with the Lowe family. The boys had a great time and got to play in some big boy toys.Connor prefers to drive





Sheep and a Great Pyrenee

Dylan and Connor found the tallest and biggest tractor in the whole show

Again, Connor must be at the wheel! All of those golf cart drives he takes

with papaw is starting to show. Now I know who really drives!

Dylan, Andy, Kyle and Connor

One very big Gobble Gobble

Please boys- don't touch those- bird flu is going around again!!

Joy and Avery looking pretty!

Connor rides this kind of tractor at papaw's farm

My liitle cowboy when he was eight weeks old..I bet that hat would fit now.

Welcome Abby Potter

Ladies and gentleman, faithful SipeLife blog followers, Oregonians, Tennesseeans, Vol fans, Duck fans, and any other weirdos that are blog stalkers(like myself!!)- There is a new POTTER girl in town.

That is right- Layney has a sister!!!!!!

Miss Dara Abigail Potter arrived on Sunday January 12, 2009 at 3:54 pm!! She made her debut about 5 weeks early and her sweet, tough mother had a long road to get her here healthy. Lisa entered the hospital on New Year's Eve( the night of the Potter/Sipe New Year's Eve celebration that never happened) and endured some long nights and days trying to hold her off. I can bet that she is gonna be a little pistol. She weighed 5 pounds and has been in the NICU staying warm and getting lots of nutrients. She is beautiful and her Aunt TIffany has seen her up close and personal. Layney and Connor know all about her but have never met. Hopefully she will come home soon so we can resume sleepovers soon. Here is an email that Lisa sent this week and above is a recent photo. She has some cute little gowns that Aunt TIffany and Miss Lois bought her but she is too little to wear them just yet (they are preemie size so that should explain how little she is!!)

From Lisa:

She has gained some ounces to her skinny little body. She now weighs 4lbs 12.8ozs. She gets to have her IV's removed. She has no longer a need for her nutrients and fats that she was receiving. Now we have to work on her breastfeeding and we will be doing great. She is doing that 2 times a day. That will increase every 24 hours. We are on 22 days of the hospital which is officially getting old. Everyone we know is sick or has someone in the house sick. No visitors for Lisa poo!!!!! Oh well I will make it. I just have to put my "Big Girl" panties on I guess. My whole household is sick at home also with that nasty stomach virus. Needless to say I haven't seen my other daughter and husband for 4 days now. But again I will make it!!! Just continue to pray for us as you all have been doing. It will be pretty sad if I have to beg the hospital to let us stay longer because of the home cooties!!! HA HA HAI am attaching a picture of Abby. Somehow I got here to smile. I hope it's not too dark for you. If I use the flash she goes crazy.

Love Always,Lisa, Justin ,Layney and Abby

Mommy's Daddy thinks she looks so professional!!

I returned to graduate school at ETSU for my last year of Family Nurse Practitioner classes. I can finally say that I graduate this December. I tell people that and they wait a minute then go.."Oh- as in next December" and I say "Yes- this year at least!!".

As an undergraudate nursing student I had to wear all white (so that the human waste I was exposed to illuminated well to remind me what I was really getting myself into) at UT. My dad never really saw what he was paying for. I would just bring home great grades and a 1998 National Football Championship and I was doing really well at UT to him!! I began clinicals as a FNP student this past fall and he was really impressed with how I was dressed. He thought for the first time in my career I looked professional and really smart. That is the point- I may not know what I am doing but at least I look like I do!!!! I asked him to take some photos so I could keepsake them here. I hope in a few years I will look back at this young (ha ha) lady and remember what she went through to get to where she is today- or at least something like that!!
This is my Miss America pose. Actually I didnt realize I posted it twice but it gives me the opportunity to wish Miss Tennessee, Ellen Carrington, good luck at Miss America tonight!!

Really I think I missed my calling- professional modeling for medical jackets could have made me a millionaire!!!

I am pretty sure only an only child would post this many photos of herself!!

My cheesy little boy and my new Facebook profile pic!!

Where does he get that cheesy smile from????