here's our nbc west coast contributor maria menounos. >> reporter: the day starts early at jenny and rob potter'sinnesota. >> do you want eggs, too? >> reporter: like any household with two kids full of energy, jenny and rob have their hands full. >> do you want to go skating today? >> reporter: you might say they're a typical minnesota family with one big difference. at age 31, jenny potter is playing in her fourth olympic games, the oldest member of team usa. she's already made history here in vancouver with two hat tricks in her first two games. >> either you're getting better or getting worse and you can't stay the same. as much as you want to stay the same, things are changing around you. >> reporter: in many ways, jenny is just like any other mom, struggling to balance work and family. it just so happens jenny's job is training for the olympics. jenny met rob the summer before the nagano olympics in 1998. uncharacteristically, she made the first move. >> i actually asked him out. >> she sent us tickets to this banquet, and so, we showed up, and all the players were looking at me funny, and