The Stanford Family

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kristystanford — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:03:28 +0000

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Work Adult Christmas Party

kristystanford — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:20:00 +0000

This weekend we went to an adult Christmas party for Lee’s firm. We had the kids stay at Grandma and Papa’s house while we went early to spend some more time there. We went and got a couple’s massage and then went shopping for a bit before heading to the hotel. The hotel we stayed at was called the Rimrock hotel which was a very nice hotel, we got one of the executive suites which was huge.

In the evening we had a fancy dinner and a dance. It was nice to meet alot of the people Lee works with. It was a weird mix of LDS members and non-members with an open bar. In the morning they had a huge brunch for us before heading out.

Our view from the hotel room

Work Christmas Party

kristystanford — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:39:00 +0000

Lee’s work had there kids Christmas Party last week at C.O.P. They had lunch, crafts, and then at the end Santa came and gave them presents. Both kids were really good with Santa, Zoë was super excited and Dreyton didn’t have a problem going straight to him.
The cameraman kept trying to get Dreyton to smile but as soon as Dreyton started smiling he would look at Santa and give a huge smile and then stop and look back at the camera and give a blank look.

Zoë got a pink backpack which held a puppy on the back of it and Dreyton got a circus playmobil set.

This weekend is our adult Christmas party in Banff at the rimrock hotel, i’ll post about that afterwards.

Horsy Ride

kristystanford — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:31:00 +0000

The kids going for a horsy ride on Uncle Brook/Daddy

I decided to make a vegetable platter up a little while ago to keep in the fridge and apparently my kids think it’s a special treat. This is Dreyton in the corner trying to hide from me so I can’t see him eating his “special” treats.

Our Christmas Tree we had put up a few weeks ago

Cake Decorating level 2

kristystanford — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:04:00 +0000

I just finished my level 2 cake decorating classes at michaels. This level you only made one cake at the end and learned how to do mostly flowers the other weeks. I really enjoyed making this cake, I love the basketweave technique and the rope border. We made the flowers out of royal iciing which makes it not really edible, more for looks.

I made this bird out of color flow iciing. Zoë got her hands on the container and broke the bird before I could put it on the cake

Zoë finished her puzzle

kristystanford — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:00 +0000

Zoë keeps amazing me with puzzles, she can do quite hard ones without any help. She can see just a little spot on one puzzle that matches to another quite easily. She totally forgot the words at the end of her abc’s and decided to match the tune with other words so no one would notice.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

kristystanford — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:08:00 +0000

Cousins

kristystanford — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Zoë and Jayden have lots of fun when they get together, even if they fight often over toys. These pictures are from a playdate earlier this week.

Zoë, Jayden, and Dreyton dancing. I really need to get Dreyton some boy dress-up stuff.

Playing with bendaroos

Playing a matching game with the cards they got from trick or treating.
Playing playdough

Zoë and Dreyton had a check-up this morning, Zoë is 39.4 lbs and 99cm (3’3″), Dreyton is 31 lbs and 89 cm (2’11″).

Happy Halloween

kristystanford — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:32:00 +0000

We went to a stake Halloween party the night before, it was fun until it got way too busy.

Dreyton went as a sheriff

and Zoë was Snow White.

Zoë in the bouncy house

Dreyton playing one of the games

We decided to use a template and not carve a regular jack-o-lantern pumpkin. We did a ghost and Zoë wanted a little bat.

Getting ready for trick or treating. Zoë went as a pink poodle, and Dreyton went as a tiger. I asked Zoë a few weeks before Halloween what she wanted to be and she said she wanted to be a pink puppy. I figured I wouldn’t be able to find a warm costume like that so we went looking for something else and I was glad when I did find a pink puppy for her.

Just about to put some make up on before heading out.

I didn’t get very many pictures of actual trick or treating, it was hard enough catching up to Zoë.

Ballet

kristystanford — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Zoë is so funny when she does her ballet dances. She knows quite a few ballet moves but she’s definetely not the most graceful person, I will try to get it on video some time.

Both my kids are surprising me with how good they are at puzzles. Dreyton can do puzzles with pictures in the background quite easily and Zoë is learning to find the missing spots to connect harder puzzles.

The grandkids (minus Drew) talking to Grandma and Pampa on a video conference on the computer while they are in Arizona. Jayden was so confused talking through the computer, she kept saying the computer can’t hear us.