Standiford Family

Two weekends ago we had a contractor come out and replace a window, in our kitchen, with a door. This provides us with easier access to our back/side yard and also instead of getting all bundled up to take cooper out we now just open the door and out he goes. We are [...]

"The shepherds were abiding in the fields and the angel of the Lord appeared to them, announcing: ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. . . . For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord’ (Luke 2:10-11).
"The shepherds with [...]

And all through the house not a creature was stirring, well maybe one little one called Cooper. Since Santa makes his yearly stop a day early at our house (because the girls are so good ;->), we started our Christmas traditions tonight by having the girls open one present. They both received new [...]

Every body’s sickand that’s bothering meThese doctor visitsare costing more than moneyI don’t know just whoto blame for this catastrophe!But my one wish on Christmas Eveis as plain as it can be!
All I want for Christmas is a healthy family,a healthy family, a healthy family!Gee, if I could only have a healthy family,then we could [...]

I’ve heared this story a couple of times and I wanted to share it with others.
Years ago, Jack Smith told of a poignant story of two young boys at Christmastime.
I didn’t question Timmy, age nine, or his seven-year-old brother, Billy, about the brown wrapping paper they passed back and forth between them as we visited [...]

Here we are 9 days prior to Christmas and we are completely finished with our shopping. What a nice feeling to know that we don’t have to (although I’m sure we still will) go out into the shopping madness that this last week prior to Christmas will bring. A huge public thank you [...]

For family movie night we went to Cinemark Movies 14 to see Disney’s Brother Bear. This was a good movie with a great story and an even better ending. Also i couldn’t help but think about the similarities between Megan and Koda at many points in the movie. The girls both sat [...]

This past week our family spent a few days in Chicago, mostly courtesy of my employer while I attended some Adobe Photoshop training. The training was decent, nothing too spectacular, but that was probably about the best part of the trip.
I ended up being sick almost the whole time, the pool was closed until [...]