Standiford Family

Today Kelly is celebrating her repeating 26th birthday.  She celebrated by baking and handing out cupcakes to all the kids in Primary.  The girls and I have a few gifts that will hopefully help her to enjoy this day.
Have a wonderful birthday, Sweetheart!

Kelly has really been wanting to go to the Shedd Aquarium lately and Saturday was finally a day that we could go.  Our day started out with us leaving around 10:30am.  We stopped at McDonald’s for a few breakfast sandwiches and then jumped on the Toll Road and headed for Chicago.  After a couple of, what seemed [...]

Friday, Megan attended her first day of Kindergarten.  She was very excited about going to school, and really enjoyed her first day.  Her favorite activity for the day was playing outside on the playground.  She already made a new “best friend” named Nicholas.  Hmm, friends that are boys and named Nick seem to be somewhat [...]

Mom called and said they got to Salt Lake City around 11:00pm.  They are having problems with their van that they rented so they had to stop somewhere in Nebraska and call the rental car place.  So one of the first stops in Salt Lake will be at the rental car place to see about [...]

Update: Mom just called and said that they stopped in Nebraska at 4:00am this morning after driving for 14 hours.  They had originally planned on driving straight through to Salt Lake, but all that driving made them a little tired and they decided it was best to stop for a little sleep.  After some breakfast [...]

Saturday night we had a little family get together to celebrate with Amanda before she heads off to college.  After over-eating at Ponderosa, we stopped at Hollywood Video to pick up a movie.  Back at the ranch, we watched one of Amanda’s favorites called The Other Sister.  What a funny movie!  If you get a chance [...]

On Saturday we took a trip to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.  The girls and I left home around 7:15am to drive to Michigan to pick up my Parents and Sister, who were dropping their dog, Angel, off at my Grandparent’s house.  After my Grandpa made sure that we had enough air in our tires, [...]

On Saturday we attended the Spenner Family Reunion for the first time in a long time.  It was held at Madeline Bertrand County Park.  What a nice park.  It had a great play area for the kids, clean bathrooms (in a park, your kidding me), and we actually witnessed a park ranger come around at [...]

Here’s a recap of the two milestones, one good and one bad, which I experienced yesterday.
Milestone #1- Passing the one hundred mile mark on my bike odometerMilestone #2 - Paying $30 for a tank of gas (yikes!)
The gas was purchased at the new Martin’s gas station on Ironwood and 23.  That’s a sweet setup.  The pumps [...]

I finally hit the big 30, no not age, but miles per hour.  On my ride into work this morning, coming down a hill on Eddy, I was able to reach 32.6 miles per hour on my bike.  Reaching this speed was a goal of mine, and now I can say I have met that [...]