Standiford Family

I just got back from an invigorating bicycle ride. I’ve been trying to spend the first thirty minutes of my lunch hour doing some sort of physical activity. Yesterday I jogged for a little over a mile and a half and then walked another mile. Today I brought my bike with me [...]

Here was one of the main reasons I was trying to incorporate video into the website. I wanted to post this video of Megan on the first day she learned to ride a two-wheeler. I was pretty impressed.
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The South Bend/Mishawaka Indiana Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) created a promotional video to attract and welcome visitors to our area.  It’s interesting to watch and see how they try to market our area to visitors.  There is no lack of Notre Dame footage in the video, but why not when the CVB slogan is [...]

I came across this little poem while reading an email message from an LDS mailing list and wanted to share it.  I try to be the best I can and know that my Dad did the same for me.
Only a dad with a tired face,
Coming home from the daily race,
Toiling and striving from day to [...]

I have been working hard lately (just ask Kelly) trying to convert video into a format that is viewable on the website and I think I finally have something that will work. If you wouldn’t mind helping me by posting a comment, letting me know if you can view the video ok.
This really short [...]

Mattey has been saying for a while that when she turns five she is going to get her ears pierced. So two days after returning from vacation we took her to Claire’s to get them done. Kelly and I both told her that it was going to hurt. We even watched a [...]

This is one of the many stories that has been on my list of things to post to the website. A while ago I took the training wheels off of Megan’s bike and helped her learn how to ride. Not surprisingly she took to it rather quickly. She’s still got some things [...]

We finally have gotten a hold of Megan’s softball schedule for the rest of the season.  There may be some additional makeup games added in here and there but for the most part this should be it.  She loves to have a fan base so if you want to enjoy some good old fashioned fun [...]