No more blogs............

Hello everybody! Unfortunately, we have decided to do away with the blogspot for now. Life has gotten way too busy and crazy for us to keep up with it. I am sorry to those of you that checked in on a regular basis to see what was going on in our lives.

A quick update.....Everybody is doing well and growing fast and furious. Ashley will be 10 mos old on the 30th and growing like a weed! She got tubes put in her ears last month and has being doing so much better since. In fact, she started crawling several weeks ago after the surgery and shortly after started to attempt walking. She walks really well with a push toy and cruises around everywhere. She is a very curious baby and she follows Cody all around the house, which drives him absolutely nuts....she just loves her big brother! Her little personality is really starting to come out and she is just oh so cute!

Cody is also doing well and learning so many things, we are so proud of him! He is excelling in preschool/daycare and loves it!! I really like his teachers and the daycare/school that he goes too. He has made lots of friends and is very into books these days. Of course he is ALL boy and loves being outside as well and getting dirty in the dirt with his trucks, cars and tractors. He is getting tall and growing oh so fast!! He is such a cute kid with a heart of gold!

Kenny and I are also doing well, but very tired. We are both working our full-time jobs, working on our recycling business and also working weekends at the kids' daycare/school to make ends meet. It is very tiresome and alot of work, but that is what we have to do for the time being. Between all of the work, the kids and house chores, I just don't have time to keep up with the blog anymore. I try to sit down and do posts all of the time, but I just have way too many interruptions to get one completed and posted. We are doing well though and when things slow down, I plan on doing the blogspot again........so stay tuned!

Hopefully, the Stimson family blog will be back soon! Take care and God bless everybody!

Love,
Mel, Kenny, Cody & Ashley

ps - Jordan, I do have pictures of Ashley in the hat that you made for her and she looks beautiful! I promise that I will get those sent to you someday soon. I am sorry that I haven't been able to do it sooner. Thanks for making it and sending it to her, it means alot to us and it really is gorgeous!

Polar Express

We took Cody, Ashley and my little brother and sister on the Polar Express train ride this year for Christmas. It was really alot of fun! Cody loved it since The Polar Express is one of his favorite movies. We sang Christmas carols, drank hot chocolate, listened to the Polar Express story and saw Santa Claus.

Here is Ashley and Kenny enjoying the train ride.

Cody was so excited!

Here he is waving good-bye to all of the onlookers as we left the train station in route to the "North Pole".

Finally, we got to see Santa and Cody got a bell from him. It was really awesome to see how excited Cody was!

Our BIG snow

Right before Christmas, we got hit by a big storm that dumped about 2 feet of snow. Cody was outside with Kenny shoveling the driveway and absolutely loved playing in the snow!

The snow pile was deeper than he was tall, but he had no fear! Ha..ha.

Brrrrr.........looks cold to me!!

Ashley is 7 months Old

This was our little Ashley when she was 7 months old. We got her ears pierced and she looks oh so cute! She was such a little trooper too! I tried to get a picture with the earrings in the shot, but that was a little tough. You can see one ear if you look closely and that was about the best that I could get without taking a full shot of her head from the side.

The Stimson Kids & Their Hats.....And Ashley is 6 months

Okay, so life has been extremely busy for us and I am now running about 3 months behind on our blog. Sorry to those of you that keep checking for updated pictures. I finally had a few minutes to try to post some new pictures, so here ya go. This picture is of Cody posing with his hand crafted hat made by him and Dad. He was so proud of this hat. Isn't it a great picture?!? I love it!!! And of course Ashley below was sporting her new pink 'Gap' hat that I had been waiting and waiting for it to fit. Oh, and this is a picture of Ashley at 6 months.

Halloween 2008

Cody and his cousins, Mya & Tyler trick-or-treating at "Trick-or-Treat on Main Street", which the County and businesses host every Halloween.

(Cody is the middle one - a dalmation from 101 Dalmations)

And here is Ashley, our little Chili Pepper.

And our little Dalmation again.

Cody got to be a Dalmation and a Firefighter for Halloween because his Daycare/school only allowed a "career" costume. Luckily we had a "career" costume in the closet that was handed down from my little brother Joe.

Pumpkin Carving

So.....you want me to do what with all of those seeds and guts????

I thought that all kids loved to get all dirty, but Cody wanted nothing to do with the guts of the pumpkin that we were carving. Just look at the expression on his face.....he would touch the inside of the pumpkin and freak out that it was on his hand - too funny!

We finally got him to scrape the inside of the pumpkin with a spoon, but no way with his hands.

Oooohhhhh, that yucky, sticky stuff again!

What a proud boy with his finished product!