Standage Family

2010-01-26T21:57:00.000-08:00

I am in the process of redoing my boys' rooms. I have to be creative and not do both rooms with sports. So, one room is sports and the other is skater. I projected the images onto the wall, traced them and then painted them in. I am very happy with the way they are turning out. I will be sure to post the finished rooms.

2010-01-26T21:51:00.000-08:00

We were introduced to a new place called Jump Street. My boys had a blast! Even my 1 yr old loved jumping. They also have the inflatable bouncies. Fun, fun.

2010-01-26T21:47:00.000-08:00

Our beautiful Bailey. This is our babysitter Bailey. We had to go see her all done up before she left to pick up her date for the dance. She looked like a princess. My boys thought she was a "hottie". We are glad they just think of her like a sister.

2010-01-26T21:37:00.000-08:00

My funny handsome husband! Brian likes to have fun at work, so he decided to dress up for his team meeting. He wanted to go shopping at the thrift store to find some clothes. I told him there was no need to go shopping, we just went to my dads closet. We found three really good outfits, and they all fit him perfectly. I am sure he will find somewhere to wear the others. He even had the right music to go along with it. I had to get pictures to show my parents. My dad had no idea they were even his clothes. He was shocked he was ever that thin to fit into them.

2010-01-26T21:31:00.000-08:00

Now that Christmas is over and the boys get to see their dad again, we loaded the kids up and took them to Lego Land. What a perfect time to go. We felt like we had the whole park to ourselves. It sure is nice to be able to stay on a ride and ride it over and over. We had a great vacation.

2010-01-26T21:24:00.001-08:00

2010-01-26T21:20:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!
January 1st was such a beautiful day we had to get outside. We took the boys to the desert and had a picnic and rode bikes and the quad. Only in Arizona can you have a day like that in January.

2010-01-26T21:13:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T20:50:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas
Grandma Hunt gave all the boys pj's and knitted them all booties for Christmas eve. They were so cute we had to take a few pictures. I told the boy to show me their booties, Sam obviously thought I ment his back side. He looks a little confused in the top picture. We also jumped in the car and went to visit the Grandparents. (Notice the tree in the back, maybe next year I will get to decorate the whole thing.)

2010-01-26T20:48:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T20:45:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM SAM!
We had a fun party for Sam's 3rd birthday. He got every animal you could possibly imagine. He was one happy boy. Happy birthday buddy we love you!

2010-01-26T20:37:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T20:29:00.000-08:00

For Halloween the whole family dressed up. We were all characters from Star Wars. My neighbor took pictures of us, I just keep forgetting to ask her to send them to me. I will be sure to update this as soon as I get those. Brian was Han Solo, I was Princess Leah, Jake and Cole were Clone troopers, Max was Anikan Skywalker, Sam was Darth Vader, and Brig was Chewbacca. It was the first year Brian and I have ever dressed up. It was fun.

2010-01-26T20:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Giggs!

My baby is already 1yr old! Wow time flys. We had to celebrate Brigs birthday in the morning before the boys left for school and mom left out of town. He didn't care for the cup cake first thing in the morning. Happy birthday baby!

2010-01-26T20:22:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T20:19:00.000-08:00

Congrats on the Baptism Max! Max was glad to be able to share this special day with his good buddy Karson. They both missed their soccer team pictures and a game, but they didn't care too much.

2010-01-26T20:15:00.000-08:00

We enjoyed a nice day at the Zoo with our good friends the Housleys. It was good for their daughted Anna to get out after spending over a month in the hospital. Sam loved seeing all the animals in real life. He is obsessed with animals and can tell you what everyone is.

2010-01-26T20:09:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T20:06:00.000-08:00

For Maxs' 8th birthday we went to Amazing Jakes. My boys love that place, and the food isn't bad either. Grandma and Grandpa Hunt came along for the fun. Grandma was a good sport, all Sam wanted to ride were the tea cups with Grandma. Brig couldn't quite walk so Grandpa walked him around most of the night. We had a fun!

2010-01-26T19:57:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T19:39:00.000-08:00

Back a few months ago I went to California with a few friends for a fun girls trip. We were so spoiled! We stayed at one of the girls Aunts extra home right on the beach. It was amazing! Fully furnished and all to ourselves. It is such a great feeling to wake up to the sound of the ocean, sit on the deck and read, and no kids! We also went to Magic Mountian. We had a blast.

Girls Trip

2010-01-26T19:31:00.000-08:00

2009-10-23T14:06:00.000-07:00

My claim to fame. My 10 seconds in the spotlight. Thursday my sister-in-law ans I took our little ones to the Phoenix childrens museum. It is really fun if you have never been. While we were there channel 12 was there doing a story on the swine flu. My sister-in-law and I were asked if they could interview us and follow us around for some video footage. This all took about an hour. After we were finished we felt we had a little taste of what if feels like to have the paparazzi following us around. After all that, this is what was on the news.http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/News/H1N1+flu+vaccine+controversy/40280768001/35150280001/45985708001

2009-10-13T21:03:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago we had our Family pictures taken for the first time by a real photographer. Over the years we have gone to studios to have our pictures taken and they never seem to turn out. We take last minute snap shots for our Christmas cards every year. I really wanted a good family picture to frame and hang on my wall, and be able to get my Christmas cards sent out before New Years. Needless to say, we were so extremely happy with our pictures. We had nearly 200 pictures turn out. So many to choose from! Our photographers name is Troy Brinkerhoff and he is so GOOD! We are customers for life. My kids had the best time, he made it so fun for all of us. So, if you are looking for a GREAT photographer for anything (he does it all) I highly recomend him. Check out his work @ http://www.troybrinkerhoff.com/ I put together this slideshow to try and show as many of my pictures as I could. I finally got tired and called it quits. My 3yr old is alseep on the floor at my feet.

2009-09-22T22:08:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Max!

Wow how time flys. Our sweet, quiet, loving Max is now another year older. Happy birthday buddy! We all love you so much. Lets party!

2009-09-22T22:03:00.000-07:00

Better late than never! Max, Jake, and Cole on the first day of school.

First day of school

school is back is session!

2009-08-19T20:52:00.000-07:00

I am so excited that the boys are back in school. Jake is in 4th grade, Max is in 3rd, and Cole is in all day kindergarden. I think I was the only mom that wasn't crying out front of the kindergarden classrooms. I finally feel like I am getting my house back in order after the summer. I have almost organized every room since they started a week ago. By the end of the day, blogging is the last thing that I want to do. I have so many pictures to post and update, it feels like so much work. My goal is to get them all posted next week. So to all those who look at my blog and see that I haven't touched it in over a month, take a look next week(Friday or Saturday).

2009-07-05T21:06:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th Of July! We drove a few minutes to watch the fireworks in Heber. They are some of the best that we have seen. When they are shooting them off, it feels like they are going to fall down on you. The sound is so loud car alarms are going off all around, and it echos off the mountians. Definatly recommend them to all.

2009-07-05T20:50:00.000-07:00

This past week we headed up north to get out of the heat. We went up to Christopher Creek with some friends and had a blast. We were taken to "the spot". It was absolutly beautiful! We had quite the adventure. It is a place that very few people know about, and is not easy to get to. With the family all buckled into the t-rex. We did some major 4x4 mountian climbing. It was well worth it when we saw "the spot". We relaxed and had fun swimming until two clouds above us murged into one and started a major down pour. With 3 creeks to go through we were a little concerned about a flash flood. We quickly gathered out things and made our way back to the vehicles and trailers. We were soaking wet by the time we reached the cars. That is our idea of fun!

2009-07-05T20:43:00.000-07:00

2009-05-13T21:11:00.000-07:00

We are ready for summer to start. Sam has finished his swim lessons and can now save his own life if he ever fell into the pool. We love ISR!

2009-04-13T13:57:00.000-07:00

I had a lot of fun dressing my boys all the same. I have to take advantage of it now, because I know they won't let me do it much longer.

2009-04-13T13:43:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter Sunday. We were spiritually fed, physically fed, then had a Easter egg hunt, colored eggs, and had a good nap. We love Easter!

2009-04-13T13:36:00.000-07:00

It's baseball season

Jake and Max have started baseball and they are loving it. We have games at least 3 times a week it can get a bit crazy. I can only imagine how it will be when all 5 of my boys are playing at the same time. Fun!

2009-04-13T13:28:00.000-07:00

It's Official! Uncle Sticky is a Police officer

Congratulations Jared!

After attending the academy graduation,
Cole has decided he wants to be a Police officer just like Uncle Sticky.

(I would'nt speed in Chandler if I were you)

2009-03-16T22:59:00.000-07:00

A couple of Thurday's ago, I made a deal with my boys. I told them if they could keep their rooms and bathroom clean for the whole weekend , I would come get them out of school on Monday and take them to lunch. I had secretly been planning a trip with my friend Shantelle to Disneyland. I picked up the boys and we all went to lunch. After we ate I told them I had a gift for them. I told them to try to guess where we were going. My friend had made them all their own autograph books for the Disney characters. They all opened them at the same time, and Jake said were going to Disneyland. I said yep. Lets go get in the car we're leaving. They didn't believe us. They kept asking if we were serious. We finally convinced them we were really going and we got in the car and started our exciting trip to Disneyland. We stayed two days and two nights. We had so much fun! Thank you Mom, Dalene (My mother-in-law), and my sweet husband Brian for watching the two little boys so I could really enjoy the time away with my 3 older boys.

2009-03-16T22:52:00.000-07:00

2009-03-16T22:45:00.000-07:00

Cole was a good sport. We had an odd number of people so he rode with a girl we met in line. Her name was Riley. Now we know 4 Riley's. Jake and Max think they can drive a real car now! I don't think so.

2009-03-16T22:40:00.000-07:00

My good friend Brooke that I have known for 30 years lives just minutes from Disneyland. She met us there and played with us for 5 hours. My boys loved hanging out with Porter and thought it was so funny when we told them they had met before when they were about 2 years old.

2009-03-16T22:32:00.000-07:00

2009-03-16T22:24:00.000-07:00

Jake and Cole got picked out of the audiance to participate in the Jedi training. The instructor was so funny and had everyone cracking up. It was very entertaining, especially when Darth Vader and Darth Mal came out. The kids had to use their new skills to fight the dark side. Darth Varer was huge. I can't belive none of the kids cried. Darth mal was very scary looking. I think this was probably their favorite thing we did.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE & COLE

2009-03-02T08:12:00.000-08:00

Jake turned 9 and Cole turned 5. Their birthdays are within 4 days of each others. They both wanted their party at Bounce U. I told them I was't doing two seperate party's at the same place, so they agreed to have their parties together. It turned out great. I am just glad to have it over with.

2009-03-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

2009-03-02T08:02:00.000-08:00

Cole turned 5, and all he wanted was a pair of heely's. So guess what he got.

2009-03-02T07:57:00.000-08:00

I have never seen a kid so good at Guitar hero! Heston can play expert and hardly miss a note. Sam thinks he is playing. We don't tell him it's not on, he would throw a fit.

2009-03-02T07:54:00.000-08:00

This is pretty much the only way I can get a picture of all my boys together, and have them all happy. What a bunch of cute boys if I say so myself!

2009-03-02T07:46:00.000-08:00

I like to take close up pictures of my boys, enlarge them & frame them. Most of my boys can take a good picture. I was dying when I was trying to take these pictures of Sam. I would tell him to say "cheese" and smile. He was trying a little too hard.

2009-03-02T07:38:00.000-08:00

2009-02-14T19:21:00.000-08:00

Becky, Bettina, and I ran in the two sisters-one heart 10k in Queen Creek today. It is a fundraiser for two conjoined sisters that share a heart and liver. We had a good time, and saw a lot of people we knew. I think I did okay, my time was 1hr 2min.

2009-02-14T19:15:00.000-08:00

Sam had some stickers he was playing with. Our friend Joe Farnsworth Jr was over and offered to help Sam. This is what he looked like after help from a 20yr old.

2009-02-14T19:04:00.000-08:00

My baby is so easy to to entertain. I just set this talking Elmo in front of him and he listens to it tell a story. It is pretty funny, he doesn't take his eyes off for anything.

2009-01-27T23:15:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to say sorry for being such a slacker. I kind of forgot about the blog for a while. I will try to be better. I just have to visit other blogs and that gets me motivated.

2009-01-27T23:09:00.001-08:00

Jake recieved his wolf badge and also his gold arrow tonight. Congratulations buddy! It was kind of weird doing the thing where they pin the pin on mom. I remember watching my brothers do that with my mom. It really made me feel old. I guess I better get use to that since I have 5 boys.

2009-01-27T23:06:00.000-08:00

Brian and Brig. We had such a good time with our little traveling buddy. It was fun just to be able to spend some time with him.

2009-01-27T23:01:00.000-08:00

These jelly fish were so cool to watch. Kind of scary to think they are in the ocean that we swim in. This king crab was HUGE! I did not know this kid, but I asked him to stand by it so I could take the picture. He is 7 yrs old. Look at the size of that crab!

2009-01-27T22:54:00.000-08:00

This past week Brian and I got away for a few days. We went to Oregon to visit people from his mission. It has been 18 years. We had so much fun. We flew into Eugene and then over to the Coast. We drove up the coast. It is absolutly beautiful. We saw some amazing things. There is nothing like waking up to the sound of the ocean. I did not want to leave. It was really neet to visit with those who Brian had baptized. Now Brian talks about moving there. (I don't think so!)

2009-01-27T22:50:00.000-08:00

2009-01-27T22:43:00.001-08:00

ASU Sun Devils! If you don't already know, my family are all big ASU fans. My mom got all the grandkids ASU shirts for Christmas. She wanted to get all the kids together for a picture. We didn't have to go too far for the back drop. My brother Jonh has a detatched garage that has a b-ball court with all the sun devil garb. If you look close to the picture where all the kids are lying on the floor, you can see sparkys head in the middle.

2009-01-27T22:40:00.001-08:00

2009-01-27T22:34:00.000-08:00

Sweet Sweet Brig! How time flys. He is almost 4 months already. He is such an angel. Brian and I like to say that we deserve him after having to deal with Sam! They are like night and day.

2009-01-27T22:24:00.000-08:00

Sam! This is our child that gives us a run for our money. You know those days when you are trying to get out the door and there is always one thing after another. Sam thought he needed to do his hair after watching his brothers. I couldn't even be mad, I just had to take a picture. It took some good scrubbing to get all that gel out. I had these pictures as proof as to why we were late for our get together.

2009-01-27T22:18:00.000-08:00

Here is Brig in his blessing outfit. We blessed him in December. I know I am a bit late. When I get a free minute, I don't think to use that time to update my blog. Sorry, I will try to be better.

2008-11-16T14:49:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Sam!

My mom gave Sam

Cars pj's and slippers.

They are so cute! We could

not get him to stand for

this picture.

2008-11-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

The older boys blew out the candles before Sam could, so we had to light them again.

2008-11-16T14:34:00.000-08:00

I've never had a child so obessed with Elmo.

Sam would watch Elmo all day long if I would let him.

So, when I saw this cake I could not pass it up.

2008-11-16T14:28:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Sam's 2nd birthday this past week.
I can't believe how fast time flys!

2008-11-16T14:17:00.000-08:00

He's growing fast.

Brig is already 6wks old.

He is such a sweet baby!

2008-10-03T20:53:00.000-07:00

He has arrived! Brigham Lee Standage born on Oct 2nd. We are happy to have boy # 5.

2008-10-03T20:48:00.000-07:00

Baby Brigham (Brig) has 4 brothers that are so excited for him the be here.

2008-10-03T20:24:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Max's 7th birthday. He invited a few friend and we went to Peter Piper Pizza. I can't believe how fast they grow up!

2008-08-14T23:12:00.000-07:00

We had a fun time with our cousins at the lake. Our boys had never been tubing and they could not get enough. We were exausted when it was time to go home. Now the boys want dad to get a boat. It's a good thing summer is almost over, it buys us time until next summer.

2008-08-14T23:07:00.001-07:00

The boat was going a bit slower when Brian had Sam on the tube. Max and cousin Cody Standage were trying all kinds of tricks.

2008-08-14T23:04:00.000-07:00

Brian and Sam

Max and Cole

2008-08-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

Jake and Max on the tubes with cousins Sarah and Daniel Standage

2008-08-14T22:58:00.000-07:00

On tuesday (the second day of school)we took the boys out of school early and headed up to Roosevelt lake for some fun in the sun with family. Our cousins from New York were here on vacation. The boys could not get enough of the slide off the back of the house boat.

2008-08-14T22:49:00.000-07:00

2008-08-03T21:47:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we escaped the heat and went up to Christopher Creek with some friends of ours. They have 1 girl that is 10, and 4 boys the same ages as our 4 boys. It dosen't get any better than that. Jake, Max, and Cole loved having all the open area to ride. Brian and I enjoyed sitting out in the rain and enjoying the cool weather.

2008-08-03T21:43:00.000-07:00

2008-08-03T21:42:00.000-07:00

We roasted marshmellows and made dutch oven apple cobbler. Yummy!

2008-08-03T21:32:00.000-07:00

2008-08-03T21:23:00.000-07:00

We went up north with our friends to their cabin. We had a lot of fun riding quads and looking for geocache boxes. The kids thought that was the neatest thing finding them out in the middle of no where.

2008-08-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

2008-06-09T10:46:00.001-07:00

We had such a fun time on out vacation to California. We spent most of our free time on the beach. The weather was amazing. It was cool enough to just sit there and watch the kids without having to get into the water to cool off. The water wasn't to cold for the kids either, they all got in.

2008-06-09T10:36:00.000-07:00

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2008-06-09T10:26:00.000-07:00

We were all worn out by the end of the day.

2008-06-09T10:21:00.000-07:00

The boys like splash mountian the best. They told me to sit in the front so I would'nt get very wet. They were tricking me. They were disapointed when I didn't get that wet.

2008-06-09T10:15:00.000-07:00

We went to Disneyland! This year Cole was big enough to go an all the rides he wanted to.

2008-06-09T10:11:00.000-07:00

Our babysitters Bailey and Mindy. They were lifesavers. The adults went out in the evenings without the kids!

2008-06-09T10:09:00.000-07:00

Kathryn was the brave adult. She caught the biggest crab. No one else would even touch them.

2008-06-09T10:04:00.000-07:00

Brian and his cousin Curt Ashcroft

2008-06-09T09:59:00.000-07:00

We went to Seal beach, and to the tide pools. The kids loved catching crabs.

2008-06-09T09:54:00.000-07:00

We went on vacation to California right after school got out. we had a lot of fun. Here are some things that we did while we where there.

We went to Scripps Aquarium. We got to watch then feed the sharks! There are some pretty neat things there if you ever get the chance to go.

2008-05-02T17:40:00.000-07:00

Well, just thought I would up date those who don't know the news. We are expecting boy #5! Yes you read that right. I found out yesterday, and I think I will be is shock for a while. Any way we are very happy all is well. He is growing just fine. I am 18 weeks along, and my due date it October 6th. I will keep you updated. If anyone has any good boy names, I need some sugestions.

2008-03-31T16:39:00.000-07:00

I watch my nephew Noah on Mondays while his mom goes to work. Cole loves to have Noah there,they play very good together. Today the boys were playing basketball and riding scooters. After a few minutes the house was way too quite, so I went to find the boys. This is what I found. A very rare sight, so I had to take a picture. Noah was in the family room, and Cole was in the living room sound asleep.

2008-03-31T16:28:00.000-07:00

Cole had his first soccer game on Saturday. He had so much fun! One of his team mates kicked the ball into their own goal, which counts as a point for the other team. So they tied their first game.

2008-02-25T19:47:00.000-08:00

Jake turned 8 on saturday. He was very lucky, he got to get baptized on his birthday. We had a nice big lunch and party afterwards. It was a great day for all of us. (Gotta love those trick candles!)

2008-02-25T19:42:00.000-08:00

We celebrated Cole's 4th birthday last tuesday. He is very spoiled!

2008-02-25T19:36:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago my brother John, his wife Natalie, Brian and I flew over to LA for a couple of days. We went to Magic Mountian, and the ASU/USC game. We had a blast! NO KIDS!

2008-02-25T19:30:00.000-08:00

The one thing that my boys like to do with the family is go quad riding. They each got a quad for christmas. I have to laugh though, because I still have not take any pictures of them on their own quads.