Merry Christmas everyone!!!  We just thought we would post some of our pictures of Christmas fun.  The first is baking cookies for Santa.  Next are Asher and Aiven putting out their socks for Santa to fill up.  And then a picture of our Nativity program.  Bridger Stoney staring as Joseph.  Bryar Stoney staring as Mary.  And our two little sheep next to them baaaaing the entire time.  They played their part well.

 Here we are Christmas weekend on family vacation....no just two minutes from our house.  This is no vacation this is life for the Stoneys right now.  Wish you could all join us.

And yes Asher has a tendency to have fun faces in all of his pictures.  Also there is a belly poking out in one of the pictures just for you all to see.  Three more weeks and counting!!!

Speech Patterns

Okay, click on the link below and answer 15 or so questions about pronunciation to see where you sound like you're from.  Mine said SLC, Spokane, and Reno.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?r=212224504004000j0j8001000140000k0800018080000b0008

Ordering a Pizza in 2015

I'm trying to cut back....

but i had to post this

My Tribute to Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and we took the one that led to Walla Walla, Washington.  Yes, you got that right, we are going to move and take a job as a civilian appraiser for the Army Corps of Engineers.  We basically wanted to be where the local laws are a little less restrictive, if you know what I mean.  Our dreams will be realized January 13th.

Utah drivers...

see where they rank in statistics of worst drivers in america; Drivers were ranked using five criteria: fatality rates per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, failure to obey traffic signals and seatbelt laws, drunk driving, tickets issued for speeding and careless driving.  everybody from out of state does complain that we have the worst drivers...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524438/Hell-wheels-The-state-Americas-worst-drivers-revealed.html

I thought this was pretty funny...

now that you mention it...

I Don't Think Anything More Needs To Be Said

Church release about race and the gospel

https://www.lds.org/topics/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng
this article officially dispels a lot of things that we grew up hearing, and some thing even taught by our dear mother, really good to read if you have the time...

Fantasy

Congrats to everyone who played this year.  Just letting you know that I was the regular season champion thanks to Remington having the game of the year against Tamara's dominating team.  Especially since I had lost to all three of the people who finished a game behind and would have lost all tiebreakers.  So, when I lose in the first round of the playoffs, you can call me the 2012 Denver Broncos.

Also...

Ending the war on drugs...

Should we just legalize them all? as mother rages, watch this video...

Crocodile tears

in the background you can hear Treebeard yelling, "RELEASE THE RIVER!"

Everyone loves the 80's

Too much time on my hands...

is the song that should be playing for this video that took 200 hours

Winter Is Here

You may think we need new windows, but I am still not convinced.

Yes--I'm going there

I read Rush Limbaugh's comments about the Pope's Exhortation, so of course, due to my profession, I had to read the Pope's words directly. Limbaugh said he was Marxist, etc... I will say that the exhortation was awesome--this pope is a really well-intentioned man with a lot to teach us all. It was really cool to read. It was a bit anti-capitalist (in the sense of attacking the economic direction the world is going and its constant rejection of our responsibility to care for the poor and mend income gaps), but I found it quite anti-Marxist as well (in that it begs politicians to get back to God in their plans, and other points). If you have a spare hour or two, it is an awesome read with some killer quotes. If I didn't tell you it was the Pope, you'd swear it was coming from Uchtdorf. There--I just exposed my outrageousness to the world. I read things by the Popes. (By the way--Benedict XVI's book on his personal testimony of Christ was flippin' amazing.)

Fantasy

Several of you vetoed my trade with Kristen over Thanksgiving, but this last week, she would have scored 69 points with her three starters (Decker, Mathews, Kaepernick), while my two (Brees and Tamme) scored a whopping 7.  Thanks for vetoing it, because on second thought, it was a little too one-sided.  By the way, it finally snowed up here, ending the warmest November on record.  Bring on December!