tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911078588232334312024-03-19T07:22:27.332-04:00Jumpin JackWelcome to the thoughts I am thinking, the memories I am making, the lessons I am learning, and the humor created along the way! A blog to let everyone watch Jack grow up.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-77026065241054973552010-10-12T20:40:00.005-04:002010-10-12T21:19:57.268-04:00Videos of the kidsHere are some videos of the kids from our video camera that we've had for two years and just last week decided to download the videos. Enjoy!! <br /><br />The first is of Cameron Army Crawling.<br /><br /><OBJECT id=BLOG_video-63c68ae52738237d class=BLOG_video_class width=320 height=266 contentId="63c68ae52738237d"></OBJECT><br /><br />This second video is of our trip on Jack's train.<br /><br /><OBJECT id=BLOG_video-591a5f62f8af763c class=BLOG_video_class width=320 height=266 contentId="591a5f62f8af763c"></OBJECT><br /><br />And last here's a clip from Jack's first soccer game.<br /><br /><OBJECT id=BLOG_video-682747859df3a14c class=BLOG_video_class width=320 height=266 contentId="682747859df3a14c"></OBJECT>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-24571263336910395922009-01-14T22:45:00.018-05:002009-01-14T23:30:55.026-05:00A few more pictures from the holidaysI just found another 250 pictures that were still on the camera and not downloaded yet so here's the highlights.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjee4KP6k2RSqCbg8e_kLHQdEMF81eFDgAb1_XL_Nr67yP0VMU1E4YO1PlURN2KYbSWnUDj31G-IPD01ozClNr7nxViFhAOS55xpraG40RoxfaKr9s4-L-t9W68DJ-fnK2J5qP_svhtr84/s1600-h/IMG_0397.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjee4KP6k2RSqCbg8e_kLHQdEMF81eFDgAb1_XL_Nr67yP0VMU1E4YO1PlURN2KYbSWnUDj31G-IPD01ozClNr7nxViFhAOS55xpraG40RoxfaKr9s4-L-t9W68DJ-fnK2J5qP_svhtr84/s400/IMG_0397.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291362171920491506" /></a><br /><br />We left on the night of the 23rd after I got done working, as you can see we didn't get to my parents house until after these twos bedtime.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80J6crlMyi-OOKaNw81KXFyBQQfxLMQZvlppJy2q6vDKENDUdk3zvvnvZLe1cE7d7lDho7Mmqx47kWiAGH8eQ21PUEbovEaEROJjB-Zfd-5YPASd9JNXJl_3jRf2D9g_HCDcmG__Fgd8/s1600-h/IMG_0408.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80J6crlMyi-OOKaNw81KXFyBQQfxLMQZvlppJy2q6vDKENDUdk3zvvnvZLe1cE7d7lDho7Mmqx47kWiAGH8eQ21PUEbovEaEROJjB-Zfd-5YPASd9JNXJl_3jRf2D9g_HCDcmG__Fgd8/s400/IMG_0408.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291363183810915410" /></a><br /><br />Opening presents with Grandpa Spence.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYieh0OlzH5Z5EzN7SxXMLA2BCChEsWg0XqHW5uV1wvpZT5aRkOICqRPO1T5LAkbryangg_jwBh2Af-ztWS-FzVkgYayOku6YflKruknhR2uYO6JxeLp4VFEJiPoQ-k-b7_NV5EidbEc/s1600-h/IMG_0436.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYieh0OlzH5Z5EzN7SxXMLA2BCChEsWg0XqHW5uV1wvpZT5aRkOICqRPO1T5LAkbryangg_jwBh2Af-ztWS-FzVkgYayOku6YflKruknhR2uYO6JxeLp4VFEJiPoQ-k-b7_NV5EidbEc/s400/IMG_0436.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291363799733051874" /></a><br /><br />The family picture on Christmas Eve.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZP47-PMAH1X1XvoDXLI_TIDc4Q9Jz-ee0lK-dwEkoWtKQ3P92OP3ZTKUu0UTzksjQoobl4JMSlsmK9MlAEcK7Fq5XXl1PD6bsQ0eaqR-g7ffYmyr8BA3K9KXCFr0LnFXT2XlHbDLvXo/s1600-h/IMG_0463.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZP47-PMAH1X1XvoDXLI_TIDc4Q9Jz-ee0lK-dwEkoWtKQ3P92OP3ZTKUu0UTzksjQoobl4JMSlsmK9MlAEcK7Fq5XXl1PD6bsQ0eaqR-g7ffYmyr8BA3K9KXCFr0LnFXT2XlHbDLvXo/s400/IMG_0463.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291364344472539218" /></a><br /><br />Playing in the new wagon Grandma and Grandpa Wagner got him.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_m9iV2CjOXVEs4ECv3431hvXoGpQpMlkIHsWhKGhcXujPDQXKOHFM7fnuh1P4X5_bIfdPV0Ch6iS9DFDGmG_s0_tuhyfTln2kZioiMoMsfGAPasqd9MaTi3_a1aT6cLLMZqL6uWomJjg/s1600-h/IMG_0470.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_m9iV2CjOXVEs4ECv3431hvXoGpQpMlkIHsWhKGhcXujPDQXKOHFM7fnuh1P4X5_bIfdPV0Ch6iS9DFDGmG_s0_tuhyfTln2kZioiMoMsfGAPasqd9MaTi3_a1aT6cLLMZqL6uWomJjg/s400/IMG_0470.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291364743045143154" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFFHKScxldeaMJCFm_FooeeveLF7JruG2j_Vy-MKt5KfhpYkDpUfQGx7wWQpyY_YDJL_OdvPoN7-1H9h9ps-yZgLoZLlB_MaFkRzc-XhuCfsf0Z4JacXJWKqIV6sbfTheWr88mRPMESs/s1600-h/IMG_0501.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFFHKScxldeaMJCFm_FooeeveLF7JruG2j_Vy-MKt5KfhpYkDpUfQGx7wWQpyY_YDJL_OdvPoN7-1H9h9ps-yZgLoZLlB_MaFkRzc-XhuCfsf0Z4JacXJWKqIV6sbfTheWr88mRPMESs/s400/IMG_0501.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291365224655408258" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQweEgxzLco8qSfcTbBDFfvIDAPBc-DnKvqTCaeD_0NrVaLffTozE_DIDpOqZuwzQBpfdIWQ9ekfdpYq6bm6UhyJSl-vaEgoI3orxyX5fisvM4KPtRBUiJ1ht-63eus62G299Tq-azHw/s1600-h/IMG_0508.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQweEgxzLco8qSfcTbBDFfvIDAPBc-DnKvqTCaeD_0NrVaLffTozE_DIDpOqZuwzQBpfdIWQ9ekfdpYq6bm6UhyJSl-vaEgoI3orxyX5fisvM4KPtRBUiJ1ht-63eus62G299Tq-azHw/s400/IMG_0508.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291365701469961122" /></a><br /><br />Playing with the little people garage Grandpa and Grandma Welder got him and uncle Brent put together.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-lOHhtxEceHjAVQKlZWkczdZcElPkiEtKunETMJ91ViAYvccacWTsCBbmi0tsbUppHGSvd4kDIg5_kK1GGwDm9B-84VGuKByr6c4eksvXqSmhQ_PZS7hlLxEB72LcrSTZq4kiMh9cxpk/s1600-h/IMG_0518.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-lOHhtxEceHjAVQKlZWkczdZcElPkiEtKunETMJ91ViAYvccacWTsCBbmi0tsbUppHGSvd4kDIg5_kK1GGwDm9B-84VGuKByr6c4eksvXqSmhQ_PZS7hlLxEB72LcrSTZq4kiMh9cxpk/s400/IMG_0518.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291366393638891746" /></a><br /><br />Driveing back home with a car packed to the gills with new toys.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxRcq0qPZFG8627XcgjzPcmDgHpR75KlxsjT1iyI4Nu0sYie5l_Bq64rphLEvQM2_8gBiX8hsHqjnDxd7T6G9QKNhkJmCrM5OGZrHAlf7yuan7NzSG993AFPal6JVrOlp4I2LzTgNZPgs/s1600-h/IMG_0535.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxRcq0qPZFG8627XcgjzPcmDgHpR75KlxsjT1iyI4Nu0sYie5l_Bq64rphLEvQM2_8gBiX8hsHqjnDxd7T6G9QKNhkJmCrM5OGZrHAlf7yuan7NzSG993AFPal6JVrOlp4I2LzTgNZPgs/s400/IMG_0535.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291367087231498178" /></a><br /><br />We finally had our family Christmas at home the next week, and Jack was happy to finally see present under the tree!!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji_mTBXNN5caVI1BunDijUopOha7wmfomyz_9ApgkNuZi0_W6VLgX6mgbv-GBu1nFkdWFLfkmPMRxyu6JAYgcnoYV_0KUAUkN27aL4LrXzoHEzFP9Ghm5CN-svmOPuBCe9COlsIPFAOPU/s1600-h/IMG_0544.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji_mTBXNN5caVI1BunDijUopOha7wmfomyz_9ApgkNuZi0_W6VLgX6mgbv-GBu1nFkdWFLfkmPMRxyu6JAYgcnoYV_0KUAUkN27aL4LrXzoHEzFP9Ghm5CN-svmOPuBCe9COlsIPFAOPU/s400/IMG_0544.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291367605973025794" /></a><br /><br />Probably his favorite of what we got him.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenVsJGlBlsbygdnSxb-27U6wHDBPFsiFq7rpcXpOWW_SofSZ8K5wzCCBPM81sAF2QBpUn7K06UIjtHvO_iNyK9Y_OpR-XhDJxem1eaARC7nsQPYHJtKcCe3zp2tBNVA5ZkKwIrY69ub4/s1600-h/IMG_0551.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhenVsJGlBlsbygdnSxb-27U6wHDBPFsiFq7rpcXpOWW_SofSZ8K5wzCCBPM81sAF2QBpUn7K06UIjtHvO_iNyK9Y_OpR-XhDJxem1eaARC7nsQPYHJtKcCe3zp2tBNVA5ZkKwIrY69ub4/s400/IMG_0551.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291367888729839634" /></a><br /><br />My favorite of what he got me. He also got me a football trophy that he painted himself, with mom's help of course.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqb7Ekmjh8uhwNERQo1DKZrGeJ2SKhETF9pWS0ZP4uovChdhDh9ixkZUA_f0qBnpRssX0Hr15_9IrT0pvuTOLxM-rsZvp0Hbkufz4PB58UdWyzzQ1qDaaaWTS9LhXBRa4NFeac12mqye8/s1600-h/IMG_0560.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqb7Ekmjh8uhwNERQo1DKZrGeJ2SKhETF9pWS0ZP4uovChdhDh9ixkZUA_f0qBnpRssX0Hr15_9IrT0pvuTOLxM-rsZvp0Hbkufz4PB58UdWyzzQ1qDaaaWTS9LhXBRa4NFeac12mqye8/s400/IMG_0560.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291368732135809826" /></a><br /><br />He's learned to blow kisses to people.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJSjo-b2JVEogSjVFIp-_1w3E8l4H_XS9PnyLaAt-AQtuKDDe2CD31EKIoCIrjROffQLhBs_tBcwET9dcyDYL2TwtQ6nvtB-5k2mlAR-GqNL3tU9jc7aYfT7nOeERB2pnvQw0TogpoFM/s1600-h/IMG_0580.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJSjo-b2JVEogSjVFIp-_1w3E8l4H_XS9PnyLaAt-AQtuKDDe2CD31EKIoCIrjROffQLhBs_tBcwET9dcyDYL2TwtQ6nvtB-5k2mlAR-GqNL3tU9jc7aYfT7nOeERB2pnvQw0TogpoFM/s400/IMG_0580.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291369106999429330" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQHBTg8dGe6l989OpwZfdLA7vFU-cws0OLe6olfy33cbYDVcAQObpTW9TBvFkJNsd-FqXzbzTemF1X6yen0aw4lTQA5HNPe5kW2VfKAaFE_gEnlfqWoBWqWUBU7Lu-8CNbB69tZtvflc/s1600-h/IMG_0631.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQHBTg8dGe6l989OpwZfdLA7vFU-cws0OLe6olfy33cbYDVcAQObpTW9TBvFkJNsd-FqXzbzTemF1X6yen0aw4lTQA5HNPe5kW2VfKAaFE_gEnlfqWoBWqWUBU7Lu-8CNbB69tZtvflc/s400/IMG_0631.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291369669515754866" /></a><br /><br /><br />Ringing in the new year all together. Jack happened to wake up shortly before midnight so we kept him up to celebrate. I got home about an hour before midnight after a long day at work.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2Es2CVZdnar_m8cRGQamgCGbI0Gh184YpVWmjEywvrBLX4DgXB3trfLr8KtvR8L1TZ_2V_PYTqzq2oGaooW7x2sHpXCsBtnDc6dLtXsImf2gtQW4KibVDYXREK_IiBpVhSFuiLv8wpI/s1600-h/IMG_0634.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2Es2CVZdnar_m8cRGQamgCGbI0Gh184YpVWmjEywvrBLX4DgXB3trfLr8KtvR8L1TZ_2V_PYTqzq2oGaooW7x2sHpXCsBtnDc6dLtXsImf2gtQW4KibVDYXREK_IiBpVhSFuiLv8wpI/s400/IMG_0634.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291370096382901250" /></a><br /><br />After the ball dropped Jack decided to hit up the bubbly. (kidding of course)<br /><br /><br /><br />That about wraps up the last couple of months with our family we'll try to keep the updates coming a little quicker from now on.<br /><br /><br />Here's a couple pictures just so you don't think the kids all smiles and kisses all of the time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNFi31AMi1edYZgPXx-EcHZqQYEQIKUOfHCt7VEE4Rf_zZZG1PtMtxyOQEMXclXiN9nXCnxE2PM71cDmqrZqMfxbmv5wYyg4D9RukP6KZ3omIZxAGnnUEBODzuMziunQ43pZSuVlTJPmg/s1600-h/IMG_0639.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNFi31AMi1edYZgPXx-EcHZqQYEQIKUOfHCt7VEE4Rf_zZZG1PtMtxyOQEMXclXiN9nXCnxE2PM71cDmqrZqMfxbmv5wYyg4D9RukP6KZ3omIZxAGnnUEBODzuMziunQ43pZSuVlTJPmg/s400/IMG_0639.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291371044289304322" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVe024vQ7KIb7d113idrGCfP0H0luglyxiYV4yed5hJPMuGQb0dyDgf6ATCld5aywGBRZaaaAgCBhuiLp_HvO3M4pygIxkzFG2xJ7jZOCSLr9qf3gkP1zUf9-W-6xeak9n2SCrNse75E/s1600-h/IMG_0640.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVe024vQ7KIb7d113idrGCfP0H0luglyxiYV4yed5hJPMuGQb0dyDgf6ATCld5aywGBRZaaaAgCBhuiLp_HvO3M4pygIxkzFG2xJ7jZOCSLr9qf3gkP1zUf9-W-6xeak9n2SCrNse75E/s400/IMG_0640.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291371284688442882" /></a>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-56106125969140041162009-01-14T21:46:00.014-05:002009-01-14T22:34:23.841-05:00Luke's updateSince Steph hasn't been updating this lately I'll try to throw a little something together for everyone. This is my first try at it so if things end up looking weird so be it. We bought ourselves a new camera for Christmas since our old one died. We love the new camera but it took us a while to figure out how to get the pictures on the computer so a lot of these pictures are from a while back.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsfc3GhImzrJfmL3CGAup85kzuVdQtZe87sjxwiJzIwrIXkBWTNmvg15QESmxVt0fweybBd0dXLU2w9ihv4tcPfKAwmmdpjlP36tILtzwiMmSnTPq4jW3R__72Ih1pZm-IGW3lZNdrl8/s1600-h/IMG_0131.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZsfc3GhImzrJfmL3CGAup85kzuVdQtZe87sjxwiJzIwrIXkBWTNmvg15QESmxVt0fweybBd0dXLU2w9ihv4tcPfKAwmmdpjlP36tILtzwiMmSnTPq4jW3R__72Ih1pZm-IGW3lZNdrl8/s400/IMG_0131.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291348385520947090" /></a><br /><br />Putting garland up on the tree can be a very exciting event, just ask Steph. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJc4p-4TCfqo12Ofqum72Y-wOqw3-e4s-DcZ36WVOjcXYkN9rLZf6dltxkPB-y3Usfv517y5SJWy77aFJq1XsTfj54_EiC5I0-fy65SyQYEHcsqqNTJRCJA4QqrLIkxWyDqIjaXq5MZY/s1600-h/IMG_0133_1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJc4p-4TCfqo12Ofqum72Y-wOqw3-e4s-DcZ36WVOjcXYkN9rLZf6dltxkPB-y3Usfv517y5SJWy77aFJq1XsTfj54_EiC5I0-fy65SyQYEHcsqqNTJRCJA4QqrLIkxWyDqIjaXq5MZY/s400/IMG_0133_1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291349013681547554" /></a><br /><br />Putting the finishing touches on the tree. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhks5_4QzpyTIUnNRq7dDjlS6MFo9cJHQT6D-b7LAq2ioCCdgzR2pc0_t-VWAl-IpjMMBONZeokyKVKj4vYAc04fqwbsmnhQm1xrbRhyphenhyphen56sMdo7X-LtQJvaWBaUIHH6wGzKeEtNUhXqfx4/s1600-h/IMG_0210.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhks5_4QzpyTIUnNRq7dDjlS6MFo9cJHQT6D-b7LAq2ioCCdgzR2pc0_t-VWAl-IpjMMBONZeokyKVKj4vYAc04fqwbsmnhQm1xrbRhyphenhyphen56sMdo7X-LtQJvaWBaUIHH6wGzKeEtNUhXqfx4/s400/IMG_0210.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291349659584262770" /></a><br /><br /><br />The finished product!! (you can't really tell but the ornaments are all on the top half of the tree)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8gopVsA2FctIHVA9JRQs4lhFd4gM2LLl64L2v92yD9gKwg_J_OTaJd-Mmh0fXsg1LRhrYKcBjgsxJe-nIVTVHsluaWUIVaqvq9dfJlv36h1hT5gE05UZ38RzNWbvf8Tm6f0E5UAk-IM/s1600-h/IMG_0207.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8gopVsA2FctIHVA9JRQs4lhFd4gM2LLl64L2v92yD9gKwg_J_OTaJd-Mmh0fXsg1LRhrYKcBjgsxJe-nIVTVHsluaWUIVaqvq9dfJlv36h1hT5gE05UZ38RzNWbvf8Tm6f0E5UAk-IM/s400/IMG_0207.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291350347020864818" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is my biggest contribution to the holiday decorations. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZ4IvMlSgQ5ntBX_I5q_oeD0uACJeUqRs1RThrwsB5KZ2tolYwcRhZ50PMlqzO2IQgkMKCOP4RI4ARkU0ibfQPztN787lxPCTUcM7x7R03WW_9P2Jcou1HsGityOeE7HKnNj6jf06g-E/s1600-h/IMG_0153.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZ4IvMlSgQ5ntBX_I5q_oeD0uACJeUqRs1RThrwsB5KZ2tolYwcRhZ50PMlqzO2IQgkMKCOP4RI4ARkU0ibfQPztN787lxPCTUcM7x7R03WW_9P2Jcou1HsGityOeE7HKnNj6jf06g-E/s400/IMG_0153.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291351613455367634" /></a><br /><br />Playing the part of Rudolph.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNyNvDnVarK2p9CmN8pZ3I353WhHnO06QSq2gHe5NbarIdV8zIPYtCWHPxiF5xy4f_QIR7f9zmfuOk8l5wcla58gHdBGwFCG2O82xfrmrJi1QD2Ta-5RduDtXHUwnOkKHQDulbXSM3wok/s1600-h/IMG_0132.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNyNvDnVarK2p9CmN8pZ3I353WhHnO06QSq2gHe5NbarIdV8zIPYtCWHPxiF5xy4f_QIR7f9zmfuOk8l5wcla58gHdBGwFCG2O82xfrmrJi1QD2Ta-5RduDtXHUwnOkKHQDulbXSM3wok/s400/IMG_0132.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291352297392735858" /></a><br /><br />Riding the horse Grandma Marvel and Aunt Linda bought him for Christmas. Deffinitely one of his favorites this season.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJ3sfzDfeNNkAkhthjffC5WyqOINeq0YRUlSDd1qcOnC6Wk78tpoohEZ5yL7qdv_2VwlgaS7tjCtN7ru0LN8Wb64Rtu2ExQDIjDuEKJcFno-eX_sxFSDb6Ldrryg-2u9CK6qUH20D3VU/s1600-h/IMG_0158.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJ3sfzDfeNNkAkhthjffC5WyqOINeq0YRUlSDd1qcOnC6Wk78tpoohEZ5yL7qdv_2VwlgaS7tjCtN7ru0LN8Wb64Rtu2ExQDIjDuEKJcFno-eX_sxFSDb6Ldrryg-2u9CK6qUH20D3VU/s400/IMG_0158.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291352835443507298" /></a><br /><br /><br />Running in the first snow of the season. Yes, he is barefoot. He ran out there before we could stop him, but it was a very short run in the snow.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEsgjYI3pKwz5qquVKBD3DnwbLJ8Xm6PBeKSF1-pnaiXf4PaXWOWFMgeeEtQvUPRu-adR71WizkrsZtUMVUOCXn_DZdP7r4YMYlfKaGPVtsDPYLOZIvzEj9seSRGFENE3GD95nA6gXH8/s1600-h/IMG_0260.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEsgjYI3pKwz5qquVKBD3DnwbLJ8Xm6PBeKSF1-pnaiXf4PaXWOWFMgeeEtQvUPRu-adR71WizkrsZtUMVUOCXn_DZdP7r4YMYlfKaGPVtsDPYLOZIvzEj9seSRGFENE3GD95nA6gXH8/s400/IMG_0260.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291354208662981682" /></a><br /><br /><br />Caught looking for his Christmas presents under the tree.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyvtMbyTZJU_Fpt0csx6UPztu6jpyihicyc5S6F0MRy0K6VIcasLVBhggvngS_eFcehP213fQOlC9pkVoDHekzQeCHRagC6a7SE106Z1ND_-x4H9_lPnlHIZPWjHm42Wk_KtudYTIhndI/s1600-h/IMG_0292.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyvtMbyTZJU_Fpt0csx6UPztu6jpyihicyc5S6F0MRy0K6VIcasLVBhggvngS_eFcehP213fQOlC9pkVoDHekzQeCHRagC6a7SE106Z1ND_-x4H9_lPnlHIZPWjHm42Wk_KtudYTIhndI/s400/IMG_0292.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291354847580718770" /></a><br /><br /><br />Loaded up in the car to go somewhere. Look at the beautiful blue eyes he got from his mom.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOgPdkF8BRvGUNc0PNVndPerWxzuk1ccvXAkXMohi15uT3kYbbcQQubrVwmgsstHi5GZuK8uNFSs9VfnTIlrqsLJim5_OR3YQ_2lTz3dhJ1oNiMtMFuR83YKcCOI8yul20P52pJUqsEY/s1600-h/IMG_0298.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOgPdkF8BRvGUNc0PNVndPerWxzuk1ccvXAkXMohi15uT3kYbbcQQubrVwmgsstHi5GZuK8uNFSs9VfnTIlrqsLJim5_OR3YQ_2lTz3dhJ1oNiMtMFuR83YKcCOI8yul20P52pJUqsEY/s400/IMG_0298.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291355360504920434" /></a><br /><br /><br />Ham it up for the camera. He has learned to smile for the camera recently and show off his pearly whites. In this picture he still only had 6, now he's up to 8.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYhMz1GvkGgPk3fw8oLuz76Z0GmoJ0tfJ0KHXbT5NPOkQZ6YlVPaEQlYOXqjGCCJjqLXfMSvz-fdZHz5OOjOBvtyQNWLH5KuMZIqitK4UESyOocFrEhf7r1EUahgOBrm78xMUnvAkmsc/s1600-h/IMG_0335.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYhMz1GvkGgPk3fw8oLuz76Z0GmoJ0tfJ0KHXbT5NPOkQZ6YlVPaEQlYOXqjGCCJjqLXfMSvz-fdZHz5OOjOBvtyQNWLH5KuMZIqitK4UESyOocFrEhf7r1EUahgOBrm78xMUnvAkmsc/s400/IMG_0335.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291356147019596162" /></a><br /><br />Jack loves spending time at his wee-school with Steph and all of the other kids!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1XBKw6W1uzNUsp6dh_gwU-zPlq0i93jND2PGjNeqKlwqVl7YmZeZxbDFVqdwojjiJOZ-0UxcpLSOklDji7VoP-OtRkueACv3fBJNXOrthb9CIx3E-Gaea0DxVnVzFaIHrc_PWReM9ew/s1600-h/IMG_0390.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1XBKw6W1uzNUsp6dh_gwU-zPlq0i93jND2PGjNeqKlwqVl7YmZeZxbDFVqdwojjiJOZ-0UxcpLSOklDji7VoP-OtRkueACv3fBJNXOrthb9CIx3E-Gaea0DxVnVzFaIHrc_PWReM9ew/s400/IMG_0390.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291356734154389890" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is the plate that Jack made me for Christmas, definitely the best present I got this year, followed very closely by the Wii my parents got us. Unfortunately, we don't have pictures of the reaction when we opened the Wii at their house. We were quite suprised and excited.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-66622153623958681782008-12-07T23:25:00.004-05:002008-12-07T23:28:32.669-05:00Long timeI know it's been a loooong while since I've posted. The Spence household has been very busy. Between the holidays and school, I haven't had much time to update. Our camera broke a few weeks ago, so I didn't even have any photos to update. We finally got a new camera, so hopefully I'll be updating again soon, I just need to figure out how to download pics from my new camera. We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, we definately did. I have one more paper to write and then I'll have more time to do things like this. See you all in a few days (I hope)!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-89046935272123202492008-11-04T23:36:00.003-05:002008-11-04T23:45:32.506-05:00YES WE DID!!!Luke and I posed in our Obama t-shirts, while Jack advocated PEACE!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGVDUM2hNqX8QY2z6Ky8cClTLl4yMUwElLvUx8cD6zLipdA97_25sU0YtEYlDx_xMnz0n_pbyRjdgfchLW2bKYiv0o8jk76xBKG1ISrH2Z5Bg6KoTLlkRmqG06c12TlSFedB7p4HHc4P8/s1600-h/election+2008+008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGVDUM2hNqX8QY2z6Ky8cClTLl4yMUwElLvUx8cD6zLipdA97_25sU0YtEYlDx_xMnz0n_pbyRjdgfchLW2bKYiv0o8jk76xBKG1ISrH2Z5Bg6KoTLlkRmqG06c12TlSFedB7p4HHc4P8/s400/election+2008+008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265029827244491954" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrCTdheouJ9EO6mjluUrFRcowyNHhojT0YGbEHWcGitV40kLZ41glZr2xkeDrqCvECLGXWi0QiZYh654DBHdU4OrD-AatXdn-xiKyFqVjzSEx-Ko9nqOz6w2ISKcjHqhHu1MBepoLFYIY/s1600-h/election+2008+007b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 346px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrCTdheouJ9EO6mjluUrFRcowyNHhojT0YGbEHWcGitV40kLZ41glZr2xkeDrqCvECLGXWi0QiZYh654DBHdU4OrD-AatXdn-xiKyFqVjzSEx-Ko9nqOz6w2ISKcjHqhHu1MBepoLFYIY/s400/election+2008+007b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265029821894054658" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoj8hYKQK24p-MLJttUsyZqIaG9aSVtHXLOaUPJ_grDrVI_qBA6svTtbhMHQSPK-yU4g1uLVvrcNnNylQTMnT-L9nRIY77pyMQXHAWO9vsxBW9GA1v_hRD3Jo3Uvp5bvtDn2lfAy1pSE0/s1600-h/election+2008+003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoj8hYKQK24p-MLJttUsyZqIaG9aSVtHXLOaUPJ_grDrVI_qBA6svTtbhMHQSPK-yU4g1uLVvrcNnNylQTMnT-L9nRIY77pyMQXHAWO9vsxBW9GA1v_hRD3Jo3Uvp5bvtDn2lfAy1pSE0/s400/election+2008+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265029822050816290" /></a><br /><br />We witnessed history tonight, as a family. We are so thankful that our son will be raised in a country where everyone is capable of being president. Jack will never know a time where it wasn't possible for a black man to be president (we'll work on getting a qualified woman there next). We are so happy tonight. We both know that there is a lot of work to be done now, however, are confident that the right man is on the job.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-83039187517214126452008-11-04T20:30:00.000-05:002008-11-04T20:47:06.443-05:00FINALLYFinally, the day has arrived! November 4, 2008, election day. Luke and I have already voted, Jack and I waited in line for over 3 hours on Saturday to cast our vote for Obama/ Biden, Jill Long-Thompson for governor, Nels Ackerson for House. I'm so excited for voting in my second election, the first time didn't go my way, so I'm hoping that this one does. If it doesn't, I fear the path that our country will continue on. <br /><br />I am by no means a one issue voter; however, I am a one party voter. Many people criticize me for this, but I have my reasons. Unfortunately, in our current political scene, parties get things done, people don't. I cannot in good judgment vote for a person whom I like as a person; however have fundamental differences in beliefs and values. Many characterize my beliefs as radical, which I openly, happily accept and recognize. I may be radical, but I fundamentally care about people more than money and think that the well being of millions outweighs the importance of rich people getting richer. I vote based on my values, beliefs and ethics. I vote based on the world that I want my son to grow up in. I vote based on the beliefs, values and ethics that Luke and I are raising Jack to embrace. <br /><br />I have been reading a lot about abortion lately, I know that this is a hot button issue for many, heck, and many people vote on this one issue alone. I am solidly pro-choice; however I do not think that being pro-choice and being pro-life are mutually exclusive. As a college student, I volunteered at a high risk pregnancy center, working with many women who were young, many who where impoverished, women who were choosing to have their child, regardless of the horrible life situation that they were living in. When I graduated I worked as an in home social worker, helping women who had their children taken away from them, children who were living in foster homes, children who nobody wanted to adopt because they were older. When we moved to Indiana, I chose to work at Healthy Families, working with women to help them provide a better life for their children and themselves. I lovingly accepted these women for who they were and advocated on behalf of them. Where are all of the "pro-lifers" or as I call them, "anti-choicers" then? Oh, I forgot, for many "pro-life/anti-choice" people, all caring about life ends once a child is born. Is it a coincidence that many people who are pro-life/anti-choice are also anti welfare, anti fair wage, anti contraception? God forbid we give these people food for their children, clothes or a warm house. We certainly cannot teach teens about the dangers of SEX, about birth control, because, as well all know, they shouldn’t be having sex to begin with. Once they do choose to have sex and they do get pregnant, we shouldn’t really have to provide them with good medical care, as long as they can go to the free clinic, they’ll be fine. No matter what, don’t provide them with food, shelter or clothing, you know, because they shouldn’t have gotten pregnant to begin with. $5.50 is all that businesses can afford to pay workers, if they have to pay them more, the companies would go out of business, workers should be thankful for the employment. <br /><br />Many "Christians" use the pro-life/anti-choice argument as a faith based concern. These are the same Christians who conveniently forget about the importance of following other teachings, such as the importance of anointing the sick, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry. These are all values that I think God truly cares about. Isaiah 58:6-7, "Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor." <br /><br />While I know some pro-life/anti-choice people who definitely live their faith, help people and advocate for them, unfortunately, they are not in the majority. <br /><br />Until I know pro-lifer/anti-choice people who actually live their belief of being able to live from conception to natural death, I will not accept their argument. Until I know pro-life/anti-choice people who take steps to foster or adopt unwanted children, I cannot accept their position. Until I know pro-life/anti-choice people who advocate for the poor and disenfranchised, accept the necessity of welfare and work towards a nation that is not divisive, racist or selfish, I cannot and will not accept their position. <br /><br />Yes, I am pro-choice, but I advocate for life on all levels, from birth to natural death.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-73252667364231056472008-11-04T14:00:00.000-05:002008-11-04T14:01:28.437-05:00YES WE CAN!!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jjXyqcx-mYY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jjXyqcx-mYY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />TURN OFF THE MUSIC ON THE SIDE!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-46057613702724559202008-11-03T22:08:00.009-05:002008-11-03T22:50:15.652-05:00Halloween 2008Which Pumpkin is which? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaMVeTN5QSNWIqkM1_65F7ZdOCKc-mKPiX-2t81Wa6MKEcVtABsyh8nFibEWl0-GO-FzrgXjZq-C07sZuP6u5zL333jtooa6yc3JEaE9q9xZTrf3vB5gQcXRVukcR_eqsdZaEXFjb3Lw/s1600-h/halloween+2008+066.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhW_VURUPbEK7Ah42-Ma59BmMyNKdyM_i8ahTvujM5snOP1r1gzjkQoNqb3slU6AXGDT4oWC7phND838tQDc9p9LtX7K9s3jL2uFQ6oJppbOEzJsMXm2z22TfWiuxfFKQX7JO4SEbtvuI/s400/halloween+2008+031.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264641829641382802" /></a> Nicole's Wedding!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMwy-Dw9yjaFNEIHUR7hg1OPZxijEjPpdkNWeZG7pprVkTlKyOpcBUD7jYTSlDAb25EOg3n-EEXN4DcsEDL-ACqHEnmCNgDfYgVA2FNvOGY1AP3UrcTAgoRa0lNJjuv7-k3DHC-3DxWOw/s1600-h/halloween+2008+021.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMwy-Dw9yjaFNEIHUR7hg1OPZxijEjPpdkNWeZG7pprVkTlKyOpcBUD7jYTSlDAb25EOg3n-EEXN4DcsEDL-ACqHEnmCNgDfYgVA2FNvOGY1AP3UrcTAgoRa0lNJjuv7-k3DHC-3DxWOw/s400/halloween+2008+021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264641818324797186" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOz_bSJu19URZPAFQmqkNTB88aCkIEWbXezgsHBvF_Boh6_rK_iFVJWFUbMpg52XOBFjcJmdav-O0Q16XSCYAzMVAW_MiBUKi106KWIHtC6jjWe2IzoH6pj1M1MqW9fyiTImj9h6ov0Lg/s1600-h/halloween+2008+056.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKd_W0NvkqKPgnFtLfeLlegeThnRxWaabDfNp_ifoLMvcjpa6l-txFLe9lcAoZ7jVBPk9nBlbwG7mLy_-O1YFS-Z672UReTIaUbigNsThB0UEnysp9QMdi6t6b8PEpb6aArQQJAIhLYpA/s400/halloween+2008+078.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264640991897529650" /></a> Rocking the vote on Saturday with mommy!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTwITn2SMiPvQORf9gUjoFLwLVjDzewfOa-1JQLK32I-ptZenROe0oRRnzoJVOYc0366j29xOXGe0JpI_n6iNbgR1Gn6jwi4ZIpUPQY1ZtwpASqWJARDbw-ETryaEo-hU4qeJ1VA3o-A/s1600-h/halloween+2008+077.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTwITn2SMiPvQORf9gUjoFLwLVjDzewfOa-1JQLK32I-ptZenROe0oRRnzoJVOYc0366j29xOXGe0JpI_n6iNbgR1Gn6jwi4ZIpUPQY1ZtwpASqWJARDbw-ETryaEo-hU4qeJ1VA3o-A/s400/halloween+2008+077.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264640979064196690" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSdUipB99wS_heKP6sTRhgeQ_XXLTObXejJrwY6plTE0z4tUMDDdsC6GG5l0uOw3tR3Uo5_6bmtD66q27Ic9p52Qm98l54ixiV344KS4TcNe3u-NDk6gBUwguJxXBtluGCqzEgmCKGF0w/s1600-h/halloween+2008+074.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSdUipB99wS_heKP6sTRhgeQ_XXLTObXejJrwY6plTE0z4tUMDDdsC6GG5l0uOw3tR3Uo5_6bmtD66q27Ic9p52Qm98l54ixiV344KS4TcNe3u-NDk6gBUwguJxXBtluGCqzEgmCKGF0w/s400/halloween+2008+074.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264640975442238962" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxY0RBU4ibnh6ak6PdhQzgXh3YZGj5opXHhZ7zbXcspKgQMldnVZZg-LljMrPhhT-k_JxTjSLGvOHopzI8lEM4j2CLH1lgaMxsKE0tUYQSU6ctGMrPpIMKRu69QyiF_H14PuG_WaqbNs8/s1600-h/halloween+2008+071.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxY0RBU4ibnh6ak6PdhQzgXh3YZGj5opXHhZ7zbXcspKgQMldnVZZg-LljMrPhhT-k_JxTjSLGvOHopzI8lEM4j2CLH1lgaMxsKE0tUYQSU6ctGMrPpIMKRu69QyiF_H14PuG_WaqbNs8/s400/halloween+2008+071.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264640960668575474" /></a> <br />I haven't posted in nearly a month, SORRY about that everyone, we've been really busy at the Spence household. The month of October was great. I finished up my first graduate class (acutlly, I still have to write a paper about maternal and child health, if anyone has any good info, let me know). Mommy and Me continues to go wonderfully and Jack and I love our stoller exercise class. We're both making many new friends, which I love. We visited a couple pumpkin patches and got some pumpkins. I downloades about 150 photos a couple weeks ago and unfortunately, they didn't register on my computer and I didn't realize it until I had already deleted them, so most of our October pictures are gone. Luke was on reserve the month of October and ended up working about 7 days, so he was home a lot. Jack and I both enjoyed having him home. The end of October, we headed back to Iowa. Luke and I dropped Jack off at my mom's house and then Luke and I headed to Kansas City for 4 days to help my best friend, Nicole, get married. I was her maid of honor and had a great time. The wedding prep was fun, the wedding was beautiful, being away from jack was hard. It was the first time that I had been away from him for any considerable length of time, he had fun with his grammy, grandpa and aunts, but mommy missed him. They joined us in KC on Sat for the wedding and we flew home Sunday. <br /><br />We had a playdate with my new friend Kate and her son Roman, who is 10 days older than Jack. I am so glad to be making some new friends who live close to me. Jack was a "Jack" o'lantern for halloween. The cutest Jack o'lantern if you ask me. He dressed up in his costume for mommy and me, story time and halloween night. We went trick or treating at our friends Dustin and Nicole's apartment and hung out with them for a little while. Luke left Saturday and Jack and I met up with Beth for pizza and then went to a halloween party hosted by my girlfriends Lana, Tanya and Jen. The party was fun and everyone was cute. I went as a pilot....origional, right? Luke got home Sunday and we had a nice day. My new class gives me a lot of homework, I so I feel like I am reading a lot and writing papers a lot, but I like it overall.<br /><br />Today the weather was wonderful, we played outside and had a great time. We got down our Christmas lights to start our plan for our display this year. Luke is really into decorating our house for Christmas, so we're getting ready!!!<br /><br />We head back to Iowa Thursday for my friend Jessica's wedding, we're excited about seeing everyone again. It will be a short trip, but fun! <br /><br />Luke and Jack both have coughs and colds, hopefully they clear up soon. <br /><br />We miss everyone and hope to see/talk to you all soon.<br /><br />Lots of love!!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-56613083869926614572008-10-29T09:04:00.002-04:002008-10-29T09:05:51.481-04:00VOTERegardless of your political affiliation, make sure that you VOTE next Tuesday!<br /><br /><script src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=dom&vid=/video/politics/2008/10/24/von.ga.kids.political.rap.cnn" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a></noscript><br /><br /><br />Also, I know a blog about Jack is loooong overdue, we lost pics on our camera, I'll be updating soon!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-63261488604122264912008-10-08T16:18:00.003-04:002008-10-08T16:59:36.639-04:00Obama Rally<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijD5AHmKZ8AMK-x4wj0qbWNQKJfaYa2YO3tx2JkEHNqXXSkATXtpuEIUEA_DjD38VrkHLhbAosEw9AGHoogP71IOY0M9lJgdEuDX1jM8XIjPJPFUj5kONB_gsnDowf_xMVADd2bxDqvrE/s1600-h/obama2+002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijD5AHmKZ8AMK-x4wj0qbWNQKJfaYa2YO3tx2JkEHNqXXSkATXtpuEIUEA_DjD38VrkHLhbAosEw9AGHoogP71IOY0M9lJgdEuDX1jM8XIjPJPFUj5kONB_gsnDowf_xMVADd2bxDqvrE/s400/obama2+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254888165695874706" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8oy_Ra48Pn5C9Qc7rjeOEP8hV-P7APnOI5qvQX2Q0UqbgADhvGcsWAaIVR-ggon0yRw4ZJal_KqWq8vSrYOZseqFxSQn8YZOz1fwjEk0ft8AcBKvS1WcueUBPSjmg9jeeLiSHK5JVuo/s1600-h/obama2+009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8oy_Ra48Pn5C9Qc7rjeOEP8hV-P7APnOI5qvQX2Q0UqbgADhvGcsWAaIVR-ggon0yRw4ZJal_KqWq8vSrYOZseqFxSQn8YZOz1fwjEk0ft8AcBKvS1WcueUBPSjmg9jeeLiSHK5JVuo/s400/obama2+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254888163228115698" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSeE-VVrIBpubVWF8nDW11xVeldLpWaljdt_LoHpjmePL7Qrfm6C7EZcs1udy_17h7X8hwH5IGpQVsyNtAQsZL7m4WzuEQyx1RbaFtSVN92OOOvzmHIbfxDsksqoo0x4FS8DaymyOjlC0/s1600-h/obama2+011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSeE-VVrIBpubVWF8nDW11xVeldLpWaljdt_LoHpjmePL7Qrfm6C7EZcs1udy_17h7X8hwH5IGpQVsyNtAQsZL7m4WzuEQyx1RbaFtSVN92OOOvzmHIbfxDsksqoo0x4FS8DaymyOjlC0/s400/obama2+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254888168908998994" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pRJEeGhMGieuBKZa96ms3OJCWzB_CINfKIFMa_Us2ygNmkRbzUXjzlDgxZfNV8U4fAPA4FEkLjo5DMJGfnvZBCONhPU6NEzLJ5dB6LXIxcqP5lYafotJEk5AMsmPm3G4A5YBAWMuFgc/s1600-h/obama2+006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pRJEeGhMGieuBKZa96ms3OJCWzB_CINfKIFMa_Us2ygNmkRbzUXjzlDgxZfNV8U4fAPA4FEkLjo5DMJGfnvZBCONhPU6NEzLJ5dB6LXIxcqP5lYafotJEk5AMsmPm3G4A5YBAWMuFgc/s400/obama2+006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254888166428616066" /></a><br />Today Luke, Jack and I trekked out in the rain to the Indiana State Fair grounds for a Barack Obama rally. It was SO GREAT!! We had the best time. I have such hope and faith in our country and in Barack Obama. It was amazing sitting there with my husband (who has already voted) my child and a very diverse group of people, listening to the man whom Luke and I (Jack too) hope to be our future president. <br /><br />So much of this election is not about me and my generation or generations older that me, it is not about my politics or plans, now, it is all about Jack. I want Jack to be raised in a country that possesses a set of ethics and values that are important. Values that were taught to me by my parents and grandparents, taught to Luke by his parents and grandparents and hopefully, taught to Jack by his parents and grandparents. I want Jack to grow up in a world that values the lives of all people. A culture where money is not the driving force to all things. A world where there are polar bears and a nation that does not owe China $10,000,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars. I want Jack to grow up in a nation where his little sisters (God willing!!) will be treated equally to him. Where people are not denied basic rights, like marrying those who they love, health care or a living wage. <br /><br />No, I do not believe that Barack Obama is capable of changing all of these things, however, I do believe, that by voting with my, and Luke with his, values and ethics, we will be voting for the person that best reflects what we want in a nation.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-47609897968514954452008-10-08T07:36:00.000-04:002008-10-08T07:37:04.073-04:00ExcitedWe're going to see Obama in Indy today!!!!!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-3865895570145975882008-10-07T14:18:00.000-04:002008-10-07T14:19:02.601-04:00Politically Speaking....What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?<br /><br /><br />What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?<br /><br /><br />What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to? <br /><br /><br />What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his looks standards because she had a horrible auto accident? <br /><br /><br />What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? <br /><br /><br />What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?<br /><br /><br /> What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5? <br /><br /><br />What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker? <br /><br /><br /> If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.<br /><br /><br /> You are The Boss... which team would you hire? With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc.<br /><br /><br />Educational Background: This is truly startling <br /><br /><br /> Obama:<br /> Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.<br /> Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude<br /> &<br />Biden:<br /> University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.<br /> Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)<br />vs.<br />McCain:<br />United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899<br />& <br /> Palin: <br />Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester<br /> North Idaho College - 2 semesters – general study<br /> University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism<br />Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semesterStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-37742785763729748462008-10-05T22:03:00.015-04:002008-10-05T22:45:30.687-04:00Pumpkin Patch Pictures<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHPnb0P5Wg5v-YRaxBm0ljAK-vtByAT-Y9EogHxOdZJ6EMjF0J5dylSBB0Z1VmMK-QYT0yd0OMGjhsRAtEz_JgYF6a21uc2ryIPLt6Sol0yKUMU_5RBTBGMVNoO3xpWKpwrXE8eO56q4/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+084.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHPnb0P5Wg5v-YRaxBm0ljAK-vtByAT-Y9EogHxOdZJ6EMjF0J5dylSBB0Z1VmMK-QYT0yd0OMGjhsRAtEz_JgYF6a21uc2ryIPLt6Sol0yKUMU_5RBTBGMVNoO3xpWKpwrXE8eO56q4/s400/pumpkin+patch+084.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253860838048969618" /></a> A little spill<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZpzTXNzGby89ag9XtfSBx-qQ0U4LtQrF6U_-80EhTSjJnKvHag97Z56DBHLU7piTC9aqzrUlRQJ9WMJlYG0YCmdUKsvSX2pvbu5AjmRXjQ-XYnVCwJRE-mnpwZ3joALQtMso1wR9ebc/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+085.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZpzTXNzGby89ag9XtfSBx-qQ0U4LtQrF6U_-80EhTSjJnKvHag97Z56DBHLU7piTC9aqzrUlRQJ9WMJlYG0YCmdUKsvSX2pvbu5AjmRXjQ-XYnVCwJRE-mnpwZ3joALQtMso1wR9ebc/s400/pumpkin+patch+085.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253860841817141874" /></a> Mom resued me!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJL-EfuDk0DMPXbF3OyKqdmaiqpKSSdUAoEvq2yCYCw9Pq-jI4zJcXPjpO4PNKPXbilIn_bSbFAnNc4MI16oUGjsprGfolv540b1aM_Y9CfBRUjwW_EneFDkaGu-kvmCrYopHIoWLNijw/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+092.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJL-EfuDk0DMPXbF3OyKqdmaiqpKSSdUAoEvq2yCYCw9Pq-jI4zJcXPjpO4PNKPXbilIn_bSbFAnNc4MI16oUGjsprGfolv540b1aM_Y9CfBRUjwW_EneFDkaGu-kvmCrYopHIoWLNijw/s400/pumpkin+patch+092.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253860848600445778" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgN7ujNFqlHXFrODYJ3EA_gPyeN9xFG0qnYI5YghXXNRLq2wxxbzhGeE520jhn2BN63RprRQVHocXMJ9932inPQwyQ_9Wv9ADn0fg-yCjx-TGc0yNX1GcJA5gmzDsK32XKYrP4ajWa2lk/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+095.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgN7ujNFqlHXFrODYJ3EA_gPyeN9xFG0qnYI5YghXXNRLq2wxxbzhGeE520jhn2BN63RprRQVHocXMJ9932inPQwyQ_9Wv9ADn0fg-yCjx-TGc0yNX1GcJA5gmzDsK32XKYrP4ajWa2lk/s400/pumpkin+patch+095.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253860852138726146" /></a> The difference a year makes!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8QfVij8YfjXmeKovVWldA1bwAjNAF3ASGH2h4BWlVCplVCbowiltD_nvrmFv7S3x0B5ll2xkKCFYXmpgBzvrWxDGi4KTGlrrCXCbSXW0_nzNgpxlKhc-c3sM3HEE57ME1SUKTlNqGTw/s1600-h/DSCN1162_162_076.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrK1a9lMY31N-mbBNxjZSrcYMVX6lq1PDaEroJyHgfa2-DDDfcHz3u1zWrbiCke2mhmqmvNiqCwzglaNEdoy25cd_E2owwU93uZpcWFnOcpaz7BrR-vkydnsK0TeMmUPbYfDRqO2wKQo/s400/pumpkin+patch+082.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253859821396126674" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8V3tQ0x3K09AOy0Rp47m0h01ryj668W_Nh4D8GyZHzII_5WfhqteTmrZmJpucbHWHOrdSaKRwwIi5CFmiLJWMyYDFLdk3Ph_Kfr5LkIWRDBRgd8WBe0dk9I_27IDT-OapWseyzmr_2mo/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+083.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8V3tQ0x3K09AOy0Rp47m0h01ryj668W_Nh4D8GyZHzII_5WfhqteTmrZmJpucbHWHOrdSaKRwwIi5CFmiLJWMyYDFLdk3Ph_Kfr5LkIWRDBRgd8WBe0dk9I_27IDT-OapWseyzmr_2mo/s400/pumpkin+patch+083.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253859827689458130" /></a> Just walking!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0fUhkK3fqduOGCPNt6mXqeyMmaugPO8wQSA7v7bIiw_bgfBtwY-GLSw3Lpk_uBuVJFbm9EY7_iYSK64eRKfln9U3DpzzvSRHa_N_D-rWvFZt0PTqKzyYkF49hLS6tVpIbwDA0_0wA-c/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+053.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bPHCXW3SL90b1fXG0uFFjqSRudOiB2Q-DbaN0OPY-1_aFEyKcFOoYNqUsO0bpBMZ3cRDlDw8v3obhT8ejdhoF8SolFAczaPHNmP1HMjNG7ygzQvIW8GbGyfIk9uceHugmTxyCheatEU/s400/pumpkin+patch+061.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253859343584847362" /></a> Ready to go down the slide with mom and dad<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgroGbWuh_YFde9p7SVPgJuefvgwnod2oMkUIbIS96MsBg5wdbQiMTsgnvEvcM_dg-ckR5Lo9KeicKJu1niCygyzDtMJ8nynFrYa-Z57ND-oD6qGFmri4JMpz75Fg6P9anQMXk2qkHia9o/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+063.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgroGbWuh_YFde9p7SVPgJuefvgwnod2oMkUIbIS96MsBg5wdbQiMTsgnvEvcM_dg-ckR5Lo9KeicKJu1niCygyzDtMJ8nynFrYa-Z57ND-oD6qGFmri4JMpz75Fg6P9anQMXk2qkHia9o/s400/pumpkin+patch+063.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253859343074221922" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLuYKMHf_uGwdKE4iKsDQp0KGNsMEbaS2XhR_99yXqlswI4-nOgsnC1x7ER-IKli_liQ_s-GiXsjr1GIRzad5TZaqRs3I2StZcGBB9yiky1xXfvtgU8vdk4rZr4rrqsYV7qC1jknc6XAw/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+064.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLuYKMHf_uGwdKE4iKsDQp0KGNsMEbaS2XhR_99yXqlswI4-nOgsnC1x7ER-IKli_liQ_s-GiXsjr1GIRzad5TZaqRs3I2StZcGBB9yiky1xXfvtgU8vdk4rZr4rrqsYV7qC1jknc6XAw/s400/pumpkin+patch+064.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253859348924983138" /></a> mommy and me in th slide<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_E3TajEDRO9HT49Q4P3ZNAMHIZHc1TVMtWRRqOx1iH2v7CVRW4b2GHL_xtiwvx2l1bHNrWvjyIWqMzktZok9tqTdzzxVt6eGdqetSRrwQXVe4KnGr49zTbcez5MjyIG7ttcmCWdsviZQ/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+034.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_E3TajEDRO9HT49Q4P3ZNAMHIZHc1TVMtWRRqOx1iH2v7CVRW4b2GHL_xtiwvx2l1bHNrWvjyIWqMzktZok9tqTdzzxVt6eGdqetSRrwQXVe4KnGr49zTbcez5MjyIG7ttcmCWdsviZQ/s400/pumpkin+patch+034.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858899426900498" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiACOvEYpatXOQY-MU3P767hDWH3OJI71_M6TUUhovz3Y_ZDHYmwVqp4KCCV2R9zt_kEnyd-OTHdd9FvLTbKT-EqLdwhXVzPpCAAO-6_xTTEClJTtHEFcKQJJnH-cyVy8LYPyPdI6PR7rQ/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+035.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiACOvEYpatXOQY-MU3P767hDWH3OJI71_M6TUUhovz3Y_ZDHYmwVqp4KCCV2R9zt_kEnyd-OTHdd9FvLTbKT-EqLdwhXVzPpCAAO-6_xTTEClJTtHEFcKQJJnH-cyVy8LYPyPdI6PR7rQ/s400/pumpkin+patch+035.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858906674840706" /></a> Petting the Donkey...HEY HE BIT ME!!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KYsbIxhg1jx2GuZ1o3iWZ8pIc7nLGFk2nwJj7n1YT3zl7mn28NwjBErl0RD3eKGLz0m_3nQPWTod-y27y5Vhwbr7YSmturUhO92BEfuA0Ew2rNCvAibZrzjhEryPgxv-l5QBXdWGlJA/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+049.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KYsbIxhg1jx2GuZ1o3iWZ8pIc7nLGFk2nwJj7n1YT3zl7mn28NwjBErl0RD3eKGLz0m_3nQPWTod-y27y5Vhwbr7YSmturUhO92BEfuA0Ew2rNCvAibZrzjhEryPgxv-l5QBXdWGlJA/s400/pumpkin+patch+049.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858906229560802" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht0TBVtNhfmjFi31W5qyH4Zi5fgqo1JMcJwASrA9iF7QUOId-Nu5wpnI6BMSe5iYiKXYASr5CUYy63vqAALjg7lTC_5mQiGegN-39NktH5SOSa-pUkBeBYDrsZ_sOVDLibVBsR_bKG68o/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+055.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht0TBVtNhfmjFi31W5qyH4Zi5fgqo1JMcJwASrA9iF7QUOId-Nu5wpnI6BMSe5iYiKXYASr5CUYy63vqAALjg7lTC_5mQiGegN-39NktH5SOSa-pUkBeBYDrsZ_sOVDLibVBsR_bKG68o/s400/pumpkin+patch+055.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858910091736658" /></a> I love this picture!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAnG9oBLBQ7v_hdHl8jivdRRiZny4x7obinefRhLCGnylext5aFXcJecPnlYlnbRqGX0uSEcFGUT5UmQwvYm-PQZVK7fNU0l0H5TJZRJ0JgTY2sqY7L_mTOamXNrItXDoT_DE1dWIOvnM/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+051.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAnG9oBLBQ7v_hdHl8jivdRRiZny4x7obinefRhLCGnylext5aFXcJecPnlYlnbRqGX0uSEcFGUT5UmQwvYm-PQZVK7fNU0l0H5TJZRJ0JgTY2sqY7L_mTOamXNrItXDoT_DE1dWIOvnM/s400/pumpkin+patch+051.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858916435602626" /></a> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg822CjcYoxu1FJoxeiL9SzVzEnUqUIDc2RXjAxtHBDCpqrBeG9nctWXsISPDenh6VOIozFNknnvuCnx0Kyuds4sJvydQjtmt_VwfNt4DVhfI5ZEAQloH8a9dIOmXNcNmdUZhBE8SS55K0/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+015.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg822CjcYoxu1FJoxeiL9SzVzEnUqUIDc2RXjAxtHBDCpqrBeG9nctWXsISPDenh6VOIozFNknnvuCnx0Kyuds4sJvydQjtmt_VwfNt4DVhfI5ZEAQloH8a9dIOmXNcNmdUZhBE8SS55K0/s400/pumpkin+patch+015.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858295008852354" /></a>mama and me (above, NOT BELOW! SMART ALECKS!!)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpmA_nKnXZEGCDBJ7KZSGSKKQjL36MW2c2Ykdn5j3_0VrDYclOzsBcWKtFTq49EK-R6cPEDmgWX0qPDclHu34h-6bPUFEN6oc3B0my0CfbC3xbeG39s1psdm7k9L-Jj1ni6hK4QwzDPI/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+023.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpmA_nKnXZEGCDBJ7KZSGSKKQjL36MW2c2Ykdn5j3_0VrDYclOzsBcWKtFTq49EK-R6cPEDmgWX0qPDclHu34h-6bPUFEN6oc3B0my0CfbC3xbeG39s1psdm7k9L-Jj1ni6hK4QwzDPI/s400/pumpkin+patch+023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858293302340050" /></a> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GhD3IIRfiCkfWEvPEF3DEHgJzWMqLEvxwQdNflv7591Rz0l2N4LC9dvptuCzcWOtXxJz53_pXBaWqntulOLrOfRpAJujueJC5_Or7lHk6dQovbFTcDx4HiKsj4sOicPi7VRm2cDhDbo/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+025.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-GhD3IIRfiCkfWEvPEF3DEHgJzWMqLEvxwQdNflv7591Rz0l2N4LC9dvptuCzcWOtXxJz53_pXBaWqntulOLrOfRpAJujueJC5_Or7lHk6dQovbFTcDx4HiKsj4sOicPi7VRm2cDhDbo/s400/pumpkin+patch+025.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858301364387138" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3d-680JiyslOnVeJMh6rxrKDOK8a7XbTEsRiTRi4HQGilW2cddPkmOqm_BkNWXjgzDdZugsQb16fgBYo459ZvdRU2TVdsIEVvoQlQ8_MiuBEcmPX46Xo9gvXefNGdmKQ38n13lcBvNcY/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+030.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3d-680JiyslOnVeJMh6rxrKDOK8a7XbTEsRiTRi4HQGilW2cddPkmOqm_BkNWXjgzDdZugsQb16fgBYo459ZvdRU2TVdsIEVvoQlQ8_MiuBEcmPX46Xo9gvXefNGdmKQ38n13lcBvNcY/s400/pumpkin+patch+030.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858303241367874" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4u85_by71tpZ8fAB2WL1NaFfKwtNv9GgveyKaXuBrdPgJm4FneQLWZ37cWtPFTBq7NAJfWr5IzRtVPcLZxBvXST4_yt1or4sVi3Ki9M-yA8OcPCmL_ACQCLbiRwfxjBmDdWWS9b13Gaw/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+032.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4u85_by71tpZ8fAB2WL1NaFfKwtNv9GgveyKaXuBrdPgJm4FneQLWZ37cWtPFTBq7NAJfWr5IzRtVPcLZxBvXST4_yt1or4sVi3Ki9M-yA8OcPCmL_ACQCLbiRwfxjBmDdWWS9b13Gaw/s400/pumpkin+patch+032.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253858301635091042" /></a><br />We went to the pumpkin patch on Wednesday. We had a great time! Appleworks is such a nice place. My friend Lana got married there last year and we've been a few times since her wedding. We bought some apples, I am going to TRY to make some homemade applesauce, if anyone has any good advice, let me know! We we to the petting zoo and Jack got to pet a goat, chicken, llama, horse and donkey. Unfortunately, the donkey bit Jack, but he survived it, poor guy. He redeemed himself though and pet the donkey one last time. We didn't pick out any pumpkins, we'll go down again next week and find the perfect pumpkin, but we did see some good ones there though. <br /><br />When we got home Wednesday afternoon, I wasn't feeling very well. I ended up getting the flu Wednesday/Thursday. I unfortunately had to go to class on Thursday to give a presentation, which went well, but I was not feeling good the entire time. I got home Thursday night to find out that Luke also got sick. I was feeling well enough to take care of Jack and Luke. Luke felt better on Friday and went to work and then, sure enough, as I was getting ready for bed Friday night, I heard Jack get sick. So, I was up with a sick baby all Friday night. Have you ever seen a 1 year old throw up chicken and noodles? It is not pleasant. Jack slept with me Friday night and threw up several times, but seemed to feel better by Saturday afternoon. Our entire house is healthy, hopefully this was the only bout of the flu we will get this year!<br /><br />The weekend was fairly low key and we're ready for a busy week BACK TO NORMAL!<br /><br />Remember, comment!! I need to know if anyone is reading this thing.<br /><br />Also, my Uncle Matt is on his way to Afghanistan, so please say an extra prayer for him, my Aunt Jen and cousins Madison, Mallory, McKenzy and Jaxon! We love you Matt, be safe and see you in a few months!<br /><br />Also, please keep sending prayers to Burundi for the Timbie Family! We miss you!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-55487537951140009022008-10-05T21:31:00.004-04:002008-10-05T22:03:11.267-04:00Visits, visits and more visits<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVxqVi_hHRMqeoZrgjW2UxQraZNMgJ1zkwNvWTR17Vmn_hIY_0o9DmAjp4jWwvjETXtL7t78tbq2XnuXDElUrxz56cYx8QfEkxfnyUV7Ao4zIfmmM8__go9zAtaKoAU_SxAB778VqVag/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVxqVi_hHRMqeoZrgjW2UxQraZNMgJ1zkwNvWTR17Vmn_hIY_0o9DmAjp4jWwvjETXtL7t78tbq2XnuXDElUrxz56cYx8QfEkxfnyUV7Ao4zIfmmM8__go9zAtaKoAU_SxAB778VqVag/s400/pumpkin+patch+010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253852957403485058" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSqEc0YDIlKA10m9N4QjXRslQceWqn-P26s8MU7dtJpXud9IsT32UUtywyg9oJKkiZpyc-WkZbWSsEBl5yRqJeyA7QWMjHykmkRx7_r64rdMqRSf5qe0hwSwnNOihD5rdJFlvBODqDviM/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSqEc0YDIlKA10m9N4QjXRslQceWqn-P26s8MU7dtJpXud9IsT32UUtywyg9oJKkiZpyc-WkZbWSsEBl5yRqJeyA7QWMjHykmkRx7_r64rdMqRSf5qe0hwSwnNOihD5rdJFlvBODqDviM/s400/pumpkin+patch+007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253852957151300562" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_bm9KoBj1kwAiqJBXdTZ3HemdcqmP3y6j0LT3NHL3F9tekDx4EMRG5Yyy1JkBn19oEb3DbEGqr2_Vin5XMAHbbrG0i79uoZ78aDJP-Pm6_vPFTvInTLl5ybkdTeyLTE6Nw61Fc4T-70/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_bm9KoBj1kwAiqJBXdTZ3HemdcqmP3y6j0LT3NHL3F9tekDx4EMRG5Yyy1JkBn19oEb3DbEGqr2_Vin5XMAHbbrG0i79uoZ78aDJP-Pm6_vPFTvInTLl5ybkdTeyLTE6Nw61Fc4T-70/s400/pumpkin+patch+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253852964029877522" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6iyjj15Mr0tDyEEuf1523fmq08_o_RbQi8aNjhN8L9XPxTZqF0yQuoYBxgcwx6connuer3i-wKtUq1RawYoP6jtKLxiIMXpiMxS0b_rkFWWbkbdTiDRbOqW4V1E4qKThjPAhz35PnQpg/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6iyjj15Mr0tDyEEuf1523fmq08_o_RbQi8aNjhN8L9XPxTZqF0yQuoYBxgcwx6connuer3i-wKtUq1RawYoP6jtKLxiIMXpiMxS0b_rkFWWbkbdTiDRbOqW4V1E4qKThjPAhz35PnQpg/s400/pumpkin+patch+008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253852974893373362" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRlxtZOeoecQs4MNtz_uIA0qsubXg6DtzH_yvFO5Q3Q3DnX1OEo7alssVsLAzwKAL54d9JMaxS8mbT0poZp4ItqeJCT-GqFmEfIabrRqAG6017FMQn7z_G4B_ATqqdDDwg0_GTaXYJEk/s1600-h/pumpkin+patch+011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRlxtZOeoecQs4MNtz_uIA0qsubXg6DtzH_yvFO5Q3Q3DnX1OEo7alssVsLAzwKAL54d9JMaxS8mbT0poZp4ItqeJCT-GqFmEfIabrRqAG6017FMQn7z_G4B_ATqqdDDwg0_GTaXYJEk/s400/pumpkin+patch+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253852979162775922" /></a><br />We've had a busy few weeks here at the Spence household. Jack and I continue our 3 day a week workout, plus story time and mommy and me. We love getting out of the house and meeting new people. School is keeping me busy, my first class will be done next Tuesday, which is exciting, but I start a new one on Thursday, so it is short lived. I should be writing a paper, but procrastination has always worked fairly well for me. I love how this class is already making me take a step back and re-evaulate my thoughts and feelings on things. However, if anything, I think I am getting pushed further to the left....Luke calls me a radical, which, quite frankly, I'm proud of. But, enough about politics.....for now.....<br /><br />Luke has been home a little more lately, which is always nice. He has been working weekends more now that I am in school, which is a bummer, but we love it when he is around. A week and a half ago Grandma and Grandpa Spence came for a quick visit. We enjoyed their company and Jack loves his grandparents. The first night we just hung out and went out for dinner to Luke's favorite place (outback). Thursday, I went to class and they all went to the zoo, I hear that they had a good time. It is always nice for Jack and Luke to be able to spend time with Dennis and Sandy.<br /><br />After they left, I got Jack and I packed up and we headed to Iowa for a few days. My dad picked us up from the airport and Jack and I had a great time hanging out with him for awhile. My dad recently started a new career (let me know if you need a financial planner :) ), so the times that we have come home lately, he has been able to pick us up and we've been able to spend time with him. I love seeing them get to know eachother. Grandma came home a little later and Jack had fun with her. She loves on him a TON and he knows that he'll get away with most things with her. <br /><br />After that, we went to my mom's house. Caroline was anxiously awaiting our arrival. Grammy and Grandpa Wagner got home soon after and everyone showered Jack with love and attention. I love how much everyone loves Jack, he's such a special little guy. Saturday we went to Caroline's soccer game and we saw them DOMINATE the other team, she has quite a good soccer team. Something about those Nevada girls!!! Nicole and Jay stopped by for a while and we got to see them, which was great.<br /><br />Saturday night mom, Mike and I went to see the Nights in Rondande IT SUCKED!!! HORRIBLE!!! Plus, old people having sex is never interesting....!! (even if you're older, my mom didn't like it either!) Liz watched Jack and they had fun, he LOVES his auntie Liz!<br /><br />Sunday I met Amy and Amy for lunch. We had the Cafe, which was good, but Jack WAS NOT GOOD! It was the first time that I had ever been embarassed by him in a restaurant....the first of many I'm sure! SORRY GIRLS!! But, I had a good time chatting with the girls. <br /><br />Sunday we went back to Dad and Karen's. Uncle Paul came home to visit, which was fun. Jack just smiled at him so much. CUTE!<br /><br />Monday we flew back to Indiana. Jack is SUCH A GOOD FLIER!!!! He takes after his daddy. He was good on all of the flights and we made all of the flights too, which was great. We're so lucky that we have been having such easy times when we fly to Iowa, it is MUCH EASIER than driving. <br /><br />PS Sorry that there are so few photos, I'm HORRIBLE about taking pictures when we're back in Iowa, so I don't have any from this trip, maybe next time?!?!?!<br /><br />Also, Jack LOVES the vacuum, I've already started to put him to work!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-787620128155663162008-09-25T09:33:00.002-04:002008-09-25T09:36:06.564-04:00For Betsy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsG3LzpvFK_C9k_56ZADWrSgix6Igl5utCxo2DirD4ZXtKX658Xp2g9qVMxDWH8ruQZ5rcTBVUyx94Bt5BWMRmmT6cfhlq7ctdxstAtDcjZlBnRCGdZ4qP27vJOs-FBMmaJvK_bPQf0qM/s1600-h/first+haircut+040.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsG3LzpvFK_C9k_56ZADWrSgix6Igl5utCxo2DirD4ZXtKX658Xp2g9qVMxDWH8ruQZ5rcTBVUyx94Bt5BWMRmmT6cfhlq7ctdxstAtDcjZlBnRCGdZ4qP27vJOs-FBMmaJvK_bPQf0qM/s400/first+haircut+040.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249952092055728066" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0m7zGjwka8ZwnUxAtZ9Tp-MjbC-Vld8KZoXOaK8MrFnhUf21ThQwQE1Hto9ot4VHA77A1A9uS-A1ITDvNfYqDFCsyd7RCDACjCQXVxVeJRmX6RhKWv6oBOXMf_DTSKGBFKXaWEaRhh7A/s1600-h/first+haircut+008.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiaeKuA6-ne15wxieSHflUEEA3f3tdIXNIp-BOnwawdDspKFSnef0kBzOQNqD1x96GyBv53CvRxSmPywaoFlTwjbpcvxnDobjyIYzX0GmD_wEWxHS2HJpYzO1o1lPd45S45XTMKtxQoOE/s400/first+haircut+026.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248692085847045922" /></a><br />I have been pretty bad about posting about our family life lately, so here's a quick update. Things have been going very well in the Spence household. Jack and I have become social butterflys, which we LOVE! I joined a stroller exercise class here in Greenwood (don't laugh, it is actually a good workout) on Mon, Wed and Fri. We also joined a mommy and me group on Tuesday mornings and have story time at the library on Thursdays. I have started meeting a lot of nice, new people, which is really exciting. <br /><br />I have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I am LOVING IT! I am meeting many new and interesting people and starting to learn a lot. Much of the class is just about becoming more introspective and better critical thinkers, I am liking it a lot. I only have in class work for a few more weeks, then the second eight weeks of the semester will be a Human Behavior class that I will be taking online. I am not thrilled about taking an online course, but it will be ok. Luckily Luke has gotten most Tuesdays and Thursdays off and we have only had to use our babysitter once so far.<br /><br />As most of you saw, we had family pictures taken last Thursday and they were GREAT! I strongly recommend Rachel Vanoven for anyone in the area, <a href="http://www.rachelvanoven.com">http://www.rachelvanoven.com</a> <br /><br />We are excited to see all of the photos and order them.<br /><br />Our good friends Dustin and Nichole got engaged last weekend so we went out with them the other night to celebrate. Nichole and I went wedding dress shopping today and saw some BEAUTIFUL dresses, it was really fun. If only I could buy another dress...there are so many pretty ones now....<br /><br />Luke has been working a decent amount lately. Luckily he has most of the week off and his parents are coming to visit for a couple days. Friday, Jack and I are flying back to Iowa to visit for a few days, I'm sure everyone there is excited to see him. <br /><br />On Saturday, I finally gave in (people have been telling me to for awhile, paired with people calling Jack and girl and seeing his pictures) and got Jack's hair cut. All of his little curls are gone, we'll see if they come back, but I'm not too confident. Hopefully they will though. I told the girl that I wanted a trim but liked the length, I guess she disagreed with me because the next thing I knew, she was chopping all of his cute blonde hair off. Oh well, he still is as cute as can be. He just looks like a little man now. I am going to grow his hair out though, because I like long hair on little boys....and I am his mom....so, I can do what I want!<br /><br />Jack has been pretty good lately, we did have to go to the emergency room a couple weeks ago (on a friday of Labor day, in fact) because he was breathing funny. Luckily he just had an ear infection, he had a really high fever for a while, but he is all better now. <br /><br />He is getting bigger and bigger! He is almost exclusively walking. He is pretty good at sharing at Mommy and Me. He was a bit of a loner at first, but he is starting to play with the other kids. He is teething again and has almost 6 teeth. He is completely weaned and we are working on weaning him from a bottle....ok, that was a total lie, I'm not working at that, although I know that I should be, maybe this week? <br /><br />We went and visited my friend Erin and Baby Tripp on Friday. We had a GREAT TIME!! It was nice being around a friend (I think Erin had fun too) and it was nice holding a little guy, and he is LITTLE! How quickly we forget how tiny our babies start out. He was sweet and let me hold him for quite a while. Jack was good for the most part, but then he was interested in seeing the baby. He pet Tripp like he does the animals, which, I guess, is pretty good for a 1 year old. Hopefully we will be able to have another play date soon!!<br /><br />Overall, that has been our life up to now. Of course Luke and I are really into the political season and are pulling for Obama, we went to get a yard sign the other day and they are out, which is good and bad, I guess. We're hoping that he heads to Indy one of these days, but we're not holding our breath!<br /><br />Our friends the Timbies are doing well in Africa, please say a quick prayer for them if you think about it. I think that they are adjusting and I've been able to see a few pictures, Noura is already growing, we miss them a lot and look forward to them getting home. <br /><br />Feel free to comment, I CHALLENGE YOU TO COMMENT!! That is what it is for! Sometimes I think that I am writing this for myself (well, the political stuff is for myself, but this kind of stuff is for all of you!!)<br /><br />Lots of LOVE!!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-44835125688111422362008-09-18T20:48:00.005-04:002008-09-18T20:56:32.323-04:00Pictures<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_O9HlkeqKL4wNPN4jsAyh_m04tuDGV7k0zTvAUuwFNUc1_b6W_UxjQrOAbUjjMXVqO06FyVeXQz8qp8QT8bhr2IKB587hkIHY2RXdcD8aOOFEY30Khc_trQQTCMzLsy8zp2998NqlWlE/s1600-h/family+creek.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_O9HlkeqKL4wNPN4jsAyh_m04tuDGV7k0zTvAUuwFNUc1_b6W_UxjQrOAbUjjMXVqO06FyVeXQz8qp8QT8bhr2IKB587hkIHY2RXdcD8aOOFEY30Khc_trQQTCMzLsy8zp2998NqlWlE/s400/family+creek.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247529560731024770" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSenlzppTJVJCea-XONMksDlyIKALe2zcMVO2JumuhyphenhyphenB5iI3akqMS4dXv0xx4RiZ-QRS0S1JCWZamC7X6nPpUwuBS57ekgp361HTWyxbOkzhxyXye8mDaCVatIrw4Y6EalKMT_ULJ0pk/s1600-h/family+kiss.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSenlzppTJVJCea-XONMksDlyIKALe2zcMVO2JumuhyphenhyphenB5iI3akqMS4dXv0xx4RiZ-QRS0S1JCWZamC7X6nPpUwuBS57ekgp361HTWyxbOkzhxyXye8mDaCVatIrw4Y6EalKMT_ULJ0pk/s400/family+kiss.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247529565216443618" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNlbEKuHlk2Bl_keY1jDS-opNoaBxXTvxry5X580N5mPXM93fAw-P_QSyvlpRchCu4icltrg3IGGGu11CJHZavkVtUjeCHCUh87jFYNHHeEuCnUsD0kjaz87658FKDibqpl72LEap-rI/s1600-h/jack+creek.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNlbEKuHlk2Bl_keY1jDS-opNoaBxXTvxry5X580N5mPXM93fAw-P_QSyvlpRchCu4icltrg3IGGGu11CJHZavkVtUjeCHCUh87jFYNHHeEuCnUsD0kjaz87658FKDibqpl72LEap-rI/s400/jack+creek.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247529570471636146" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRt1pSc2evTfO8RXNJRzGDfdxyNQ9l4x0nLlMk42i3nZSxz3_6O9zeewlCc9HwZvs3_62v9TGTEqtP5hcrBvt5J6MxmGVIb3OOYed0mbSpsmH8OmRtOQZgW74K6P_iIjnzkzxi4xOPW1s/s1600-h/jack+vest.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRt1pSc2evTfO8RXNJRzGDfdxyNQ9l4x0nLlMk42i3nZSxz3_6O9zeewlCc9HwZvs3_62v9TGTEqtP5hcrBvt5J6MxmGVIb3OOYed0mbSpsmH8OmRtOQZgW74K6P_iIjnzkzxi4xOPW1s/s400/jack+vest.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247529576707094370" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9KMrqJJdUS4bAIZEU5jQqL7yIFCYWbFpVMdjPRfWPBn3yPLLyjKAxpT859_Wk4X-vB_JmMgLfQWRbHsjoEqmcnBVqhyphenhyphenkscnnc_L4vzKgSxKjlhU8h1BCogMgdfS3R-waZoG9WhXUQTk/s1600-h/luke+and+jack.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9KMrqJJdUS4bAIZEU5jQqL7yIFCYWbFpVMdjPRfWPBn3yPLLyjKAxpT859_Wk4X-vB_JmMgLfQWRbHsjoEqmcnBVqhyphenhyphenkscnnc_L4vzKgSxKjlhU8h1BCogMgdfS3R-waZoG9WhXUQTk/s400/luke+and+jack.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247529583278648402" /></a><br />Today Luke, Jack and I went to Ft. Harrison State Park and an AMAZING photographer, Rachel Vanoven, took pictures of Jack and of our family. They turned out GREAT. Visit her website:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rachelvanovenphotography.blogspot.com">http://www.rachelvanovenphotography.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />and anyone in the Indy area, seriously consider using Rachel, she is GREAT!!!<br /><br />Luke and I have been pretty bad about taking and posting pictures lately, hopefully that will change this week!<br /><br /><br />There are more on her website, so GO THERE!!! <br /><br />Also, leave comments so I know what you think!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-55423773694883903362008-09-12T18:48:00.002-04:002008-09-12T18:49:34.470-04:00Sexy and Smart<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C6urw_PWHYk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C6urw_PWHYk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />I'm crushin Matt Damon!!!<br /><br />Pause the music on the side!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-50375180752775018422008-09-11T20:43:00.003-04:002008-09-11T20:48:30.128-04:00RememberRemembering 9/11 today. The interesting thing is, on 9/11/2001, I was a freshman in college. I knew that everything was sad, but I thought that it affcted "them" not "me". So much has changed since I have grown......<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpdo4_FiJz4900hQE2o7iD9kAdi_peA01rG5FUIPHV_ddivORBi4O3-fnQ3Yi13ERHJ2i8PrCc6z9vj2TfRucsCZnuGBvQ4BaWab_QggFYIY0JOIXFJu85-W5pgV2s8aLck5YuMwqCOU/s1600-h/towers.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXpdo4_FiJz4900hQE2o7iD9kAdi_peA01rG5FUIPHV_ddivORBi4O3-fnQ3Yi13ERHJ2i8PrCc6z9vj2TfRucsCZnuGBvQ4BaWab_QggFYIY0JOIXFJu85-W5pgV2s8aLck5YuMwqCOU/s400/towers.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244929618332682242" /></a><br /><br />Click on the picture to read it....it is so telling of our world today....Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-24728083977000580522008-09-11T20:00:00.005-04:002008-09-11T20:17:29.642-04:00Hilarious!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNVPVUoz_h7oDAr4hXv20rjydHozRDyC9kAM-ioSlhden-LArkDOH6D-xYRdoRDidLYdpOf8tAs-vFUPor-hsVGs5viC1cpw38DzjPaVBfZAchyphenhyphenGsdfV0pyRDMCgNmqFda1kNoViZZKu4/s1600-h/hilarious.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNVPVUoz_h7oDAr4hXv20rjydHozRDyC9kAM-ioSlhden-LArkDOH6D-xYRdoRDidLYdpOf8tAs-vFUPor-hsVGs5viC1cpw38DzjPaVBfZAchyphenhyphenGsdfV0pyRDMCgNmqFda1kNoViZZKu4/s400/hilarious.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244918167971254450" /></a><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VvfN8VdTVxs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VvfN8VdTVxs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />THIS IS WHY COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION IS NECESSARY..... IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, YOU MAY END UP ON STAGE AT THE RNC.<br /><br />Thanks Stacy!!!!!Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-40653333888163216782008-09-09T22:03:00.000-04:002008-09-09T22:04:00.912-04:00InsightfulFrom the Los Angeles Times<br /><br />Opinion<br /><br />Palin: wrong woman, wrong messageSarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger <br /><br />By Gloria Steinem<br />September 4, 2008<br /><br />Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.<br /><br />But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.<br /><br />Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, 'Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs.'<br />This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience.<br /><br />Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, 'I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?' When asked about Iraq, she said, 'I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.'<br /><br />She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on 'God, guns and gays' ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.<br /><br />So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act.<br /><br />Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves 'abstinence-only' programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.<br /><br />I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child.<br /><br />So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, 'women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership,' so he may be voting for Palin's husband.<br /><br />Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest.<br />Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women.<br /><br />And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.<br /><br />This could be huge.<br /><br />Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women's Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-52554469307302875052008-09-07T21:28:00.002-04:002008-09-07T21:33:51.101-04:00One melanoma away from the presidency.....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXtONZKp8NJ2yiLW0hY32Y_iYuhX4ObNZO6HZFH-aE3-kBA_HM2Bkh_2bXSjrbTvQWOZR2lIT_XRFRbwfS-wBuTTymsx0VqPs706krFkXCy0MKE0NHdgXl74fdQBkR51Q7dS2cj9qUnE/s1600-h/r-PALIN-MORPHING-huge2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRXtONZKp8NJ2yiLW0hY32Y_iYuhX4ObNZO6HZFH-aE3-kBA_HM2Bkh_2bXSjrbTvQWOZR2lIT_XRFRbwfS-wBuTTymsx0VqPs706krFkXCy0MKE0NHdgXl74fdQBkR51Q7dS2cj9qUnE/s400/r-PALIN-MORPHING-huge2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243457667279250418" /></a>Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-58486037626819671352008-09-07T19:48:00.002-04:002008-09-07T19:49:05.250-04:00Just a thought<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fkNQY-oWFh4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fkNQY-oWFh4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Make sure to pause the music on the side.Stephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191107858823233431.post-29628298835560976892008-09-06T23:51:00.003-04:002008-09-06T23:56:12.181-04:00HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY GRAMMY AND GRANDPA WAGS!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjFIPYQ4yG1xSFuiiaObwW9yERyTCnFhY_5W5tpqNOv9nmLuGoapyt-UFCQ6XKMU5_ITQT3W3xBaBm2dX1QiABBDOs-V56aCpkvf6rL8UHex12TKVd5DKHI8vFxBu4dquuWyJ1b4X7_c/s1600-h/8-19-08+017.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjFIPYQ4yG1xSFuiiaObwW9yERyTCnFhY_5W5tpqNOv9nmLuGoapyt-UFCQ6XKMU5_ITQT3W3xBaBm2dX1QiABBDOs-V56aCpkvf6rL8UHex12TKVd5DKHI8vFxBu4dquuWyJ1b4X7_c/s320/8-19-08+017.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243123262019035794" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNp8jBSWeYiiFfCGtZXT3bZeMnIDu7NVHtYilou2EZQ6TTIc7tydu9-aMvHmEoumzJOVxWDbHsF-evBtx-CaEjTkfNXB5t472Ds33yJYrK_sg99Flxcaq37PJvU56n0JV4JdhAjVejUgw/s1600-h/Jack's+pictures+013.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNp8jBSWeYiiFfCGtZXT3bZeMnIDu7NVHtYilou2EZQ6TTIc7tydu9-aMvHmEoumzJOVxWDbHsF-evBtx-CaEjTkfNXB5t472Ds33yJYrK_sg99Flxcaq37PJvU56n0JV4JdhAjVejUgw/s320/Jack's+pictures+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243123264788160162" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGU5FpTWg7EYOjhqGGJDgx8jOf1EJZPPO6LjzZam17vvOOBOwwjvJl24M0WD8sEHeve20qHmWRvWwuGJj7dt1lS9nIzuJaprf6gzClm8L3egc4jnl0exfg1gVg4dWICXLv2_V3UKkoA2w/s1600-h/Jack's+birth+day+073.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGU5FpTWg7EYOjhqGGJDgx8jOf1EJZPPO6LjzZam17vvOOBOwwjvJl24M0WD8sEHeve20qHmWRvWwuGJj7dt1lS9nIzuJaprf6gzClm8L3egc4jnl0exfg1gVg4dWICXLv2_V3UKkoA2w/s320/Jack's+birth+day+073.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243123272515296530" /></a><br />I LOVE YOU A TON!!!!!! THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A WONDERFUL GRAMMY AND GRANDPY. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!! I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ON ME SO MUCH WHEN I AM THERE. I'M GLAD I HAVE SUCH COOL GRANDPARENTS.<br /><br />LOVE,<br />JACKStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469996295654371569noreply@blogger.com0