Christmas 2008

We spent the whole week up in the mountains at the cabin. Sarah's entire family was there and we had a lot of fun. Jackson loved playing in the snow every day.

WebsiteNgineer

In case you haven't heard, my employer is struggling to meet payroll. They have been struggling for the past 3-4 months but last week I reached my breaking point and have decided to pursue other opportunities. This whole recession thing has made things a bit interesting to say the least. Luckily, I have had some contract work I have been doing on the side, which, has been a good supplement. What I want to do is try and ramp that contract work up and see if I can grow my own business. See my new website -- http://www.WebsiteNgineer.com

If you know anyone that needs a website or wants to improve their current site please send them my way. My prices are very reasonable.

I will also be working on thintopia for the next few weeks and implement a way to make money through that website. All feedback is welcome. I'm sure you can all find ways to improve my grammar and content.

November 2008

We're slackers! I'm sure no one even bothers coming to our blog anymore since we haven't updated in a month. First I'd like to say Happy Birthday to Emily. She turns 25 today! We also want to thank her family and my parents for their visit this weekend. We enjoyed the company and the fun. We have a lot to blog about and I am trying to decide the best way to do it. If you're the type that is just interested in pictures then just head over to our Picasa albums here, and here. Otherwise, sit back and relax as I take you through November in the Stubblefield home.

Jackson discovered the ice cream van. You should see his face when he hears the familiar song. It truly is like the pied piper is calling him. We have a very interesting ice cream lady

Sarah came out after putting Lacey down for a nap to find Jackson on the counter with a pan and eggs. He really likes to cook and I let him crack the eggs when he helps me.

Lacey enjoys feeding herself. She hates being spoon fed now and prefers pizza, pasta, crackers, sweet potatoes and bananas. She'll eat a large banana all by herself.

My parents and the Lyon family came for Thanksgiving. I had the pleasure of cooking and carving my first turkey. I made sure to find as many tutorials online as possible and I must say it was very tasty.

Sarah did everything else (except the rolls and pies - thanks mom). It was all very delicious. Everyone loved the carrot casserole and the sweet potatoes were very good.

Jackson enjoyed entertaining his cousins. The twins provided hours of running, chasing, and wrestling. He is bored out of his mind now they are gone.

One of the many "dog piles" from this weekend.

We visited the temple lights the day after thanksgiving.

Olive Garden for Emily's Birthday.

Zoo Lights at the Phoenix Zoo.

Thanks to my parents and Emily for the fun weekend. We had a blast.

Halloween

4th Annual Stubblefield Pumpkin Carving Contest

Thank you to all who participated. We had a blast. A new pumpkin carving champion has been declared. We had a good run as champions but it was bound to come to an end sooner or later. Here are the results from the 2008 Pumpkin Carving Competition. All pumpkins were very well done. We were impressed. We would also like to declare Erin as the cootie winner. Highlights of the evening included Maridith being covered in pumpkin shavings from using a dremel, the firework show from the flaming tiki (I'll post a video on youtube) and all-around good company and treats. Be on the look out for better pictures from Robyn's blog. Until next year. Happy Halloween!

First Place: Mitch & Anna
Second Place: Mike & Lori
Third Place: Chris
Honorable Mentions:
Kristi
Chip & Erin
Robyn & Devan
Micah & Sarah
Mike & Maridith
The group

Halloween Fun

Last week for Family Night we thought it would be fun to get some decorations up. We decided that we would make a couple of scarecrows to sit by our front door. It was fun for Micah and I but Jackson and Lacey LOVED it! We saved some newspapers from the few days before and Jackson crumpled a piece at a time and threw them on the floor around Lacey.
Every time a piece of crumpled newspaper came flying Lacey's way she would laugh uncontrollably which set Jackson off too. They were really enjoying each other.

Here is our final product.

The other day Jackson went to get the mail with me and there was a little town newspaper on the driveway... He picked it up, removed the rubber band while he was running inside, and started taking the newspaper apart piece by piece and crumpling each page! He was so proud of himself and was missing Lacey's laughter (she was napping) ... he asked if he could go wake her up and was so sad when I told him she needed rest and he needed to clean up the mess he just made! What a mean mom!

Is it tag season?

Both Sarah and I got tagged so we will both do it

8 Favorite TV Shows ( We don't have cable so we don't watch a lot of TV )
	Micah	Sarah
1.	The Office	Cosby Show
2.	Seinfeld	Biggest Loser
3.	King of Queens	American Idol
4.	Cash Cab	Americas Test Kitchen
5.	20/20 John Stossel	Curious George
6.	Biggest Loser	Seinfeld
7.	This Old House	King of Queens
8.	Deal or No Deal	This Old House

8 Things I did yesterday

	Micah	Sarah
1.	Run 2.5 miles	Laundry
2.	Attend Career Workshop	Made Breakfast
3.	Overseed Lawn	Play with kids
4.	Grocery Shop	Grocery Shop
5.	Attend Co-worker's Party	Phone calls for Primary
6.	Frozen Yogurt	Date Night
7.	Weigh in for 6 lbs loss	Weigh in for a 4 lb loss
8.	Prepare Lesson	Get everything ready for 8:30am church

8 Things I look forward to

	Micah	Sarah
1.	Waking up	Micah coming home each day
2.	Going to Sleep	Weekends
3.	Playing with kids	Good weather
4.	Holidays and Traveling	A Blue swimming pool
5.	Becoming Self-sufficient	A Garden
6.	Ice Cream	Vacations
7.	Learning	Bedtime
8.	Millenium	Haircuts

8 Favorite Restaurants ( We don't eat out very often. Fast food sometimes )

	Micah	Sarah
1.	Burger King	Paradise Bakery
2.	Taste of China	Chic-Fil-A
3.	Cafe Rio	Tempanyakis
4.	Tempanyakis	Macaroni Grill
5.	Cheescake Factory	Cheesecake Factory
6.	PF Chang's	Fazoli's
7.	Ruby Tuesdays	Rosa's
8.	Subway	Subway

8 Things on my wish list

	Micah	Sarah
1.	DSLR Camera	Travel
2.	Big Screen HDTV	Living room furniture
3.	A good pillow	Happy Kids
4.	A house that magically takes care of itself	Lose Weight
5.	More Job Security	Time for hobbies
6.	To Travel	To bake nonstop without consequences
7.	Good health and fitness	No Worries
8.	Self Control	Be more Christlike

We tag nobody but if you want to do this. please consider yourself tagged.

Custom Video Games for Toddlers

Jackson has been really showing interest in playing games on the computer. The problem is we don't have many games that are easy enough for him to play. We just have the games that game with the computer. Well I work for a computer game developer so I looked into making Jackson his own game. Here is the criteria I made. I wanted him to be the character, I wanted it to be easy, I wanted it to contain other things he enjoys. He also doesn't have a grasp of points or levels or game over so this is just for fun with no rules. Here is what I have after two short evenings. As his skill improves I can make it more difficult. He hasn't played the final version of the game yet so I will keep you posted on what he thinks of it.

http://www.stubblefields.org/jackson/SuperJackson.zip

Save the file to your desktop and extract it. Then run SuperJackson.exe To Play just use the arrow keys to move around and the space bar to throw balls at the ant.

Update: This won't work on a Mac and you need directX 9 for windows, which you can get here...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

Lacey 0-6 months

She's now 7 months but I hadn't compiled and video of lacey until now. Next I have about 1 year worth of video of Jackson to compile.

Lacey 0-6 months from Micah Stubblefield on Vimeo.

Okay, so we got tagged. We had to pick the fourth picture in the fourth folder of our picture folder. Here it is. This is The Super Fan ready for a BYU football game circa 2002 - months off the mission and a little too high on life. Now that BYU is good I struggle to even get myself to listen to the games online and refer to this era as the "good ole' days". Hmmm we tag Eugene, April, Debbie and Hannah