7th Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest


It’s that time again!  Get out your carving knives and start looking for the perfect stencil.  Due to the popularity of our annual contest, I am going to open the contest to anyone who wants to participate.  Here is how we are going to do it.  There will essentially be two contests.  The first contest will be the live contest at our house.  That will be Friday October 29th from 7-8pm (we’ll play games and hang out until 9pm).  If you read our blog and want to participate please RSVP by leaving a comment.  The second contest will essentially be online.  All pumpkins carved at the party will be posted online along with anyone who emails me a photo of their pumpkin.  We will then have an online poll posted October 30-31 and I will announce the Winner Halloween night at 9pm MST.

See Previous Contest Winners

Christmas & New Years

What a great time of year – I can’t believe it came and went so fast! We definitely enjoyed 2 long weekends in a row – its nice to have Dad around all day!
To start off the Christmas season, at Thanksgiving with Micah’s family we received some Christmas decorations from the Tripps and I was so anxious to put them up – Jackson loved the nativity block and advent calendar filled with candy. Then, the night we got home we were surprised with a gift on our doorstep from the Andersons. It was a beautiful manger that was filled with straw and a sweet book to go with it.

These decorations prompted many, many questions from Jackson and I felt the Spirit while we were given many, many more opportunities to talk about and testify of Jesus’ birth to him and Lacey. They definitely helped me to remember the true meaning of Christmas this year.

The Monday before Christmas we had a great little family home evening with most of the Coons family.

On Christmas Eve we had the Stubblefields’ traditional Chinese food for dinner and then went to the Woods for the nativity re-enactment and delicious cookie decorating with part of the Coons family.

Christmas morning was so fun. Jackson didn’t wake up until about 8:15. Lacey woke up at 6:30 but had no idea what was waiting in the other room. There were great surprises for all of us!

Then we packed up and went to Mama-great’s for breakfast and headed out to the cabin to play in the SNOW! Jackson and Micah stayed out all day Saturday and sledded and played until after dark! Lacey liked the snow, but I should have gotten her some better mittens – then she would have loved it too!

On New year’s eve we played games with any family that was still in town – we had a lot of fun! Then New Year’s Day Micah got the bikes loaded up, made a picnic, and drove us to a great park! We loved it and had a great time! Sunday was Jackson’s first day in Sunbeams. He was a little nervous to leave nursery, but after the first 10 minutes, he warmed up to primary and he told me they had some great snacks in his class:o). I guess we’ll see how it goes next week!

Merry Christmas!

I thought doing a Christmas card would be a good idea this year… little did I know, the store we ordered from had other things in mind for us this year! After many, many attempts to make it happen, we came out with just enough to send a hard copy to some family, so I’ve decided to post our well wishes to the blog! Oh well –  We still hope you have a Merry Christmas, and know we were thinking of you as we  tried to print and send out cards!

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Yuba City Trip

We visited Micah’s family for Thanksgiving. The kids were great travelers in the car, and although the drive was long, it was really quite nice. While there we had a great Thanksgiving dinner, played a lot with cousins, had a fun after-thanksgiving turkey trot, went to Tristan’s baptism,
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launched rockets
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played with Grandma’s train set. (Jackson’s favorite)
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got adjustments,
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took some great baths in Grandma’s cool bath tub,

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did a cousin christmas pajama exchange, had the family gift exchange, and finally the main reason we were there…
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Grandma Hawley’s 90th birthday celebration and Hawley reunion! We had a great time and were grateful to Jared and Debbie for giving us a place to stay!

Pumpkin Carving Contest 2009

Last night was the 6th annual Stubblefield Pumpkin Carving Contest. We had fun carving pumpkins, and playing yahtzee.
Maridith was the big winner this year with both carving and yahtzee.

First Place

First Place Meridith

Second Place

Second Place - Robyn & Devan

Third Place

Third Place - Chip & Erin

Honorable Mentions
Micah & Sarah
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Mike & Lori
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John & Brit
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Everyone did a great job. Start preparing for next year.
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