The Stapley Family

The Stapley Family

Friday, December 21, 2007

December so far...

So December has been a super busy month for our family, as I'm sure it has been for all of yours! Just wanted to give you all a fun update...








On December 4, Duffy turned the big 3-0! We surprised him by making buttons that had his Halloween picture on them (in the viking maiden suit) and said, "Fun and Flirty--Duffy's 30!" I had Duffy's receptionist hand out the buttons before he got to work. Every staff member and even a few visitors were wearing them when he got there. Boy was he surprised and embarrassed! Then Cooper and I surprised him with cake and ice cream and took him on a shopping spree. We finished the night at Shojis a Japanese restaurant where they prepare the food on the grill right in front of you! Brinley was afraid of the fire!




We have had a little snow off and on all month but it doesn't stick around very long! Cooper and Brinley sure had fun playing in the back yard though...can't wait to go sledding.





We got into the Holiday spirit by attending the Annual Bend Christmas Parade! It was freezing cold. Look at the temperature on the bank sign. With the wind it felt like it was in the teens. Cooper cried the whole time because he was miserably cold, the girls toughed it out and we finished watching the parade at our favorite Indian restaurant Taj Palace-very festive.





Little Johnny is getting bigger every day. He is so pretty I like to call him the "Sultan". Cooper enjoys laying on top of him. We had to bungee cord the Christmas tree to the banister so he wouldn't knock it over. This picture is him next to the girls tree.






Her school is a deaf and hard of hearing school. Brinley and Kendall have really taken advantage of the opportunity to learn American Sign Language. Watch for Brinley in the middle of the piece signing "Yes, please" and "No, Thank You".


Kendall had her Christmas performance last night and her class did the cutest song... the Blitzen Boogy. The picture is pixely, but the sound recording is really good. Kendall is on the back row with a white blouse on, she was a real performer!




This is Kendall last night with her good friend from Kindergargen-Maya. They are such beautiful girls, just had to share.

Have a wonderful Christmas and we'll see you all at New Years! Most of you! Love The Dezember Family!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Kaci's Halloween Birthday Party

It was Kaci's big 21st Birthday Oct 28 !!!!! Wow, where has the time gone? She had a great party with her best friends drinking, eating great food and enjoying the night. What kind of drink is that, Kaci?






Her friend's all came to enjoy the night of Goblins and Ghosts as they carved scary pumpkins, and wow, were they AMAZING. We should've put them in some kind of contests. They spent most of the night carving these beautiful outrageous pumpkins. Drinking Martinelli's and birthday cake and having a great deal of fun.



Then we got to enjoy the great art work on our front porch for Halloween!!!!! We had some great comments on how nice they were and who did these masterpieces. It was fun to decorate with them. Kaci has some talented buddies.




Hope you had a great Birthday Kaci, now that you are a big 21.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Oregon Trail Bananza


We went to Baker City last Saturday. We went to see a museum that people have been telling us is so neat. We got there and it was closed for the season. So we went to small city above Baker City to see the steam engine. We got there and the Engine and Drudger was closed for the season. So we ate some pie to drowned our sorrows. We saw plenty of deer on the drive so we felt it wasn't a complete loss. So we started home when on the way out of the mountains we got stuck in a real live Cow Drive and the kids loved to see the small dogs boss the big fat cows down the street. Finally the cowboys/girls told us to drive through the cows and they will move for us. As you can see they gave us some resistance. (sorry for the sideways pict. thought I could move it around) As we left Baker City we saw a old hotel that was the largest hotel from SLC to Seattle in the 1800's (Syd didn't like the hotel because it was haunted said the owners.) As we got near the freeway out we saw another sign for another museum. We thought what have we got to lose so we went to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Museum where we only had 45min. to go through before it closed. It was neat and the kids learned about how much you can bring on the trail. Which is very little. But we did get some shots of the kids on the real wagon davits of the Oregon Trail.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Quail Court House

Home Sweet Home


Over the weekend Duffy and our family went to the Tri-Cities for his brother's wedding . While there we drove over to the old green house, as we call it on Quail Ct. It looks exactly the same-well almost.
The first thing I noticed was the house was still the same color, never been painted--but wait, what is that I see? It has been painted! Someone painted ivy leaves all over the front of the house! How charming.

I also noticed the addition of a green arbor and a bird feeder. Sweet Memories....

Scary Family Halloween


Here are our Creepy Halloween Pictures-Finally!






Cooper was Grumpy because his one-year molars were coming in-we thought Eeyore fit him well--until he started walking, then he looked more like Frankenstein!















Brinley was a MAAAAAD Scientist. She had green teeth, a
rat, a bloody heart, vials full of gross lab experiments, and rubber tubing wrapped around her that connected to an old medical pump which carried glowing green fluid filled with eyeballs.











Kendall has wanted to be Cleopatra since last Halloween. So we decided to go all out. I made her a costume and she wore a black egyptian cut wig, she even had gold sandals. We copied the makeup from a picture I found of Elizabeth Taylor.















Duffy was a viking maiden. His work gets a kick out of seeing their boss dressed as a woman and humiliating himself on halloween, which he does very well...
















For the ward Halloween Party Duffy couldn't dress as a woman so we went as a Sugar daddy (hence the sugar packets) and a trophy wife (hence the trophy's). None of the little kids understood our costumes and I think a few of the women thought I was being pretentious. By the way, I don't really think I am Duffy's trophy wife.















Here is a better picture of our Halloween Party. The Cooler was a big hit, by the way-that is root beer. Take a look at the army guy, he was scary looking in the dark-intense!



Happy Halloween!

Monday, October 29, 2007

They did the Monster Mash....

On Saturday night we hosted a devilishly good Adults only Halloween party. It was a lot of work to prepare for it, but when it was all done we had a ghoulishly delightful night. Here are some pictures of the evening.

Here is the invitation to the event

We had a really good turn out, there were ten of us all together and everyone dressed up for the party but one person, here are some of the guests and a group photo





The menu was the funnest part, here is a copy of our menu:




Menu le Mucous

Beverages: (We only serve the finest blends of sewage)
Waste Water
A fine vintage puss from 1941 Chef Werewolf Wendt
Port-O-Potty blue
Doc’s orders: Keep an EYE out for BLOOD in your URINE

Appetizers: (Fresh from the morgue, hardly decomposed)
Severed cadaver fingers and yellow puss dip
Deviled eye balls Chef Dead Dezember

First Course: (If you find the smell of rotting flesh putrid, you’ll love this dish!)
Septastrata purulent necrosis dip
Freshly picked scab chips Chef Mortician Maloy

Second Course: (We went deep into the dampest bat caves to scrape up this dip)
Bat wings
Guano dip Chef Decomposing Dezember

Main Course: (You benefit from this autopsy gone wrong)

Bloody chest cavity with beating heart Chef Snotty Smith

Dessert: (This dessert is sure to knock you off your broomstick!)

Decapitated witch head Chef Asylum Anderson


*Extra mucous is complementary
*Side of snot requires one good sneeze
*Hawking up a loogy requires skill-see Chef for demonstration
*Post-nasal drip is seasonal- only available in winter month


And here are some pictures of the food:







Decorating for the party was the funnest. We ate by candlelight, we had a glowing skull as our centerpiece, the place cards were tombstones with the guests names on them,we removed the light bulbs in the bathroom and put in one candle, on the mirror Duffy wrote Redrum in red, we also hid a china doll behind the glass in the shower. We played scary music the entire time and had a black and white horror movie on the tv with the sound off. We also placed drop cloths over our couch and furniture. Here are a few more pictures:






We also had a lot of fun playing "Scarygories" just like scattegories but with Halloween themed catagories like: Ways to murder someone, things found in a graveyard, provocative costumes etc.

We had so much fun, it may become a tradition!
(Sorry if the pictures are dark, it was by candlelight after all!)

Sunday, October 28, 2007






Autumn with the Lucoff's


The kids had a great time playing soccer this year. Sydni is still playing with the same team she played with last season, and is now going to stay on that team for seasons to come (GO ORANGE CRUSH). Ellias is a better bowling ball then a soccer player he loves to take the
other players to the ground for a
wrestling match more then score goals. Now that the season is over we can relax without so many practices.



Ellias started preschool and has had so much fun.
The preschool has already gone on several field trips to pumpkin patches, and to the fire station. He is now out for the fall session and goes back in November.



Now to more important things
"HALLOWEEN"
Our families favorite holiday(if you cant tell by the picts.) .
We are all ready with our pumpkins and our costumes.

Sydni is sporting her new nightly past time of sucking blood from unfriendly boys from school.

Ellias is showing off his manly muscles for the camera, and is green with anger.


The house is now so scary that the kids love to sit in the yard all night looking at the spooktacular lights of the three blow up decorations, and the orange and eyeball lights hanging on the porch. I am sure we will see many goblins this Halloween with our display. Aaron says he despises it, but we take that as he secretly loves it.
There is still a little boy in there even if it is deep, deep down there.




Hopefully you enjoy your Halloween as much as us!!!!