Staring Contest

This is how Brenna does a staring contest.  I think she is trying to intimidate you with her evil eye.  It works though.  You start laughing and have to blink.

She also wanted to show her angry birds.  The kids love the angry bird game and when we stumbled upon the plush angry birds in a store the kids went nuts.  I didn't like the price tag and it's not yet Christmas, so we came home and made our own angry birds and pigs out of Sculpy.  Pretty cute indeed.  The best part was that for several days Spencer didn't ask to play on the itouch.  He was too busy playing with his pigs and birds.  Sadly, we have misplaced his pigs and are still trying to find them.  I think Brenna may have moved them somewhere and she doesn't remember.  Good luck to us.

Brenna Videos

These videos contain evil staring contests, strawberry shortcake renditions, and one very active little girl 24 hours post-surgery with no follow up pain meds.  Amazing!

Well, the evil eye staring contest will have to be redone tomorrow.  Apparently it keeps failing to upload. 

Sunrise, Sunset

 Where is my little girl going? Here she is, 8 years old on picture day, and she looks so grown up.  Perhaps it is the hair length.  I think she looks really cute, but she's growing up too fast.

Now this one is more like it!  Still little and looks it.  She won't even hold still for the close up.  Brenna and her crazy curls!

Ah, Spencer, my sweet little guy.  Too bad the lighting changed as I took the picture.  His cute face is in shadow.  He's fallen into shadow!  At least you can't see the mark left by his adventures with the window.

Light sabers!  They wouldn't put them down for the individual shots until I promised they could take a group shot with them.  Everyone has there favorite color.  Well second favorite.  They don't make pink light sabers.

The Pressure Cooker Lives and now Offers Politics

It seems high time for some necromancy so I'm  resurrecting, or reanimating, the old blog.  Lots has been happening in the Pressure Cooker, and yet I haven't made a single post.  Shame on me.  The great thing about blogging is I look back and remember things that happened just a few months ago that I have already forgotten.  Sadly, I have 10 months of my life undocumented for and I fear somethings are doomed to be lost forever.  Not so anymore!

The big news at the moment in the Stanley household is our foray into the world of politics.  Actually Ben decided to test his political wings and the rest of us were dragged along with him.  I went back and found my blog about John and Abigail Adams and their relationship through politics.  I am now living my last conditional statement from that entry.  Lucky me.  At least I don't see Ben's service being as demanded and consuming as John Adam's, for which I am grateful.  I still wish I were more like Abigail with her wit and restraint.  It would serve me well when having to talk with people, not all of which will be pleasant encounters I'm afraid. 

So far things have been fun and a bit exciting though rather nerve racking.  The general election is in November and I'm fully confident Ben will win a seat, if not the whole election.  Many people are resonating with his message and ideas for change and have offered their full support, for which I am extremely grateful.  My personality is not the type to talk easily with strangers and I'm very uncomfortable approaching unfamiliar people.  I doubt this experience will change me, just prepare and condition me.  To what ends these ventures will take us, I don't know, but it is exciting and definitely an opportunity I feel we need to take.  City Council or Bust!