Challenge Day 4

Today I am supposed to write about my parents James and Vicki Stanford

There are not enough words to say about these people!  I can never thank them enough for my life and all the things they instilled in me as a child.  I love them for loving each other and for showing me what marriage is all about.  I love them (especially Mom) for taking me to church even when I didn't want to go.  I love my Dad for showing that it doesn't matter when you accept Christ in your life just that you do it!  Those are all of the mushy things, but let me tell you some quirks about my rents!  My mom is basically perfect.  She watches what she eats, she's adorable, she's nice to everyone she knows, she is a hard-worker, and an awesome friend.  She loves scrapbooking and bragging about her grandbabies.  She has recently discovered Facebook and is a loyal member of the social networking community.  My dad is beast on the treadmill.  He runs for an hour every day (he has slimmed down TONS since this pic was taken in 09).  Very seldom will you find him at home without a Soduku puzzle in his hand.  He is constantly buying coins for the 4 grand kids (yes, the fourth is my uncreated child! LOL) and puts them in a safe for them to have when they are grown.  Daddy is obsessed with Christmas movies.  He used to refuse to buy a foreign vehicle, but after I bought my own Honda Civic in 2000, he has purchased nothing except Hondas and Toyotas since then!  So that's my parents in a nutshell...to know them is to love them!

On another note, I have decided to name my blog "Pieces of Me."  This name hit me this morning on the way to work. For some reason I thought about Amelia's lo-lo-lo-love blog, and I remember commenting that Ashlee Simpson's CD "Pieces of Me" was one of my faves of all time and that I knew the words to every song on the disc.  So, I thought that was a catchy name with some personal meaning, plus my blog is just that: pieces of who I am.  Hope it's not disappointing or lame because I like it...for now.