16th Birthday

Finally found these. What a fun birthday I had!

Homecoming Pictures

I thought I'd post pictures of my first formal date experience. I will probably mess up and post a bunch of times or not post at all, so sorry about that. Anyhow...hope you enjoy!

Memory Lane

I've been typing up letters that I wrote to my many siblings who served missions (in lieu of a personal history as a couple of my journals had to be chucked). Thank you for saving all those letters by the way and giving them back to me. But I came across some funny stuff that I wanted to share with you all. I may share more but for now I'll just share a postscript that I wrote to Nathan . . .

This is what Charity wants to tell you.
Me: "Do you think the baby's cute?"
Her: "Yep. He's cute."
Me: " Do you love the baby?"
Her: "Umhuh" (uh huh)
Me: "What does the baby eat?"
Her: "Milk" (pronounced as "malk") . "Just a sec. Just a sec okay?"
Me: "Okay"
Her: "I'm going to see what's wrong with that baby." (Andrew had been crying)

It made me chuckle. For those of us that knew Charity when she was little - can you not hear her saying all of this? She was just the cutest talker! Ha - "I'm going to see what's wrong with that baby"! It's kills me! lol *sigh*

Colors

I am very perplexed right now. Just wondering why the first girl in this family wasn't assigned pink and the second girl purple. This is the natural order of things! After five girls purple was never assigned until the eighth child who is not even a girl! Does anyone have an explanation for this. Come on, I need answers! And Mom don't call me with the answer, I never get to the phone on time and when I call right back the phone rings ten times and then I get the answering machine. What do you do, Drop the phone and run away the second after you call?

FYI

There are some features of this blog that you may not be aware of. Raymond, Nathamy, Aprichael, and Ravid all have blogs; you'll find that you can click on their family pics on the side here to get there! And, the pic at the very bottom of the blog (with those still living at home) has a link to myfamily.com for the E Stokes family website. Cool, eh? So, click on the pics and go!
And, I've added everyone for whom I have email addresses to a list of people to be notified when new posts are made on this blog. Let me know if you don't want to be notified.

I have a new blog

Hi--I'm starting a blog as I try to keep making sense out of my dissertation research.  It's pretty interesting, so this is my first attempt to make some of it available.  My goal is to post something 5 times per week (if I make a posting, that means I've also done some work on my dissertation--this is largely a practical consideration).

Please visit it--I've included an option to follow the blog, and with your comments and suggestions, I hope it grows into something that will be useful to you and many others.  Click on the title of this post, or click here.

Thanks, Raymond

For Nathan and Amy

At this point it's gotta be hard to remember what gifts you gave, but I remember (one of the few things that I keep in my brain)! This dress was from Nathan and Amy - thanks! Doesn't she look adorable? Love you all! Hey, at least Amy and the kids will probably get to see her in this dress before she grows out of it!