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!

Who checks this?

I've just been wondering how often anyone looks at this blog. Rachael is doing a great job of keeping the background updated. I really like this one. And we just updated our own, but I have trouble wanting to post again on here. Especially since I don't think very many of you look. Julie mentioned in an email that Tia posted a story on the Wilson family blog and I wondered why we didn't get to read it! There are pictures of our house on our blog if anyone would like to see.

Particularly for Julie . . .

Thanks Julie! I so love this towel.

Isn't she sweet? Someday I'll post a pic of Dietrich in his towel. Love you!

Bahahaha!

"Wow. Shouldn't that read, 'Road Closed'?"

For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of hearing material from the hilarious Brian Regan, this won't be that funny; for those of you that have - can you believe there really is a construction sign that says this? Here in Billings! I took the pic myself with Dave's cell phone. hahaha

Mom's on!

Hey all! This is Rachael typing for Mom right now, but hopefully she'll get the idea soon enough to do this herself. :-) April - you need to invite Mom to your blog. Love you all! This is a link to Mom's wish list: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=cm_gift_gno_wl_hp