Ben's Birthday!

Benjamin celebrated his 15th birthday on the 27th of August. We enjoyed setting a day aside to celebrate that Ben is a part of our family, and to tell him how we saw him mature in the last year.
 As usual we had him pick a special activity to do on his birthday. He decided to visit the Focus on the Family visitor center. It was a very neat place! It was geared more toward younger kids rather than older but, we all had a lot of fun :). Below are some pictures.

The Guys! (minus Joel and Dad)

The Ladies of the family

Nathaniel on some old equipment at Glen Eyrie

Some of the kids having a snack at Whit's End

Sarah and I having fun trying out different poses :)

The three-story slide at the visitor center

Anna-Kate after her ride on the slide

Danielle playing the part of the fainting princess

Sam and Ben reenacting a scene from Shakespeare (or at least trying to :) )

David and Nathaniel in the kids area

All the kids!

Mom, Ben, Sarah, Danielle, and Anna-Kate in the Narnia room.

Our New Home!

The household is now starting to become slightly more "normal" so I thought that it would be a good time to give you an update. We left for Colorado last Tuesday and arrived Thursday afternoon. Since then we have meet several of our new neighbors unloaded the truck and trailers [with some help from friends from church] and started the unpacking process. Which though it is faster than packing it is still rather time consuming as you try to decide where every little thing ought to go. We have posted some pictures of our new house below.  

Our New House!

Samuel drove the Excursion and one of our trailers out.

Dad drove the moving truck.

Our big empty house.

Samuel starting to unload the truck.

The Stanton men ponder what to remove first :)

David is thinking about trying out the hand truck.

Boxes,

boxes,

and more boxes! :)

The park near our house.

David and Nathaniel on the slide.

Nathaniel decided he didn't like the motorcycle :)

Dad is setting up his new office, he will now be working at home.

We are all very excited about the house and the area and feeling very blessed.
The Stantons