Stewart Family Reunion!!

Okay Stewarts last reunion the oldest cousins of each of the families was put in charge of the next reunion. When I talked to Jay last we thought it might be good to decide on a place and date before this July so that everyone has a year to plan and arrange schedules, as well as us to have time to plan anything special we'd like to do. So I know of the "oldests" out there don't have a blog or won't see this post, but we need to get everyones emails so we can communicate, so if you have emails of any of the "oldests" let me know, call, email, or post on the stewart group site - k -. We need Jay, Staci, Brandon, Whitney, and Jared's contact info. Anyway, also if any of you have any ideas, places, or special things you'd like to see done or implemented at the Stewart Reunion let us know!! Love Ya!

Extended Family!!!

Hey this is a post for all of my extended family. For all of you who are bloggers, besides Jay and Jen already got your invite -- if you have a private blog or a blog that I didn't know about please send me an invite!!!! Yes, that means you DeAnna!!!! So if you don't have my email, for those of you on the Stewart side of the Fam, so to the Stewart site it is posted there, or just ask someone in the family you'll find it. Just really want to stay in touch and see your blogs about your families.

"Slumber Party"

Well it is finally Friday!!!!! In fact it is the first Friday of the month, which for our family mean our annual "slumber party." I can't remember how long ago we started this, but Mat had the idea. So the first Friday of the month we always do this -- we make it fun, we all sleep in the same room that night, we watch a movie, play games, and have a fun little dinner or treat -- basically whatever stuff we want. Tonight after Mat got home we went over to the "district" and road the carousel, the girls loved it. Then we had pizza and watched Charlotte's Web all of us on mom and dad's bed. It is fun for the girls, they look forward to it every month, plus it gets the whole "can I sleep in your room?" out of their system, because we already do it once a month for fun! Well here are some pictures of our fun night.

What to say . . . . . .

I really am not sure exactly what to say. This past weekend Mat and I sent our girls home with Grandpa and Grandma Wood Friday evening while we did a "date night" -- dinner and basketball games. We went and watched my cousin Melissa, Boulder City Highschool, play Lowery for 3A State semi-finals, and then also our "boyz" Trevor and Lewis, Spring Creek Highschool play Moapa for the 3A semi finals too. It was fun, we got to visit with my Uncle and Aunt and our friend from Spring Creek. The plans after that were to head to Alamo, and then go rock hunting out at Delamare for Cache's headstone, but we heard the news that my cousin Keola's wife Tasche had passed away Thursday evening. So we headed to Alamo, we did go find Cache's headstone -- which my dad hurt his leg trying to help heft it into the back of the jeep -- but then Sunday morning Joni and I and my girls (who were just starting to get over the croup) drove to Boise, ID. What can I say? Family is amazing!!!! It was amazing to be up there together with all of them. Yes it was wonderful to see everyone and hopefully it won't be so long until we see them again, but it was more than that -- unexplainable. Keola is, I want to say "strong", but I know he probably doesn't feel that way -- their brandnew twin boys are beautiful and very loved. The funeral was Monday and then we left later Tuesday and drove back to Vegas and got in late last night (with still sick girls). It was a "what can I say . . . . " kind of weekend. Love my Idaho FAM!!

Love My Girls

Happy Valentines Day!

My father in-law actually came down to visit this weekend, so we've all been visiting. We had a nice big breakfast all together and then we took off to hike up through the tunnels by Lake Mead -- Mat hadn't been so he wanted to go see. It was a good time and the girls will crash tonight. Then we of course made and decorated heart sugar cookies -- pretty sure that Dalia ate more of the frosting than she got on her cookies, which was a lot. Mat also kept sneeking icing I'm sure -- growing up we always did cream cheese frosting with our sugar cookies, but Mat doesn't like cream cheese, so our frosting now is always a butter cream frosting, so everyone ate more than their share. It was fun, hope everyone's valentine's day is great.

Dalia and Grandpa Phil walkin along.

Daddy and Maty

Grandpa and the girls.

Daddy and Dalia

Dalia and her "special" rocks that she had to get for me!

Maty and Dalia rolling and cutting.

Dalia eating her cookie, you can see the tons of frosting, just imagine how much she already ate!

Mat is very proud of his cookie decorating skills, especially his flower in the middle.

Some of our decorating results, we had fun!