Perfect Weekend

 One of our favorite things to do together as a family is go to the sand dunes.  We decided to make one last trip over UEA weekend-the weather was perfect.  The kids practically entertained themselves the entire weekend.  It's a huge sandbox for them to ride, play, and explore. We even found ourselves a scorpion, which is a little scary. They were so good I finished reading the first book of Hunger Games. (It's a good read-go and get it)  It was nice to be able to just sit back and have a little "me" time. The kids spent most of the day digging huge holes in the sand, being pulled on the sled, and bugging our friends dad to take them for a ride in his buggie.  We have made alot of great memories at the dunes but I would have to say that this one for some reason was my favorite.  

  

Wyatt likes to ride his green 4-wheeler but he would rather just play and play in the sand and get it in places you didn't think possible. :(  Kennady on the other hand is always ready to ride.  It doesn't take long once we arrive for her to ask if she can go for a ride.  She is a good little rider. 

These are the huge holes the kids loved digging.  There were alot of little kids running around camp and they all got along.  I wished the picture was a little better to see all their great faces.  I need to take lessons from my sister-in-law Amy on how to take good pics.

Aaron was the one always pulling the kids around camp on the sled. I'm glad he was able to have some time to relax himself.                                      

Besided riding- Logan loves to climb to the top of the dunes and run as fast as he can down them.  It always ends with him tumbling down instead. 

Here is the wonderful buggie!  Thanks to the Kendricks the kids had a great time going on rides.  This time it was Kennady, Hadlie, Kade, and Wyatt.

                          Jericho sand dunes- September 14-17th, 2010

We finally got a family picture at the pile of rocks.  This is a place we always ride to everytime we go.  It overlooks all the dunes and the kids love to find little lizards hiding within those rocks.  Logan almost climbed one of the biggest dunes on the way there.  He has gotten extremely good at riding this past year. 

Why not?

Kennady came home from preschool today and asked if we could go get her ears pierced today.  Why the heck not?  I figured if she was ready then we should go for it.  I usually confide in Aaron with everything first but for some reason we thought we would surprise him on this one. YIKES!  Anyway if it were up to just me she would of had them pierced at 6 months old.  So off we went to the mall.  When we got there I told her she could pick out some other earrings mostly to keep her mind off of how those earrings have to go in the ears.  Of course though came the question of "is it going to hurt"? 

                                                           HAPPY!

                                               NOT SO SURE ANYMORE!

                                                ONCE AGAIN HAPPY!
 She was such a big girl and didn't even cry.  Probably because I bribed her with going and getting a cookie after at Ms. Field's-mmm! :)  On our way home though she did say that she was about ready to cry because it hurt a little. We had to show everyone that day her pretty earrings and wait for the reaction of daddy.  He reacted better than I had thought.  But he keeps his anger hidden well..lol!  He told her how pretty she looked and asked many questions about getting them done.  Later on that night though he mentioned it made him a little sad that his little girl isn't so little anymore. She's got him wrapped around his little finger.  She can't wait until she can change her earrings though- and I bet ya can't guess what the first pair will be.  Yup dogie earrings which are actually pretty cute. Gotta love her!  Way to go Kennady.

Stewart Family Reunion

September 22-26th, 2010/ Green River State Park
Every other year the whole stewart family gets together for a family reunion.  This year we headed to green river. The first day there it was just our family and Aaron's sisters family.  We decided to head into town for breakfast to a place where it over looked the river. According to Wyatt- Santa Claus was there.  We told "this" santa claus Wyatt's name when Wyatt wasn't paying attention so when santa claus was ready to leave he came up and called wyatt by his name and asked what he wanted for christmas.  Wyatt just thought it was so awesome that he knew his name:)  That was our highlight for the morning! We then went back to camp where Aaron and Mike went golfing and we took the kids to the park and just hung around camp.  The rest of the weekend we went hiking, 4-wheeling at 10 mile wash, and Grandpa Todd had brought some great crafts for the kids to do around camp.  They made marshmallow blowers, derby cars, and the girls made necklaces. The last night we all sat around the camp fire and enjoyed some great stories and family memories.  It was a great weekend and was good to see everyone.

The day of the hike the kids enjoyed climbing on the rocks and catching baby frogs.  We were able to see some pictographs and was lucky enough to watch a skydiver try to break a base jumping record of 29 jumps in 24 hours.  It was really neat to watch and of course Aaron was wanting to do it too.

      

This was mostly everyone except for my family and Krisa who was taking the picture.  I'm not sure where we were at this time but somehow Kennady was able to jump in the picture. I am looking forward to the next reunion. 
 

Kennady's halloween fieldtrip

Today was Kennady's halloween fieldtrip for her preschool. We started at the school and walked to a near by pumpkin farm.  When we got there we were able to meet the pumpkin man.  Some kids liked him and thought he was pretty neat and Kennady and a few others were a little frightened by him.  He took them back to where they were able to pick a pumpkin to take home with them and had a few tricks to show.  The kids loved it.  We then were able to get pictures with him and play around the farm.  After we got back to the school they had story time about the color orange, had some snacks and began carving some big pumpkins that Ms. Jill got from the pumpkin man. They all had a great time!

 

Kennady was a little frightened by the pumpkin man so I had to join in the picture.  Wyatt loved going on the fieldtrip with Kennady and HAD to wear his transformer costume.



 



Kennady loves cats and dogs so when she saw some baby kittens there she was dying to hold one.  She said holding the cat was the best thing about the fieldtrip.  She wants to go back and hold them again.

  



                      Kennady's preschool class with Ms. Jill and Ms. Stacy

  

Kennady had a great time carving the pumpkin with some of the kids in her class

Cutie!

We went to my sisters the other day for some family haircuts.  Kennady decided she wanted to go short so Jenna gave her a cute little bob.  She was flipping her head side to side as she walked around the house waiting for me to be done.  We knew she loved the new hairdo!  The next day we were off to find her some cute little head bands.  Part of me misses her long hair but she looks so cute:)

The next step now is getting her ears pierced....shhh daddy can't know!

-5 years old-

Why wear sunscreen?

So this is one of the not so great things that have happened to me lately. About 3 months ago I found out that I had skin cancer on my face. LOVELY! Here are a few pictures on the day of my surgery. I hope this will be a reminder to us all to load up on the sunscreen! :) I left the really grose pictures out. It was not a fun day!!!

The skin cancer is that LITTLE red spot on my left cheek bone

This is the final result after going back three times to cut the cancer all out. Not sure why I am smiling cuz I wasn't to happy how big it ended up being. Oh and the fact that they didn't put me out-nothing like smelling your face burning!

Being to where the hole was big enough the plastic surgeon couldn't just sew it up in a nice pretty line. They had to do what is called a "flap" and cut even more of my face. WHATEVER! So this was the end result. We were finally done!

I finally did it!

Thanks to my wonderful sister Jenna i am now part of the blogging world.  We have had some great things and not so great things happen in the last little while that i want and need to remember. So i am finally making this happen and still trying to figure things out-but atleast it is started:) I hope you enjoy our blog!