Stewart's Christmas Plans

We will be arriving at the Phoenix airport at 5:05 p.m. on ThursdayDecember 17th. We plan to spend a week and a day with the Smith fam -- we will head for Tucson the morning of the 26th. I'm not sure how exactly we will head there, unless ya'll want to take a little day trip or something, but we're meeting the Stewarts there for the following week. Then we come back to the Smith's place for the night of Saturday January 2nd and then we leave from Phoenix at 4:30 on Tuesday the 5th. Ta da!

Does anyone else have Christmas plans yet? How long are the kids in school? How many cars do we have in Central? You still have that carseat, right? xoxo

First day of school

I remembered to grab my camera this year.

24th of July

There was, predictabley, some sort of temple theme so Lydia was in the parade as a bride, but they drove by way too fast. So I got a picture of her walking back to our viewing spot. She got to wear the dress that I made for Clare when she was the dead bride in Jennings' play her junior year.

True story - I was quite miserable at the event because of a migraine, so when the firetrucks came by (laying on the horns of course) I was covering my ears, nevertheless the loud sound affected my vision quite dramatically: when the horns sounded the pavement moved in opposite horizontal directions - like two colors of pudding or the techtonic plates of the ocean floor - it was freaky.

St George Trip poolside

We spent plenty of time at the pool on all days. Joel , Ransom and Jarom made up a game using the toypeedo and a dive ring, that was pretty fun.

I think Ransom is ready to shoot the toypeedo here.

I have long wanted videos of my kids' swim strokes, so here is (fanfair) Ransom in motion.

The way Joy fearlessly took to the water reminded me of her first time sledding last spring. She did not let inexperience keep her from having fun.

St George Trip third day

After seeing Clare and Daria off, we went to the John D. Lee reunion lunch and stopped at the temple visitor's center. From there we checked out this cool on-site dinosaur museum. The "swim tracks" and the "tail drags" were my favorite parts.

St George Trip second day

We took the long way up to the Shakespearean Festival and stopped at Mountain Meadows. Joy thought it was a photo shoot. Andrew and Ashley were patient but would rather have been at home.

St George Trip first day

Emma and Joy are cousins reunited. They just got out of the pool at Helen's condo where we all met the evening we first got there.It was Daria's Birthday, Helen had a cake and lots of good food, (she's cool like that).