Cameron Turns 5!

Cameron of course chose to have a "Star Wars" birthday party. He and his cousins have been pretty interested in Star Wars all year long. He and his cousin Ryder let me know that they really want to let people know about Star Wars. I said "What people?", and they replied "Everybody who doesn't know about it!" We had friends and family over for swimming and pizza in Grandma Weed's yard, had a Darth Vader pinata, Star Wars party favors, and of course a Star Wars cake (which Cameron helped decorate using McDonald's Star Wars toys, uncle Jared's old Star Wars action figures--thanks Uncle Jared!--, and mommy added an ewok on the top). Thanks everyone for making it a great birthday, Cameron expressed his happiness many times about how much fun he had.

European Beach Beauty

This photo of Lilly "sunbathing" was courtesy of Grandma Stewart. Lilly is not very good about keeping her diapers on if she doesn't have any clothes on. She is especially picky if the diaper is even just a little wet or poopy. She takes the diapers off herself and then brings them to me. Sometimes I put her diapers on backwards, but I've not been consistent about it. The other day she brought me a diaper that I could see was poopy, but it no longer had poo in it. We had a fun time playing "find the poo", and I found it on the carpet in the family room. Luckily it was found before it was stepped in and even luckier that I have a carpet cleaner for just such an occassion!

Weed Family Reunion

Well the "Weed" Family Reunion was actually in June, but I suppose I'm better to post late than never! All the Weed kids and their families were here the last week in June. We went to Bear Lake for 2 days, went to Lagoon twice, went swimming, had a girl's day out and a guy's day out without kids, and also had a nice dinner out with just the adults. We had a great time and here are some of the photos.

Here are all the older cousins, ready for a day of rides and HEAT! They all made these reunion shirts while we were at Bear Lake. Unfortunately Rilee forgot hers, but was able to get all the tears out of her system the day before so she was still a happy camper at Lagoon.

It's so fun for Rilee now that she can actually ride all the rides. I have been surprised about how gutsy she is. She will ride anything! She is having a screamin' good time here with cousins Morgan and Maryn.

We thought Cameron might be able to start veering out of the kiddie area this year, but no such luck. We tried to puff his hair up, but it just wasn't quite enough. Hopefully next year!

Lilly cried in terror on some of the rides, but was usually fine by the end of it when she realized she wasn't going to die. For some reason the picture uploading stopped working right now so I can't get one of her on here. But come on people - I have done 2 posts within a month - - that's gotta be some kind of record for me!

Stewart Family Reunion at East Canyon

It's been so long since I've posted anything that I almost didn't remember my password! We had fun up at East Canyon for the annual reunion with Chad's family. I said "Stewart" reunion, but I guess it's actually "Anderson". Our kids went up with Grandma and Grandpa Stewart while Chad and I went to a funeral in Paris, Idaho for the wife of Chad's co-worker, Christina Mourant. She was a young mom (28) with 2 little kids so it was very sad to have her pass on, but it was nice to attend her funeral and honor her life. Someone had commented to her bishop, "Some people are just too good to stay on this earth". And she really was a genuinely good person. Chad and I drove up to East Canyon after the services to meet up for the big reunion bbq. Here are some pictures of the kids having fun at the pool with cousins.

Sara and Gracie with Rilee. Abby is also snoozing peacefully in the background.

Lilly must have had a little too much fun - -to the point of exhaustion!

And here we have Cameron and Grace, bein' great pals. "Thanks" to the Anderson's for putting together the reunion, and "thanks" to Grandma and Grandpa Stewart for taking our kids for the day!

IT'S A BOY!

I keep thinking I'm going to get this blog updated with pictures, and that keeps not happening. So I'm at least going to post our latest news, though I think I have told everybody who looks at this blog. Cameron is excited to finally have a brother, but he's so easygoing I think he would be pretty excited for a girl anyway. Rilee says she really wanted a girl, and Lilly could care less! Chad and I are excited though. Now if we get any more kids they're just extra right?

Easter Egg Hunt and Magic Show

Jolie and Ryder invited us to the Diabetes Easter Egg Hunt up at the University of Utah. I didn't know that the Easter Bunny was actually going to be there! The cousins had so much fun there together finding Easter eggs. They also got other prizes, they had clowns for face painting and balloon animals, a magic show and lunch! It was quite the activity.

Lilly didn't really hunt for eggs, her biggest enjoyment was eating the sugar-free taffy that the kids shared with her.

Cameron got to be one of the stars in the magic show. He was sooo funny! Cameron, Ryder and Will all had their faces painted with a Spiderman eye.

Cameron was tagged by his cousin Morgan!!
Cameron likes:
-turkey sandwiches ("What's that sandwich that I like with turkey", "uh, turkey sandwich?" "yea, that's it!")
-Star Wars (Layton and Will have rubbed off on him)
-tickles
-McDonald's
-singing (he and Rilee have just started practicing for a musical production of "The Little Mermaid and the Adventures of the Pirates of the Carribean")
-yogurt
-preschool
-Hannah ( a girl at his school)
-Superman
-Tigger umbrella (which he now uses as a light saber)
-his cousins
-treats (this is what he always asks for when you ask him what he wants for his Birthday or Christmas)
-movies
-sleep (all who know Cameron know he's a narcoleptic) - not sure how to spell

Cameron doesn't like:
-getting his feelings hurt (which is done very easily - very tenderhearted)
-clothes that aren't "cozy"
-waiting
. . . . . Cameron was helping me with this and said "hmm, I guess I ran out of ideas, I'm gonna go check on my movie ("Star Wars")", and he never came back!