Wishbone

Last night Hannah and I split the wishbone from the Thanksgiving turkey. I was amazed because Hannah did not know what a wishbone was. First we explained and then we both made our wish and then counted down 3 2 1 PULL!

We puled and CRACK! I had the top! Hopefully my wish comes true. I will find out soon!

What Makes You Happy?

This is what I asked Hannah and told her to give me her answer in pictures. I thought you might enjoy her responses as much as we did. To be fair, her siblings were not here at the time so her creativity is evident! I took the photo of her because she's one of the 5 biggest reasons I'm happy! What makes YOU happy? :)

Our Eventful Day

Thanks to all of our cheering squad on our busy Wednesday. All went well. The plate and screws are out. I will no longer set off alarms at airports! I managed to be awake for the surgery this time and saw what the hardware looked like. Modern medicine is amazing!

Matt had a fantastic run. He placed second right behind Matt Knapik, his friend from school. His time was 7:53 for a 2km run. Fairly quick. :) You can see from the photos what a beautiful day it was in Medicine Hat!

Conference Weekend

Early thursday morning we headed out to Salt Lake City, Utah for General Conference. When I say early, I mean EARLY! We left at 4am. Do you know how shocking to the system it is to shower at 3:30am? But, it was worth it as we pulled into Salt Lake at just after 4pm. When we got there we were all STARVING, we decided to go to a burger place that some friends had recommended called In And OUT Burger. That night we all went to BYU and mom and grandma went to the Stephanie Nielson talk and they said it was great. While they were listening to the talk dad and grandpa Parker, Matt, Hannah and I toured around BYU. It was great. We saw the MTC and we went to the BYU book store. Hannah got a BYU t-shirt it is blue with BYU written across it. Parker got a blue under armor shirt that has the 'Y' on it. I got a new blue football jersey. It has the 'Y' on it and is really awesome. We didn't find anything for Matt. After that we were on our way back to the hotel in Salt Lake. We were prepared for the BYU game now that we were going to on Friday night against USU in Logan.It was a great day/ couple hours. The atmosphere was very cool but the game absolutely stunk because BYU lost. Conference was wonderful. We went to the Saturday morning session. It was pretty amazing! Dad, Parker and Matt went to the priesthood session with Grandpa. They loved it. We drove home all day sunday and got home in time to sort the laundry! Mom was thrilled!

Football Player Extraordinaire

So Sara is playing football! She loves it! She had three games today and her dedicated fans (AKA her family including Grandma and Aunt Carolyn) endured frigid temperatures to cheer her on. She has fast feet and is not afraid to lower her shoulder and hit hard! Notice her new mouthguard she's holding in her hand. After having it made, she realized she'd chosen the colours of the rival team. Oooops!

The First Day Back!

The first day was August 30th this year. What happened to waiting until after Labour Day? Despite not wanting to go to school, the Stewart kids looked and played the part of happy school children! Parker started grade 10.
Sara started grade 5. This will be her last year at Lakeview! Middle School next year. :(
Matt is the "big" kid at Paterson this year.
Hannah started grade 3. Our "baby" is no longer a baby. Buddy was so sad to see them go...

Summer Goes Out With a Splash

We had a great summer! Starting with Trek and ending with a one night , magical camping trip to St. Mary's. We travelled to Ontario and had all our cousins visit us at our home in the month of August. We had a week in Waterton together and lots of little adventures in between. We managed to get all four kids up together on skiis just a few days before school started. Makes you think, "Why does summer ever have to end?"