Catching up!

I keep meaning to post and then think of all the things that have been going on and feel overwhelmed, but Amber pricked my conscience. So, here are at least a few pictures to update our lives. All continues to go well. All the school kids brought home perfect Straight A report cards Friday, so we are very happy about that. Elijah is playing soccer and loving it- Mark is his coach, enjoying having Saturdays off after 8 years of coaching debate. Christian is loving preschool and loves telling everyone that he is 4 now. We had a fun Space Ranger Party and even had the Burdicks here for the day! This morning we finished reading the Book of Mormon- we took the challenge from our stake president about 3 months ago to finish it by today and we are happy we did it! It has been a great strength to our children and us to do this together. Tonight, we started it again!We had a fun Halloween week. Tonight w

e had a spooky dinner and covered our dining room with spider webs. I won't share the details on our food as I know mother will not appreciate it! We had a girl scout party on Thursday and school parties and trunk or treat on Friday. Everyone had a great time. Much more to share, but here are a few pictures for now and we'll update again soon.

Catching up!

Halloween Fun

So is this another Stewart Family Blog or what? Do any of you read this anymore? Hope to hear updates on all of you soon!

We had a great Halloween! On Tuesday our ward youth hosted an awesome kids carnival, Ayana and Asher had a lot of fun playing the games and seeing their friends. Then on Friday we went to a place called Trick or Treat Street in Idaho Falls. It is an event where some of the local RV dealers loan the use of their RVs for local businesses to decorate and pass out candy from. We went with our friends the Lewises, they have 2 kids close to Ayana's age so they have a lot of fun together. After the trick or treating we all went out for dinner and had a great time. Then on Saturday night our complex had a dinner/Trunk or Treat. I made some peanut butter balls that looked like eye balls and won the award for best presentation, so that was pretty fun. The kids got so much candy at the Trunk or Treat that Asher couldn't even carry his bucket anymore because it was too heavy! All in all it was a great time. Trever and I did decide that we need to dress up next year, we felt lame at all the events in no costume. I made Ayana's with costume, and am pretty pleased with how it turned out. It is the first time I have ever done sleeves or a zipper in clothing. It was far from perfect, but she was the cutest witch ever. We bought Asher a hamburger costume at Old Navy and it was sure a hit, everyone commented on it and thought he was so adorable. Hope all of your Halloween's were as wonderful as ours! Here are some pictures of our little monsters!

New Video of Ayana

So Ayana loves to sing the Five Silly Monkeys song for us, and it always makes us laugh. We love the really loud SNAP and the inflection at the end. Here's a short video of it, hope it makes you smile!