Happy Mother's Day!

This is my mommy. Idn't she adorb?

Happy Mother's Day to the bestest mommy in the whole wide world. She is (shockingly) even better then ME! Well of course she is. I learned everything I know from her.

Thanks Mom for always being there for me. Seriously, you have NEVER let me down. In fact, you go above and beyond for me ALL.THE.TIME. Thank you for watching my kids for a week, for helping me fly to and from Alaska as needed, for sewing me some pillows, and countless other home projects...

Like painting my WHOLE ENTIRE HOUSE before we moved into it.


And for turning this....


Into this...


And check the date on this picture. This is officially the last time you visited me (up until last week of course) and therefore ends the debate. It had been two years, not two and a half.

I love you SO incredibly much. I hope you know that.

Little Miss Crafties

My sweet Mommy flew back to Alaska with me because who can bear the thought of me flying with three children alone? As always when Mom comes to town, we invest in some sort of crafty project. The last time she was here we built my craft room (before that she helped us put together our new house by painting nearly every single room). She's the bestest ever.

THIS time we waited until the very last day (though we did a lot of yard work the other days) and we re-covered my old, yucky, stained pillows. (KIDS!) AND she helped me get started on putting up all my new Uppercase Living Stickers.


This is some of my pillow fabric that we bought (on sale!) at Joann's.


Mommy is a master sewer. Wait, that doesn't sound right...


Anyway, she sewed these cute pillows. I heart them!

Uppercase Living is a company that designs and sells home decor "stickers" that adhere to just about anything. I recently cohosted a party and earned some rewards...and bought some stickers...

This "CREATE" is one that I designed myself for my craft room. All you have to do is pick your font, color and size and they create it for you. It's perfecto!


This is a couple of the predesigned options. I picked the colors and size. I opted to mount them on canvas so I could move them around if I decided to change things around (like I always do). They live in Joshy's room now.

Joshy really likes them.


I've had this old milk can thingy forever and I decided to give it a face lift with a monogram. I regret the bright white and wish I would have picked a more muted color now. Fortunately the stickers peel right off so I can replace it easily if I get to another party.


I bought a bunch of vine designs for my bedroom. Since Darrin doesn't like things hanging over the bed that could fall on him, I got some stickers instead. They are HUGE. I haven't gotten the gumption to apply them yet. I also got some smaller versions to put on our big, plain lampshades. I must say, I am very pleased with how they turned out!


YAY!

Easter

This is how seriously behind I am. This is my post for Easter. We spent Easter at Grandma and Peepaw's house in Monroe, Wash. This was the one day that Darrin was in town in between our Mexico trip and him flying back home to Alaska and back to work.

Grandma was in charge of the Easter festivities and she prepared the kids some baskets and we hid eggs for them to find. They woke up on Easter morning and not only did they get Easter treats but they got to see mommy and daddy for the first time in a week! (Well, all except Jake who came to pick us up from the airport the night before).


All dolled up and ready for church.


Egg hunts and chocolate. Is there anything better? Jordy doesn't think so.


Neither does Jake.


Doobie is showing off his cache.


"Look Mommy!"


Jordy LOVES dresses.


"I'm not cute, I'm cool." Note to self (again): TRY ON CLOTHES BEFORE THE BIG DAY! Jake's vest was a little small...


So handsome.

Two Too Sweet

I have a LOT of bloggedy-ing to catch up on but for now I leave you with a dose of preciousness.

They were sharing the little Wiggles music maker. They never share.


I think Jake was being sweet because he knew Jordy was sick.

In The Past Few Days...

...we said goodbye to John and his family and they returned to the east coast.


(Waiting for the ferry home from the family reunion)

...I drove to Forks with my buddy Jessica just for the fun of it.


...I hung out with some friends from high school for a movie night that lasted until 2am!

(Amy, Jessica, Jennifer, Me, Heather and Rachael)

Family Reunion Photos

On Sunday our entire family met up in the Bremerton area for a reunion. This was the only day that all of the Stewart kids were together at one time. This hasn't happened since my wedding ten years ago. We took a LOT of pictures.


The whole entire crew except my Darrin.


Mom, me and my sisters in law, Kate, Shannon and Beth and little niece, Lia.


My baby brother, Josh.


My oldest brother, Paul and his family.


All the Stewart kids and our Grandma Stewart.


My Mom and ALL her many siblings.


My niece and nephew, Taylor and Justin.


My younger brother JR and his wife Kate.


My cute Mommy and Daddy.


My older brother John and his family.


All the little cousins.


All the Stewart kids with Mom and Pops.

Another Night On The Town

On Saturday night we all went out again to attend my brother John's class reunion in Kirkland. Though we said we come home earlier than the night before, we ended up being quite a bit later. And Pops was waiting up for us. Oops.


I impressed everyone with my awesome ping pong skillz. Not really.


Josh's friend showed up on a scooter and now Josh REALLY wants a scooter.


Kate, Shannon and Josh did a fantastic rendition of Guns n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine.


The night ended late (or the morning ended early) and we made it home to sleep for a couple of hours before the big family reunion in Bremerton the next day.

Cousin Night

I am currently in Seattle where, for the first time in 10 years, all of my brothers and I were together in one place. We marked the occasion by never sleeping. First, on Friday night we all (except Paul) headed to Seattle to meet up with several of our cousins. Cousin Night, as it was dubbed, was held at Owl N Thistle near the waterfront. Cousins arrived by car and ferry. We made it home by 2am.


Sisters In Law Shannon and Kate on the way to Cousin Night.


John, David, the back of Brenda's head, some dude, Shannon, Josh, Kate's arm and JR.


Cousin Brenda and me.


Me and brother, JR and JR's friend that lives up his nose.


Brother John and Cousin Brenda


Brother JR.


Some of the East Coast crew. Sister in Law, Shannon and brother Josh. They don't go together though.


Brother Josh and Sister In Law, Kate. They don't go together either.


Half of myself, Sister In Law, Kate and brother JR. They DO go togeher.


Shannon and Josh, dueling blackberries.


Sisters In Laws


Brother John and Cousin David.

We didn't think to bust out the cameras until some of the cousins had already left to catch their ferry. So unpictured for the evening were Matt and Randi Aiken, and Ian Campbell. There were also some assorted friends on hand as well.