Paint and Lights!

We painted about two weeks ago and can I just say,priming, not so fun. Paint goes on so much easier. Anyways, we didnt want any white walls. We have rented for 7 years and we are sick of the plain white walls! Some of the colors turned out great, others not quite as great, but there isnt any color that I hate.

The elecrician came yesterday to trim and the cabinet guy finally came to start on the cabinets. We are finally to the things that are exciting to see. Here are the kitchen Cabinets. Not a very good picture, but they are chocolate brown and a pretty simple look which I really like.

This is the girls room. The girls say the pink looks like frosting. I would have to agree. At first I was like oh holy pink, but now I really like it, especially with that gorgeous chandy. So cute, it has beads that go on it so its not quite all put together yet .This is the master with the choc brown. It doesnt look that great in the picture, but it looks awesome in the room. Even grandpa Stewart likes it, I think it is the only one he likes though.

The Master bath is blue. here it is from in the bedroom.

And here it is in the bathroom. I love the color. It pobably wasnt the best choice as far as saleing it goes, but we can repaint at that point.

the halway, ceilings, other bedroom, and part of the living room are all beige, not that you can tell from this pic. Itlooks more beige in person, but it turned out a bit lighter than what we wanted.

This is the red that is in most of the Kitchen and living room. I think this was before the second coat though.

1st Grade

Callie started school today. She has been so excited. We spent $50 getting all the supplies on the list (and that doesnt even include the backpack and a few other items because Granny Julie bought those for her while she was here). It was kind of a ridiculous list like 12 Ticonderoga tri-write pencils. What is that? We never found them so the 50 doesnt include that from the list either. Anyways...

she wanted her hair straightened and she picked her clothes out the night before.

Here is the Hannah Montana backpack that she picked. Awesome.

So, when she got home from school I asked her how it went. She said that her teacher is soooo nice and she told me that she met this girl on the playground that is in 2nd grade and that they are new friends now even though the girl is in second grade. She thought that was so cool. She also told me that I owe the school money because she ate the school lunch today. I was like what the Why did you eat the school lunch. you see they got out at 12 today, so silly me I didnt pack her a lunch because I didnt think they would have lunch time and she would eat when she got home. Oh well. She liked school though and is excited to go back tomorrow.

Exit Talk

So my ward is doing this stellar new thing that I am calling an exit talk, not an official term or anything. They have been having people that they know are moving out give a talk before they leave andso today they asked us to talk next week. Sooo not nice. I hate doing talks! And you knowwe will have to do another one as soon as we move in to the new ward. Does anybody elses ward do this? Any stellar ideas for a topic? They didnt give us topics which I dislike too.

Man she is awesome!

This girl has been so great with her naps today! she went to sleep as soon as we got into Sacrament meeting today and didnt wake up until 10 minutes before church was done. Then we were going to a friends house to eat at 2 and she went to sleep as soon as we started eating and slept until I buckled her in her seat 2 hours later, which left me free to eat and socialize without having to entertain her. And this picture is of her now taking another good nap while I fed the other girls, got them ready for bed and she is still asleep now.

If you think it is weird that I am so thrilled with her just because she sleeps (since I do post about it alot) you have to understand that my last baby did not sleep well at all, she cried A LOT, and she screamed if anyone held her but me. That has a bit to do with why Bay and Mars are 3and1/2 years apart instead of 2and 1/2 like Cal and Bay.

This picture is just because I thought it was cute. I love the big bobble head.

2 Months

Marlee turned 2 Months about 2 weeks ago, so I am little behind. I took her for her 2mo. checkup and she weighed 11lb 4oz and she is 22.5 inches. While we were at the checkup the Doc put her on her tummy to see how high she can lift her head up and she rolled over. It was the first time she had rolled, so we turned her over again just to check and she did it again. I was so shocked. She has been such a good baby. There hasnt been one night that I have had to actually get out of bed because of her, since she was 4 days old. Every night she wakes up once or twice, eats and goes back to sleep. She is usually really good during the day too. She will scream if she has a poopy diaper though. We have been really lucky with how good she is.

My parents came up at the beginning of the month and so we had Marlee blessed on the 3rd. We had lunch at Joshs folks afterwards, so most of the pics are at their place.

This is the blessing dress my mom made it when Callie was blessed and all 3 girls have worn it.

Stewart Reunion

This weekend was the Stewart Family Reunion. They do this every August and usually go camping in the mountians. This year they decided to have it in Grandpa Craigs yard. They have a nice big yard with plenty of room for everyone to bring tents and stuff ( I opted to sleep in the house with the baby). Here are a few pics: Playing in Grandpas pond (usually not allowed).

There was fishing for the kids, even MarleeKooper, our nephew, caught these cute teeth.
There was a little bit of guitar hero and then American Idol the game. It was really fun , but the judges were really harsh on me.
We had duck races in the pond and guess whos duck won the adult race. Thats right, my little duck was the fastest!
And there was way too much candy and really good food.

It was a fun weekend. We pretty much just ate , visited and played games. I got a little bit hyper on saturday night, and I heard that Joshs Grandma thought that I had hadsometo drink. I had a lot of fun goofing off with Joshs cousin Jade, though not many others wanted to join in the fun. When I came outside in the morning I got a bit teased and asked asked if I had a hang over. No I did not!

So, the girls camp up here, which is in the canyon up the road from where we were, has this really cool slide that everyone talks about, that I had never been too. So a bunch of us decided to go up there . It was so awesome! It is this long, steep slide. So I watch a few people go first, cause it looks a little scary, and they are okay, so I go. I screamed the whole way down! I was wearing these gym shorts with kinda smooth material and they made me go down the slide so fast! I couldnt stop and when I got top the end of the slide my feet stopped on the ground and my body went flying forward. I totally would have bit the dust if I wouldnt have gotten my hands down first. I worked up the guts to go down again after everyone kept telling me to go( they wanted to watch my fly off the slide again). It was so fun that i wanted to go again, but it was scary too. I biffed it again. So then Josh wanted to try with the slick shorts, so we traded, he biffed the first time, but was able to get a much better landingthe next twotimes. Anyways, I went a few more times with his shorts which was a lot less scary. It was so fun! Good times were had at the reunion this year, I dont know if by everyone, but definetly by me!

Good Little Sleeper

Marlee is such a good little sleeper! What a sweetie!