Our Traveling Summer

I'm blogging...w/ pictures...can you believe it?:) Sorry for the extremely long delay between posts, but I've been busy and homeless...remember? Also, let me apologize in advance for the obscene amount of pictures in this post, but I have 2 1/2 months of catch up to do here people! I was thinking about splitting this up, but i wasn't sure where to seperate it sooooo you're getting it all in one sitting! Sit back and grab a drink...you might be here a while! haha


Our 1st stop on our extended vacay was to the family cabin in Utah for the "BIG" Stewart Reunion. We do this every other year and it is always a blast! It's so fun to get the kids together w/ Weston's cousins and their families. A whole lotta Stewarts' equals a ton of fun!


Weston and I on our hike. Weston did a pretty good job taking this don't ya think?


This is Carson w/ his cousin's little boy Ty. Believe it or not they are only 2 weeks apart in age! Jen and I have taken pictures of them together at every reunion since they were born and Ty has always been about twice Carson's size!

Carson loooooves this swing! Who knew something so simple could be so much fun!





These wild flowers are all over the mountain.











With Weston's parents at Cedar Breaks.





I love this picture! There's nothing sweeter than a daddy cuddling w/ his baby.



On our drive back to Vegas we stopped at Zions National Park.










This is how we spend most of our time in Vegas!






The boys and I then headed to Oregon while Weston went to work in New Mexico.


Here I am w/ my dad and brother and all of our kids.


My mom w/ London.



While there I got to see several of my favorite girls from High School! Haven't we aged well? :) We had several dinners together and my favorite was our "mom's" slumber party! Miss you girls already!









While we were there my mom celebrated her 60th birthday! I hope I have her beautiful skin when I'm that age!





My mom and I took the boys to a county fair. Needless to say it made us REALLY miss the Minnesota State Fair! Not to sound snobby, but once you've had the best it's hard to go back! The boys just assumed that all fairs were supposed to be the size of a small city! Needless to say they still had fun!









After 5 weeks in Oregon we headed back to Vegas.


My friend Jen was in Vegas for the weekend so we went out to P.F. Changs...yummmm!



We decided that instead of spending the week in the hot Vegas sun we would head back to the cabin and see the fall colors. I had to get my leaf peeping in since I missed my Minnesota fall. Have I told you just how much I LOVE fall in Minnesota?


On the way there we stopped at this fun museum in St. George.




Here are some fun pics from our hike at the cabin. The aspen trees were beautiful!


London is snug as a bug in a rug!








On our last day in Vegas I put London in the pool. Surprise! He loved it. I guess he's going to be a fish just like his big brothers!

We spent a few more days in Vegas before...tada.....it was finally time to head to Tucson!! It was a fun, crazy, busy, few months and I'm so thankful for the time we got to spend w/ family and friends. However, it is sooooo nice to have a home again and just stay put for a while. I need a vacation from my vacation!!

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It's Official!!!

I can't believe I'm actually able to say this, but as of this morning we officially own 9 KFC's in the Tucson area!! Can you believe it?!?! Almost exactly one year after we agreed to this crazy adventure it's DONE!!!! The last 6 months have been such a rollercoaster ride between getting financing and dealing with the alcoholic/"schizophrenic" owner we bought the stores from. He was supposed to show up yesterday to the title co. to sign the papers and apparently got drunk and forgot all about it!!!! We gave him until noon today to sign and if he didn't show up we would have had the rights to sue him. It would have been such a headache if we'd had to go that route so thank heavens he showed up this morning!! I tell you what...if every deal we had done in the past had been this crazy...we would not be in this business! Now if we could just close on our house...we're going on 2 months of being homeless and I'm ready for it to be done!!!

My life as a gypsy

I just thought I would give you all an update on our move. We're still waiting to hear back on financing for the KFC's we're trying to purchase in Tucson. We never in a million years would have realized this situation would be so difficult. We're being told to hold off on making an offer on a house until things are official (in case things fall through.) Meanwhile Weston is leaving tomorrow to work in New Mexico for a few weeks while we're waiting to hear back. So all of our things are now in storage in Tucson and the boys and I are hanging out in Vegas for a while. We're probably going to head back to Oregon while Weston is in NM so I can see my family for a bit. So for the past few weeks we've been traveling machines! We flew from Minnesota to Las Vegas. Then flew from Vegas to Phoenix and drove to Tucson to look at homes. Then back to Vegas for a day before we drove to our family cabin in Utah for a reunion. Now we're back in Vegas until we leave for Oregon....whew...got all that! :) Meanwhile they have year round school where we're looking to move and school started on July 20th! So depending on how long it takes to close on a house...once we can make an offer...Logan is looking at missing the first 1-2 months of 1st grade!!!! Luckily he's a smart kid and I'm sure he will have no problems catching up, but of course I'm still stressed about it!! We could really use your prayers right now. I'm confident that it will all work out in the end if we can just make it through the next month! This dang economy just has to make everything so difficult!! I'll keep you all posted!

4th of July and other fun stuff

We had a great holiday weekend! We squeezed in some time at the pool on Friday and spent all day at the lake on Saturday. It's been a tradition of sorts for us to meet several families for some swimming, tubing, and of course LOTS of eating. I'm very sad that this will be our last 4th of July at the lake. We've made some wonderful memories and they are some of my fondest of our time spent in Minnesota. Finally on Sunday we were able to have London's blessing at church. I'm so glad we were able to share that special event with our MN ward, who have really become like family to us!


Carson and Abby splashing around at the pool. Aren't they cute together? Abby's mom and I are not opposed to an arranged marriage for these two! lol


Logan before he bashed his head on the side of the pool...boys will be boys!


At the lake. My poor husband needs to see the sun more! :)


London doing what he does best!


Carson and daddy soaking up some sun.


I love this picture!


Logan climbing trees...again boys will be boys!


The boys all set to go tubing w/ Sammi and Bitsy.



After a long day at the lake the boys conked out in the truck. We, however, were not done partying quite yet! Our friends had several families over to their home for a BBQ and fireworks. Their backyard was every kids dream! They had a rope swing, rock climbing wall, trampoline, huge sand volleyball court, and the biggest sand pit you've ever seen. Needless to say my boys thought they were in heaven and had a blast getting DIRTY!!












London's Blessing

I love how London is looking up at Carson. Here is my proof that he's not ALWAYS sleeping!

Finally, a family picture together with London!