The Stewiagas

Reading to the guys…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:55:00 +0000

There’s always time to share a good story with friends.

Night Night Xavier…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:57:00 +0000

Tonight Xavier made himself a bed out of Chompy’s legos and snuggled in with a flannel sleeping bag and warm, cozy knitted blankie.

Coloring….

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Xavier drew Chompy a pretty Christmas tree last night

And, Chompy had a fantastic time with his Little People Nativity Scene. He was concerned though that Baby Jesus did not have an actual bed. BTW….this nativity scene is by far the cutest thing I’ve ever seen and I got it on sale! Score one for Momma!

You may be wondering why he has his paci, when his paci is supposed to stay in his bed. Chompy was a very sicky face yesterday, so he curled up on the couch with Daddy all day with his blankies, his “animals” (Monkey, Camel and Rabbit), and his pacis. Pooooor bubba head.

Just hanging around…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:02:00 +0000

Chompy is starting to get the hang of looking for Xavier when he wakes up. He thinks its “so silly”. Note…he thinks everything is so silly

December 3rd…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:30:00 +0000

So, when Chompy woke up, we asked him where his elf was. He looked at the spot where he was yesterday and with his hands raised said “I dunno. He gone”. We then went on a hunt and he was exstatic to find him hanging out in Chompy’s basketball net.

Here’s where Xavier will be tomorrow morning when Chompy wakes.

Silly elf, he’s sitting on Chompy’s stocking.

Tonight, we also decorated our Christmas tree. Chompy had a really fun time looking at the ornaments, figuring how how to put them on the tree, and making sure that Daddy put the star on the top.

Say hi to Xavier the Elf..

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:12:00 +0000

This is his spying spot for tomorrow morning. Chompy thought that he should be named Mommy Elf and when we suggested that he maybe could think of another name, he came up with Daddy Elf…so Daddy named him Xavier. Xavier the elf.

Chompy thought that it was a pretty funny thing to have a “elf in my house Mommy. Dat silly!”. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes him to find Xavier tomorrow.

Here comes Christmas…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:50:00 +0000

So, there is a tradition that is quickly becoming a fad for this year: Elf on the Shelf.

Momma decided that this would be super fun to do with Chompy. She’ll put the elf somewhere in the house for Chompy to find each morning. Hopefully, it’ll become a fun game for Chompy to try and figure out where the elf’s new spot is. Momma is not expecting that Chompy will understand the whole concept for a few years, and isn’t even sure if she’ll use the whole idea, but hiding an elf? That she can get into

Here’s how the elf will show up for Chompy tomorrow morning. This is his special seat in the living room, complete with his new Christmas place setting

Stay tuned to see Chompy’s reaction to the elf, what he names the elf, and where the elf decides to turn up

Welcome to the Christmas season, Momma’s soooo glad you are here!

Zion Video…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Our friend Annie made a cute little video from our Zion Trip. Check it out!

I promise that I’ll get more pictures up soon.

Absolutely in awe!

Idyllwild camping…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:42:00 +0000

Here are some pictures of our quick overnight camping trip this weekend.

We had a great time and will definitely be going back!

Chompy thoroughly enjoyed:

Playing in the dirt-throwing the dirt-kicking the dirt-making piles of dirt.

Splashing in the baby pool—it was the perfect size for Chompy!

Looking at the horsies

Hiking

Sleeping in his “my bed…tent” (yep, that’s how he sleeps…he’s a silly)

And above all….singing and dancing with Cowboy Jack at the campfire.

I’ll just leave you with this little musician.

Camping…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Here are some pictures from our camping trip with the Stewarts in Pio Pico outside of Chula Vista. Lots of fun, relaxing and beautiful days.

Run through Redlands…a year in our lives

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:52:00 +0000

2010 2011

Backyard Snow…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:08:00 +0000

It’s April and it snowed Weird, but very fun!

Hometown Snow…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:06:00 +0000

When it snows and rains and we feel icky, we are thankful for nice checkers at Vons who give us free balloons for us to chase.

Now onto the snow!

The only evidence that there was that there was snow at our house….our trash can.

But, we have pics of the hail. Not as exciting!

Hopefully Chompy will feel better even more tomorrow and we can go play!

More Snow…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:20:00 +0000

We love the Snow!

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:51:00 +0000

More snow, more snow, more snow!!!!

Top 10 of 2010…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:09:00 +0000

10. Learning to sleep through the night! Hooray!

9. Falling in love with this smile

8. Watching Chompy and his “twin” Livy grow…

7. Disneyland with Chompy!

6. Chompy’s 1st Birthday! We made it through the year!!!

5. Family trip up the coast!

4. Family Trip to Zion!

3. Family Camp!

2. It’s a tie. Josh went to Kenya, met some great IT folk, and fixed computers for a great school.

Heather and Chompy ran their 1/2 marathon!

1. We got a house!!!!!

Central Coast Trip…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:05:00 +0000

We got to go on a mini-vacation a week ago to Central California for Terra and Josh’s wedding. We stopped for a day in Morro Bay/Cayucos to see Auntie Lissa and then went on our way to Mount Hermon.

Playing at the park by Morro Rock.

After we left Morro Bay, we headed straight for Natural Bridges State Park to show Chompy Momma’s favorite thing: Butterflies!

After leaving the butteflies, we went on over to Mount Hermon for the rest of our trip!

We hung out with our good friends the Millers. Chompy had lots of fun with their kiddos Ben and Bree who were our flower girl and ring bearer.

And, of course, we had to go hiking and walking through the redwoods.

We also hung out with our friends the Folkerts. Asher is 5 weeks younger than Chompy. They had fun playing at the park.

Then, it was wedding time!! The kids partied!!!

L.A. Zoo (a little late)…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:16:00 +0000

We went to the L.A. Zoo with the Erquiaga/ Barra family in late October for Boo in the Zoo. We had a great time getting the little boys together and playing around the animals.

Chompy, Papa and Grandma E. were pretending to be flying birds!

This is my cutie cousin Owen and his daddy David.

Papa and Chompy are looking at the seals! Chompy thought they were very fun!

There is lots to see and do at the zoo!

Like hang out with my family.

My little paw with the tiger’s big paw.

Tia got me!!!

Laughing and giggling cousins!

Pumpkin Patch…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Yucaipa is well known in this area for the Live Oak Pumpkin Patch and Christmas Tree Farm. We’ve seen it every year that we’ve lived here but haven’t wanted to go mostly because of how crowded the off-ramp becomes and it just seems sooo busy. But, since we have a little boy who loves to run and be outside, and we now get an early morning start, we thought we’d go right when it opens and see what it was all about. :) The family had a great time. We saw goats and horses and a giant boa constrictor and the farm had lots of attractions for kiddos that Chompy enjoyed staring at :) There was lots of room to run and climb and play! Once again proving that autumn is my favorite time in the Inland Empire! :)

Goats Momma, Goats.

He loved the horsies!

Ok, ok. I guess we’ll be responsible for him.

I know how to climb!!! '

Watching the big kids on their John Deere tractors.

There’s so much to see that it was hard for momma and daddy to get smiley pretty pictures with Chompy. Oh well :) He’s still cute!

Checkin’ out the u-pick pumpkin patch!

See you later! Chompy and momma will definitely come here at least once more this season. It’s free and a fun way to be outside (and wear someone out for naptime).

New…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:15:00 +0000

Since we moved in we’ve been trying to revive the lawn and garden. We’ve had some successes in the roses starting to bloom again, but the grass no matter how often we water has only returned in patches. So, a couple of weeks ago, Josh and Chompy went and got some grass seed and lawn fertilizer and with a lot of water, we now have spots of green and spots of new grass. Yippee!

3rd Anniversary Trip!

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:22:00 +0000

Josh and Heather took off for a night to the central coast to celebrate the wedding of our great friend Katie Flynn. Katie was one of Heather’s roomies during our year at Mount Hermon Outdoor Science. Katie is fabulous! She’s genuine, thoughtful, bubbly, beautiful, enthusiastic and full of love. Anyway, when we found out the date of the wedding, we realized that it was just a week after our anniversary, and thanks to Grandma and Papa E. who watched Chompy for us, we got our first night away since he was born.

We fit as much as humanly possible into the 24 hours that we were in town.

We got to San Jose and drove straight to one of Heather’s favorite places for breakfast-Walnut Avenue Cafe. The breakfast scrambles are amazing here-Heather got the tomato, basil, feta and Josh got Chorizo and Cheese :) YUMMY!!!

After breakfast we hurried over to the Patagonia outlet just in case there was something amazingly. Sadly for us, and luckily for our pocketbook, we didn’t find anything we HAD to have. But, it was fun to look around.

After shopping a little, we went and checked in to the beautiful Scotts Valley Hilton. Since it was an anniversary trip, we decided to splurge (and many thanks to the wedding rate for making this possible ;). Heather has stayed at the Hilton one other time, when we got married. It’s beautiful and nestled right into the redwood hills.

We changed quickly and headed out to do a little hiking. It is not possible for us to come to this area and not visit our old hiking grounds through Henry Cowell State Park.

We were out for a few hours and worked up quite an appetite, which was good, since we knew where we were headed next: New Leaf Neighborhood Market for sandwiches and then to Felton Railroad Park for lunch. MMMMM……

Then, it was back to the hotel to get spiffied up for the wedding! Katie and Mark got married at Roaring Camp like we did…so it was so fun to see another couple start their married life together in the same way. It was perfect. While our wedding was gorgeous and HOT, there’s was gorgeous and cold :) So much fun!

They had cotton candy and s’mores! YUM!!!!

We had a great time enjoying our friends and catching up with people we hadn’t seen in 3 years. Pretty cool!

Sunday morning we slept in—thank you black out curtains! :)

And…had breakfast at another of Heather’s favorite breakfast spots- Mollie’s Cafe in Scotts Valley. Holy biscuits and gravy batman! YUMMM!

We went for a little walk along Westcliff also .

Then it was time for church. We LOVED Community Covenant when we lived here, so we never miss an opportunity to go when we can.

It was then time to head out to San Jose, with a last minute pit stop at REI in Saratoga and then we were off to Chompy! Who, sadly, was the sickest he has ever been, the whole weekend! Poor Chompy and poor Grandma and Papa E.

Stay tuned for Santa Cruz Part II when we go back in November for Terra and Josh’s wedding! YIPPEEE!

More Family Camp…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:09:00 +0000

So, to sum it up, we had a fantastic time at Family Camp. This is one of the great perks of Josh working at FH. He gets a free conference each year, which means we got to go to family camp for free. As all of our friends have said though, we would completely pay for this experience, and understand how families do it every summer. We had a great time with Josh’s parents and all of our friends! Here are some pictures of the week. Chompy’s favorites included the creek, playing with his friends, chasing his Papa around the “den” (the indoor play space), and being awfully cute.

Checking out the big kids in their paper airplane flying competition…these three don’t look alike at all do they? ;)

The kiddos!

This was plaid day :) Can you tell?!

Chompy’s awesome CCA Rachel!!

All the kiddos again :) Kid Table :)

A Taste of Family Camp…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:06:00 +0000

more to come….

Big Bear Day…

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:07:00 +0000

Last Saturday, we got to go up to hang out with Mamina, Grandpa Erquiaga, and Tia Margie/Tio Spencer for the day to celebrate the great-grandparents birthdays. It was a beautiful day!!!!

Keys!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Heather) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:17:00 +0000

We got the keys!!!!!!

We have a home!!!!

We are in debt!! ;)

So excited!!!!!