Rock on

This is where we spent Saturday night of Labor Day Weekend! Thanks to my brother-in-law Dave, we were treated to an awesome concert with AMAZING lighting! He has been on tour with Creed and their last stop was in the Woodlands (near Houston) so we drove over. He has been their lighting designer and let me tell you, he is excellent at his job! These pictures don't really do it justice, but I thought I'd post a few anyway. We got to sit by Dave in the light booth (along with the lead singer's family) so we had the best seats in the house. We also got to see the sound check with the band earlier in the day. Pretty cool stuff-


Savannah brought her friend Kasie and they look like a couple of groupies waiting outside the gates for Dave to let us in for the Sound Check party.

Here we are with Dave- He is married to my sister Jennifer. Thanks, Dave, for a great experience!!!!

Back to School!

Savannah started her first year in high school on August 12th. I'm feeling sooooooo old! It's hard to believe we will have two in college and only one at home now. It's fun to see what life is bringing for my kids, but weird at the same time. It just doesn't seem that long ago when I was in college.

Sav had her ears pierced when she was about 5 years old and was playing soccer. She had to take her earrings out to play and I wasn't there to do it. Rich tried to take them out and made her ears bleed so she wouldn't put them back in after that. Well . . . all these years later she finally decided to have them pierced again.

Bummer Summer

Well, it's been awhile since I've posted anything 'cause basically, there hasn't been a whole heckuva lot to blog about!!! I have really been just a BUM this summer (the first meaning of my post title) and we haven't gone anywhere or done anything very exciting (the second meaning). Yes, it's been a bummer of a summer. . . . for everyone except Hunter that is. I did manage to scrounge up a few pics from church girl's camp which was fun, but was at the beginning of the summer and definitely doesn't count as a vacation. This is me going down the water slide at camp, fearing for my life.

Here is Savannah with her group at camp that had to come up with a way to drop an egg from on high and keep it safe. It didn't make it, thus the sad faces.

Here is our group of girls at camp- I'm very sad because they just released me from being the YW President so I don't get to do as much with them. . . . But they called me to be Stake YW President, so I'll still go to girl's camp and other fun activities, just with MORE girls!!

Here is a pic of the youth working at a service project in our community. Hunter is doing some serious grass blowing. These two events are the only pictures I have from the summer so far. Savannah has been babysitting and we've been doing a lot of swimming in our pool, but that's about it. This weekend is Youth Conference so maybe I'll get something new to post. I'm going to have to borrow some pics from Hunter and his adventures this summer. He has been to Houston, The Schlitterbahn (a huge water park in New Braunfels, TX), Disney World and Universal in Orlando! In a couple of weeks, he'll be going with his two best buddies to Wisconsin for a week on the lake. I guess he's getting it all in before college life begins. Bree started back into college life for the summer term, so she is busy, busy, busy. I suppose I will continue to be a bum this summer- Sav starts high school in less than a month, so that will be the end of that.

Larger than Life

If you happen to be in Broussard and driving down Albertson's Parkway towards the Youngsville Highway, look to the left of the road and Hunter Stewart will be larger than life playing soccer on a billboard! Rich submitted some pictures for a club ad and they chose a pic of Hunter! It's pretty cool- but it even gets better. The Acadiana Lifestyle magazine did an article about Lafayette Futbol Club and Rich submitted pictures for that as well and they put Hunter on the cover! You can pick one up for free at Albertsons if you want to check it out.

Inside the cover it says: About our cover: Hunter Stewart, a recent graduate of Lafayette High School, has enjoyed kickin' it for the Mighty Lions for the past four years. He's also played for "The Storm," a Division 1 soccer league in the Lafayette Futbol Club. He is the son of Rich and Jill Stewart of Lafayette. Photography by Rich Stewart, Lafayette Futbol Club. Then there is a nice article on page 26.

No more teacher's dirty looks

It's that time of year and Savannah says a fond (or not) farewell to Broussard Middle School!! It all started with her last band concert, EVER! She has played the clarinet for four years and is completely done with it. She has been begged by many to continue her musical abilities in high school but she will have NONE of it! I guess it is time to put the old clarinet to rest after being played by both her and her sister Bree.

She played her last middle school soccer game, EVER. But I said "middle school"- she wants to play in high school. They didn't have enough girls to make a girls team, so here she is schoolin' the boys on the coed team.

This is just a cute picture so I thought I'd post it.

Savannah is at her last middle school awards program where she won "Outstanding Soccer Player," Runner -up for the Columbian Award (for leadership, community service and academics), and received a medal for doing awesome on the LEAP test (standardized test they take here and hound you about incessantly). Bye, bye middle school, hello high school !!!!

Family Time!

The weekend of Hunter's graduation the whole gang went out to eat at Agave's downtown. Here's my dad and his wife Stephanie with Hunter. It was great to have them here!!

The weekend involved a lot of eating (as do most of our weekends :) ) so here I am with my mom and Rich's mom at Chris' for lunch! I was so happy to have them visit, too!!

My mom's husband, Wayne, was also here for the big event- he keeps us all laughing!!

Rich's mom was here to catch Savannah's last school soccer game of the season.

The Graduate

It's official!! We are old. We now have two children who have graduated from High School! Here is Hunter in all his glory right after graduating last Saturday. Bree was in town, Rich's mom came, and my mom and dad and their spouses were all here. It was great to have some family around for the big event. (Those family pics to come) Hunter got to sit on the stage for graduation because he's smart. Not sure where he gets that from (definitely not me). He was in the National Honor Society and the National English Honor Society. We're darn proud of him!

Hunter's favorite food in the whole wide world is Oreos so this is the cake we thought he should have.

Just another grad pic.

Hunter's brother Lester from the Carribean also graduated that day :)