before and after

august 10

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if i look a little pained, its because i was. i had been in labor for several hours when this was taken in a last minute panic that i didn't have enough photos of me pregnant with this baby.

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and here, maren shows her belly:

a few hours and a few good screams later: neva gauntt

Kris and Crystal have a blog

hey all,
kris and crystal now have a family blog. it is password protected so if you would like to veiw please send me an email to crytur@yahoo.com and i will send you the information to access our blog. hope this does not discourage anyone this is just how we chose to do our blog.

we look forward to kris, me and carina's trip to utah soon. just fyi if you have not heard. we will be in payson friday afternoon/evening august 17th thru monday the 20th. it's a short trip but we hope we get to see a lot of you while we are in utah.

kris is working in las vegas the week of august 13th to 17th. since it is our anniversary i decided to come and meet him. it was suppose to be our first trip without kids in 5 years! yes we know we need to be better about some how taking a couple trip, just doesnot seem to work for us!) carina decided she did not want to be left behind; due to her extreme stranger anxiety and bouts of lossing her breathe as she gets worked up, she will be coming along. benjamin and sariah start school monday the 13th and thus they stay home with camille and have a fun visit with my parents. i have to run as we are going to get benj and ria's haircut today.

link to check out

Cassie is on the blogging bandwagon, though she is making no promises to keep it very updated long-term. (If Texas keeps getting the weather they've been having, we'll have a lot of new postings to read). Check out their link sometime.
J.

diaper dilemma

Scene: Jen is changing an offensive diaper. Ethan is standing by, watching with an utterly digusted look on his face:

E: So thats how you change a diaper?
J: Yep.
E: Its the grossest job ever. I am NEVER going to do it. The mother will change diapers.
J: I can almost guarantee that your wife will not stand for that. She'll say, 'Ethan, its your turn', just like I say to Slade.
E: I think I won't get a wife because then I get babies and toddlers. Then I can keep all my money. (pause). Is it better to get a family?
J: Your dad thinks so. What do you think?
E: (bursting out in tears) But I really don't want to change gross diapers!

ready for change

No, no! Stay! You're in the right place.

I just thought we were due for a change of scenery.

Six Sisters

We had a nice baby blessing day and snapped a few pictures of the girls.

For those of you who might not recognize who is who; l to R

Alayna Burton '04 holding sister Alexa '07

Maya Sorenson '04 holding baby Leah '07

Savannah Mitchell '04 holding baby Kaitlen' 07

Those we would have loved to see in this sisters picture:

Olivia Alexander '04 holding sister Sophia '07

Ava Stewart nearly '04 holding baby Esme '07

I think this is how it goes but I could be wrong.

I know there were 5 baby girls born close in 04 and now these same girls have baby sisters born in 07. Anyway we thought grandma Dawna would love this.

Great Get Togethers

Hello Everyone,

We've been blessed to have family visit us here in Austin in the last month. We got to meet baby Esme, Dan's youngest darling, they were such troopers to come by on Father's day and we played catch with Sophie and little Ava read to us Green Eggs and Ham, YES, she READ to us- that was so wonderfu! Then a couple of weeks later Kris and Crystal and the little ones came by the week of the 4th of July and my daughter Ashley also came from Chicago followed by her canadian boyfriend (his 1st trip to Texas) so we had a full house with Mariah spending a month with us and the out of town kids coming by, it was GREAT. Baby Carina only allowed grandpa Kerbey to hold her without crying, I tricked her into thinking I was her mom (Crystal and I were wearing smiliar skirts in the same colors) but it did not take her very long to catch on. Camille is still her sweet afable self and gosh Benjamin and Sariah are such delights. Ashley's boyfriend went crazy for the Texas bbq, even though Ashley took him to a chain restaurant- had she taken him to the Salt Lick (the best bbq in Austin), I think he would have fainted.

Well, that's all for now, enjoy the pictures.

Love,

Kerbey and Isabella

haha goodness,

my blogging skills stink so please excuse me. i think i'll add some pictures!:

my swim team (then 13-18 girls at least): im top, third from the right and my best friend kelly is bottom,

second from right

anotherrrr:

here you see my friend addie and i on the last day of school, a lot of people call us "twinsises".

go figure.

again

sorry i haven't said anything in a while but anywho. updates!!! i am so happy with all of you, Stewarts! like with jen's big belly that will soon be my little number ten and kris & crystal coming down on the fifth.. oh and esme, soph, and ava are so darlingg! i was so happy to visit with you (dan/cassie) hmm what else. oh yeah! i picked up on scrap booking again and i have this really weird relationship with my scrap book... im kind of obcessed with it haha! but we all know how those things go, its looking great and i love adding new things to it. swim team just finished and i did fabulous this season and even though i sooooo not the fastest im proud of the accomplishments i have made. i am very excited about eighth grade and holy coww i have two wholleeee months of summer left!!! blahhh so exciting (we don't start school until aug 27!). sooo if anyone sees a time where i could come visit them... this summer is a great oppurtunity to do that. ok, well, i dont know what else to say.. that all came out very fast and now i can't really think.


MUCHH LOVEEE!!!!,
mariah

love at home

Ethan asked me how to spell 'Maren' the other day.

-Jennifer