Phase One: Garage

The final product! The gray and green boxes on the back wall are garage sale stuff and the boxes on the left wall are donation boxes!

The trash

What we purged our lives of! Can you believe that all of that crap was just sitting there cluttering our lives?!

Clothes for Julia, Natalie, and Erica. Memory boxes that Jess and I need to go through.

Stuff we still have to go through...

Rolling Over, Grabbing for things, and other such updates

So on Thursday March 5th Delaney rolled from front to back during tummy time. Then again on Friday she did it with even more ease. I'm not sure what the correct date of this milestone is but she was 6weeks6days when she accomplished rolling over. She is also beginning to purposely reach for things. When I hold her she will often grab for my necklace and hold on to it tight. She will also reach and and grab your finger or towards her bottle. This also started happening at 6 weeks 6 days. She smiles just because we talk to her these days. She smiles at the ceiling light. She smiles at her grandmas. Hiccups still plague her after almost every feed and she totally gets pissed when they last too long.
Delaney is 7weeks 1 day today and she has officially met ALL of the Stewart clan and all of my immediate family. She has also met her great grandmother Hogue from the Lower clan. Wow she's so lucky to have such a large family! She can't wait to meet her Aunt Jennie and see her cousin Avery again!!!


Here are some pictures from Friday and today...thanks cousin Vincent for all of her new outfits!

Pictures Part 4

Patrick has so much of his grandfather in him...it's absolutely amazing to watch him

Mother, Sons & Daughter-in-laws: Annie, Jason, Salle, Stewart, Lisa

Husbands and wives/brothers and sisters-in-law

Brothers

3 generations: Julia (granddaughter), Mike (Dad), Belinda (Mom), Delaney (granddaughter), Charlotte (granddaughter), Jessica (daughter), Dylan (son)

Pictures Part 3

Julia, Me, Delaney, Charlotte, Jess

Julia, Bill, Charlotte

Jason, Salle, Avery, Annie

Jason, Avery, Annie

The grandkids and their families

Grandkids: Stewart, Jessica, Jason, Dylan, Patrick, Casey, Jackson
Great-grandkids: Kyle, Charlotte, Julia, Garrett, Gavin, Avery, Delaney
Spouses: Lisa, Annie, Kathy(me)

"Grand Kids" Jason, Patrick, Stewart, Jackson, Dylan, Casey, Jessica

Oldest 4 grandchildren: Jason, Stewart, Dylan, Jessica

Jess and her ladies

Cousins and their kids: Jessica, Delaney, Stewart, Gavin, Jason, Avery, Julia (sorry for the weird face), Garrett, Charlotte

Pictures Part 2

The cousins holding their babies (Delaney 6w (mom Jess), Gavin 14m(dad Stewart), Avery 8m(dad Jason))

The babies...

The girls :)

Gavin and Charlotte

Garrett, Gavin, Avery

The kids with Jess and I (Garrett 6, Charlotte 11, Delaney 6w, Avery 8m)

Just hanging out in Gma's living room

Gavin

Avery showing me some love :)

Trying to pat her cousin

Pictures Part 1

Avery Jean trying to get to Delaney Kay

We used D as bait...trying to get Avery to crawl to her and the toys :)

She loved D's toys!

Daddy (Jason) & Avery playing the Delaney

"Kind touches"

Gpa Mike sleeping with Delaney

Delaney sleeping

Cousin Jason meeting Delaney for the first time

Uncle Dylan meeting Delaney for the first time

Gpa Mike just hangin with his grandbaby

Family Gathers to Grieve, Celebrate, and Support

The family gathered to grieve the loss of Clark Stewart (Grandpa). We had folks fly in from Salt Lake City. We had someone fly in from Chicago. We had several flying in from California. And we had a ton of people driving in from all over the area surrounding Columbia, MO.

The family gathered to celebrate the birth of three babies to three cousins all within the last 12 months. We gathered to celebrate the life of Clark Stewart. We gathered to celebrate the legacy of family, love, and kindness that he instilled in his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

The family gathered to support one another as we all cried, laughed, ate, and drank. The support was shown in a story or a hug or a smile.

Belinda and Gma getting the story boards together

Mike and Dylan

Belinda, Jason, Jess, Gma, Mike, Dylan, Salle eating dinner

Stewart & Jason (brothers) introducing Gavin & Avery (cousins)

Garrett, Avery, & Gavin playing

Delaney Smiles, Big girls get hair cuts

Delaney has truly started to smile just to smile not because of gas. I haven't had the opportunity to take a photo of one of these gorgeous smiles yet. I will hopefully get one soon. I did however take a picture of the outfit we bought her to wear on Thursday to the military burial of her great-grandfather.

The baby funeral outfit


The shoes

Charlotte and Julia got haircuts because they needed them and because we needed to look super nice for the funeral of their great-grandfather.

Julia

Charlotte