The home stretch

This is what 35 weeks looks like. sad huh? This picture was not posed, this is how I look(pathetic.) I am not that girl who loves being pregnant, I hate it. I can say with out a doubt this pregnancy has been extra hard. If you are wondering about my cool gloves, I have carpal tunnel. I guess it's common for pregnant ladies. It totally sucks. It makes it really hard to sleep at night, so I lay on the couch and watch Grey's anatomy reruns.

All I can say is thank heavens for St. Elizabeth who takes my kids once a week, so I can sleep.

Curse you balloon!

This Is my SIL Heather and her husband to be James. They are getting hitched in February, so I asked them if I could take their engagement pictures. I had this grand idea of using a big orange balloon. While I stressed over the wheres and shot list of this balloon, Heather stressed on finding the perfect outfit, thus spending a small fortune at anthropologie. We started off by my house with no Balloon and then headed over to Carbon canyon. The first shots were by the lake and it was too bright so we walked around to the other side where it was shaded. That's when Heather felt it was time for a costume change. So while she was changing I held onto to the balloon. Heather then asked me to help her with her top, No problem. Adjusted her top, turn around and realize, THE BALLOON!!!! It was GONE!! I mean it was not even in the sky, it was gone! Heather started laughing, I started swearing. I was so mad. I got like 10 pictures with that stupid balloon. We couldn't even go get another one cuz by this time it was getting too dark. All my plans....ruined. Luckily Heather and James didn't care. We actually got a balloon the next morning and did a quick shoot and got some really good shots. The funny thing is as we were trying to pick out their invitation picture, we got Scott's opinion and he said " I don't know these just seem to say, look at my prop and cute outfit." Uhhh and your point is?!!! That's exactly what we were going for. In the end we chose a close up with no balloon and no cute skirt from Anthro. Go figure. But stay tuned for a ridiculous amount of pictures of Heather and James on my other blog.

Christmas morning

Like I said before, Christmas was good this year. I have to admit I was not in the mood for it at first. But come Christmas eve I was excited and even had trouble sleeping. We celebrated at the Schultz house with all our Aunts, Uncles and cousins. Max got his beloved DSi, Ollie got an electric scooter and Harper got some Yo Gabba toys and a book. I think this might be Max's last year believing(if you know what I mean.) Some punky kid told him Santa wasn't real and that it was his Parents. That kid better pray I don't find out who he is. I was so mad. I asked Max what he thought about it and he said " I think it's both. I think It's your parents and Santa." Good answer Max.

Just what Ollie needs...another sword. Thanks Santa.

This was Ollie's first ride on his scooter. It was a little more powerful then he thought.

O Christmas Tree

How was your Christmas? Mine was really good. I like to think that I'm a pretty good gift giver. But every year Scott always out-gifts me. This year his best gift to me was he made my blog into a book. Not like one of those snapfish books. It looks like something you could buy at Borders. He made it on Blurb.com. So after seeing my glorious blog in print, I realized i have only blogged like 3 times since August(I 've been busy, OK). A problem I am trying to remedy. So I am going to be playing MAJOR catch up. Like Ollie's first day of kindergarten catch up. So don't laugh when you see Halloween in February.

CATCH-UP #1

This was our Christmas tree this year. We let the boys pretty much do it all by themselves. So it kinda looked like someone threw up ornaments in one spot. I am happy to report that only 3 ornaments died this year, courtesy of Harper. Normally I stress about the ornaments cuz they used to be all matching and pretty. Now half are broken and the other half are school projects from the boys. Gone are the days of my Pottery barn tree. It's funny now that I'm not stressing, Max did a pretty good job for me. He was so bummed on Harper, it made me giggle cuz Max has broke more ornaments then all of us combined.

Merry Chritmas!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! We sure did.

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One of the many reasons why I love Ollie is, he loves to snuggle with me on the couch and watch Top Chef. The other day after watching it Ollie jumps up and says.........

Ollie- Mom can we play Top Chef? But you have to eat whatever I make.

Me- Ollie I'll let you make something but you have to eat your own creation. I then explain how Mommy is pregnant and has a weak tummy.

Ollie busy himself in the kitchen for the next 20 minutes and then calls me in.

Ollie- he proudly displays his food and says and that's how a man makes it!

He explains that his sandwich has turkey, cheese and fruit loops on toasted bread, danimals for the drink and the candy was simply a garnish.

2 years flew by

My little Harper is 2!!! I am sad at how fast these 2 years have gone by. Here are his 2 year old stats....................

1. He LOVES Yo Gabba. He watches it every day. He likes to hold up his dolls and yell out there names, BROBEE, PLEX! He also likes to say It's awesome!

2. Even though he is constantly terrorizing Ollie, he cries when Ollie goes to school.

3. His nick name is stinky or stinks. This is because the boy poops 10 times a day and when he does he chases Ollie and tries to sit on him. So the boys made up the game "stinky baby" where Harper chases them and they run and hide. Harper loves it.

4. He has a favorite blanket that he calls "booey". He needs it to sleep and wants it when he first wakes up.

5. He loves to brush his teeth. He would carry around his toothbrush all day if he could.

(Uncle Matt would be proud)

6. His best Friend is our dog Charlie. Every morning Charlie waits for him to get out of bed and then does back flips and Harper says, "Ohhh it's Chollie"

7. Harper weighs 30 pounds(60th percentile) and is 34 .5 inches(50th percentile)

8. But the thing that Harper loves most is his skateboard or "board-board". He is obsessed with it. He actually is getting pretty good too. Scott is very proud. He has already took him to the half pipe at his work. Harper usually is carrying his board through out the day.

9. Harper is a dare devil. He will climb up anything and jump off anything. He has already chipped his tooth, busted his lip open, 2 bloody noses and a black eye.

He is one of my hardest toddlers, very busy, but very rewarding. He loves to give me hugs and kisses. I hope that he always will. Happy Birthday Stinky.