No baby, yet

So I was curious as to what the babynamey ticker would say when you go over. Apparently it doesn't calculate the 5% of women who actually go past their due dates. For an update, no baby, but I still feel fabulous. That's the problem really. If I was miserable I could probably get some contractions going just long enough to get to the hospital and them decide to keep me. But alas, I am still loving being pregnant and I am content to let her come when she wants. It won't be later than Monday anyway. So don't be fooled and have a GREAT New Years!!

Merry Christmas!!!

The kids pulled it off. We have been having an unusual amount of fighting and resistance to chores in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Santa almost had to skip the Schaugaard home this year, but at the last minute, everyone put in 110% effort and got their names on the nice list just in the "Nick" of time. Santa surprised us with a Wii. Everyone is loving it. Of course it is after 11:00pm and they are all still at it. Matt loves his Wii Fit and has been getting better and better at the games. He was a little ticked that he is considered "overweight" and I was "normal" at 39 weeks pregnant. Go figure!! But it made my 2 week weight loss goal really easy to make. I could probably shed a few pounds named Jersey. It will be fun to work out together and keep track, always more motivating. Other highlights are the bowling. I love that the kids kick our butt. It beats going to an actual bowling alley any day. Plus with four controllers and lots of kids, everyone gets a turn and they haven't fought all day. Progress.....

Christmas Eve PJ's

Over Thanksgiving weekend up at our family cabin, I made our yearly Christmas PJ's. I do this ever year just for fun. I am not much of a seamstress, so some years turn out better than others. Usually I go with the drawstring approach, but this year I spent the extra time to put in elastic. I made all of them in one day and finished the last the next morning. Pretty good for me. Jersey didn't get to wear hers in time, but they will still be fun later. This is us trying to get a decent picture. Yeah right, but oh so funny. Plus everyone is straight out of the tub so the hair styles are great. I love this little tradition and the kids love opening up something the night before. We even threw in Christmas socks this year. Matt wore his "girly" socks all night with very little complaining. Mostly that they were not made for a size 13 foot. But who makes socks that big anyway?

Hear the Music!!

Autumn had her dance showcase for Ballet/Tap and HipHop this month. We recorded them and I forgot to snap an actual picture. How silly of me. She did so well though. Especially with the HipHop one. She had a solo at the end and looked awesome!! She will be doing HipHop again in January because she loves it so much. She says it goes along with the kind of music she wants to learn to play on her electric guitar.....when she finally gets one. She is so amazing and talented in all of the areas that I am not. It does make it slightly hard to be able to help her, but then she doesn't seem to need the help.

Autumn and Sage also had the great opportunity to sing Spanish songs at the mall, in a performance at school, and at church for the Christmas Sacrament meeting. They both have learned so much in the Spanish Immersion program at our school. I love the opportunities that it gives them and the extra effort that it takes. Autumn is an absolute natural. She can ace a pretest of 42 words after two days. Autumn is a producer and a pleaser. Sage is not quite there, but has been working so hard. We are working on staying focused and doing our best "every time". Sage likes to keep things stress-free and easy going, a free spirit in a sense.

I love my girls!!

Stoned Creed?

So Creed has a preschool program and had been complaining that he "didn't feel so good". Mean mommy that I am, I gave him some Tylenol and made him go anyway. He had a little duet as a drummer boy. Matt and I were laughing the whole time because our uncontrollable Creed was in a daze the whole time. Completely out of character for him. It took multiple songs just for him to even do the actions and he only sang a little bit of the songs. Creed had been walking around the house for weeks and knew every word to every song in the program. (We had heard them MANY, MANY times.) We recorded it so these pictures aren't the best, but was a great experience. Creed can be calm when sick and with a little bit of meds in his system.

Incredible performance!!!

Sage had her Christmas tumbling performance and did so fantastic. This is her before the program and her cousin Hadley. Sage was able to make quite a bit of progress this year and instead of doing the "easy" back-handsprings, she did the much harder aerials instead. We were so proud of her. She hasn't been able to do them for long. Hadley was able to do her round-off, back-handspring, back tuck. Again, incredible!! She just got that too. It has been so much fun to watch them both and have something in common.

Kids and Halloween

These are the long lost Halloween pictures. Sage had a program this year. It was great!! Also all the elementary kids had a parade. The others are on our front porch right before going trick-o-treating. Thank goodness for fairly good weather. I get to stay home and pass out candy. Autumn was a ballerina, Sage was a fairy, Jack was Zorro, Creed was a knight king, and Annie was little orphan Annie.