A little Backwards

Most days Charley just sleeps in her clothes she is wearing that day when she takes her nap. But some days she feels the need to put her "jammies" on when she naps. Yesterday was one of those days.

She woke up from her nap and decided to change back into her clothes by herself. She strips all of her clothes off....runs to the bathroom to go (she is now pretty much potty trained, and will even do it by herself some of the time....most of the time I have to help her get on and off the toilet and makes sure she wipes and washes). She runs back into her room and comes out a few minutes latter yelling "Ta Da"looking like this...very proud of herself!...


If you can't tell her shirt in on inside out, her shorts are on backwards and her shoes are on the wrong feet. And when I went to fix her, I found her panties on backwards as well!

Here is an after picture...

Much better!

Happy Birthday Ben!!!....

Ben's Birthday was today! We went out to dinner and a movie last night with family. And today we spent the afternoon at a park at the ward picnic and tonight we are going to dinner with just our little family! It has been a great Birthday Weekend!

I have the GREATEST Husband! Love you!

The picture is of us before Charley was born, in Costa Rica before we went on the zip line tour!

Graduation

We had the BEST weekend! It was crazy and busy, but it was totally worth it! Ben's parents and sister came in town, and my parents and siblings came in town as well. Here are some highlights of our weekend. This wasn't everything, but it's what I caught on camera! You can click on the photos to make them bigger.

Picnic at Rock Canyon Park

Playing on the Play ground with Nana & Grandpa

CheeseCake Factory

Class Photos

Before Graduation

Graduation - Hooding of the Graduates (Officially a Doctor now!!!...Ben says you can refer to him as Dr. Schramm Now! :)....)

After Graduation...Look how happy we all are! Thanks for all the family & friends that came and supported us!

Graduation BBQ....Yummy Steak! (so I heard...)

This was a very exciting time for us, and we are so glad we could share it with so many of you! We are grateful for all of the friends we have made these last 3 years, and are especially grateful for all of our family who supported us. Thanks to our parents who took time to come out here. And congrats to my sister Jordan, who also graduated from Law School.

This is just one hill we made over....We still have this summer to get through....the BAR....dum de dum dum....

Yay Ben!!!....I LOVE YOU....Charley and I are so proud of you!

Uncle Lloyd

Uncle Lloyd & Aunt Donis came in town this past week (Lloyd is Ben's old boss from GA, but he has become such a good friend of the family that to Charley, he is Uncle Lloyd). Every time Lloyd comes in town he takes a bunch of us to dinner and then the kids to Toys R Us and lets them run around and pick out one toy. The last few times Charley has picked out baby doll things. This last time she picked out a new baby with car seat! We named the baby "Ali"...it was close to the name "Abi"...her friends name, so she liked it and it is easy for her to remember.

So now that her baby has a car seat, baby has to come with us EVERYWHERE! I just took a quick picture with my phone of new baby Ali, and her car seat. Thank you Uncle Lloyd, Charley LOVES her new baby!

Biker Babe!

"I want to ride my Tricycle!....I want to ride my bike!"

Happy Birthday Carlos

My younger brother turned 26 today! Happy Birthday Carlos! Charley had so much fun helping/eating the cake we made for him. She mostly tried to eat the pudding, frosting and cake....Everything takes so much longer when she helps, but it is also so much more fun, and challenging!

Happy Birthday Carlos!

Easter 2009

The Count Down!

Ben graduates from Law school in 16 days! Ben may not be as excited about it as Charley and I are, but we are ready for him to be done! My dad told me that when he was in law school, my mom made a count down chain for his graduation. And we were talking to Ben's parents the other day and they had suggested it as well. So today Charley and I made our own little count down chain! We marked the date on each chain and also wrote on the links the days that grandparents were coming.

Spaghetti & Meatballs

Yummy....

So if you couldn't tell by looking at the pictures we have cupcakes covered in noodles (or frosting), with meatballs (chocolate Easter Eggs with Fudge in the middle ... no one had balls b/c of Easter.) and Sauce (Cherry pie filling that we put in the food processor). Charley and I spent a few hours in the kitchen making this yummy meal for dinner! We set it on the table for dinner, got a few looks when we took it out of the fridge (that was our first mistake), but ended up taking our real dinner out of the oven. And we had spaghetti and meatball cupcakes for dessert!

That was the best Charley and I could do for April Fools! We made a plate for us, and Charley wanted to make a plate for Abi and her family too.

LL Alumni Reception

It is Heritage Week at BYU....which means super busy around here. We had the Barristers Ball last night (which isn't part of Heritage week, but it kinda landed in the middle of it), Living Legends Concert/reception tonight, and Friday and Saturay Pow Wow. There is also a Luau and Fiesta, but I have only been a few times. And my hoop kids...the class that I teach every Saturday...are dancing at Pow Wow this year...along with Charley in Tiny Tots. I am debating if I should dance. I kinda want to, but don't know if I really want to...I am being lazy!

Tonight was so much fun. I wish I could have seen more of you there...but it was nice to see the old group back together, of those that could make it. We had people flying in from Vegas, Virginia, Florida and New York to come tonight and this weekend. I didn't get to take pictures of everyone, but here are a few shots of the ones I did take.

There are a lot of fun things to take pictures of this week...so expect a lot of posts!

Triplets...

So we have been trying to explain to Charley that a new baby is coming. We tried explaining to her a few months ago. But every time we talked about a baby, she thought we were talking about her baby, and would run and get it and give it to me.

Ben and I tried sitting her down a few weeks ago and told her that we were going to have a new baby coming home, and it was in mommy's tummy...and we pat my tummy. Then, Charley pats her tummy and says "Baby in Charley's tummy!", then pats Ben's tummy and says "Baby in Daddy's tummy!" So now she thinks we all have a baby in our tummy. Even when we try and tell her that it is just my tummy, she says "No, Charley's baby!" and pats her tummy.

hopefully she will get it eventually...

Baby Bump...23-ish weeks along

I got my baby bump this last week...however, I think I look pregnant, and people who know I am pregnant think I look pregnant, but to those who don't know me...I just look a little large in the mid section! I still get the "oh, you're pregnant? congratulations, how far along?" response when telling people for the first time. It is a little frustrating. I would like to be small for as long as possible...getting big too fast can only mean more pain. But I am glad to be moving on to the next stage of where I don't have to explain why I have gained weight!

This picture was taken right after coming home from the Barristers Ball. I'll post more on that when I get some pictures from my sister. I meant to bring a camera, but forgot.

I love to see the Temple!

Last weekend we went to the Draper Open house! From the second we told Charley we were going to go to the temple she had to tell everyone she saw! She was so cute, and so excited. She had so much fun. She pointed out every picture of Jesus, which was about every 2 seconds! We went at a perfect time, when there was no lines, and we were able to get through quickly. It was a great family activity!

This picture isn't of the Draper temple, but of the Provo Temple on one of our many walks there. (I love her cheezy smile...my mom said she looks like me in the picture when I was younger) I am so glad she loves the temple so much. Ever since we've gone to the open house, she makes us sing "I love to see the Temple" before she goes to bed. She'll even try to mumble the words with us.

Rex Lee Run!

This is my 3rd year running in the Rex Lee Run! I always have such a fun time running it. The course starts at the football stadium, goes through campus and ends on the outdoor track. The first year I ran it with Brooktynn, and we ran it in honor of our Aunt Denise. We sent her our picture in our shirts, and our race bibs. I am glad we were able to do that for her, even though it really wasn't anything big. She passed away later that summer. The next year I ran it, it was all of my siblings that were here in Provo and Ben and Charley! And this year the number was smaller with just Ben, Charley in the stroller, and Jordan. It was still fun though. Originally we were all going to walk it. Non of us have been really "training" for it. I've been going to the gym but haven't been pushing myself very hard....for obvious reasons. So we decided we would jog/walk the race and just have fun and help support cancer research, and the other members of our family with cancer. Back in Nebraska all 100+ members of our extended family walk/jog together in the cancer race back at home, and since we are so far away, this is our way of supporting our family.

Plus my dad founded the race back when he was SBA president at the law school....before it was taken over by the cancer society on campus. ...I have to give a shout to my cool dad and the law school...where it originated!

So back to the race...we started off running up university parkway (which is a long, big hill!) we felt good and continued through campus running. Once we got to the parking lot of the law school, we had to stop!....We had to stop because I had to go to the bathroom really bad! My bladder has gotten weaker and weaker as the pregnancy has gone on, and the baby bouncing on my bladder was not helping it. We walked until we came to the Benson Building and I ran inside and found a restroom! After that We continued running down the hill by the testing center, through the tennis courts and onto the track! We finished the race in a time of 37:00 minutes....and that is with a 5 minute bathroom break! I think that is a pretty good time for being prego!

The weather was a little chili when we started, but was perfect by the time we finished! It was a great morning!

So you think you can dance?...

...Future Julianne Hough...Charley!