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Alot can happen in a year

Once upon a time there was a girl. She was an average girl with a wonderful life. She was married to an amazing man who loved her very much (and who was really really hot!) and had three fabulous kids. She had a five year old girl, a four year old girl and a beautiful new two month old baby boy. She was so happy (and tired) but then her life got even better and crazier. She was home one day and just felt theurge to take another pregnacy test...this little family was going to have a new baby! She drove to her husband work and let him know the good (and slightly surprizing) news. As she and her husband (and thier 2 month old baby) sat in the car in silence, He told her not to worry because he was around a lot and that together they could handle it. Four days later they walked out of the Stake presidents office in the same shocked silence...he had just been called to be the second counselor in thier new bishopric.
You might be laughing right now because you know that this is a true story...it's my story...it's my favorite story because it is my life. This past year has been full of ups and downs-Molly in kindergarten, Nates Grandpa and my Grandma both passing away, Nate's Dad being diagnosed with cancer, our kids growing, and our biggest adventure continued with the birth of our sweet Sylvia...Sylvia Emily Schultz born June 7th and weighing in at 9 pounds 3 ounces! She was born 1 day after Leah's 5th birthday and 12 days before Henry's 1st birthday! She is a wonderful baby. She was slept through the night from her first night home from the hospital and hardly ever cries. Henry loves her, when he saw her it was like he was saying "where have you been? I missed you so much!" It was a wonderful reunion to watch.
I am making a goal to post more. no promises, but I will try.
Here are some pictures of the past year.

My little fish!

Leah is amazing!!! We had her in swimming lessons last year and she did really well, but this year WOW! She can swim the whole length of her Uncle Mikeys pool and will go off the diving board again and again. She will stop and fix her goggles and take "rests". I love this little person so much and I am so proud of her!

Stadium of Fire

What a night, What a night!!!!
Nate decided I needed a night out with my girls, so he stayed home with Henry and I took the Girls to the Stadium of Fire. My Dad got us tickets, and my whole family and some of Nates went. (We missed you Kelly and Mark and Mike and Melissa). It was an amazing night. Myley cyress was preforming and Glen Beck was hosting. I am a huge Glen Beck fan and He was speaking at a dinner before the show, so my dad invited me and my girls to go. I was able to meet him and I was ready to go but my dad kept putting it off. My mom was a little way away from us and all of a sudden started gesturing (sp) like crazy. I took Leah and my Dad took Molly.......and there she was!!! MYLEY CYRESS!!! She was three feet away from my girls and kept smiling at Leah. Then on the way out she passed right by Molly, shook her hand and said "how are you sweetheart?" Molly was speechless!!! It really was a dream come true for both of my girls and I could have gone home right then, I was so happy for them. Thanks Daddy for making two little girls dream come true!!!
Abby was one of the dancers that night and did fantastic!! There really was something for everyone that night. My favorite part of the show was Glen Beck, the dancers and the fireworks. But mostly I was just grateful to be an American.

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Dance School

Molly is a DANCER!!! She thinks that we need to have one more boy in the family so everyone has someone to dance with. In the meantime she is teaching everyone to dance. Here is her latest student. He is a great sport and even threw in some moves of his own!

Art City Days

I know that this is from the second week in June, but I have been preoccupied.
For those of you who weren't lucky enough to grow up in Springville, Art City Days is thier city celebration and it is so FUN! We all go home to my parents house for it (even Kelly comes home from California) and we just play. The funnest part, in my opinion, is the last day of the celebration where they have the parade and fireworks. So this year Nate and I hauled my nine month pregnant self and our kids to the parade to look for Bompa and his gang, then we took the kids to the carnival where they went on rides and we all had yummy carny food. (it really was good) Then we walked down to the craftfair where I scored some stuff for Henry and the girls got prizes...Thank you Bompa. After that, we all congregated at my parents house and watched the fireworks. (you can see them from my parents front yard) It was a blast. Can't wait till next year.

Nathan Henry Schultz

Nathan Henry Schultz

June 19th, 2008

3:36 p.m.

8 lbs 1 oz

19 1/2 inches

Nate trying to hurry labor along

Dialated to a nine and ready to go!

Leah and Henry

Molly and Henry

We are so excited for the latest addition to our family! Henry is such a good boy and sooo handsome! We went to the hospital and poor Nate has been so spoiled by my easy labors that he was trying to hurry along 6 hours of labor! I somehow got an extra dose of my epidural and was so stoned the entire time that I was just passed out sleeping during most of it. It really just felt like I was awake to do the work and the rest of the time just flew by. I have been having a really easy time since we came home and I am just completely overwhelmed by the love and support we are recieving. Henry is such a good baby (with the exception that he falls asleep every time he eats for more than 8 minutes) but he is mellow and sleeps and eats so well. We wanted him so much and he is so loved. His sisters love him so much, sometimes a little too much, but I am learning patience. I love to watch Henry and Nate together and to think of the future and what it brings. In the same breath though, I am holding on to every second of this with clenched fists. I don't want it to go by too fast. But again I am reminded I am the luckiest girl in the world.

Help!

We are only a few weeks away from having this baby and we need some help with boy names. Any suggestions would be appreciated, but we really love names that have meaning and I love really solid, old fashioned names. Right now I like the name Henry (after Pres. Eyring) and Nate likes the name Cameron (Man of the Mountain). Any more ideas? We need your help!

It's been a while.

Okay, I know that it has been awhile since I last posted (Kelly keeps reminding me and Katie I haven't forgotten about the tag). So here goes, hopefully I will feel caught up enough to keep up before the baby is born. I am going to do one big post and try to get everything in.

Dancing with the Utah Stars!!!

My Papa is awesome! He was invited to participate in Utah's dancing with the Stars for recovery. It is a charity event that takes Utah "Celebrities" ( my Dad is a county commisioner) and pairs them with B.Y.U. ballroom dancers. They are assigned a dance and have to compete in front of judges and an audience. My Dad had to do the foxtrot and he ws incredible! The crowd went wild over him!! He took second place out of everyone and I personally think that if were only up to the crowd he would have won the entire thing!! My girls were especially excited because his partner looked exactly like Giselle from "enchanted". So Molly and Leah were telling everyone that "Giselle" flew in from New York to dance with thier Bompa.

Way to go Daddy!

Grandpa, "Gisele", Leah and Molly
"Dance Grandpa Dance"

School's out!

Molly and Leah had thier end of school field day at thier preschool and all I took pictures of was thier facepainting!! It was such a cute day and I am feeling guilty for not taking more pictures. They has a bouncy house, and all of these different stations where the kids could paint, make jewelry, play with play-dough, shaving cream art and a ton of other stuff. They they had a big B-B-Q and passed out yearbooks. I love this preschool!
Face Painting
Leg painting

Gardening

I love having a garden. I really like planting and taking care of it, growing our own vegetables and eating and canning them. There is something about it that is very fufilling to me. This year (sigh) I knew that I would not be able to have a garden llike I wanted, so my cute family stepped up and planted my garden for me as part of my Mother's Day! This is especially wonderful because Nate HATES gardening! He completely took over and did a way better job than I ever have. He put down weed-stop and made special rows and our garden looks fantastic! I am so grateful for my little family, they take the best car of me!
They make a great team!
Leah and her Daddy

The "Man Hike"

Every year Nate and a group of guys all come together from several different states and go on a "Man Hike" (that is the official name). They take off with little gear, sleep in crappy hotels, and go on all of these different hikes. We have a friend who puts all of this together (thanks Tyler) and sends out all of the information. Nate looks forward to it all year. This year I don't know the names of the hikes that they went on, but I do know that they went on the hike where the guy (Aaron Ralston?) got stuck and had to cut his own arm off. I love that Nate does this and has something that is just for him. He is such a great husband and Daddy and he probably deserves eight more of these a year!!!!

Grandpa

Some of you know that my Grandma Anderson is really sick. She only has a few months left and is ready to be reunited with my Grandpa who passed on 20 years ago. They lived in Idaho and that is where he has been buried. They only thing that is bothering my Grandma is that she wants to be buried close to her kids and her sweetheart. She has been living in Springville for several years so that she will be close to my parents. Well, nothing is impossible. My parents had my Grandpa's body transfered to the Mapleton cemetary last month. We had a redeication and a really nice little memorial service for my Grandpa. My Grandma feels so much better about everything and knows that she and my Grandpa will be close to family.

Here are a few pictures.

My Dad, his two sisters and my Grandma
Remembering
"where are they putting great-grandpa?"
Daddy in Grandpa's hat
Abby and Josh