SAWYER JAMES SCHAPER

Ok, I know I'm only 8 weeks late with putting a post about our new little guy on her-sorry!! Better late than never, right??? Sawyer James was born on May 12th @ 2:52pm. He was 8 lbs & 0.4 oz and 20 1/2 in long-we fell in LOVE @ first sight!!! He is such an awesome baby and such a good sleeper (so far)-we seem to have a little bit of a schedule going (which NEVER happened with his brothers)...he wakes up to eat every night @ about 2am & then about 530am & he never cries to eat. He just stirs. It's pretty amazing. I feel tremendously blessed not only to have such a good little sleeper but also because God trusted Luke & I with 3 amazing & wonderful little men. Hope you enjoy the pictures...

Brand new!!

SO in LOVE!! SO BLESSED!!

Meeting Papa Bud

Meeting Grandma Peggy

Big Brothers showing off their "Big Brother" shirts & Case already unable to keep his eyes off his baby brother :)

Meeting Biggest Brother Case for the first time

Meeting Big Brother Logan

Meeting Papa Steve

And Meeting Grandma Lavonna-he woke up to talk to her

A VERY Proud Daddy

Sweet baby feet

Fuzzy hat head compliments of Grandma A.

Doctor's Appt...

Thought I would share a quick update with you all...I went to the doctor today. It looks like this baby may be as stubborn as his brothers. Not much progress is happening yet (even though Mommy could swear there's things happening in there). We did get a date set for induction if he doesn't choose to come on his before then...May 12th will be the day! We are so excited and I think I can speak for Luke & I both when I say we are SO READY!! I'm miserable and I know he's got to be miserable from having to listen to his emotional wife whine & cry ALL the time (even though he won't admit it) :)...So 3 weeks & 2 days left...let the crazy scrambling begin-cause this Momma has lots left to do to get ready!!

And his name will be...

Yes-we have FINALLY decided on a name for this little guy and we are excited...Sawyer James Schaper!!

We had lots of help & suggestions-especially from our boys...Case came up with a few names all on his own that were interesting to say the least...for example "Kirby Tree-hine" but in the end Sawyer won. We hope you all like it as much as we do... 

Baby Name Poll Results...

Thank you to everyone who has voted in our "fun" baby name poll...Although we still haven't officially settled on a name for this little guy-we have narrowed it down to 3...so hopefully soon we will have one to announcce. It has been lots of fun to see which names are getting the votes & which are not (btw, Milo was never actually an option for this little guy-just thought I'd throw that in there to see if it would get a vote).

Here are the results as of this morning...

Connor Schaper 12%

 Easton Schaper 8%

Holden Schaper 25%

Malachi Schaper 4%

Max Schaper 8%

Milo Schaper 0%

Sawyer Schaper 27%

Tanner Schaper 12%

Baby Name Poll

http://www.babyzone.com/babynames/bnpoll.asp?pollid=140476

The above link will take you to a Baby Name Poll...Click on it to help us pick a name for our new addition.

********************We do reserve the right to make the final decision**********************

It's A...

I went to the doctor yesterday for my regular checkup and while he was measuring my stomach and listening to the baby...he asked, "Do you have any twins in your family?". I quickly replied with, "WHY? Do you hear more than one baby in there?". He responded with, "Well it does sound like a couple of heartbeats jumping around in there but it could be the way I was holding the doppler". All along I've been joking with Luke about how I must be carrying twins because I've gotten' so big so fast...After telling the doctor this he said, "Well you are big. I mean you aren't big, you just measure bigger than you should for 18 1/2 weeks"...needless to say I was a little confused and shocked when I left the office that morning. We were supposed to wait until next week sometime to do our ultrasound, however, we really NEEDED to know now whether there was 1 or 2...

So...today we went and had our ultrasound done and we are happy to announce there is ONLY 1 BABY and that IT'S A BOY!! We also found out I'm about a week further than we originally thought which explains my "bigness". Due date is May 13th.

We are excited! Although, a girl would have been a nice change but we already know about boys and as long as this one is anything at all like his brothers we know we are going to be OK! When I say "we" are excited, I mean Luke & I-our boys not so much (yet). Case agrued with us about it and told his dad, "You're wrong, Dad"...he HAS been praying for over a year for a baby sister, so we expected this a little. He wouldn't even look at the pics of his baby brother so we could explain it to him-hopefully soon he will get over it and realize how much fun another brother will be. As for Mr. Logan...when his Daddy told him, his only response was, "Dang it". I think he'll be quicker to win over than Case.

Sorry for the long story...I wanted to share ALL the excitement of the past 2 days with everyone.

Christmas Celebration 1 of 3...

Here are a few pics of our first of three Christmas celebrations...This is our "Little Schaper Christmas". Unfortunately we didn't get pictures of everyone but here's some that we did get...

Case Eil 4 yrs old

Logan Joel 2 yrs old

Oh what handsome little guys...I can't believe how big they are getting.

Mr. Mason-He's SO cute & awfully serious in this picture.

Kaitlynn-I know it's fuzzy but she's too pretty not to put it on here.

Emma & Shayla

Grandma Lavonna & Case

Papa Steve-We really liked this picture. Thought he looked very "Papa" like.

Lauren & Joel

Shayla & I

Jenna holding Mason

Mason just a singing away...we had all just finished singing and as soon as we stopped, Mason started his own song. Very CUTE!

HO, HO, HO...Neil being Santa & he had the hat to prove it.

Case got a cement truck from Grandma & Papa...it came complete w/hard hat, rake & shovel. He LOVED it!!

Logan & his new scooter from Uncle Andrew & Aunt Teresa & Girls.

Grandma & Papa also got Logan a dump truck-He was definitely a big fan...

My Belly...

This is for my Sister-in-law Summer and Brother Jeremy who don't get the privledge of seeing my beautiful growing self everyday :)...Since Summer and I are both expecting babies in May (only 9 days apart!!), I thought it would be fun to kind of compare bellies. I'm pretty sure mine is bigger-since this is my 3rd baby and Summer's working her 2nd...a sweet baby girl!!

18 weeks

Big News...

Just wanted to share a little news with you all. We thought we'd let the boys do it...

 My Mom is having...

 ...a monkey???

No. She's having a baby!!! And we are so excited!

Expected arrival of our new little play mate will be in May 2011.

Case's 1st day of Preschool...Sept. 2, 2010

1st Day of Preschool Sept. 2, 2010

Case was SO excited about going to school...he got a new backpack and he got new crayons [thanks to his Aunt Teesa (Teresa)]. He was even SO excited that he wanted to sleep in his "school clothes" the night before. His reason was so, "that I will be all ready to go when I wake up". I loved seeing this excitement!

Still in the back of my mind I had a picture of how the 1st day of school would go...I imagined we would pull up to the school still excited but as we walked closer and closer to the classroom he would get stiffer and stiffer and then the protesting would start. I imagined walking in and literally having to have the teacher "pry" him off of me as he is kicking and screaming....BOY! Did my imagination run away with me??? His excitement only grew and grew-until I literally had to grab him to have him wait for me. We snapped a few pictures and then enter his class...He took his backpack off, proudly showed it to his teacher and then put it in "his" cubby. Then like a flash he was gone-off to play. Never looking back until I said, "bye, Case" he glanced back and said, "bye, Mom" and then right back to his playing.

 Whew! What a relief...I think. This is how I wanted it to go-right? Yes it is...although, for a few minutes I secretly wished he would have "needed" me more. After a few tears I realized it was much better this way and that Case's no longer my baby boy-now he's my little man and that's ok.

He's always making silly faces in pictures...

Modeling his back pack

Outside of school-waiting patiently (kind of) to go in...

Finally inside and ready to learn :). He's such a big boy now! 

Logan's 2nd Birthday!

Logan turned the BIG 2 on July 18th...I can't believe how big is getting. Doesn't seem like my baby boy should be 2 already. We had a nice little party at Papa & Grandma Schaper's to celebrate his big day, complete with pizza, po & Veggie Tales...

He had a special birthday breakfast. When I asked him what he wanted he said, "Choc chip cookies"...we went with chocolate chip pancakes instead :) We put 2 candles in his pancake and he loved that-he wanted us to keep lighting them over and over and over again...

Opening presents-he had lots of help. (BTW, sorry about the poor quality of pictures...think our camera is on it's last leg + Daddy was taking the pics. That's why there isn't a whole lot of them...)

The cake & gift table

Logan requested a "Veg tales" cake...so Mommy did her best to recreate Bob & Larry. He was satisfied and that's all I cared about.

He was excited about getting to blow out candles again...