36 week surro belly

In case you have not noticed I LOVE pregnant bellies, Including mine!!!! I can't get enough of them. Here is my blossoming belly at exactly 36 weeks on Christmas Eve. I'll be posting a pic weekly until the birth so I hope you LOVE pregnant bellies like I do : )

Our Christmas

Just though this was a neat picture. My little elf Nolan


Nolan received this awesome singing hand puppet frog from Grandma Nielsen. I was able to capture a little video of Nolan and Daddy playing with it.
Christmas Eve my Mom put together a wonderful buffet that came complete with a chocolate fondue fountain. It was wonderful. I wish my stomach had more room in it.

Here is Grandma Jenkins with sweet Kayala, 6 months old

This is my Great Grandma Jenkins and my Grandpa Jenkins. They are snacking on some almond rocka Christmas morning.

My beautiful step mother, Dianne and baby Kayala.



Christmas day we went to my Dads house in Tucson. Summer and Cade gave us these funny hillbilly teeth and sky looked priceless with them on. Had to snap a shot. We had so much fun this Christmas!!! We wish we could have seen more of Joe's family but our hearts are with them.

Our Christmas photo shoot

This year for Christmas we'll be at my mom's house for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. Around noon were traveling down to Tucson to spend the rest of the holiday break at My dad's house. Were really excited. We wish we could see Joes parents for Christmas but we know their having fun on their mission in Tokyo. We love you Mom and Dad Hartzell.

33 weeks

Everything is still going great!!! Loving having a belly on me!

New puppy!

We have a puppy!!!!! It's actually my Christmas present, Probably birthday too : ) We got an 11 week old Cockapoo. We had to find a hypo allergenic breed because Joe is allergic and I wanted an indoor dog. The father was a Cocker Spaniel and the momma was a mini Poodle. We named him Pippin after a Hobbit from Lord of the Rings. He is super sweet. Loves to snuggle and cuddle. I'm working my butt off trying to do the crate training with him. He is doing really well already. Pooping in the spot I want him to in the yard. Wish me luck. Its almost as much work as having a new born!!!

Shopping and makeup

My sweet sister Rebekah just turned 14 and is now allowed to wear makeup. As if that wasn't enough she also attended her first church dance on Saturday. I would not have been a good big sister if I had not gone down to help with this wonderful occasion. We shopped at the Tucson mall for what seemed like all day. I waddled around with my big belly but it was fun. Bekah found a super cute outfit and bought some lovely perfume. I did her hair and makeup before the dance and she looked so beautiful. My wonderful Mother Dianne watched Nolan so I was able to shop without interference. It was fabulous. Thank you Dianne for letting me have this fun day with Bekah! Bekah, Your gorgeous!

Halloween 2008

Daddy and his little elephant
winking pumpkin


first Nolan's birthday then Halloween, its just one fun thing after the next in October!!!! Nolan was an elephant and I was a Geisha. We like to drive up to Anthem and hang out with my Aunt and Uncle. My mom and I passed out Candy while Joe took the boys trick or treating. Nolan made it to about 6 houses then proceeded to touch peoples cars and say car over and over again. My Uncle Damon has a golf cart so Joe took the kids around and that was really fun. Nolan loved riding on daddy lap or next to him. Thanks Carry and Damon for letting us hang with you!

Us

Chucky Cheeses!!!!

We had a little birthday party for Nolan at Chucky Cheeses. It was super fun. It was hard staying off the skee ball game. He was so cute, he would throw the ball and when it would come back to him he would say... oh no!!!
This is the first time we have ever just let him dig into a piece of cake. We didn't get him a fork fast enough so he just dug right in with his mouth. It was so funny. The cake was really yummy.
I love this picture!!! Joe is singing happy birthday and holding Nolan's little hand, I think its just precious! What a good daddy.

It was so fun having Robbie there. Nolan Loves his uncle Robbie! We played games for hours and Nolan danced to the little show they have. It was super fun

Eating cake

I had to get a video of the cake eating...It was just so cute!

28 week surro bump

Time for a pregnancy update. Being a surrogate has been a very good experience thus far. I feel great and I love having a baby bump on me. I'm not yet to the point where I'm uncomfortable all the time so that's nice, trying to enjoy it. She's been kicking up a storm in there...I love it. So far everything looks great so the homebirth is still on which I am so excited about. My IP's will fly in on January 20th unless I go into labor early. They are so excited to meat their little girl.

Our two year old Nolan

Bike for Nolan

I Found this awesome bike at a thrift store for 15 bucks and Nolan loves it. Of course he calls it a car. I'm teaching him bike. When I say bike he runs over to it but then he says car. It has a handle on the back so we can push him around the house on it. Its so cute. He can't reach the peddles yet his feet just dangle there. Some day he'll be cruising around on it.

Saggy britches

These shorts fit him fine all day and then I noticed his diaper was bulging out the back. I waited to see if they would fall off but he proceeded to waddle around the rest of the night with them like that. So funny!

Nolans Birthday He's 2!!!

Time flies!!! I cannot believe we have had this sweet little boy in our lives for two whole years. For his birthday I made chocolate chip pancakes then we opened presents . We found him a big lightning McQueen car and a big truck that holds a bunch of little cars. He LOVES them. All day he kept saying "car" over and over. It was so cute! We are so happy and lucky to have this little bub in our lives!

AZ State Fair!!!

My Mommacita, Robbie and I went to the fair on Friday. On Opening day it is only a buck to get in so we couldn't pass it up. Joe had work stuff so he couldn't come but we still had fun. My goal was to eat as much junk food as my belly could hold. I had one churro, a the works indian fry bread, half a caramel apple, a chocolate covered banana and some piggley fries!!! The next day I didn't feel that I had consumed enough churros so when Joe and I went to Costco I had two more. They were just as good as the fairs but a qaurter of the price. Now I'm back to my healthy pregnancy diet!
Nolan had so much fun in the little petting zoo. They had some baby goats that must have just been a few days old. So sweet. I think the Camel must have though that Nolans hair was hay because she kept sniffing it. Once she stuck her head over the railing and bent all the way down to Nolans stroller to sniff at his head. It was so funny.

Here's Nolan with his Uncle Robbie. They always have so much fun together. Towards the end of the nigh Nolan got a bit wild but Robbie helped me play with him and keep him company.... Thank you Robbie


Here's Sammy and Nolan. This was the best Picture my Mom got of the two boys. Sammy must have found something interesting in his nose. haha. Cousins are so much fun!

Nolan Loves cars

Nolan's favorite thing in the world (for the time being) are cars! This car we found and he had to have it. He has trouble going forward but he's great at scooching backwards. The car goes in a big circle. Its so cute. And of course he's got his big green bink in his mouth ( were working on that )