The Stucki boys down the line...
My Christmas present!!!
Poor little guy was holding onto Matt's arm for dear life!!!
Our little trick was to put his pacifire in his mouth and then take it out really quick before the picture, well... he caught on and had a death grip on it! It was kind of cute, so we took some more pictures of thaT!!
We gave him a bath and his little strands of hair are soo curly when they are wet!
My mom also had fun laying him everywhere she could and just taking pictures! It kept him awake for a good part of the day and he slept soo good last night!!
So..these were actually taken in the hospital by my grandma. He happened to be wide awake when she came in and she sent them to me so I thought I would put them up!
Comparing Matt's hand and his
I had to take this picture of him sleeping so peacefully!
Matt and Colton passed out on the couch. Matt has been such a good dad. He has been so busy the past few days but everytime he comes home he just wants to hold him..and then sleep! My mom has been so amazing..she will tell us to go upstairs and take a nap, and we both just run up the stairs and try to sleep as fast as possible! I don't know what we're going to do when she leaves! Hopefully we will have everything figured out by then!
So...last night Matt played the University of Utah and they won! I was debating this week whether or not to leave me 3 day old baby and go, but I decided I could let grandma stay at home for a few hours and go...and I was so glad I didn't miss the game! It was seriously one of the greatest games I have watched Matt play. I know it's so dumb but I'm so proud of him because he works sooo hard and has worked so hard to become the player that he is even after dealing with me and us having a baby 3 days ago! Anyway, I have been really bad about taking pictures at all of the games, but I found this one on the ISU website and I loved what the caption underneath it said, "The proud papa Matt Stucki was stoked after ISU's win over Utah 72-68" I thought that was so cute.
This is another picture I found on the ISU website, and it was there game against BYU. They ended up losing this game by about 20, but Matt had another awesome game. Everyone keeps coming up to me and asking me to pop another baby out cause it's making Matt play so well.
So..he weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 21 inches long--that is exactly what I was!!
Here is after his bath once he finally got settled...His hair was really curly at first, but now he's got a little spike going at the top!
He loves to suck his fingers and constantly is putting them up by his mouth. 
So, when I got home I got a nice nap while my mom "babysat" He ended up falling asleep on her and they both had nice nap too!!
All swaddled up!
I didn't really want to put this picture on, but you have to have it for the memories! This was after they cleaned and weighed him and brought him back to me! Matt was so amazing during the whole thing, and I'm so glad he was able to be there. It was an experience we will never forget! I came home today at about noon and was soo glad to get out of the hospital away from the never ending nurses!! My mom is here helping for the next week, and I am soo grateful because Matt goes out of town on Monday :( Anyway, his parents did a big photo shoot so hopefully I will have more pictures to post soon!!
Here is the back side...I love this!!
Okay...so this is not quite the finished product of the shelf above the dresser (we rearanged it quite a few times until it was perfect..ok my mom did) So, my mom had this shelf, and my aunt gave me the dresser and took it up to my uncle, who can make just about anything look fantastic, and he sprayed it and fixed it all up( my camera doesn't really do justice to how beautiful they both look) Okay, so then my mom, who is the craftiest woman I know(along with her sisterS) made all of the decorations to go along with it so it all matched the bedding! Soo fun!
And here is the crib..thanks to my parents we have one!...and the bedding that Matt picked out himself. It was so funny, about 4 months ago, we went to some stores in Salt Lake and were looking through all the different bedding, and from the first store he said this was the bedding we had to get! I was trying to talk him into some blue/brown combos...but he said if he got to pick out anything, this is what he wanted. So..this is what the decision was! I think it turned out awesome and I love the colors and of course the "sporty" look!
Here is a picture from the shower at my Aunt Cindy's beautiful house(her husband is the one who finished the shelf and dresser) And..here is my mom showing off some of the awesome decorations she made! Thanks mom, and everyone else who helped out!! I have the room all set up, and the blankets washed, and closet organized, but really my mom did just about all of it! She is making getting ready for a baby way too easy, so thank you! 
So..basketball has officialy started!! They played their first game last Friday night and it was sooo exciting! They ended up winning by 5, but it was an intense game! I have tons of pictures from the game, but not on my camera...someday I will post them! Then, they left Saturday morning for HAWAII :(! They spent a couple days there before they played their first game. Anyway, the cool thing was that they played on ESPN-although it was at 2 a.m. Still really cool. So, monday night I woke up at 2 to watch the game...not a good idea. Not only was I starting to get a cold, but it's already hard enough to sleep being pregnant. Anyway, the game went into OVERTIME, and didn't get over until 4:30. They ended up losing in overtime to UH, when they should have won. So..after staying up that long of course I could not go back to sleep, so around 6 o'clock I dosed back off finally just in time to wake up at 7. So, yesterday probably wasn't my best day and I think it made my cold get a lot worse! But, oh it was worth it to be able to watch Matt play on ESPN!! 
Here is another shot where I look a little bit happier! I am now 35 weeks and getting very anxious, but not too anxious! My doctor did say he would try and induce me on December 4th!! yay. Matt goes out of town on the 8th, my due date, so hopefully all works out!
Well...isn't he a good sport. I had to talk him into doing it, and then I drew the face on it(trying to make it look like a baby-didn't really succeed)
This was my job..the best part!! Digging all the insides out!
In the process...
Anyway, our lives have been good these last few weeks! I can't believe it is already NOVEMBER..yay!! Matt has his first game tomorrow! UNfortunately I have class and can not miss so I have to miss the game... Anyway, Im getting very excited to start watching him, its such a fun time of year, and this will be the lasT! I think I'll be more excited once the baby is born so I can bring him to the games instead of my belly!! 
So...Today is Matt's 25th birthday!!! yay!! And, I decided like a month ago that I wanted to have a surprise birthday for him because once our little babies start coming around our birthdays probably won't be quite as important as there's! Anyway, so finally about a week before his birthday I really, really decided to do it! With much help from his mother, Misty(my sister-in-law) and wonderful friend Mikkel, we pulled it off!! And he was soo surprised! Here is Matt and I after everyone sang Happy Birthday!
Here is an upclose shot!!!
So...this is everyone waiting for him (well not everyone, but a few of them). It ended up taking a while to get him in the house... Misty called and had us come out to his parents house to get her because her "car broke down" and she needed a ride. Really, everyone was waiting out at his parents house for us to come. Anyway, when we got there Matt decided to go ahead and put her carseats into our car while I was supposed to go inside and get them to come out...ooops! So, everyone waited patiently inside while he loaded all the carseats in for no reason at all!! Everyone was kind of getting sick of waiting for him...as you can tell by the faces! (except for Mikkel..always smiling)
Misty and Brandon...waiting!!!
So Clair(matt's dad) and Brandon(his brother) saddled up the horses and took his team out for some riding. They also had the 4-wheelers out for them to ride on! It was entertaining to watch because some of them had never ridden a horse in their liveS! His mom took some great pictures of all of them riding...too bad my camera isn't that good! Here are the girls just hanging out!! 
Overall it was a lot of fun, and though I stressed soo much he was going to find out, it turned out greAT and he had no Idea! Anyway, Matt has always tells me how much he hates surprises and everyone even knowing it is his birthday, but he deserved it!! Happy Birthday Matt!! Thanks for being an awesome husband, friend, and soon to be daddy!!! 
So...here is the lovely growing pregnant belly at 27 weeks or (6 months)!! It feels like time is going by really really slow, but then when I think that I only have 3 months left that doesn't seem to bad! P.S. we are really struggling thinking of names...we had a name picked out Jalen Paul Stucki and we really like the nickname JP, but its so hard to decide! ANyway-- this is a rReally big decision and I'm having a hard time with picking one out! Anyone have any really cute names that they aren't using??? haha.
Here is a view from the other siDE! Anyway...the pregnancy has been going well. There are always ups and downs but I have been feeling pretty good lately. The past few weeks with school/teaching have been good. I feel like Matt and I go go go all week and then come Saturday/Sunday we have a little bit of down time to relax and catch up on some homework from the week. Last Saturday was probably one of the greatest days...Matt had practice in the morning but was home by 9 and we just worked on homework, and napped, and caught up on everything all day! I'm sure as the semester progresses though those days will be spent doing more homework and less relaxing..oh well!
