Another TV moment

So I was on the news again with Mary Nickles so if you get bored feel free to check it out. I got to choose my own topic which is how to make realistic and healthy resolutions. Next time I will make my hair look more normal. :)

Click on the link below and choose "Quick and Healthy Alternatives" to check out the video. I will mail anybody an autograph who wants it. :) jk.

http://connect2utah.com/news/noon-video

It's Been a Long Time

and nothing really significant has happened. We had a great Christmas and New Year! And just because Nick and I don't have kids doesn't mean we didn't have a blast this year. I am loving this time with Nick and spending Christmas together. It just gets better every year.



Some of the highlights were:

• Going to Heritage Park (Candlelight Christmas) with Marci and Adam- especially when the lady told us how they moved old houses from their original lots with logs and that is also how to move large hotels (using logs). She had NO idea what she was talking about. Thanks Marci for dealing with the crowds even though you two are small town people now.

• Hatch Family Dinner at Sizzler. :)
  

• Having a Christmas Feast with Megan and Aaron (we all had our own birds--yum!)
  

• Going to the Desert Star Theater to see Bi-Polar Christmas. We ordered nachos and reminded our waiter like 4 times about our nachos and he kept saying " oh yeaah....you did order nachos...I will get them for you." ummm...yeah---we FINALLY got them during the VERY last scene (last 2 minutes of the show seriously). So we were snarfing them up before the show ended and missed all of the best parts. And there were some people from my weight loss class there too and they felt like I was judging them while they ate their ice-cream. So I made it a point to order ice-cream too. (NEVER trust a dietitian that doesn't eat ice-cream people!) :)

• Mandarin for Hart Family dinner (this was delicious!)

• Making sushi with my dad and going to Famous Daves!
  
• Christmas breakfast with my mom and playing Scene-it!
  
• Rickie and Mike and the kids coming to visit. We got to have them sleep over at our house which was way fun. Even Avery Bug warmed up to us and snuggled with us before she went to bed. I got the X-Box Kinect for Christmas and it is Ammazzzing! We love it! So we got to play that with them and eat dinner. I love that Avery pretends to go to the bathroom and just stands in front of the potty pushing on her belly button. I am becoming obsessed with her. And...I can't say enough about those boys (Daven and Logan). Could they be any sweeter? I love them so much--just wish they lived closer. Daven (6 years old) asked me, "is this your's and Nick's first Christmas together?" I can't believe a 6 year old would say that? Could they be any cuter??
  

• Hart Family Christmas Eve and Christmas. It was so fun watching old home movies and playing board games. We laughed so hard playing Loaded Questions (Thanks Trisha and Mike for giving this to us for our wedding). It really is a hit. :) And of course the food is amazing!
  

• Watching the boys (Jack Jack, Carter, and William). Our house was chaos but so much fun. Those boys are hilarious and so cute! I love Charley's face in the background..Pretty much all they would eat was sweets (cookies, candy, and biting into our gingerbread house when I wasn't looking.). Sorry Bethany and Emily...this was their dinner...

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and I am obsessed with this Jack Jack.

And of course...2 really fun Sweater Parties!! I loved our sweaters this year. Nick' friends re-created the picture they took at their original sweater party they had in highschool. It took them forever to put everybody in their positions but the result is hilarious. I love it!

REAL Salt Lake Game with Todd and Lish!


Oh yeah---and realized we never posted our Halloween costumes...Thanks Emily for letting us borrow the California Raisin costume and Mr. Peanut. It was a hit!



And I want to mention our hilarious neighbor boys. It was 11:30 at night on a Thursday during a blizzard when our doorbell rings. It kind of scared us because we had no idea. Yeah it was just two 10 year old boys that said, "we are really bored and were wondering if we could shovel your driveway for $5". Well...considering it was still snowing and we would have to shovel in the morning anyway we told them they could shovel our steps for $1. They ended up shoveling the whole driveway it was amazing.

And this is the same kid that rang our doorbell this summer to get rid of a couple of our wasp nests around the house. We paid him $5 extra and he brought a bottle of soap and water and was there ALL day long shooting and running away from wasps. I would look out the window and just see him occasionally throughout the day. Seriously...we saw him at 10 a.m. , noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. The most dedicated worker and every time I would see him running from wasps I would just chuckle and... soap and water?? haha. It was worth the extra $5---and don't worry---FYI: soap and water is not a good remedy...the wasps were still there the rest of the summer.

Recap of Pictures I Missed

Fishing with Ben and Mikkal up in Idaho in October. These rainbow trout were beautiful and HUGE! Mikkal caught the first one and Nick caught the second one!


These following pictures with Nick and the horses are from Idaho LAST fall but they were too good to pass up. We love going up to Bloomington in the summer.


Our 2 Year Anniversary Date in Park City. We got to use our ski lift passes during the summer to have a picnic at the top of the mountain. The other time we used our passes this summer was to go mountain biking on advanced terrain in Park City. Yeah---we had the most GHETTO bikes. One with brakes that didn't work and the other with a pedal duct taped on. It was hilarious! We just wanted to get down the mountain. The best is after an hour of strugglin' on our bikes I look over at Nick who jumped off his bike and then I just see his bike rolling down the hill like 20 times. We are nt advanced mountain bikers that is for sure. :) If we ever did that again we would need less ghetto bikes.
And Nick surprised me and took me to the Lion King! It was amazin!
And we saw Heather and her family there. That was a fun surprise. :)

Last ski day of the year at Park City with the Woodsies and Jonny. It was so warm I didn't even need a coat and gloves. That is my kind of skiing weather!


High Fives!






Nick's Backflip at the park!

Getting down and

Dirty.

The Dirty Dash...this is how we decided to spend our Saturday in September. It was wild and there were so many people with funny costumes running in the mud. It was a 10K in Midway doing all of these obstacles and getting way dirty. Keep in mind this wasn't just any mud...but the worst smelling mud ever.
If you can't tell what is on our faces...they are pig noses. Get it? Pigs run in the mud. I thought we were pretty creative but lots of people wore pig noses. Some of the other funny costumes I saw were people running in their wedding dress and tuxedo, a viking, grown men in leotards, and people in their business suits. By the way...I trained for this race and it was still SO hard. Nick didn't even train as much as me but had no problem doing all of the hard obstacles. He was just jumping over haybells no problem, getting his leg stuck in the mud all the way up to his hip and still moving fast. I didn't get it. Why do guys have so much more endurance. I felt like my shoes were heavy pieces of lead because they had so much mud on them. Here is what the race looked like.

And if you are wondering what the filthy finish looked like in the end....here ya go. Everybody kept telling Nick to do a cannonball into the pool of mud and he did. Then he proceeded to the finish line doing backstrokes in the mud. It was pretty hilarious. I loved doing this with Nick and it was a way fun experience. There were a couple of times I couldn't even run because I was laughing so hard at people falling down and just eating it in the mud. Until next year...

A Celebrity on our hands...

Yes...I am now a TV celebrity. I had my first TV interview this past week and am now on a first name basis with these guys:

I didn't think about how it was probably weird that before I even officially met them I was calling them by name, "Hi Mary...Hi Ron...Hi Bill." But...whatever...they are Utah Celebrities in my opinion.

To check out my TV moment on video go here and you might have to click on "Healthy Halloween Treats from IHC": http://connect2utah.com/news/noon-video

Believe me I am not really proud of this video but since it is my only claim to fame I will share it. You know...it is so hard listening to yourself or watching yourself on video. I was SOO nervous and the video take was live. I met Ron Bird like 20 seconds before we went live and he was asking me questions I didn't think he would ask me. Nick and I role-played what I would say OVER and OVER again and nothing came out how we practiced. When it was over it felt like the interview was only 30 seconds long and it was all a blur but it turned out to be like 4 minutes long. Kind of crazy.

And...yes I am also an IHC icon just in case you haven't seen the website...

www.intermountainhealthcare.org under "Billing and Financial Assistance" at the bottom (of ALL places)

And this has to be THE WORST picture of me...EVER. I get a text/facebook message/e-mail from a different person at least once a week notifying me about my picture on the website. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a better picture of me. So...why am I blogging about it? I don't know. Well maybe just to tell people that I KNOW it is a bad picture of me and I didn't voluntarily put it on the website. The only reason it is up there is because they needed to take a picture of somebody diverse and lucky me... I am 4'11" ...and that makes me a diverse person in Utah I guess. :)

But..I will take what I can get when it comes to being famous.

Just more summer pictures. :)

We went to the outdoor Red Butte Gardens Concert for Chris Isaak. Here are Nick's cute parents.

The Pink Bandana is to keep the dirt out of his face...that was all I could provide. We went on a way fun but kind of scary (I am a wimp) four-wheeler ride in Idaho up Bloomington Canyon with all the brothers and sisters. It was so pretty. We love Bloomington so much! Part of me wishes we lived there.
Ben and Mikkal stayed the night at our house before they left on their trip. We just love hanging out with them.

This little guy...oh how we love him too. :) Jackson is talking so much now and everything he says is cute.
Nick and I go fishing in Idaho in our little spot. We mostly catch huge and disgusting carp...but this time we pulled off a trout. Grandma Hart cooked this up for us at breakfast the next morning. It was DE---lish! Oh yeah...and we forgot to bring something to put our fish in so we took this guy home on a stick and I held it outside the car window the whole drive home. Yeah...ghetto! But it was pretty funny.
And last but not least (sorry for the gross picture) but Nick's flag football injury. I had to capture this moment because it was a very memorable week. Nick's leg got sliced open by a football cleete (however I am pretty sure it was a baseball cleete..lame) I was just watching the game minding my own business talking to all the cute wives when suddenly he is on the field with all the teams surrounding him. His friend Marcus runs up to me telling me to back my car into the field to take him the the ER! Scary! I am not good in these situations. I wish I had a personal assistant with me at all times to take care of both of us when these things happen.



We took him to the ER...got him stitched up...only to have him the next day spike HIGH fevers and get an infection in the middle of the night! BOO on medical staff for not prescribing antibiotics. So...the next day all the stitches came out and he had to heal with the wound open! After some antibiotic shots for 3 consecutive days due to a rare bacteria worse than staph infection, 2 oral antibiotics, and of course some TLC from me....he is doing much better.

One of the nights that he had high fevers I was so frantic and worried and he told me "well....we will be together forever so everything will be okay." First of all....bad timing to tell a frantic wife this... But...I really am so grateful to know that I will be with Nick forever no matter what happens. It is such a blessing in my life to know this. Such a little thing can help put things into perspective and I think this experience helped me to remember that and count my blessings. I wish this could have happened to me instead. I hate to see Nick get hurt...which happens a little too much. But I love him!