June and July Updates

Here's what we have been up to in June and July:
OVERALL UPDATE:
We got Lagoon passes and started going there about once a week.  I can only handle like an hour and a half there and then I am done.  I don't know how I used to spend hours there when I was in Junior High.  But Georgia loves it and it wears her out so she gets a nice nap in the afternoon.

Nick and I ran the Bear Lake half marathon.  (We have been up to Bear Lake 3 times in two months--we need to come back to reality and start being responsible). Anyway...this was my third half marathon and it was the first one where I felt prepared and felt pretty good the whole time.  It was Nick's first and he did awesome.  It was so nice to run it with him because when I wanted to stop, he wouldn't let me.  Stopping made it harder for me to go because my legs would lock up.  Whitley ran it with us too and she was my training motivation!  She did awesome especially after just having a baby.  Nick and I finished slower than my past half marathons but I didn't care.  I just cared about finishing.  It was FREEZING THOUGH!  I think that was the hardest part--was my blood was frozen I swear!  It made my legs feel like they were elephant legs.

We went camping with the Bryner Family and all four of us Harts slept in a two man tent.  It was actually way fun and not as bad as I thought it would be.  I loved snuggling with Lucy the whole night--I never get to do that. :)

We had a really fun fourth of July with lots of festivities and fireworks.  I got to see the Sloans and Chelsea Beauchamp too which was a fun surprise for me! Nick did awesome and gave me the best birthday present ever!! He really outdid himself this time. 

The family photos on the bottom are courtesy of my BFF Rachael! She is amazing! 

FUNNY STORY:

So a funny story I want to remember is when I opened the garage and Georgia ran out at the same time.  She grabbed onto the bottom of the garage and it started pulling her up.  I had my hands full of stuff to throw in the recycle bin but I threw it down everywhere and tried to run catch her.  Well...it was too late.  The garage made it almost to the top before she let go.  She landed on her feet but then slammed her hands down on the ground.  After about 10 minutes of crying, she was fine and then I could laugh telling Nick and he just laughed at the visual of the garage door taking Georgia up to the ceiling.  oh my.  And I wonder why I am so exhausted!

LUCY:
Lucy is talking and walking: She is taking at most 6 steps at a time.  She is 11 months and says: bubble, pop, tree, ba-ba-ba (for bubble bath), uh-oh, go, baby, nana (for banana), Georgia, baa (for what the sheep says), binkie, cookie, cock oo doo (for cock-a-doodle doo), cow, bye bye, doggie, teeth, out...   She sticks her tongue out when you ask her where it is.  She also touches her hair when you ask where it is.  I just got a delivery of diapers and wipes and stacked them on top of each other and she climbed to the top while I wasn't looking.  She has no fear and eats everything especially sand and sea shells. 

GEORGIA:

Georgia: Some funny phrases she is into:
        "Come in my room... it's really beautiful in there"

        "That's not funny...it's hilarious" or "that's not hilarious..it's just funny".
        "I think this outfit looks really cute on me."

She has a song she made up called I don't care. And it goes to the tune "London bridge". It goes something like "I'm eating food and I don't care... I don't care I don't care. My food is gone and I don't care doo doo do do do too too.   Or I'm riding in the car and I don't care...  "

We went to the Bear Lake Rodeo

 Antelope Island

 We got to see Chels and the kids! It made my week! And the Sloans!

 Georgia fell asleep looking at our family picture.

 You can't tell but there are 4 kids in this hammock--Bear Lake.

 I'm excited about our wall stencil I did.  Here is a view of it with the hutch we painted.

Eaglewood Fireworks

Georgia bit open her glow stick and it got all in her mouth and on her hands and clothes.  She was so overtired from waiting for the fireworks to start (it was like 11 before they started) so this captures her mood perfectly.)

Kaysville Parade---annual tradition

Still got my stilt skills--don't worry!

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My Mouth is Open...and I'm Talking

Quote of the month from Georgia after she had been talking our ears off for twenty minutes..."My mouth is open...and I'm talking."  We got a good laugh after that one.  We have had a good month of May.  

Nick-- got officially sworn in to practice law in Utah!  I am so proud of him.  All of that hard work really did pay off.  It is just so weird to be a student for so long and then know you won't be again (well--let's hope not!)  There are definitely perks to being a student though.  I was thinking about that the other day.  Sometimes Nick wouldn't have class until noon so we would get to have the morning with him.  He would get school breaks off like Christmas for three weeks!  We won't get that type of time off for a long time. :) He works a side job every two weeks or so doing some projects for a legal litigation group.  He does 20 hours in addition to his 40 hours at the Prosecutors office.  So---he is gone some late nights a couple nights a week.  But it really isn't too bad---it seems just like law school when he was studying late.  But--I guess I just look at it that now he is getting paid.

Erica: I have just been training for the Bear Lake half marathon.  It has been good for me to train and push myself.  I love finishing the runs and how I feel but it is always so hard to get started.  I have been doing some side dietitian work that has been kind of perfect.  I am loving going up to Idaho (Bear Lake) and hanging out with the girls and my sister in laws and friends.  We have been doing some backyard pool parties and it has been really fun.  It is so nice to not be pregnant this summer.  I just wish I could get out with Lucy--she is always crawling around and eating dirt and rocks and who knows what--so it isn't really relaxing even hanging out in the yard.  Such a fun but hard stage. 

Lucy: She is 9 months old in these pictures---growing up so fast.  She weighed 17.5 pounds at her 9 month appointment but is short just like her momma and dada!  She says "Georgia" sounds like, "Jasha"--it is so cute!  Lucy is very demanding too in a really funny way.  Sometimes she yells at us from the back seat or in her high chair during meal time.  We always joke that she is screaming profanities at us by her demanding tone.  But she is so sweet and becoming a little jokester.  She will try to hand you a toy and then when you grab it she will pull it away and laugh.  She loves playing, "where's Lucy?" and hides behind the curtains.  

 Georgia: She is really excited to have friends in our neighborhood.  We get lots of kids knocking on our door every day or just walking into our house to play.  It is funny to see her interacting with them and the things she thinks of to talk about with them.  I think sometimes she thinks I feel left out or something because she will come in the kitchen and say, "mom..do you want to come play with us?" haha.  And the other day I caught Georgia reading nursery rhymes to Lucy--my life is finally starting to become a little easier.  Her imagination is really coming out and she likes to play with her "friends" and play with her dollhouse people.  (they all have different voices to and talk to each other).  The mom and dad dollhouse people like to make out a lot too.  :)

My favorite flowers in our garden

Georgia's cute friend Emma teaching her how to ride a bike

Nick's two babies--1938 truck and Lucy

Cutest mother's day gift---I love how Nick decorated it with coins. He said when he did Lucy's hand print that she put her hand down and then just grabbed the cement in a fist.  I can totally picture that and it makes me laugh.