20 weeks and Snow Cones....

First things first...we are having a GIRL!!! I was so nervous for the ultrasound because I really wanted it to be a girl but had a feeling they were going to tell me "boy". Not that I wouldn't be excited for a boy but during this whole pregnancy I couldn't picture it being a boy and could only picture it being a girl! I guess there is such thing as Mother's Intuition right!? :) actually..probably only just a lucky guess! My sister got to come to our ultrasound too and that was really fun to have her in there when they told us what we were having. She even bought me this cute little pink pajama outfit for baby and I kept looking at it everyday after being so excited to put it on her. And...Nick is already such a cute Daddy. He is really excited it is a girl and instead of saying"How are you doing Erica?" he says..."How are my girls doin'? He is going to be the best Daddy ever and this little girl already has him wrapped around her little finger! By the way...I really do think from her ultrasound pictures that she is the cutest little baby in the world! I love seeing her profile pic with her cute nose and little arms and belly!

And I am 20 weeks along and feel great!! I have a ton of energy right now and think I am just in the fun stage of pregnancy where I can feel the baby a lot but it is still comfortable feeling the baby! I love that! And Nick can feel her kick now too which makes it twice as fun! She kicks a lot at night before bed so I look forward to getting everything I need to get done during the day so I can lay there and just have time to feel her for a while. :)

Ummm...yeah---and snow cones---I am a little obsessed this year and I actually don't think it is worse because I am craving them during pregnancy. I have always loved snow cones but it is really taking a hit on our budget this year because I get one almost every day! I was telling Emily that when the baby comes and the doctor tells me what blood type my baby is....it won't be A positive or O negative but will probably just be Tiger's Blood. But baby does move around more when I eat snow cones so she must love them too. :)

In case you're wondering...

Here is what Baby Hart will look like in about a year and a half. :) haha. Where the red hair came from?? ...I don't know...



Hello there by the way! It has been a few months since I have updated our blog but thought I would post a short message saying that there is a little baby Hart on the way! Baby Hart is due November 11th and we are so excited! We get our next ultrasound on June 14th and will hopefully find out what we are having then. Sorry for the boring post...there will be more to read about soon! But I finally get to put one of those fun Pregnancy gadgets on my blog now! :)

Here is a picture of our 9 week ultrasound and I just loved seeing our little tiny baby and can't wait until next week to see him/her again! I already love him/her SO much. :)

Good things to come

It seems like Nick and I have had our fair share of disappointments lately and we just keep saying, "We are due for some good news!" I am definitely learning a lot of patience waiting for some good news to come! Not to say life isn't great right now because we are so blessed and have everything we need. I am just learning that sometimes life doesn't go just as we plan it. But if there is one thing I have learned... it is that life always turns out better than you planned. And...good things come to those who wait!

If you know me well...I am not a patient person AT ALL! I am sure the Lord knows this and is testing my patience more than ever before! He has a bigger plan for Nick and me right now and I just can't see the big picture yet. I just have to remember from past experience that sometimes (well let's be honest..MOST of the time) I am SO glad that my life didn't turn out how I initially planned.

For example...when I started college I remember having a plan to get married before I graduated college and then when I graduated college and still wasn't married it was like, "wait a minute...now what??" But once I met Nick and realized he was SO worth the wait FOR SURE and exactly what I wanted and exactly WHEN I wanted I am so glad I didn't get married during college. Plus I got to experience so many things that I wouldn't have if I would have gotten married during college (like moving to Boston for a year, having all four years at Utah State with roommates, and living in a mansion in Salt Lake.) I met so many people that I wouldn't have if I had gotten married during college. So for that...I am so grateful that the Lord knew what was best for me because I wouldn't change anything!

So right now I am just going to remember that there will be good things to come even though I might have to wait a while. Even though I can't see the big picture right now, I have to trust that when things aren't working right now it will be okay in the end. I will look back and be grateful for how they turned out. But for now I just watch this Mormon Message and enjoy a good cry everytime I watch it. I just love it...

Good Things to Come- Mormon Message

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...