Hart Happenings

 Hello all!

Wasn't Nauvoo epic?  My boys still talk about the things we saw and did there.  Thanks everyone for being so great and contributing to good memories for our family.  It was just such a treat to visit and play with you all.  I also really liked the Life 360 app and tracking everyone on their journeys there and home.  So glad we're related!

Looks like it has finally decided to be summer.  We had a crazy cool June with it breaking 80 only once.  July promises to crank it up in the head department and we are planning trips to the lake and the local park fountain while Peter is lobbying for a pool in the backyard.  

We enjoyed a pretty mild 4th of July this week.  I wasn't feeling well but Ian was in the parade for the theater that he works with, Alex and the boys went to the breakfast that Alex's brother hosts every year.  Ian was working the soda truck at the Menan celebration (a little farming community just north of us) so we went with Alex's sister and her daughter who were here up there to see him and see what the festivities were like in Menan.  So quaint and fun! We actually ran into a number of people who we knew and just missed Ruth who was also there for the car show a little earlier in the day.  We met Ian's boss and her family which was really fun.  Great people.  The fireworks show was spectacular as usual.  It was pretty windy and started to rain and we were kind of nervous that they were going to have to cancel the show but they just postponed it for about 20 minutes and the weather calmed down enough that we got cleared by the fire marshal to go ahead with things.  Such an amazing show!

A couple of other things of note:  We went to Portland for a Spikeball tournament where Jack and his partner, Curtis, actually went undefeated the whole day and were granted premier status which Jack has been working towards for about a year.  It was very exciting!  He is the youngest semi-pro Spikeball player in the world.  To make it even cooler, Alex competed in Salt Lake a few weeks before that and also got premier with is partner, Jake, which made him the oldest semi-pro Spikeball player in the world.  So we have the distinction of having the oldest and youngest semi-pro players in the same family.  Kinda wild!  

I know most of you received the video that Peter sent out about his new robot friend.  What he didn't tell you was that he has been saving for months and months to purchase this robot.  I have been impressed by his frugality, hard work, and single-mindedness about it and was happy when the day arrived for him to make the purchase.

Ian was invited to sing with Kirby Heyborne (a LDS actor) at a theater in Rexburg, Idaho this week and a karaoke event.  We went to watch and it was so fun.  Karaoke is a riot, but Ian was a hoot.  He sang Lost in the Woods from Frozen 2 (in honor of Hope  - she and Ian have sung it together so many times) and had us all laughing one minute and blown away the next.  Such a fun experience.  I will try to get Alex to send it to you all.

We are so excited for the Hydes to come visit next month.  We can't get enough of that cute family.  The Harts are massively in favor of the soda shack concept that Cam and Emma have come up with and can't wait to see it unfold and will try really hard not to be annoying throwing ideas around and such.

It's been long enough since I wrote on the blog that I can't really remember what I might have forgotten in the time that has elapsed.  I am almost done with the book that Dad and Mom gave us at the reunion and hope that you guys have read it too because I'd really like to talk to someone(s) about it!

Love you all!

And Ian got a haircut!