Flake Fun

These last several weeks have been just awesome.  The awesome-ness started with a very surprising visit from Mom, Becca, Ruth and Elise!  We had a bunch of fun together and they pampered and took care of me in royal fashion.  A great big thanks to them for all of their help with organizing the plethora of gifts from the baby shower.  I am now sorting through things a little bit at a time and it isn't quite as overwhelming. 

We had an ultrasound last week and currently both babies are head down which is awesome!  Hopefully they both will stay that way.  I feel like they have so far.  They are both growing and developing like they should;  Baby Boy is 4 lb 9 oz and Baby Girl is 4 lb 5 oz.  We even got to see little boy "breathing" which the ultrasound tech said he doesn't see very often.

The weather is finally turning to summer and we (Scott) have gotten nearly everything planted that we were hoping to.  Just a few things remaining. That is all that I can think of right now so here are a few pics for you!

Me at 33 weeks

I kept getting surprised all day! 

It was so fun to spend time with them! 

Can you see the tiny little bunny?  

It's been a while since I got on here!  May was the craziest month ever for us!  Tori traveled to North Carolina, Louisiana, around Texas, and Utah.  At the same time, I went to New York, Los Angeles, and Utah for training and tumbling clinics.  It was so fun to see the Harts and Bellistons, watch Aladdin with them, do lots of workouts HAHA! and just enjoy your beautiful families! 

Things are pretty crazy right now.  If you don't know, I got a job as an instructor at a luxury fitness studio.  Yeah, yeah "luxury" sounds like a marketing scheme, but it's....................for real.  Like a lot of our clients come in their lambos, or before their concert tours, or to get in shape for a movie role, etc.  So that's definitely a new world to me, but it's exciting!  Elise kind of got a taste of the style of workout, and Joe and Lori have had a version of it, but this is the breakdown: 50 minutes of workout with a 5 minute stretch at the end.  Half of the workout is done on the floor with bands or dumbbells, and the other half is done on a treadmill.  It is quite literally IMPOSSIBLE not to drown in sweat through this workout, trust me......I tried. 

Anyway! So Tori is still working as a safety consultant and traveling quite a bit.  She is still with Beach Body, and helping people get into working out consistently in a comfortable, safe, and at-home environment. So between those two things she stays crazy busy! 

I will be headed back to New York this week to work at the New York studios before we open our location on the 29th!  So that's going to be crazy!  Oh and I got another personal training certificate to build credibility, and because there's not much else to do in this industry....?

Well...........................Not much else is happening.... Looking forward to hearing about the Spartan in July!  Good luck to everyone involved!  Love you mucho mucho!

Nilsson News

We enjoyed some of the same excitements as the Hart clan.  Asparagus harvesting, observing the bee swarm, basking in the sunshine and getting the rest of the garden planted.  Best news of the week is our donkey Dee Dee had her foal on Memorial Day!  He is super tiny (19 inches) and almost black.  He is a little shy so we are working on that.  We finally decided on a name for him today.  He is the first son of his dad Inigo, so we decided on Montoya or just Monte for short.  We are still waiting for Penny to foal who is now three weeks past her due date (sigh).

We have been loving the sunshine and warmer weather but as I looked to the south this afternoon, I saw some pretty threatening clouds and would you take a close look at this picture:

Yes, you are seeing it correctly.  That is a tornado!  Garrett was at a neighbor's with the kids and as soon as he got home we asked if he'd seen the tornado and he said there was a tornado watch alert on his phone.  Crazy!
Here are some pics of the bee swarm.  The dark clump are thousands of bees.

 Henry was having way too much fun with the smoke can.

Ready for a new home at the Harts!

Hope you all have a wonderful, sunshiney week! 

Hart Happenings

So, I hate to jinx us, but folks, I think maybe, just maybe, summer has arrived in Idaho.  The sun has shown itself for the majority of the time this past week, and the seeds have decided it is worthwhile to poke their heads out and take a look around.  Hooray!  I feel like Dad, developing such an obsession with the weather, but it really impacts my most favorite activity, so you guys get to hear all about it, straight out of the gate every blog post these weeks!

A couple of highlights from the week in Idaho Falls:
  - Emer, Jack, and Peter identified a host of homeless bees in the neighbor's yard that eventually swarmed.  We called our bee friend who came and boxed the swarm up in a hive and brought them to our house!  They are doing well and look like they have decided to stick around for the time being.
  - We went to the local asparagus field and harvested the last of their asparagus with Ruth and some friends.
  - Peter and Jack both won their last soccer games with Peter scoring a beautiful goal.  It has been fun to see their growth as little athletes over the past season.
  - Friday was a full day with a backyard ice cream party celebrating the last day of school, hosted by some friends, and a priesthood commemoration BBQ for the fathers and sons AND a friend's birthday party for Ian, which looked like a lot of fun when I went to pick him up.
  - We got some good work done outside over the weekend planting pots, laying sod, and enjoying new view after we cut down some more hedge around the garden.  So lovely!
  - We broke in our fire pit with some s'more roasting and storytelling which was really great.
  - I enjoyed a nice, rare, chat with Jenn over the phone.  It was such a treat!
  - Mom and Dad came up to play for a few hours on Thursday which was a treat.  They brought Emerson and Addy over the community gardens while the boys and I were there doing our class.  Actually Ian wasn't there, he was at the temple with the youth in the ward and Alex.  It was fun to visit and they did some helpful work in the garden and we managed to squeeze in a game of corn hole as well.  That's right folks, it is the season for corn hole again.  There is a standing invitation for all of you anytime to come up and play a few rounds.
  - And news of the week!!!!!  Ian got into Matilda!!!  He auditioned a couple of weeks ago and has been dying of suspense ever since.  The cast list came out yesterday morning and he was so excited!  He has a bunch of friends who also tried out and made it, so he is really looking forward to being able to work with them again.

It is shaping up to be a wonderful summer up in this "neck of the woods" (Dad quote) and we'd love to see any of you who feel drawn north!  We are planning a few forays down south as well and are hoping to cross paths with our favorite people while down there.  That's you!

Have a brilliant week!  A nice, normal one would be good too!  I've decided that there is much to be said for plain days.  They are their own kind of delightful.

Nilsson News

Rain, rain, rain!  It sounds like the common thread from Arizona all the way to Idaho.  It is hard to believe that June starts next week and we've only hit 70 a couple of times. The plants in our greenhouse are not super happy about life and are begging to be transplanted.  Hopefully I can help them out this week!
It was a fairly decent week.  Because of the rain, we were able to finish some inside projects.  We worked on refinishing a dresser for Eliza and Henry's new room.  We made some sandals for the three youngest but they haven't been able to wear them yet because they are still in winter boots.  We also completed our kitchen floor.  It didn't turn out the way I'd hoped exactly but it looks better than the previous linoleum.
The kids and Garrett were really nice to me on my birthday and made me feel loved.  Yesterday, for our anniversary, Garrett and I were able to go to an early temple session.  We came home and took the kids to the farmer's market which is always delightful.  After working in the cloudy/rainy/sunny/indecisive weather for a few hours, we went to play racquetball.  It must have been a super slow day because we didn't have to reserve a court and when we arrived they gave us the rackets and ball for free and said to play as long as we wanted.  It was great!  The day ended with a lovely dinner.
I was up all night with a throwing up Millie.  She threw up every half hour for a solid 12 hours.  It was a rough night.  I stayed home from church with the two littlest.  It sounds like a lot of other folks are dealing with a belated winter flu bug.  I hope you can all stay healthy and well and enjoy some sunshine if it ever decides to show its face!

 Our linoleum wasn't the worst I've seen but it was in pretty bad shape.  The floor now is just the sub-floor that we painted, sanded, stained and sealed but it kind of looks like stamped concrete.

A lovely rainbow over Simple Little Farm.  It was so stunning!

Hart Happenings

We just got back from a trip to Smithfield to visit the folks and Thomas.  Always so fun to see them!  Carl and Michelle were there as well so we got some good family visiting in on Friday and Saturday. Alex is in New York again, thanks Joe, for letting him crash at your house taking him to the airport the next morning, so we decided to skip down for a visit since the weather was so lousy and we couldn't be working in the garden.  So we went and worked in Mom and Dad's garden!  The weather there on Saturday was lovely.

Our hispanic friend, Lalo was over working on the living room, retexturing the ceiling, which looks really nice sans holes now.  He left his scaffolding overnight and the boys had a blast climbing all over that.

Soccer practice, yard jobs in between rain showers, garden class, you know, the usual.....

Life is good!

Flake Fun

Things are going very well in Snowflake.  We had an ultrasound on Monday (a week ago) and the babies are doing very well. They are both almost 3 lbs and growing well.  Little girl is head down and little boy may have flipped over during the week (it was a weird sensation so I'm not sure if it happened or not).  They are both quite active and love their Dad.  A couple of weeks ago Scott went to the Father & Sons over night activity.  Friday night the babies were both very calm and hardly moved.  When Scott walked in the door on Saturday morning and they heard his voice I wouldn't have been surprised if they had popped through my abdominal wall to hug him! It was awesome!

We are anxiously awaiting a warm 10 day forecast so that we can transplant our peppers, tomatoes, celery and other greenhouse plants.  The potatoes are doing really well as are the broccoli and beans. I thought that spring had arrived but it has been cold for the last couple of days. 

We rented out our Taylor house again.  The last tenants moved out on April 30 and that next week we hired a new employee at the Health Department that needed a house!  Things seem to be working out in that realm which is nice. 

That is all that I can really think of right now.  Hope that you all have a great week!