Many Blessings!!

It has definitely been way too long since I have blogged. I intend on being better in 2010!

I will begin by saying that BJ and I have had many blessings to be thankful for especially this past few months.

• Our most exciting news came right before Christmas....We are expecting! We were elated! This Thursday, we had our first Dr.'s appointment. We caught a good glimpse of little Baby Hart and heard it's strong heartbeat. It is crazy to imagine this little "being" growing inside of me! It was an exciting moment! We were also excited that we could now share this news with all our friends and family! I am 10wks along. My due date is August 27th, just a day after our 4th anniversary! What a great anniversary present. I'll start posting baby bump pics when my baby bump begins to grow!

• I finished my clinicals on December 13th and soon after accepted a new job. I studied for almost a full month before taking the national board exam that I needed to pass to become licenced as an Occupational Therapist. I took the test Sat. Jan 23rd with NO IDEA how I had done. I started working on a temporary license last Monday at The Transitional Learning Center here in Lubbock. This is a rehab facility for individuals (adults) with an acquired brain injury. I have loved this setting and facility since I did an internship there about a year ago. This is where I wanted to work and God blessed me with that opportunity. So, the Test..... today I received report that I PASSED!! What a relief!

• On December 29th, my sister, Nisha married Evan Arnold! We are so excited to have Evan as part of the family. My sister looked absolutely beautiful and it is so obvious that they are a perfect match! I am so happy for them! My mom, of course did an amazing job with the wedding plans. Everything turned out Great.

• While my family was here for Nisha's wedding, we celebrated my Granma's 90th birthday! She flew down from Wisconsin and was quite the trooper.

This is such an exciting time in our lives right now! We are overwhelmed with Amazing family and friends.....Here's to a Great 2010!

Our 4th of July!

We spent our 4th of July holiday cleaning out the flowerbed of the new house!

Before:

After: Hope everyone had a Great 4th of July!

A Long Overdue Update....

Okay, so it has been a really long time since I have updated the blog. I seem to be able to update on Facebook but it seems to takes a little more effort to keep the blog up to date.

Without being to lengthy, I will attempt to sum up our past few months.

Things have been pretty crazy since April in the Hart house.

• In May I finished up the course work for my masters in Occupational Therapy. I "graduated" but still have 6 months of Fieldwork and a board exam to take before I am officially finished. I started Fieldwork today so was blessed with a couple of months to travel with BJ and take care of some stuff around the house.

My parents and I after graduation!

• BJ has been traveling quite a bit for work. He was in Washinton D.C. for two weeks so his mom joined him for Mother's Day and then I got to come out for a few days. D.C. was nice as always- sorry no pics!


• I feel that this next bit of information deserves much more than a bullet.... On May 13th we lost my Dear Aunt Wynette to a battle with liver cancer. She was a wonderful woman. She always seemed to be the glue that held my Dad's side of the family together. Family was such a priority to her. She was a blessing to everyone she encountered.

My aunt is the one beside me on the left side. This picture was taken at my cousin, Dayme's wedding last summer!

We loved her so much. She will be deeply missed.

As we drove home from the funeral, we witnessed the most beautiful west texas sunset and knew that she was smiling down on us, enjoying her father in Heaven!

• In the mist of all of this we decided to put our house on the market. Much to our suprise the house sold in just 7 days. So we quickly found another to move into. We close this weekend, June 26th. We will be ready for visitors soon! Lots of cook-outs at the Hart's to come!


• BJ was working out in Minneapolis for the last couple of weeks. Luckily he was working with a great co-worker, his friend, Barry. So, I drove to Amarillo to visit some friends and then flew out to Minneapolis with Judy, Barry's wife to spend some time with BJ. We had a great time. Our hotel was across the street from the Mall of America so we got some good tax free shopping in. We went fishing on Sat morning, caught 44 fish in 2 1/2 hours. After a nap, we conquered the amusement park in the Mall of America. It exceded our expectations. Sunday BJ and I went for a wonderful run around one of the beautiful lakes in the area. It was so beautiful there. Too bad the winters are brutal. Sunday night we went to this awesome little pub in downtown Minni. On the roof they had Lawn Bowling. So much fun. My grandparents live in Wisconsin. I have not seen them since 2000. So I rented a car and headed over to give them a visit. It was so nice to see them again. We had a nice time. My Grandad is 97!

Ava, Adelynn and Will hanging out at my parents gym. These are my two best friend's precious children. I love these kids and evey moment I get to spend with them!

Judy had the "catch of the day" at least a 3lb Bass!

BJ lawn bowling at Britts Pub....fun little local hang out!

My Grandparents in Wisconsin!

Hancock Wedding & New Addition

Last weekend we went to Amarillo to watch our friends Todd & Heather get married! Our good friends Justin & Melissa, along with their daughter Ava were all in the wedding. It was beautiful and we had a great time. I didn't catch a good photo of Todd & Heather together. This pic doesn't do them justice!

Precious Ava, dancing the night away! She did so great walking down the isle.

Justin, Melissa, BJ and I.

A new addition to the family.......well, the extended family! BJ's niece and nephew got a new puppy last week. Welker!

Good Friends = Good Times

"Where there are friends, there is wealth."

~Titus Maccuis Plautus

I have a great group of core friends that I have known since middle and high school. We have made it a yearly tradition since 1995 to have a "girls night out" around Christmas time. If we never all get together through out the year, we always do at Christmas. This year due to various situations we were unable to get together. So, it was moved to Spring Break.

I love these girls and am so blessed to have such loyal friends even though we all have moved away and our lives have gone in different directions!

We are missing Niki in this picture... :( She is expecting baby #2 and headed home before the camera came out.

To my Blogging friends with kids!

Please be careful what you post!
The following is a post from a college friend of mine:

"Well, I had just posted 2 new posts a little while ago... the first one is no longer on here. It was a cute little post showing how Logan had learned how to take off her diaper and it included a pic of her walking and showing her little hiney. So not a big deal but fortunately, I checked my site meter right after I had posted it (not sure why I did, but I am glad that I did). Well anyway, in a matter of maybe 2-3 minutes, I had 16 hits from various foreign countries. Anyone that watches their site meter, realizes that you do get some random visitors from time to time, but literally 16 in a 2 minute time span on my blog is little weird. So I quickly removed that post and all pictures and got a little sick to my stomach. I don't know if I am just paranoid, but I have read on other blogs how they have tracked key words that had brought random visitors to their blog and it can be gross (regardless how naive the intent). So, just a word of caution - be careful what you are putting out there of your kiddos... there are some lurkers that are not welcome visitors that have access to everything you are allowing them to have access to... "


On another note, I just purchased a camera on ebay exactly like mine that was recently stolen. I got a pretty good deal since it has no cables, box, etc. So....there should be more posts with pictures again soon!

Weekend with the Merrill's

This post is a little late, but I just got this picture and decided to share.

A couple of weeks ago, Justin, Melissa and Ava came to spend the weekend with us. We had a great time catching up.

Ava was so good all weekend which certainly didn't help prevent the "baby fever" I seem to have!

Melissa and I went shopping on Sat afternoon and Justin captured this pic on his phone. Ava woke from her nap and went straight into BJ's lap! Too Cute!