We have been busy around here. In fact, I'm just going to write this post and then some time in the future I'll do an all picture and video post to go along with this narrative.
In April, Nick finished another semester of classes and now is down to ONE left! WAHOO! This means he is finished with his Bachelor's in December. Being the proud wife I am, I also would like to brag that even with having a new baby in the house for more than half of this past semester, he still did great in his classes with his lowest grade being an A-. After Nick finished the semester we took a day to clean our house really good and then took our first big road trip with Harvey down to Arizona. The drive wasn't too bad. Harvey sure is a trooper with us. He did pretty good on the drive considering he hates his car seat. We got to visit my dad and surprise two of my sisters and their families. My dad knew we were coming because we stayed with him, but my sisters had NO idea and it was really fun to COMPLETELY surprise them and their families. We had never pulled off a big surprise like that on anyone and they had never been surprised like that by anyone so it was really fun!
While in Arizona, Harvey had a lot of firsts. He got to meet some of his aunts, uncles, and cousins for the first time (I think he and Daniel will get along great. Daniel loved to give Harvey big hugs.) He went to two major league baseball games. He went swimming in Grandpa's pool. He went to the zoo. He came to the movies with us. He slept really amazing because we kept pretty busy and I also think because of the heat. We stayed for two weeks because we had no obligations back in Utah and took advantage of our last summer that we don't have to worry so much about a work schedule.
After we got back home from Arizona, we went to Davis's baby blessing and said goodbye to my grandma who was going back to Michigan. We used our pass of all passes some more to go mini golfing. We have had several parties with friends. We went up to my mom's Mother's Day weekend and went to the drive in. And speaking of that, it was my FIRST Mother's Day as a Mom. Nick made my and I breakfast that morning and we both got plates with Harvey's footprints/foot-smooshes. He kept curling his little toes in the paint for Dad :). We got a new washing machine (which works amazing on the cloth diapers). Nick's brother got home from his 2 year mission in England. Nick inherited a giant TV from his grandpa who had it in storage at his Dad's work. I'm talking the size of TV that we had to rearrange our entire living room to fit it in. I was kind of annoyed at it at first, but now I'm kind of enjoying it just as much as Nick is. We got to have a couple date nights in there since we've been back. Our neighbors are moving and we found out that some of our friends are moving in next door. Also, when our landlord came to renew our contract Nick asked him about doing maintenance to decrease our rent even more and the landlord said that would be great for him too so another yay for saving us quite a bit of money. And last but not least, we also got some soil, pots and plants and made a potted garden to the side of our 4-plex. We have 2 tomato (one larger, one smaller), 1 butternut squash, 4 green pepper, 4 red pepper, 3 anaheim pepper, and a basil plant. I've been checking on the plants each day to make sure we keep them watered since it's already getting pretty toasty here.
So far the summer has been going great and keeping us super busy. We are having fun being social and taking advantage of the extra time Nick gets to spend at home for a few months. We still have a lot more coming up too. Harvey is finally getting to the doctor (we were waiting to make sure he got covered from Medicaid and then we got notice that he was covered while we were in Arizona... then now finally this week he has an appointment.) At the end of this month, we'll be going on another road trip with his family to Arkansas to visit Nick's older brother, wife, and their new baby Liam. Then Nick will be working on a deal for his work with his dad and if that goes through, we're planning on coming out to Michigan for my cousin's wedding in July. If we can figure out how to go with a baby, I really REALLY want (though I feel like it is a need) to go to Cedar Point when we're out there. We'd be so close to it and I have not been since I lived in Michigan nearly 10 years ago! Best amusement park ever for those who are unfamiliar with it... and it's in northern Ohio. We also have a large Potts family reunion in July that will be taking place mostly down in Southern Utah.
What a long update and I could make it even longer so maybe I should start posting little things here and there again so it's not such an overwhelming catch up post every time I post! :)
