So a typical day in my house usually includes 3 "adventures" at least from Jacob he is extremely busy and does not stop... we love him non the less:) today's adventure started out at about noon (i know i cant believe we made it to noon) matthew is in the kitchen eating some toast while i start to make a shopping list, i ask where his brother is, matthew replies "i dont know" which is never good so i go looking for him.  this is what i found.

the product:

          the culprit: after we cleaned him up obviously, (and that face was all show he was trying not to smile)

                                                                      the crime scene:

yes those dark spots are wet from him spray the "product" all over it he was drenched! lucky for us when we bought these couches back when i was pregnant with matthew we foresaw something of this nature happening because i had been told horror stories about when josh was this age, so we bought the protector and the cleaner as well:) so all is well, after mommy calmed down a little:)

*side note: no children were harmed in this incident, mommy kept her cool very well actually, and he did not ingest the product.

fordland 5k

on June 16 we had a 5k in fordland benefiting care to learn a program that helps children get what they need such as clothing and food, Stacy (josh's aunt) did sooooo much for this organization and the whole festivities for the day.  We had so much fun and raise so much $ for this cause! cant wait till next year!

 before the race josh and matt walking to the gathering spot

 jacob...he got to ride in the stroller and loved it, at the end he got out and ran across the finish line

 matt wanted to run so we let him he ran most of the race and only rode in the stroller for a little while we are so proud of him! he ran the race in just over 37 minutes.

 my 3 boys before the race

 from left to right...Laura, me, jessica, amy, and terriann we dont know the people in the yellow but they were in the way;) this was pre race getting ready to start.

 our fans...this was great to have at the end you could hear them cheering soooo loud for you as you came in and gave you that extra " i can do it feeling"

 and they're off!

 home stretch... both boys were running their hardest with the biggest grins on their faces! i loved watching them come in and run to me across the finish line! no pics of me crossing because they are awful;) but i did cross and finished in 34 min 32 sec. beating my goal of 35 minutes. this was my first race and def. not my last!

 showing off his medal he won

 from left to right top: amy, jessica, kaio, me, josh, jacob, michael
bottom: terriann, joe, matt, and laura
kaio finished 1st overall, amy finished i believe 3rd overall and 1st womens, way to go hart family!!

my family after the race, poor josh was only expecting to run the mile fun run with matt and jacob in stroller but matt wanted to run with me so he put them both in the stroller and took off to catch me, they didnt catch up till the half way water spot where i waited for them, he got more than he bargained for but finished in about 37 min ( no training and no prior running and pushing 1-2 boys the entire time) you did amazing:)

Dallas

We have been crazy busy these last few months.  We traveled home from Oakland, CA at the beginning of March (we had been there since November) and were home for a about a week and a half, saw friends and family then headed down to Dallas, TX.  We LOVE it here, I wish we were here longer.  We have kept pretty busy here, we went to Cowtown in Fort Worth and watched a cattle drive and matt got to ride on a horse and decided he is a cowboy now:) He also had to buy this particular hat because it was just like Great Grandpa Adams cowboy hat.

 Jacob didn't care for the horse's but he liked watching them,and of course had to wear glasses like dad;)

 With grandpa after everything walking to meet dad at the car.

 Then we decided to take in a Texas Rangers game, the Yankees came to town and we couldn't pass it up.  The boys had so much fun they were so excited they had to sleep in their rangers hats for naps that day. The Rangers won, we were pretty high up but still had a blast with everyone that came.

 from L to R Back row: Laura, Rick, Hilary, Linzi, Rylee, Justin, Josh, Matt
front row: Charles, Kaio, Jacob, Jamie
on the bottom Jacob is saying Texas won!

 i'm not sure why these are out of order  but this is in Cowtown waiting for the cattle drive (which by the way was like 8 cows i think) but the boys thought it was awesome!

 and of course the pool.  We are in the pool everyday i think now that it's opened, matt is getting braver and will go under water especially now that he has goggles that cover his nose for him, he wants to learn to swim but is still a little leary. My parents also came down with Joanna for a weekend we had so much fun in the little time they were here i think we had to recoop for a few days after! but it was fun to have them here, they got a room right down the hall and the boys could come and go as they pleased, and mom and i even got in a few garage sales:).  We also have Justin, Linzi, Rylee, Jayse and Kaio right here so we go play volleyball every monday and friday i'll have to post those pictures later since they are on josh's phone.

Birthday and party

Matt had a "Pirate baseball" birthday party this year i luckily didnt have to do to much because we are in a hotel and cant bake a cake so i just ordered one and they did a baseball cake with the Pittsburgh pirates colors black and yellow on it then we got pirate themed party favors and went to chuck E. cheese. we had so much fun then for his birthday we went to Monterey Bay to the aquarium where we saw jelly fish, otters, star fish and regular fish turtles, sharks and penguins. matthew liked the lepard sharks the best and of course the sand at the beach it was fun watching them run from the waves. jacob did go down once and wasnt a big fan it is ice cold still;).

4 years old!!

Matt had a birthday on the 5th! I cant believe how long it took me to post but i cant believe he is 4 even more!!! he is sooo much fun to have around and is a good big brother to jacob. the last picture is here in cali by the golden gate bridge we saw this "pirate ship" he was pretty stoked. he also calls san francisco "fran sancisco" and has decided that he wants his name to now be "matthew michael aaron leroy hart" because ryan and jacob have michael as a middle name we go round and round about it he has now agreed that it is not his real name but it is his pretend name:) the other day jacob dumped out all the goldfish crackers and matt came in sat down and said " i did not even see that coming" oh no i said "nope i was in the other room" love this kid he is the best cuddler in the world and likes to just lay by me for no reason. also has sooooo much energy but is soo fun to watch and play with. here's to another fun exciting year with you matthew!!!

sky diving

the other day I was on the phone with my mom telling her about this place out here that does indoor skydiving (you know all the thrill without all the risk:) my kind of excitement well josh said we can do it for my late birthday present. so anyway matt heard me talking about it and proceeded to start jumping off the couch onto the cushins so i ask him what he is doing and he says to me "i'm practicing skydiving but i want to do outside sky diving instead of inside skydiving" so i told him mommy wont do it outside so we were going to do it inside his reply was "but mom we cant do it inside because if we do it inside we will get everything all wet!" i had to then explain what skydiving was and that it did not include water:) love that boy.

side note: ever since we have had the skydiving talk he has tried to jump off of everything from the couch and bed to the 6 ft high wall outside in the courtyard! the scary thing is he's not even my daredevil (jacob is) i think i may have to get insurance for those two boys i cant take my eye off them for a second. p.s. jacob has started following his brother off the couch.

christmas pictures

there was alot of this to get the pictures we got:) mainly from my end;) (actually he just fell and was scared of the waves that were coming onto shore) i couldnt not take a picture of it:)

We finally took updated pictures of the boys. they are growing sooooo fast i cant believe it! so there are several:) and more to come because there are some on josh's phone i dont have access too until he gets off work. We did take these with our cameras on our phones so bare with us:)

these are uncropped and unedited because i dont have the program anymore.

matthew says

I know blogs are more fun with pictures but all i have for you today is a story:)

Matthew came to me the other day and says while he is getting dressed "mom something is poking me in the tummy, i think i must have swallowed a golf ball or somthin!" i turn around because this now has my attention and he is pointing to his sternum, you see the harts have sternums that stick out quite far, this did worry me too at one point when matt was a baby but josh, rick, and grandad all have it so i had to try to explain to a 3 year old what it was, he was ok with it when he found out that all 4 of them have it:)

the other day matt was getting dressed and i told him he could pick out his shirt and that he could wear any of his t-shirts long sleeve or short (he always wants to wear his long sleeve ones) because it was cool out but that he wasnt to wear a sweater or a button up shirt his reply was " oh because they are for church and going to the city" i think we must live in the boondocks more than i thought:)

last night we were going into "the city" and matt says to me "mom wake me up when we get there i'm going to take a little nap" ok said, then when we got close i couldnt tell if he was awake or asleep (i was pretty sure awake) so i asked "matt are you asleep?" his reply "yes" lol i love that kid.

innocent enough

That face looks innocent enough right? well think again! see that smirk he has it means business and keeping mommy super busy!! just today I couldnt hear him which all in itself is bad news which most of you who have kids know. I found him in the pantry playing in flour all over the floor, he saw me open the door looked up at me and closed the door so i couldnt either get mad or see i'm not sure what was going through his head. then he had a 3 hour nap so a good chunk of the day right? 2. he found a cup of dr pepper he does really well with straws so i decided to pick my battles and this wasnt going to be one of them wrong again, i turned around and he was dumping it out of the straw onto the couch and playing in it! then 3. he comes in with a handful of diaper wipes the entire container to be exact! by this time it's only 3 oclock then i turn around from my desk to him ripping a book apart!! oh my i'm in trouble with this one he isnt even 2 yet so i dont know what to blame it on!! good thing he is super cute and knows how to work his momma, he already knows it takes a smile, a kiss and a snuggle and i melt:) love these boys but they sure are making it really hard for me to want any more! lol

matt rides a bike!

Matthew can ride a bike without his training wheels all by himself and he is only 3 1/2 years old! he loves to ride bikes and will ride all day long so we took the training wheels off a couple of weeks ago and he took to it pretty well as long as i helped give him a little push. We went to my parents for a week and he had to leave his bike at home so today he went out to play I happened to look out the window and he was riding his bike I was so excited he didnt need me to help hold the bike while he started or anything! yea matthew we are so proud of you and the accomplishments you make everyday!

grandma's house

playing in oscars pool. the boys had so much fun with oscar on the last day anyway:)
matthew holding baby eleah he loves her sooo much and whenever she would fuss he would say i think she just needs her cousin matthew:) and a few of the times when he would take her she would stop:)
jacob found a peach on grandma's table things like this happened often at grandmas since there was always some sort of food on the table:)
and this is what happens when you leave a 1 year old alone with yogurt for 2 seconds:)
we went to visit grandpa at work one day and the boys just had to ride this boat so of course grandma found quarters for them. thanks for letting us stay at your house this week. it made josh's absence a little better, and we had fun with you!

home sweet home

warning: there are a whole lot of pictures on this post:) for all of you who are upset because i never post anymore here you go;). matthew said to me the other day "mom isn't it so good that we are back home where we belong" although we love going on the road and have fun seeing places we wouldnt normally get to see or live it has been a long time since we have been home and it is nice. we were living in an apartment in new york with lots of snow all winter and then in a hotel room for the last 2 months of our job. needless to say we have been living it up in our yard since we've been home and i've put josh to work with my very long honey do list. enjoy the pics

matt loves to help we finally got our front room painted! i love it we have had the paint for it since matt was a baby...he's 3. it looks awesome
jacob is my happy little baby. he loves doing anything matt does and loves his things;)
a little trip to cici's there werent any where we were and the boys love pizza
i bought a little blow up pool for these hot hot days and the boys love it they spend most of the day out there and on the slip n slide
we havent had an oven for about 2 months so we made some brownies when we got home the boys liked licking the batter more than the brownies i think.
this was a long day in the car getting supplies for some of our home renovations, matt didnt even take a bite out of his hamburger before he passed out lol.
just relaxing on the pool, i really didnt have him pose this
playing on the slip n slide with joe and ryan. the boys love living so close to their buddies matt goes and plays with ryan, joe, and mike everyday they do all sorts of fun things

you cant really see it in this pic but jacob likes to drink the water like a water fountain and matt is really getting good at sliding now but as you can see in this pic he mostly ran down the length of the slip n slide and jumped on his butt at the end. (much like how i slide into a base in softball;)
these pictures are from chicago. we stopped there for about 2 weeks before we came home for a little short job. we found this grassy area by the hotel and the boys went out and ran around. it didnt last long because jacob decided the cars on the road looked more fun than his toy cars in the grass.
jacob pointing to the cars on the road
this is in the gym in the hotel both my boys love the workout equipment:)