Idaho...Brrrrr!

I thought I let you all know what this morning when I was up moving around getting ready for work it was 7 no....not 17, not 27, not 37 but seven. This is a picture that I took this morning it's sarah's little red car. Our apartment is in the basement. It was snowing yesturday. Yeah (sigh) snow.

Christmas

Well this year i dont have any of my decorations so i have to improvise and i dont want to buy a ton of them either and just throw them away so i wrapped my door up like a present which josh hasn't seen yet lol:) he thought it was silly but i did it anyway and this is my pineapple tree except i'm getting a real one i just couldnt wait and this was just mocking me on the table:) so there you go a puerto rican christmas.

Christmas Decorations 101

For thoes who want to know how to make the penguins and sheep, it's fairly simple. The Penguins bodies are upside down wooden flower pots, (you can also use the clay pot style turned upside down) and the heads are little wooden balls. You can find both the pots and balls in several sized at any craft store in the wood section. Then come in little bags with several in them. So you paint the front 1/2 of each white, then draw teh out line for the black and paint the rest black and then glue the heads on, oh don't forget faces. The wings are black felt that are glues on the sides, and we did clored felt scarves too. And we glued a black string on the head so you can attach a hook to hang them on the tree. But I set up a little penguin village since I dont' have a tree, and it is just as cute.
The sheep are a little harder to explain. we took the yarn and wraped it several times around a pice of plastic that was 1 1/2 inches wide. Then we pulled it off keeping it wraped and tied a stringaround the middle so you have two sides of loops. And I foudn it was easiest to tie a loop with ribbon and slide it on the string when you tie it around the center. Then you cut all the loops on each side and you have a yarn puff ball. But it's kinda shaggy and uneven so give it a hair cut with sharp sissors till it's an even puff ball. Then cut out a little face from felt and hot glue it on, and put two small pipe cleaners through the center string that is holding it all together and bend them down to make four little legs. It's harder to explain than it is to make. You really can't mess the sheep up.
The wooden solders we made were out of old fashioned close pins if you can imagine that. black or white pants, red shirts with X's across the chest in the opposit color of the pants and little black puff balls on the heads for brittish hats. They are very cute too.
So for thoes of you looking for a Christmas craft, good luck adn have fun.
~Sarah

Christmas Ornaments

Sarah has some GREAT ideas for Christmas tree ornaments! Here are a picture of a couple we did together when she came down for Thanksgiving. We also did little soldiers, but we forgot to take a picture of them for the blog. The penguins are my favorite. This picture was taken before we put little scarves on them, so you'll just have to imagine how ridiculously cute they are with scarves.

It was so fun to have Sarah and Mark down here. Mark made me eat a goose. Seriously. A REAL GOOSE. They aren't like turkeys, let me tell you. Surprisingly, it wasn't bad. It tasted more like beef than poultry. It looked scary, but it tasted good.

Our tree is half up. Baby Garry has a burning desire to pull the lights down and eat them. Needless to say we discourage it. He's starting to understand though, and I'm excited about that. I'll look over and see him cautiously pulling a strand off the tree to eat. When I say "Garry, no, we don't eat lights", he smiles really big, drops them, and crawls away to play with something else. Unfortunately, his memory seems to be short, and in about five minutes he's back at the tree staring at the lights, reaching his little chubby hand up....... and we go through the same routine.

Ashlee b-day

BIG SEVEN

Santa visit the Goldhardt's home

so santa came to the Goldhardt's house and Ashlee was the only one that wasnt scared!!!

30 weeks

Ok, so here are the pictures of me. They are Thanksgiving day recent. And I know I don't even look pregnant when I'm wearing my hoodie, and some picutres I look bigger than others. But I promice I really am showing, you can tell in the profile picture. And Mark looks the same, not pregnant, which is good, espically since he is a guy. Lydia is starting to strech a little bit and push on my organs. Not just kick but pushing and holding. It's not bad yet, though i know I still have 2 1/2 months for her to get bigger an dpush harder. Thursday we were in the car after we had eaten thanksgiving dinner and I hadnt gone to the bathroom since adn she didnt like the fact that there was no room on either the top or the bottem. So she streched otu and squished both my stomach and bladder...while driving in the car, you can imagine how fun that was. Well I'm 30 weeks now so the count down begins. 10 weeks left. I think I can I think I can. :)

It came to pass....

It came and it is past and I think we are all about 10 lbs. rounder around the middle. We had a wonderful day here. It was not November weather, I'll bet we were just about as warm as Jamie and Terriann but that made it nice for Grandpa to work on the barn. Jayse, Dale, and Joseph had spent the night and they were up early helping Gramps. Lindy had also spent the night and she was up simi-early helping me. LaDawn and Glenda came over and help set up the tables. Our families are getting smaller but we still have a pretty good housefull when even part of us get together. I'm not sure if I got the pictures on the computer but if I did here they are, if you don't see them ...Oh Well! I love you all, Grandma

Happy Birthday

Happy 18th Birthday to Lindy! hope it is a good one, i know i told you yesterday that i was coming home for it but josh didnt like that idea sorry.
we love you~josh and jamie

1/2 Way There!

Well I just thought I'd let you all know, I'm at 20 weeks!! Woo Hoo! So I should be having Alexander Daniel Compton in 20 weeks. Every day just gets more exciting and makes me more tired. Hows the rest of you Pregos?

Sunday

Just to let you all know, the Extreme Home Makeover that was in Logan will be on T.V. this coming Sunday (November 26). It is on at 7:00 p.m. Utah time so I am not exactly sure when it is on anywhere else....anyway it should be a good one!

Viejo San Juan

This weekend Todd and I rode the bus to Old San Juan. It is only 10 minutes away from our apartment with traffic but we still hadn't taken the time to really look around at all there is to see. We decided to check out the old forts as well as some of the local booths down by where all the cruise ships come in.

San Sebastian

This weekend Josh got off so we went exploring again. This time we went towards the west coast again to San Sebastian. You have to hike into this waterfall/waterhole down a steep hill probably like the one behind keith and janets house except picture that twice the length probably and muddy and wet with all of your stuff and kids:) we dont have kids but josh was helping out his cousin and i didn't know we were hiking at all so of course i wasn't in hiking clothes so we all stopped changed into our swimming suits and hiked in those barefoot since we were all in flip flops and it wasn't easy. This is the first fresh water i've swam in since i left missouri so it was kinda nice yet weird. It is freezing cold and not a whole lot of sun since it has trees all around it. You have to swim to the other side and climb up next to the waterfall to get up then jump through on the middle level that you see, when i say jump through that is because you jump through the waterfall, it took me awhile to get up the courage because you can't see the water from where you start and you have to do a sort of run leap jump your safe because it's extremely deep and you dont have to jump out far and it's not slippery but it is pretty high and hurts a little when you hit the water. anyway it was tons of fun after all is said and done, we then went on a drive over to rincon which is the best surfing apparently, but we went to a surf shop and to a town where they had all these booths set up with food and shopping, needless to say it was a fun filled long day. we love you all and wish you a happy thanksgiving.

Third trimester here we come

Well I'm now 29 weeks and officially in my 3rd and final trimester. Horay! Only 3 more month, well actually a little less, and I have Christmas and Thanksgiving right in the middle of it all to make the time go by faster. I guess it's about time for me to put another picture on the blogg, although I don't think I look much bigger, but then again what do I know. I see my self every day and my mirror only shows from the chest up, so I rarely see my profile, it's kinda suprising to me when I actually see what I look like.
Mark and I are driving down to Cedar City Monday to spend the week with Garry and Sheri. We are pretty excited. Well not about the driving, just about the week. But 6 hours isnt' that bad. Everyone have a Happy Thainkgiving!

I love Christmas!

I was driving home from an activity at the Student Branch the other day and when I got into Willard, I noticed that they had already started to put up Christmas Decorations! I know a lot of times we complain about how early Christmas starts and that Thanksgiving just gets totaly looked over. And it's all because of how comercialized Christmas has become. But when I saw those decorations, that's not what when through my head. I was just really excited for Christmas. After living for 2 years in a culture where they don't hardly know who Christ is, it's really exciting to see Christmas already. And even though they didn't put those decorations up because they love the spirit of Christms, that's what I enjoy, and those decorations just make it all the better. It's so exciting to live in a country that was founded on Christan principles and where everyone is excited to celebrat the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So I hope everyone enjoys this comming Christmas Season! I know I sure will!

Toms Eagle Project

100 posts YEAH!!! It's sooooo cool!!

Christmas Decorations

So this year I wanted to actually decorate for Christmas. But since I havent done much for it in the past we don't really have anything but stockings and christmas lights. I have found some really cute Ideas for tree ornaments on line that will cost next to nothing to make, but if anybody has any ideas for inexpensive decorations let me know. They can be hard and time consuming too, I have plenty of time. I just want my tree to look cute.
~Sarah

New Home!

Hey everyone! We finally did it! We are in a 2 bedroom apartment! Yesterday when I got the keys Mom brought all the kids over and we did some moving. The cool thing was, all the kids gout out of school early so we got a whole lot done. Everyone showed up around 1:00ish and we started hauling stuff from one apartment to the next.

Then Mike got home at 2....which was AWSOME, considering he doesn't usualy get off work till 5. So after working for a few hours mom sent Marshall on a pizza run. Horray for Little Ceasers! We fed 10 people for $15. Then we worked some more and mostly all that was left in the other apartment was Mikey's crib, a few dressors, and some odds and ends. I looked at the crib and was thinking, maybe we won't have to take it apart. Maybe we can just carry it down the stairs. That thing was bought for me when I was a baby. It was pretty old, and hard to take apart.

Then everyone started to get hungry again and that was around the time our friends Tiffany and Anton showed up. So we decided to go on a food run. We went to wendies and got 13 jr Bacon cheese burgers (yeah the cooks weren't to happy about that) and then 7 orders of large fries. It was fun to see the cooks faces though. Yeah it pretty much cracke me up.

Once we get home, we bless the food and Mike thanked everyone for comming to help. Then he covered my eyes and took me into Mikey's room. Mike had left earlyer to go get some parts for the crib to make it less hazardous. Well he took me in the room and uncovered my eyes. While I was gone he had set up a brand new crib for Mikey. He wasn't on a hardware run, he just got a new crib. Yeah just a few emotions.

Anyhow I've been feeling sick so thanks for everyones help. I don't think you even realized how much good everyone did. I couldn't have done anything this week. THANK YOU!!!

The Salt Lake Tribune ran this story today:

More than treading water
New coach brings new identity to suddenly solid Utah water polo
By Lauren Sledge Special to The Tribune
Article Last Updated:11/09/2006 05:23:10 PM MST

The University of Utah men's club water polo team's Web site reads "2006 - A Championship Year." Once again, the team looks forward to the upcoming conference championships - Utah is in the Southwest Division of the College Water Polo Association - but this time, the Utes believe they have the ability to come out as the top team. "The Utes are having a great year," said senior captain Jared Huff, who is from Kearns. "We are all on the same page about what we want to achieve this year." Water polo at the university has been a club sport since 1995, which means it operates as a nonprofit. The team receives $1,500 from the school each season, leaving the players to supply the remainder of the money themselves by raising money through fund-raisers, or collecting what they can from sponsors. "Every year, the support is getting better," said Utah coach Michael Goldhardt. "Utah high schools have a huge water polo program, which helps to contribute to the growing number of followers in this sport." Goldhardt has coached water polo for 12 years, but this is his first season with the Utes. Born and raised in Salt Lake, Goldhardt is popular in local and international water polo circles. He played at Granite High, as well as for two years in Europe. With 22 players on the roster, most from Utah, the team is a tight group and was ready for the competition at last weekend's championships. The Utes lost 6-5 in the third-place game Sunday to finish fourth out of 10 teams in the division. This year, in particular, proved to be different than the others. With a new coach, there is a new outlook on the season, as the team sees what it can accomplish if each player sets his mind to it. "Yes, we have made a lot of changes," Goldhardt said. "When I was brought on to be the head coach, we changed quite a few things, and most importantly realized we really have a chance to win conference championships and go on to nationals." The team's loss to third-ranked Arizona earlier this season set the stage for the players to turn their season around by learning from the mistakes they'd made. The loss put things into perspective, so the negatives turned into a positive for the Utes by channeling the loss into some constructive criticism they could grow from. "A lot of people will be surprised when we win conference championships," captain Justin Crump said. It didn't happen this year. But it that could change soon.

Well they misquoted a few times: Especially the mission vs. playing in Europe. But thats ok. Any publicity is good publicity.

The Crowell Family

Yes! It's Friday! I just thought I would post something...I thought I should tell you all what is going on in our lives right now. Lets see, as you all know I graduated from Utah State last spring in History and Political Science. I am now working for a law firm here in Logan as a legal assistant. Some days I enjoy my job and others I really hate it. It can be really challenging working for attorneys!! That is about all I am up to! Kody is working on his last year as an undergrad. He is majoring in Biology/Pre Med. He recently took the MCAT (Med School Admissions Test) and did really well! The average score in the nation was a 22 and he received a 29!! Right now he is working on his secondary applications. Applying for medschool is quite the challenge...first you turn in your primary application (and pay an application fee) then if they want to hear back from you they send you a secondary application (with another application fee) and then finally if they like that application you get to fly out to the school (pay for your own hotel and flight, etc.) and you have an interview with that school. Then finally if they liked you they will accept you! It is a lot of work ( not to mention money) but it will be worth it in the end, hopefully. So far Kody has received 10 secondary applications to: Brown, Albany, Virginia Commonwealth, Temple, Wisconsin, Penn State, ST. LOUISE, Case Western, George Washington and my favorite the University of Utah! So hopefully we will end up at one of those school (I would prefer the U of U or St. Louis)! Anyway, that is all we are really up to, school and work! Marriage life is great, I would highly recommend it!Hope you all have a great day!

P.S. I want to post some pictures from our wedding but I don't understand how...help.

Family Pictures

Since Grandma taught me how to post messages, I figured I better make her look good and actually do it. Above are some pictures from Halloween and our Family picture (needed to add the family photo so that I can add it to our profile.)

More Baby Pictures

Here I go again posting baby pictures. These are of Baby Garry while we were up at Great-Grandma's funeral. The trip was fun, I was in the mother's room with little Garry during the entire funeral, so I didn't get to hear most of it, but Garry said it was really good.

EFY

I have been asked to teach for EFY next year. If any of you are thinking of attending, let me know where you might be going and I'll request that location.

mike

Adventures in travel

Well, we made it back from Salt Lake but it was quite a trip. As we were leaving Vernal Garry threw an apple core out of the window and it wouldn't roll back up again. We were not excited about going through Wyoming at night with the window down so we went back to Western Auto and bought some duct tape and plastic. Grandpa and Garry did a good job of covering the window, so good that the driver couldn't see out of it. When we got to Rock Springs the window was working again so we got rid of the plastic and tape but then the car wouldn't start. With a can of ether and a lot of prayers we got it going again and then didn't turn if off after that. We made good time and were just 2 and a half hours from home when the fule pump totally quit on us. (with a full tank of gas.) Mike and Trevor came up, loaded the van on our trailer and we were home around 5:00 P.M. (and VERY grateful to be home.) I'm glad we were there and now I am glad we are home. Love to you all.

Baby Garry Halloween

Well, it's about time I posted Baby Garry's Halloween pictures. He was a ferocious lion. He LOVED going trick-or-treating and seeing all of the people. He also got us lots of candy, of which we are grateful. :) Next I'll post some of his pictures from Great Grandma's funeral.

Grandmas Funeral

For all of you who couldnt be there today, the Funeral was a beatiful and such a sweet service. All thoes who recalled memories adn stories, read poems and sange did such a wonderful job. And there were root beer barell candies everywhere. And we had grandmas candy carmel with our lunch. It was so fun to see everyone. Oh and I wanted to make Grandmas Carmels a part of my Christmas goodies this year. So Grandma if you or anyone else has her recipe would you post it on the blogg?
Mark and I are both glad we got to see everyone we did and we miss everyone we didn't see. We love all you guys.

Monkying Around

Here are a few pictures I thought everyone would like to see. I love that picture of my dad it is a side of him he doesnt always show but he sure loves being a grandpa. Next to him is Kenzie Moak in her Dorthy halloween costume her mommy made. And of courseour wonderful little monkey boy in his Halloween costume. He went to show Great Grandma his costume the day after Halloween. Aunt Melissa helped me make this costume. Look close at his feet. If you cant tell they have gloves on them. He was so stinking cute.

Marching Band

Well yesterday was the end of marching band season. I wasn't sure if I was happy or sad about it, cause it's so much fun, but it's also very time and energy consuming. I've decided I'm glad it's over though, cause now I get to go to early morning seminary! And I can' do stuff on saturdays too, lol. But our last competition was great fun. It was up at Mizzou, and we placed 2nd in prelims and finals, so we were excited. Right next to where our buses were parked was this huge hill that we all rolled down, it was so much fun. Then somebody found carboard and tried siliding down on it, but it didn't work so well, they ended up falling off. I had a good time, and I think Marshall did too, but now he's sick. :-( I would have posted pictures, but my camera's not digital. I love you all lots!

University of Utah takes 3rd!

Well, we had a great weekend but came up short for the Conference Championships, meaning no National Championship run this year.

We started our tournament against The University of Wyoming and beat them 22 to 5. Our next game was against the University of Arizona who we beat 10 to 6. That put us in the Semi-Finals against the University of Colorado who beat us in double overtime 6 to 5.

8 of my players were nominated for All-American and All-Conference.

Now onto the recruiting trail for next year!

Fajardo

We went to Fajardo today since Josh had it off. Fajardo is on the east coast, the first picture is of us in back of the hotel we went to look at with a pretty ocean view. After we looked at the hotel we went down the coast to find a beach. We found one that nobody was at and were in the water, me and terriann kept stepping on something the guys said it was just rocks, Josh went to pick one up so we could see and it was a sand dollar! He was my hero! I have been looking for a sand dollar, sea shells and starfish since we've been here. So we were stepping on hundreds of sand dollars all over everywhere we walked! Then when I put them on the beach so we could get more Josh held up something for me to see and it was this starfish! yea! he was batting a thousand today! in all he got me 22 sand dollars and 5 starfish, we are going to decorate our christmas tree with them:) We could see the little feelers on both of them it was kinda gross but cool at the same time, we did kill them but it was for a good cause(Christmas, and my happiness) We had to cut the afternoon short because it started to down pour on us and Todd got stung by a jellyfish a couple of times, but i will let terriann fill you in on those details. all in all it was a pretty eventful and fun saturday.

Halloween Costumes

Ok so I tried to put pictures on several times but my internet conection is to slow, so I'm posting now and the pictures will be added later. I wanted to show everyone our Halloween costumes. Mark's a Nudist on Strike. His sign says Nudist on Strike on one side, the other says Underneath it all, everyone's a nudist. I'm a chicken hatching an egg. Get it? When people commented on my costume I said "Im hatching an egg" And Mark is very proud of our pumpkin. That was the first time he has ever carved a pumpkin and it turned out the way he wanted it to. And on Oct 25 we got about 3 inches of snow. The picture was taken after about 1 inch of snow from teh front fo my appartment, you can see my red car.
October went by way too fast. I can't believe it's already November. And Wednesday Nov 8 is exactly 3 months away from my due date. I'm hoping the holidays just come and go quickly. I'm assuming they will cause the last few months have just gone by so fast. Lydia moves more and more every day, espically when Mark is around, and my stomach muscles are being streched, and let me tell you, that is a comfey feeling.
~Sarah