For Grandma

I'm Sorry Grandma you are still sick!!! I love you and hope you feel better soon!!!

New Shop=GIVEAWAY

I've decided to start selling a few of the things I enjoy making! I've created a website like BLOG at TerriannHart.blogspot.com and opened an ETSY shop at TerriannHart.etsy.com. Things are still very much in the beginning stages but I thought to give it a jump start I would GIVEAWAY one of my bags! There are 4 different styles and the winner gets to choose which one they like best. ( Pictures solely to show bag design, I may or may not be able to purchase the same fabric as seen in the photos although I already have the top right bag finished and in stock.)

To enter once go check out my new blog and leave me a comment telling me what you think (suggestions for improvement?).

To have your name entered twice post a link on your blog and then leave me another comment with a link to your blog so I can check it out too.

If you really want to win you can post a link on Facebook then come back and tell me about it so I'll know to enter your name a third time.

I will announce a WINNER when I get back home to Missouri on SATURDAY, December 19!

Good Luck!

Crazy Wes

I asked Wes to smile and this is what I got haha! That's alright, I was just trying to snap a photo of his boots that he wears EVERYDAY. Look out Missouri...we're coming home soon and Wes has been looking forward to seeing the "moo-cows" ever since he opened up his boots!

Happy Birthday

Hm - is today Jamie's birthday? Oh wait, let me look in my handy little family address and birthday book. YES - it IS Jamie's birthday :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jamie. Hope you are having a wonderful day of leisure in that resort you are staying in Ha Ha.

Love you!

Grandma

as some of you know and others may not our sweet little grandma is sick again this time with shingles!!! she was sick last year for christmas and if she still has them this year nobody with kids that havent had chicken pox or pregnant can go visit!! so sad! so keep her in your prayers! we love you grandma and hope you get to feeling better:)

I am thankful for....

This story could have been a lot different.  Glad we only ened up with minor bumps and bruises

For Sarah:)

So I tried to upload this link as a video and it so did not work for me. I did upload on your facebook account Sarah.
Me and Shawn only get two stations on our TV and one of our station is the discovery Channel. We were watching Mythbuster (Shawn's favorite show) and they did one on duct tape and everything you can make with duct tape. They made a Sail Boat which was my favorite part. but the whole time I thought of Sarah and thought she would get a kick out of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnILEXnRHP0

Hunter's First Deer

Hunter got his first deer on Saturday, the 21st. He was pretty excited. It was a doe. Then he and Connor changed from Hunting clothes to basketball clothes and they went to their 9 am game. Their team is now 3 - 0.

Glenda

We had a fun time taking Glenda's Senior pictures. 

Taking after Uncle Joesph

During naptime today Xander would NOT stay in his bed. So finally I told him to just go to sleep and I didnt care where. He asked if he could sleep in the livingroom and I told him yes. This is what he came up with.

Hunting Season

My Dad Rocks.

Seriously.

Beach Day and 5K

I haven't posted on this blog in a long time so I thought I would share a few recent pics.

On Monday we went to the beach. When I say "went to the beach" what I really mean is "we went to the beach and I actually remembered to take my camera so now I have proof." We actually go to the beach quite often (today included), but I usually don't want to bring anything except the room key.

I digress...

On Monday we went to the beach and Wes brought his new bucket and shovel. The rules were simple...NO WATER. Two hours later we came home soaking wet and without a shovel, but we sure had a blast!

A couple weekends ago I ran a 5k. Amy (my sister in law...and cousin), and Mary (the manager of the gift shop here at the hotel...she lets me use her kitchen to bake important things like cookies) ran too. It was fun. Everyone did better than they thought they would and we are all looking forward to the next one (turkey trot anyone?).

11 minute biscuts

Or...

Karine's Drop Biscuits

3 cups Quick Mix
3/4 cups milk or water

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Grease a baking sheet. Combine Quick Mix and milk or water in a medium bowl. Stir until just blended. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes, until golden brown. Makes 12 large drop biscuits.
Variations
Cheese & Herb Biscuits: Add 1/3 cup grated Cheddar cheese and chopped parsley, chives or herbs to taste while stirring dough.
Buttermilk Biscuits: Substitute 3/4 cup buttermilk for milk or water.
Country Dumplings: Drop dough by tablespoonfuls over top of boiling beef or chicken stew. Boil gently 10minutes, uncovered. Cover and cook over medium-high heat 10 more minutes, until cooked through. Makes 12 dumplings.
Orange Biscuits: Add 1 tablespoon grated orange peel. If desired, substitute 2 tablespoons orange juice for part of milk or water.
Fruit Cobbler: Spoon dough over top of hot, sweetened fruit or berries and bake in an 8 inch square pan about 20-25 minutes until golden brown.


I started laughing as I made this recipe because it was TOO easy. After it was mixed I just used my hands and made dough drops about the same size. Who cares if they're not totally even..in my case I have a buncha boys who just want to eat...not admire.

Christmas Around the World

Well, As a few of you know, I've been involved with BYU's Folk Dance program all year. It's really been a lot of fun. Well, every December BYU has a program called Christmas Around the World. It's a big dance concert centered around Christmas and how it's celebrated around the world. This year is the 50th anniversary of the program so they are making a big deal out of all of it. So that means I have been rather busy with all of that. The performances are the first week in December, which is right after I get back from Thanksgiving break. So if anyone happens to be in Provo that weekend, you aught to see if you can get tickets to the show! Grant it, the cheapest tickets are like $12 and they go up from there. Also, they've been on sale for a while so I'm not sure exactly what all is left. At any rate, we had a performance last night at some 5 stake youth activity not too far from here. As part of the activity, we performed almost all of our dances that we have learned this year. So we got to perform the dance we are doing for Christmas Around the World. We are doing a Scottish dance, which means that we got all dressed up in traditional Scottish garb. So I got a picture of me in my kilt. It's great! I just thought I would share the picture and without a little bit of background the picture doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Enjoy!

UTAH!!!!

Halloween pictures!!!!!

So me and Mark went to Utah randomly this weekend, left the kids with mom as I am sure you already new. Here we went to pick up a car for Mark's mom. We had lots of fun and got away from the kids for a little while. We went hiking with our niece and nephew.

Paula Update

Well, I haven't exactly been really good about keeping my blog or this one updated on myself. Mostly because I have a hard time getting the motivation to do much more than talk to Paula and do my homework. At any rate, school is going good, not too much to report there. I'm busy with Folk Dance, but that's another story. As I'm sure you've guessed, this post is mainly because of Paula. Well she finally found out what base she's going to be stationed at! She is going to be stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, just south of Knob Noster, MO (I know, it's one of the coolest names for a city EVER!). For those of you not familiar with Missouri geography, that's between Warrensburg and Sedalia. So she's only going to be a few hours away from home. But the BEST news is that she also found out that she is guaranteed a full year before she can be deployed!!!!!!! Which means.....(drum roll please).......We can still get married this Summer!!!!!! HURRAY!!!!!! Anyway, I just thought I would share my happy news with everyone else. Perhaps I'll get around to updating you all on everything else going on at some point. Just don't hold your breath.

something to be grateful for

this is an answer to everybody's prayers. this is the vehicle that i was in when we hit an ied. it really doesn't look bad compared to a lot of the vehicles that had hit them.

operating

this is my team. i am on the left. next is belanger, our saw gunner (the one that carried the machine gun). then is bustamante, the team leader. in the middle is our lieutenant. to his right is majka, the radio operator. and last is our corpsman doc lud.

these are my moto pics. this is the fun part of my job.

this is probably my favorite picture from this deployment... either this one or the one above it. i was way up in a mountain and this cobra flew right over us. these things were life savers out there. bad guys didn't want to play anymore as soon as the cobras got there.

life in afghanistan

this is our living quarters in bakwa. we got there and they didn't have anything but a parachute up for us to sleep under. i used my framing skills and built us a house out of scrap wood. it wasn't a bad place considering that we were in a combat zone.

this is how we got supplies. at first they sent everything this way, but mail started not getting to the fobs, so they started sending that with convoys. food, water, and fuel came this way though.

it was really hot out there. we would have water hot enough to make hot coco to drink on patrols, then shower with well water that was way cold. i figured ya'll could appreciate this picture. this is what happens to a bag of gummy worms when shipped in that kind of heat.

i was invited to have diner with some of the afghan people. it was actually one of the best meals that i had had in a while. you can see we had lamb, tomatoes, onions, rice, and bread. i was told that they make the bread with there feet... i don't know if that is true or not, either way it was good.

i don't want ya'll to think that life was all bad out there. you can find beauty anywhere i guess. this was up in the mountains at one of the other fobs.

before and after

This is Gentry before the deployment and then again after. She sure wasn't happy to see Dad leave. We are all extremely happy to be together as a family again.

Raking leaves

We raked the leaves this afternoon and Lilly and Hyrum had to "flop" into the pile. They were both doing flips into the leaves. It was a ton of Autumn fun.

I havent posted anything on this blog for a while so I thought I would toss a picture on here and say hello. This was when Kezie came over to spend the night. We set up the tent in David's room and they played in it for a long time then we put Taylor in her bed and David and Kenzie fell right asleep in the tent. We love having slumber parties with cousins. I cant beleive I am already old enough to have kids doing that.

November Birthdays

Happy Birthday today (the 3rd) to Garry (the younger) and to Shanell tomorrow. Elder Goldhardt's is on the 10th, Dale (the younger) will be 17 on the 17th Melissa and Hyrum share the 21st and Lindy's big 21 is on the 24th and Ashley's is on the 27th. (is this Ashley's 11th?) Sorry for any I left out. I love you all and I'm glad you are all part of this family.

Happy Halloween from Hilton Head Island

Matt, Wes, and Ryan had so much trick or treating this year we started halloween off at a place called coligny plaza where they had games and trick or treating then on saturday we went house to house and by then they all had the hang of it knocking on doors and saying trick or treat. Wes was the cutest dinosaur ever (Terriann made his costume) matt was definately the cutest little mummy ever (i made his costume with help from josh) and Ryan was definately not a scary dracula but a super cute one (Terriann also made Ryan's cape) we are having so much fun here but miss you all.

Happy Halloween from Nevada!

Rachel was a ladybug this year, and Garry got to be Spiderman. It was great. These pictures (below) are from a tot trick or treat I took them to a couple of weeks ago, I forgot the camera tonight. They were adorable.

This morning I made pancake batter and colored it orange, then daddy made pancake jack-o-lanterns, bunnies, & turtles. Little Garry specifically requested a scary faced pumpkin, he politely turned down the first one I offered him because it looked too nice.

We went to the District (an outdoor mall) for the costume parade and trick or treating at 5. It was huge and packed tight. The kids loved seeing all of the other costumes. Rachel was difficult in that she wouldn't look up. She just stared at the candy in her bucket and wandered off in any old direction. We had to chase her down over and over. Garry said to me, "Mom! Look at all of the witches everywhere!" They really loved seeing all of the other kids' costumes. The bucket was getting heavy and Rachel was getting tired, so we tried to help her by holding her bucket. Bad idea. She gripped that bucket handle with both hands and yelled at us loudly if we tried to lift it for her.

At 6 we went to the ward Trunk-or-Treat. There were a LOT of cars there with many of them decorated. Our car wasn't decorated. In fact, I didn't even open the trunk because it had a bunch of water bottles and random stuff in it.

We got home at 7 and the kids finally got to eat their candy. We gave them each a sandwich bag and helped them fill it with whatever candy they chose. Then they put the rest of the candy back in the buckets and left them on the porch for the pumpkin fairy. About 5 minutes later the pumpkin fairy came, took the extra candy, and left in it's place a present for each kid. (This year, they each got two brand new Hotwheels.) The pumpkin fairy rang the doorbell so we knew when to check. Both kids were very pleased with their toys and didn't mind giving up the extra candy. They are right now downstairs eating all of the candy that they had put in their baggies, playing with their cars, and watching the Halloween Charlie Brown show with daddy.

Speaking of Daddy, I told him a couple of weeks ago that I would give him $20 if he could go a whole week without added sugar (candy, cake, soda) because I though the would never be able to do it. Last Sunday he started, and tonight is his final sugar free night. He totally did it and didn't even have a sugar crash or anything. He's looking forward to his $20. Talk about self discipline, sheesh.