Well, It's Official... The Harts are Mormons!

Yep! Not withstanding that Sean and I were both baptized at 8 years old, both served full-time missions, were married in the temple, have done our fair share of "multiplying and replenshing the earth" (6 children), and own a minivan with vinyl pictures representing all 8 of us on the back window....

I don't think that we were "official" members of the church until now.

Yes, we bought a Suburban!

Sean is now embracing his role as a family man and will be selling his truck, which he loves, and will now be driving a big, HUGE...

Until the truck sells, I think we might also officially be REDNECKS....

That is our driveway and those are all our vehicles! The 3 in the driveway, Red, White, and Blue, and all American made! Our minivan is in the garage, Red, but not American. The big red van on the right has a story all it's own, but will be sold shortly as well... I hope! :)

Our Own Ordinary Miracle

After what seems like a very long winter, we are so happy to have spring here! We love the budding trees, the return of the flowers, the sunshine, and the warmer air. It is all so miraculous.

We had our own Little Hart Family miracle this last Sunday. We took a picture of all 6 little Harts in their Easter clothes after church. Unfortunately, it is in the shade. However, we did get all 6 looking at the camera at the SAME TIME!

But this is what we had to go through to get this picture....

Chloe screaming

Calvin running away

The children laughing at Calvin running away

And more chaos in rounding up the children...

Happy Spring everyone!

We hope you all have a chance to recognize your own small, ordinary miracles in your families!

Oh, we almost got all of them in this one!

Be Sure and Thank Gracie!

On Monday, Gracie came home from school with a purple balloon that a friend of hers had given her. She was so excited about this balloon! I must say, I love the wonder and magic that our children find in balloons...
Anyway, Monday also happened to be the day of the big game... The Fiesta Bowl: BSU vs. TCU (whose colors happen to be purple and white). Our family was very excited for this night; pizza, Chili's chips and salsa, football, staying up late to watch football! Very exciting in deed! While watching the game, Gracie and the other kids were playing with her PURPLE balloon. The score was at this time tied (10-10) in the 4th quarter. We all were nervous and really anxious for BSU to score again, but it just was not happening. A few of us were commenting on the color of Gracie's balloon and on how it was not good to have a purple balloon in our house during this most important game.

Then, Sean suggested to Gracie that we pop it! Of course we all agreed and kept trying to convince Gracie that she should pop her balloon and that it would help the Broncos win the game. She was so torn. This is our little girl who was totally booing the Horn Frogs and sending them bad vibes when they ran onto the field. But this was also our little girl who had been given the purple balloon from a friend and could think of nothing more precious on this earth than her perfect, purple balloon! WHAT TO DO????

Well, we ended up doing what we usually do when we want our children to do something: we bribed her! Sean promised her that if she would pop her purple balloon that the next day he would bring her 10 blue balloons filled with helium! After much thought, and some tears, she let Sean pop her balloon.
And I am not lying, within just a couple of minutes, the Broncos went on to score the touchdown that won the game!! We all went wild over Gracie and told her that it was all because of her that BSU won! And so, when Sean walked in from work this evening, he was holding 10 blue, helium filled balloons (and 5 orange ones for each of the other kids).

So if you are a BSU fan, you might want to take just a moment and thank Gracie for sacrificing her purple balloon so that the Broncos could win the Fiesta Bowl!

Thank you, Gracie!!!!