Another Week in Paradise!

Well this would be great but its more like................




This............


Oh sorry, was day dreaming there for a sec. When your like a couple few thousand miles away from your wife and your first baby you tend to get a little depressed. (Oh, did I mention I live in a 15x15 foot solid white room?) No I'm not in prison I'm at a mandatory officer training school waiting for it to start. Ha Ha Ha. Good news Haley and I have picked out a new lot in the same neighborhood, and building will commence in like a few weeks. Needless to say we are very excited. Haley is coming along smashingly in her school work. Even though she wants to quit almost every day, she is quite the trooper for hanging in there. Greg and Nancy have been fantastic in helping us out at this time in our life.
I have been officially reasinged at Ft. Hood to the 1st Cav/1st Brigade HHC (or for you non military that is the Headquarters Battalion). We will permanently move to Ft. Hood beginning February of next year. My legs are all healed up and I commence training the last week in October.
On another note I had an interesting conversation with my cousin in law, Jake Roecker about Mohammad and religion. The interesting fact was fallibility in religion. For those that have read the Koran (which is a very interesting piece of literature, and contain some great words). It contradicts itself just to may times. You have to have other books to help decipher what the meaning of phrases are. In some ways the Bible does that to itself at times also. That is the beauty of the Book Of Mormon. An infallible book, the infallible word of God to help guide us and help us in our day. It is such a great feeling in an era that is so fraught with uncertainty that there is a guiding light with which to set our course by. Anyway just a thought. Something I wanted to just throw out there. From our family to yours hope yall have a good one.

Matthew & Haley

The Challenge...da-da-daaaaa!

This morning I awoke to a very threatening sign hanging in my kitchen. I just wanted to share it with you all.

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Next Friday’s Challenge

BOWLING!!

Mom and I challenge you and a partner (date, friend, etc.) to a game of bowling next Friday at 7:00.

BEWARE, BE SCARED, and BE PREPARED!!

(This is not for the weak or squeamish)

Mom is a great closet bowler AND has style to boot. You will see the competitive juices ooooz from her body, you will hear her trash talk in ways that will make you blush, and you will gasp in dismay at her bulging biceps as she hoists the 6 pound ball!

We will pay

(cause winners always pay)

. . . for the bowling, then we will split up and you can pay to finish your night with your partner however you want (cry in your ice cream, go to a movie, go to your friends, . . . whatever it is you do), and mom and I will continue our own date celebrating the victory.

DON’T WAIT . . . get your partner today so they can also anticipate getting annihilated by the MOTHER of all bowlers!

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I just want you all to know that I plan on being there and I plan on doing some trash talking of my own! Bring it on baby! :)

YES.... I did Graduate from College!!!!!

Had myself the most interesting conversation today. You know I consider myself a some what learned man. I mean I'm not that intelligent (but I did graduate from college) Some of my family ;) are under this slightly skewed opinion that I graduated but with only my associates degree in some amazing degree like:
- basket weaving
- pottery
- canoing
- camping
- smore cooking
- or hay manufacturing
(I made that last one up)
Any who, now to be fair to those wonderful classes (which alot of them I did take ;) and to clear up any and all confusion (however ridiculous it may sound) I, Matthew W. Hargrave did graduate from college with a bachelors in general studies with 3 minors, Health Science, Animal Science, and Military Science. (yeah i know alot of sciences, but hey what ya gonna do). Any way just thought I would clear that one up oh and to wow ya'll some more My family and I will be attending Baylor University in 2013 to receive my masters degree in Business and Hospital Administration. So there I just thought I would clear that up. Have a wonderful week everybody

Matthew

Bro Mort and I (a teacher at the college) at Graduation. He doesn't wear that funny dress for fun!!!!!!!

A Little From Me!

Hey everybody! Matt has been doing an EXCELLENT job of keeping up this blog (because we all know how diligent I was! Sorry!) and I thought I might get my 2 cents in from Idaho!

I got here about a week ago and jumped right into school again. Pretty much it is the same-old, same-old, except now when I introduce myself and say an interesting fact about myself (don't we all just love that first week?) I get to say that I am finishing school while my husband is in Oklahoma. I thought it sounded pretty self-explanatory, until a very concerned classmate asked me why we had separated and if it was permanent or if we were just "taking a break." I decided that maybe I should be a little more specific after that. Sorry Matt. :)

I am taking 17 credits and about three art classes, so this semester should be...interesting. I am trying to stay positive. On the off chance that I am not madly trying to climb a mountain of homework though I m having a pretty good time! This weekend I went with Griffin and a bunch of my friends and a bunch of his friends (and a bunch of people that I don't think either of us have ever met) on the Alpine river. It was a fun day and it felt good to get one last "adventure" in before everything freezes again.

I am also pleased to announce that I have not thrown up for the past week! Yay! I think that we are getting closer to the end of this first trimester thing and I can't say that I am going to miss it! But we are really so excited to be welcoming this new little life into ours and I will keep you all updated on what's going on!

Another week another..............well nothing!!!!

Well Well Well .... another week at Ft. Sill for me and another week down for Haley which means one more weak closer to Graduation. One little piece of excitement that we had this week was that Haley had her first sonogram of our new baby. It's pretty exciting to think that little bit of black and white image is going to be our baby. I know yall that have been through this before probably find this boring to read ;) but we're pretty excited.

Winter is coming around and its beginning to be cold. In Oklahoma its dropped down to the 80's (wow) In Rexburg its all ready getting down to the 40's. We finally decided on our house that we will live in come next year. Haley is all excited to put the babies room together. She wants white everything.(Hey she's gonna be the momma so whatever she wants) My deer heads still go on the wall. Compromise right. That's what marriage is all about. But of course anything Haley wants built well I guess she's gonna get that too. Kinda love the girl alot. Like to keep her happy. Haley ran the Alpine river this weekend. Always a load of fun.

Well anyway we hope everybody is doing well and hope yall enjoy the picutres we've put on.

Matt & Haley

This is what our new house will look like. Grandpa and Grandma Hazard came down to Killeen and helped us pick stuff out for the house.

Almost forgot, Haley and I celebrated our first anniversary as a married people. Mom, Wayne, and Sarah helped me put together a little restaurant at the house for Haley.

Took a ride over to Luckenbach Texas, ( Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings to just name a few) Haley found herself an Idaho license plate on the wall of license plates. There's literally 100's of plates put there.

Be careful where you step down south!!!

Hey every body, Okay so its been kinda like forever since we last did really anything to our blog. Well lets start off with the most exciting news is come next April Haley and I will be welcoming a new edition to our little family. Thats right our first baby. We are really excited (pretty much terrified at the the same time) but we are very happy. Still don't know what it is yet Haley is about 3 months along and really hasnt been to bad with morning sickness or that whole thing but I have never met someone that can sleep as much as she can. Its amazing, its like in a 24 hr. day she could be asleep for 20 hrs. of that and be just fine. But really we are really stoked.
I'm currently residing in Ft. Sill Oklahoma (STILL) For those that don't know i kinda hurt myself. The official term is bilateral stress fractures or pretty much my legs are busted. I have been in walking cast for 2 months and have 2 more left to go before they will release me back to active duty. As of now I sit around doing paper work and doing blog stuff :) Haley has returned to Rexburg, Idaho to finish her last semester of school and then a few online stuff and she is done (yeah!) We are all really excited about that. I'm pretty proud of her for finishing what she started. Now our kids have no excuse when its there turn and they say school is hard. ha ha ha oh what sweet sound we shall hear!
Well thats all I really have right now. Put a few new pictures on enjoy.

Matthew & Haley

This was right before we left for Rexburg, A good friend of mine (Kevin Lee) took us up for a flight to see Rexburg from a whole diffrent view.

Josh came to visit (Jason, my stepbrothers kid) came to visit and we had ourselves a little silly string fight.

This one is for Haley. For yall that dot know Halloween is Haley's favorite Holiday. This was our apartment last year in Rexburg.