McKaylee Jade Hatch

Well, our little girl finally made her debut! McKaylee Jade Hatch was born on May 17th 2010 at 12:04 pm. She weighed 6 lbs 1 ounce and was 19 inches long. She has been such a bundle of joy and so much fun to get to know. I am excited to see her learn and grow and develop as she becomes more and more a part of our family. Every time I look at her I realize what a blessing and miracle she is. She is truly a gift from God and I feel so incredibly honored to have her join our family.

It was a long laborious process getting her here, but after about 29 hours of labor she finally came to meet her parents. I thought maybe she was saying goodbye to her great-grandma Ramsey and both her Great-Grandpa's and that's why it took so long for her to finally come :). I would want to say one last long good-bye too!

Well, here are some fun pictures of her, hopefully you don't mind looking at a million of them, because there are so many good ones, I just have to add them all!



Newborn McKaylee

First Hatch family photo :)

McKaylee holding daddy's hand. This is one of their favorite things to do now.
Getting cleaned off and measured.
Happy Grandparents!
Happy Daddy.
Getting her first bath.
The day after getting home, we wore ourselves out by getting together with my awesome sister-in-law Maria and took some pictures of McKaylee. We wanted to get some fun ones of her while she was still so tiny. It was exhausting but tons of fun and I'm so glad we did it. Here are some of the fruits of our labors. Thanks again Maria for all your help!!!!!!!











Hopefully there are not too many pictures posted here, but I just couldn't pass them up. They are all so cute! Of course, how could anything not be cute with the most perfect baby ever?!?

Now McKaylee is our little glowbug as she tries to get over her jandis. Thankfully she can still cuddle with her daddy though!

The long awaited updated....

Well, maybe once I'm home more often this blog won't be so neglected....haha, well, here's the updated!
First off, our new addition! No, we don't have our little girl yet, but Trevor has added to the car family. He oh so sadly sold his nice '05 F150 to get rid of the car payment and ended up with this. It's a '95 Toyota 4Runner. Personally, I love it, Trevor seems to be at least ok with the downgrade, though he will miss his truck! At least it's got four wheel drive and it'll be a great family camping vehicle!


The next bit of update......although I will never be as talented or ever be able to keep up with my sister-in-law Maria's long list of baby projects, I have done a few things that I'm quite excited and proud of. My first project was a car seat cover. It turned out pretty cute, but I haven't quite finished it yet. I need to get a car seat before I make the handles and such so I can make sure it fits right. Anyway, here's a picture of it:




My next big project was this baby cross-stitch. Trevor bought it for me for my birthday last November and it has taken me these 5 long months to finish it. It was a lot of work, but it turned out really good, I'm excited to put it in the baby's room! I couldn't figure out how to take the picture without the flash, but you can see the jist of it.


This last week, my Mom and sisters put on the greatest baby shower ever! They had so many cute ideas like baby clothes hanging on a clothes line, a diaper cake, lots of advice, and (of course) wonderful desserts (including meatloaf cupcakes!). It was an awesome time to spend with family and I am so grateful for all of their generosity and kindness. Here's a picture of our little girl's crib (thanks Mom and Dad for buying it for us!) with some of the fun blankets and other things we got. Our little baby will be one lucky girl.



And here's a fun picture of the nursery that's coming along....



And just for an update on how much baby is growing...here's a picture of my ever-growing tummy! Lots of people say I don't look big enough to be 8 months along...but I sure feel like I am!!

It's a GIRL!!!!

Well, the big day came last week and we found out what the gender of our little baby will be. We're having a Girl! I'm so incredibly excited! I would have been happy with a boy too, but a girl is so much fun to dress up and make cute and buy little dolls for. It will sure be a fun experience to welcome her into our lives. It's been nice to have a gender on our baby too instead of just calling it "it". Haha, now we have to start looking for names though, and that will be a task. I mean, she'll have to live with it for the rest of her life! But I'm sure we'll find that perfect name someday. Here are some pictures of, obviously, the cutest girl ever! (I just hope it's not somehow a boy and I'm offending him by calling him cute...if it is, he'll just have to get over it because for now, he's a she).

New Year's Cabin Trip

This last weekend Trevor and I spent the weekend at Trevor's Uncle's cabin up in the Uintas. It was an incredibly relaxing and fun trip. We left Wednesday afternoon with Trevor's Dad and snowmobiled into a chilly cabin. It was about 14 degrees inside the cabin when we got there and 15 degrees outside. Brrrr! We got right to starting a fire, turned on the electricity and started the electric heaters. There is no running water there in the winter so Trevor and Dad Hatch went to the natural spring about 500 ft from the cabin and filled up 5 gallon jugs for water. No running water also means no toilet :(.....so yes, we were confined to using the outhouse. Luckily because of the cold temperatures the outhouse doesn't stink quite as bad in the winter. After a few hours, the cabin warmed up and thanks to Mom Hatch who came up the next day, stayed a comfortable 75 degrees or so for the rest of the week. On Thursday we were joined by Dan and Suzanne and little Kaden and Mom Hatch. We spent the rest of the weekend playing Hand and Foot, snowmobiling in the meadow, reading books, eating delicious food, and taking long afternoon naps. We were all very sad to leave Saturday afternoon and as always, can't wait for our next trip. Here are some pictures of the trip:

Dad Hatch on Danny's awesome sled.


Hi Mom Hatch!
Here we are all rendezvousing in the meadow. Danny must love that snowmobile.....


Cute Kaden wearing Grandpa's boots.

Our little one.....and other miscellaneous stuff....

Yes, it has been awhile since I updated again, but a good friend called and reminded me that people like to know what is going on in our life, so here I am getting on top of things and updating the blog!

Our first bit of news that I haven't yet announced on this blog is our little baby! Yes! We're pregnant and expecting an addition to our family near May 22nd. I know many of you late May birthdays are hoping the big day will come on your own birthdays, but you see, we don't really have any control or say in that matter...so we'll just have to wait and see and maybe we'll name it after one of you :). Here is a picture of our little one from our last doctor appointment. It's a little hard to see since Trevor had to take the picture with his phone, but it's still pretty cool and reassuring that there is a baby in there somewhere! In this picture you are looking at the baby from the side and can see it's head and body.




We're pretty excited and can't wait to see what sex it will be next month!

On top of our little baby we have made some updates to our little condo in the last little while. We got carpet and finished the crown molding and baseboards. It looks amazing now! We've completed our list of things that we wanted to update that we made when we moved in. Our plan at the point was to sell the condo after making the updates and hopefully make a profit on it, so yes, our condo is on the market and for sell, but we are having a difficult time parting with it because it's just beautiful now! Ahh....life....I guess if someone comes along and buys it we will take their offer, but if nobody come....oh well? Haha, if anyone knows anyone in the market to buy a condo, send them our way! Here are some pictures of our updates.




I think that's about all we've got for updating this time. Merry Christmas everyone since knowing me I probably won't get to updating this again until after Christmas :). Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!

it's been awhile....

Well, it's been awhile since I last updated the blog....I guess we've been busy, or I've been lazy! Regardless, I suppose we've got some things to tell about. First off, our little puppy dog! Yeah! We got a dog! She is a Schnauzer/Dachshund mix and is about 10 months old. She has been a lot of fun but also quite a bit of work....house training a dog isn't exactly a walk in the park...but through lots of patients, I think we are finally figuring it out. Anyway, here's some pictures of our cute little pup! Her name is Bella Mia, but we just call her Mia.





She's definitely her daddy's little girl, she whines EVERY time he leaves the house and can't handle it when he is gone. Her favorite place in the world is the mountains.


Our next big adventure was the Ragnar Las Vegas. Yes...we were silly runners and participated in another 177 mile relay race down in Las Vegas. It was quite the adventure, but as always, tons of fun. Our car consisted of Lisa, James, Chris, Natalie, Trevor and I, and the other car on our team had some of Natalie's friends from SUU. We had a blast! Our hearts go out to the Jeremy Kunz family through their hard time. Here are some pictures of our adventure.


The car ride down. Ready to run!


Trevor and I at the starting line.


Trevor staring us off. Go Trevor! (yes, he beat everyone of them!)


Trevor, just before his sprint finish.


My first run....lots of hills :(.


Along the trail...

Night Runs!

Run....Drive...SLEEP...repeat
Waiting for Chris to come. Go Girls!

We did it!

What a fun adventure the Ragnar was. Can't wait until next time.

Well, the last big thing (and last the best of all) is BRIAN! Our Elder Bradley has finally come home and we are sure excited to have him around again. He doesn't seem to stuck in the missionary phase, even with girls hanging around. ;)

Waiting...waiting...waiting....

He's here!

Well, I think that's about all the big news for this long, long, post. Happy reading!