A Sleepy Head and A Big Boy

Ever since Nate's car broke we have been getting everyone up at 6:30 to take him to work. The kids have done pretty well with it, but sometimes we don't get them to bed as early as we should, and things like this happen the next day :) Luke accidentally fell asleep on the couch. He's not the easiest kid to get to take a nap, so I have to wait till it just happens. He does it pretty often, and he is always in the WEIRDEST positions!! I happened to get a picture of this one :)


This one didn't turn out very well because of the lighting in the room, but I just thought Noah looked so grown up! I turned around and there he was, picking out a crayon :) He is funny because he knows how to lay down on the floor on his tummy, crayon in hand and coloring book in reach, but he still has yet to learn how to actually color :) He looks so cute when he does it. Just like his big brothers and sisters :)

A Big Turn Around

I forgot to post these pictures. Last Monday Nate had the day off (love the Government!), and so we made a trip out to the Discovery Museum with Stephanie and Chris. Before we left we decided to do the big TURNING NOAH AROUND in his car seat moment. He was technically like 6 ounces too small, but I'm a dork and I just wanted him to be able to turn around. (come to find out the scale at the NEW doctor here said he was a pound over! so there :)) At our house this is a very big moment :) We all get into it and get all excited for the little one. Well, and for the last few we've basically just bumped everyone up to the next seat....since the big kid ones are cheaper....so Noah moved into Luke's, Luke into Brad's, Brad into Kelly's and Kelly got the new one (yay for her! she totally felt special :)). So anyway :) Anything to celebrate I guess, and then put on the blog :) Here are all my kids, facing forward, in the car (while we wait for Daddy :)).

Does he not looks so old!

Here's all of us at the museum. I wanted to get more pics, but everyone was just everywhere....it was totally crowded......and I was holding Noah the whole time....maybe more next time! (my excuses are mostly for myself in case you were wondering :))

all tuckered out!!! Big days do that to these kids!

And here's a little video of everyone bobbing their cute little heads to the Cars movie ....not an easy thing when you're strapped in...Noah does this whenever he hears any music....I love it!

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Charity and Kelly give their new school 2 big thumbs up!

Kelly and Charity sounded like two little movie critics on their way home from school, talking about the happenings at their new school. All the things that were different from their old one and which things they liked better. They both sounded like they were on cloud nine and Kelly kept saying how fun it is to be the new kid! Kelly got a prize for having box tops that some boy gave her because she didn't have any. Charity's teacher had her write her name on the board and everyone in the class wrote her a little note. Kelly said that she had a whole mob around her when she walked in and Charity said people were fighting over who could sit by her. They both just loved it. I was happy. I really wanted them to feel welcomed and comfortable and feel like they were going to enjoy it here. It was exactly what I wanted. I'm so spoiled.

Noah's other party (and a little camera-happy)

I'm adding these a little late, but I finally got them to upload from my camera (our hard drive is overloaded :( )


I just thought Luke looked funny in this one :)

the proud big sister :)

is it just me or is that a strange thing to try to cover up your face with???

This was picture I took from a video clip (my camera is so cool! I keep finding new little tricks that it can do!)

On Saturday the 17th we had Noah's other birthday party. With the Hatch side.

okay is this not the cutest face ever!


We had Steve, Nana and Grandma Hatch there to celebrate with us.

Nana gave Noah this frog and I think he may have held it for a little over 3 seconds before it was torn from his grasp and of course ruined by his older brothers....ya gotta love that! It said it was a choking hazard anyway though, so I think we're okay :)

I love this face too :) He's so adorable.

Here is the part where everyone opened his presents for him. He really doesn't seem to care...

And here is Bradley taking away the present he gave Noah the minute after it was revealed through his special wrapping job. Back on Monday I took the kids to All-A-Dollar to pick out presents for Noah with their own money....Bradley was very proud of his and excited to give it to him.

NOW he can hold it :) He really made Bradley feel good with how much he liked the toy.

AWWW!!!

AWWW at another angle...

watching his present be opened

Daddy stepping in to help Noah open his own...

I love this...after he opened the little gloworm and the music started, Noah's fingers were instantly sucked into his mouth...very soothing for him I guess. It was cute.

This was way cute too....Charity made a little card for Noah (if you can't read it) it says: Dear Noah, I like you I think you are the cutest little brother ever. Love, your big sister Charity. Almost makes me cry just typing it out! So cute. And then the cutest part---she taped a little pocket onto the card and put her very own dollar bill in there for him to spend for something he wanted :) I LOVE it!! Very cute. She also got him a balloon at ALL-A-Dollar and made him a cute little bday sign that I don't think I got a picture of.

Here's the back of the card.

And the candle moment :) Again, I LOVE that everyone is all huddled around him....too bad I couldn't get EVERYONE in the shot. But how cute is that!!

Here's his cute cake. We thought the marshmellow cream would look more like snow than regular frosting :) And just for something different....so that's why it looks like it's melting :) I thought his cake turned out pretty cute :) (if I may say so myself)

Steve entertained us with his music. If only the clip of Noah dancing to it wasn't so long and full of other crap....it was way cute... he was totally bobbing to the music :)

We headed on upstairs after the cake and ice cream so that Nana and Nate could watch the Jazz Game. The other kids and Grandma stayed downstairs to play and watch a movie.

I was just sitting there with my camera in my hand..... bored apparently.....

Brent and Sarah showed up after their Stake Conference meeting. That was very nice of them.

It still hasn't hit me that he's 1.

UMMMM.....WEIRD!

K, so I am not sure why I am posting this on my blog, but it was weird to me! Today when we went to the school to register Charity and Kelly (yes, I'm really slow at registering them), they were bringing all the kids in from outside (the first bell hadn't rang yet), and sending them all into the cafeteria. Do you want to know WHY? It was because the "AIR QUALITY WAS BAD"!!!!!! Is that not the weirdest thing EVER!!! Now don't get me wrong. I'm not questioning the authority or claiming to know more than anyone about what is in the air or how bad it is. The air is clearly NOT CLEAR...that's obvious to me even. I just can't believe it is so bad the kids can't be breathing it in at recess and before the bell rings!!! HOLY MOLY!! Reminds me of some futuristic show where they make everything all drastic and dramatic ya know. Like the air is yellow and stuff. So crazy! Who would have thought! It does make miss the ever-so-clear air in Alaska.... you could see Mt. McKinley from Earthquake park!! And that's another good thing going for Eagle Mountain.... never had "bad air" out there. I have to admit that when I walked outside I was coughing even more knowing that it was "bad air". Kinda made me want a gas mask or something (now that's probably from my 24 obsession). Then when I was picking up Nate from work there was a sign on the freeway saying that the air quality was bad and to reduce driving tomorrow!! Is this like a new thing in Utah or something?? It was all just SO WEIRD to me!!! K, now I'm done.

Draper Temple Open House in the middle of our crazy week

On Thursday the 15th, we had the privilege of attending the Draper Temple Open House. Chris and Stephanie got us the tickets....thank you very much! And we were able to take our kids to see the inside of the temple. I was really excited for them to see it all, and Charity and Kelly were pretty excited too. We met at the Chapel and watched the short little video before shuttling on a bus (I think this was my kids' favorite part) up to the temple. I have to say that I really loved the video! I LOVED the part where Elder Holland says that to him he could not picture Heaven without his wife. How could it even be called "Heaven" if you couldn't be with the people you love. I cannot imagine eternity without Nate and without my sweet kids. It just wouldn't be Heaven. So anyway. I really loved being there with our whole family. And while I know it's not quite the same without it being dedicated yet, the Spirit was so strong there, and I really loved the experience. This temple is really special to me just for the fact that it's right by where I grew up. I can't believe there is a temple there now! SO neat. I used to ride up on those hills with my dad on his motorcycle. He would drive really close to the edge to scare me :) But anyway... just a really sentimental spot (what else is new?!).

Here's Lukey on the bus :) He really loved riding the bus. So did Bradley and the girls.....it was a pretty tight fit on the way back though, and this was the only picture I took the whole time (how sad is that!)


After the temple open house we had to drive up to the old house for one last cleaning. Nate got that place SO CLEAN!!! It was spotless! The kids had fun running around in the empty space.


We all ate pizza on the floor while Daddy busted his butt.

I'm really going to miss that place. It was a nice house, a nice ward, and really fun yard. Hopefully we can be so lucky again.

Here's Charity warming her bumb.

It was a crazy week....we had our walk through Friday night and signed it away. We are glad to have that done and out of the way. We spent most of the week unpacking at the new place, cleaning at the old one, and being sick.....but it is all over now. Kind of funny, but Wednesday when we were trying to drive out to Eagle Mountain, Nate's car broke down. It was totally smoking!! We ended up towing it ourselves to Chris and Stephanie's house for safe keeping, it is not usable right now. But it was a total blessing that the kids and I had taken longer to get on the road because we were right behind Nate when it happened. Not having a cell phone with him could have made that a complete nightmare of an experience, but as it was, we were right there and able to buy the tow rope and get it all taken care of pretty quickly without much trouble. Funny how the Lord can bless us in those situations. And it's really nice that his car waited until we lived only 20 minutes away from his work rather than an hour....makes taking him to work in the mornings a lot easier. Hopefully we can just get it fixed and have 2 cars again, but whatever happens I guess.....

Those kind of weeks always make me lazy during the next one....I keep excusing all the sitting around :) So lazy.

Not a Moose....not an antelope (pronghorn)....but a DEER!

Just because we don't live in Alaska or Eagle Mountain doesn't mean we don't encounter wildlife :) It's really funny because back in High Schoool I totally stopped caring about the deer up here. Ya know how when you see one as you're driving down the road it can sometimes make your heart jump...well, it stopped doing that for me when I was in High School. I totally thought the deer were annoying. So this is one more thing that Alaska did for me. I've learned to appreciate the deer up here in Bountiful. It was really neat this day because we just kept seeing the deer everywhere. And right after this one (after my camera battery died as well) we came upon a whole herd of them! Probably like 10 deer just wandering around someone's yard, munching on the dead bushes. It was neat. The kids totally loved it too. And I totally looked like a nerd taking a picture of a deer in Bountiful, but how cool are these animals?!

My Little Man is ONE!!

Noah's birthday was Sunday! Since we were at Nate's parents' house for the family meeting we thought we would celebrate Noah's birthday with everyone there. I made him a little cake to eat, and got a little crazy with the food coloring...it turned out to be a really strange color :) The girls covered the top with mini chocolate chips.

Ashlyn was a sweetie with Noah and helped him to the counter to be sung to and blow out his candle, which he had a lot of help with from Luke :)


Here he is digging in. He sure took a long time to finally figure out what it was he was supposed to do with the cake :) At first he just picked the little chocolate chips off one at a time and ate them, then he finally got interested in the frosting and the cake.

I took a lot of pictures- as you can see :). But I really loved this one because of how you can just barely see his family members around him, supporting him and loving him. Nate's hand is over on the left, my hand is on his right leg, Luke's hand is on his left knee, and Charity is standing behind him....sorry if that's cheesy, but I love it.

Again, a very strange color of frosting- kind of blended in well with his boogers and eye crusties though :)

It really is crazy to me that Noah is one already (I guess that's why it's taken me so long to post). It weirds me out. It really feels too recently that we were in the hospital all oohing and ahhing over him. He sure is a fun little kid though. He's been such a blessing in my life. I know that he was meant to come to our family and that we have all been blessed by his being here. He's very special to me. We all enjoy watching him and seeing what he does next. Right now he is crawling a ton. He pulls himself up to the couches and furniture pretty well, but it's not his favorite place to be for too long. He also just barely learned how to crawl up the stairs....may or may not have anything to do with who lives upstairs :) It's still scary when he does though...the whole teetering on the edge of each step thing....kinda makes me crazy to be honest. It really surprised us all though that he could do it though! He's very much into just about everything. He likes to play with Luke, and make Luke laugh. He loves his big brothers and sisters and the attention they give him. It amazes me how much he will let them do with him. He rarely complains about them and enjoys their company most of the time. He is really quite content with Kelly holding him and loving him...he lets her be the one to cuddle him when he's sad and Mommy can't be there. He is very easy going, very laid back. He likes to eat just about everything....just not too much of any one thing. He is onto a bottle now, and doesn't even miss his Mommy-moo juice anymore. I really can't believe how much he's grown and how old he is! My cute little man is growing up! Happy Birthday little Noah! We love you!