Wonderful, Busy, Funny and then the Holidays are over....

It has been a while... but Wow it has been great while it lasted! Arthur started his next rotation with a bunch of his fellow class mates for Internal medicine at Valley Hospital...He said that he will have his own patients this time around which is pretty exciting! His brother and Sister in law just spent three days with us and we celebrated new years together...played some Wii games, did some light shopping, chatted and hung around taking it easy together it was nice and relaxing, Addy just LOVED having uncle "Ruvie," (Levi) and Aunt "Kat-tie," Kathy here she kept asking where they went and when the spare bedroom is open she starts to look for them! Thanks you guys for coming up and visiting us NO ONE has EVER stayed that long with us, pretty sad huh! NO it was wonderful having you two with us! Good luck with the Baby bump...Kathy and good luck on you up and coming test Levi. You two are going to make Fabulous Parents! Arthur got some clothes, tools, a hard drive, some video games, an x-box live card, food stoage, and money for Christmas!

Addy is saying more and more hilarious words...it is just so funny, my favorite are "Ah-man, and Ah-most" she is getting in trouble more these days, the smart little skunk just dances away smiling now, when she is asked to clean up her toys... which usually gets her in time out and spankings with Daddy...I just wish she would obey. We have are good and bad days! During and after Christmas she would get excited to go anywhere and kept saying "San-ta" with her arms in the air in hopes to get another picture with him! She really gets how to open gifts up too now, she thoughtfully opened two packages that where being sent down to AZ...bless her little heart she just wants more Christmas time...Addy got some doll furniture, ( wooden cradle, high chair, girafe chair and a washer dryer) a magnetic fishing set, a magnetic doll set, a pretty x-mas dress, some clothes and dolls, a doctor bag, books, p.j.s, etc.

I have been cleaning, baking, doing hair, and enjoying my time with my family...I have been a little bumbled because it is official...EVERY CLOSE GIRL FRIEND I HAVE both family and friend is pregnant...Congrats again to all of you, I just wish I were there with you...that and pregnant, it is okay I just keep enjoying my time with Art and Addy and leave it in his giving hands...I also thought is was time for a nice easy change so I colored my hair all to one color and I really like it! I got a Circut machine, some clothes, food storage, money, crafts, socks etc. It was a wonderful and exciting year...We stayed in Henderson for x-mas and had some of our friends over x-mas eve and new years it was Actually SOO Wonderful and personal I loved it, we opened gifts around our tree no one was sick and we even got a wonderful day in the snow...we couldn't have asked for a more wonderful Holiday season! We as always miss everyone and hope and pray you are healthy and well... take care! Pictures coming soon!

Yep I changed my hair color, and I love it!
My hair is down to the middle of my back andI love having long
hair! It is somewhat closer to my natural hair color so it is a little less
maintenance!

Yep Thats right SNOW IS IN Henderson!!!! Yeah!!!

Snow, oh my gosh I never get to see snow at Christmas time, and I just can't stop looking at it, Snow just makes Christmas time so much more realistic...I LOVE IT! It is SOO beautiful AND it is supposed to snow for at least another day with about 8 inches total maybe more by the end of tomorrow...YEAH YEAH YEAH, I feel like a little girl again...in Utah at my grandmas house, oh wait, it is snowing where I live this year...I still can't believe it myself!! I guess Heavenly Father said I could have snow since I don't get to go home to Arizona for Christmas! I will post some pictures of it soon, poor Addy if pretty sick with some sort of stomache virus... Hopefully she will be well next week in time for Christmas...

WISHING ALL OF YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

Pictures galore!

Merry Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Well it is official we will be in Henderson this Christmas... We will miss seeing everyone but Arthur has a weird work schedule and traveling back and forth may be a bit much... I have been planning a couple of things to enjoy Christmas this year with just the three of us! I am planning on doing the Twelve Days Before Christmas, where each day we do something different together, either stringing popcorn, reading x-mas stories, etc. and of course the goodies making, although I am trying a couple of new things this year, I am excited! I have most of my Christmas done now it is the wrapping and fine tuning... That and figuring out how this is going to travel down to you all! Maybe Santa will hear my prayers!

Addy is soo funny these days, it is truly funny what she remembers:
-Arthur throwing the ball to her..
-Addy just missing the ball says--- almos almos (almost)
--I have just realized my wedding ring isn't on my finger and am PANICKING or FREAKING OUT in ward, trying to appear calm...
-Mommy wha happen, wa happen
I am soo grateful for Arthur, his calm and funny ways have a way of always making me laugh, and when I was in a state of tears and panic over the ring, he sent me a text that told me that I was more important than anything he owned, that ment so much to me...I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful & loving husband and incredible, beautiful daughter... Addy is so sensitive to all that is around her and is such a little sweet heart, and yes the big eyes definitely melt your soul when she gets hurt...She is a very precious jewel to Arthur and I!!! I love my family so much between my fabulous husband, incredible daughter, loving sibling,cousins, nieces & nephews, & caring/giving inlaws, life just can't get any better, and then our great father gives us amazing friends!Thank you to all for being a part of our wonderful life!

If only we could have two months of Christmas a month to plan, shop, & wrap and then another month to listen to x-mas music, enjoy the feelings & love of others, goody making, & of course the spirit and joy of being around those we love & cherish, Remembering Christ through out it all...

Don't worry, the ring was found! Thanks to some prayers and faith! Pictures will be up soon but until then...

We truly hope you All Have a wonderful holiday season, and a Very Merry Christmas!
We Love you all and will miss you at the various parties and dinners! Be safe and take care!

Happy Belated Thanks Giving To ALL!!!!

Happy Thanks Giving!!! We hope you all had a wonderful day, shared with the ones you love!
We truly are blessed to be surrounded by so many of our family and friends that take the time to share their homes, food, time, laughter, and love with our family! We Give Thanks to all, for you all have a special place in our hearts!

It is always so Fun to come down to Arizona to see family, and a bit crazy trying to get everything in. My family, mainly my brothers and dad had their elk hunt up near our cabin in Payson, Az so they left Thanksgiving dinner Thanksgiving night to be up early for the hunt! Good luck we hope you are succsessful Papa Brian and Uncle Ben! But my family had a family dinner on Wednesday so we could have an extra day to visit before they left for their hunt! so between movies, family time and eating it has been a great trip! Thank You To our Incredible Hatch family for all they do for us in accomodations, entertaining, and providing while we stay!

I regret to inform you though I haven't been great at getting many pictures, I might have forgot! Arthures family is always so wonderful as to open up their home to us and share their food and time with us!!! None the less, we have enjoyed our much needed family time and hope you thanksgiving was as great as ours! We love you all and give thanks to each of you for all you do for our family! Until next time stay safe and always remember to smile because you are loved by us and many many others and are always being thought of! Take care!

It's hard being away from family on your birthday, unless you have a very supportive husband, incredible friends, and beautiful daughter!

A mothers job is never ending...each day is different whether it is happy, exciting, or hilarious, or frustrating, long, and filled with clean ups! We have been potty training Addy now for two weeks, I can't complain she has done GREAT! Minus the accidents, she is getting the hang of it. Most of our days are filled with a naked child, summer salts, and a defiant little skunk, but things could be a ton worse, so for that I am thankful for the leaning and growing we are doing together as a family! It has been a couple of busy days...with less sleep due to a thirsty, little sick girl!

I was in a cleaning mood and thinking that my efforts were getting me ahead I would look around, at the newly disaster area, and feel myself getting frustrated, but then I would go and take Addy to the Potty and find myself laughing because Addy goes potty jumps of the seat, flushes the toilet while saying "BYE BYE" to her potty and then slamming the seat down to hurry and wash her hands so she can get her prize! Or yesterday for example, she was upset she didn't really want to go potty, but still went pi pi I hand her the toilet paper she wipes and then decides her face is dirty and wipes with the same toilet paper, as any potty training parent knows you can't get made and as I am frantically trying to figure out how to grab the USED paper she puts it back down into the potty like she always does, "FFEEWWW she's going to throw it in the toilet," but NOO she did it again (this all happened with in seconds mind you) so I shoved her hand into the whole and said DROP THE PAPER! Yes she washed her face with soap but she didn't seem clean to me, very weird feeling...I walked away saying "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT, feeling tramatized," and my toddler went back to playing! AWE the joys of being a parent!She is starting to close her eyes when she smiles, Ziggy came over to play
for a couple of days her mom just had foot surgery. Ziggy is now my little helper
when we go shopping...Best trip ever at the store all because Ziggy was there!

Thanks Ziggy you are the best little mommy ever!

We went to the Bellagio Resort and it had this incredible set up, I guess they do
a different scene every year, All the flowers, were of course, real! Incredible!



Talking trees snapping bushes, it was a pretty busy place! But really neat!


This was after Addy had gotten back from Trick or treating!

She carried her own bag the ENTIRE time, she would NOT
let Art help her, Apparently she understood, do the work, get the
candy, she's a samrt little twinky!

Okay I was really proud of myself, ringlets don't get cuter than this!


So to summerize my days, Friday we went out to Prime outlet stores, and picked up some gifts for Addy's X-mas and my B-day, thank you again Katty for the gift and for driving, that was really far, but it was a fun moring spent with about five sisters from our ward, along with their youngest child...Addy had a tummy ache on the way home and Katty was wonderful she started singing and to say the least both girls stopped crying and started doing the hand movements! More cleaning bad night with Addy and another sleepless night, I got up on Saturday to make some goodies for the little watch party I had, mainly throwing it to see my wonderful girlfriends, the chatting and relief to not be down due to the fact that Art had a very long day at work, I missed his one phone call and well he didn't even get home until 7:30pm another 12 hour day with a 6 minute break...Yuck! But our new neighbors across from us brought me a gift and then invited Art and I to go over to Pei Wei's for dinner, Thank you Prichet Family! I got a second to myself to go and pick up some yogart, and came home to mopping the floor because Addy had thrown up! But just as I was finishing up we had our friends the Nichols stop by, they brought me a DELICOUS cheese cake from the cheese cake factory and we watched the office and played a game...At midnight I remembered our primary lesson and finished the prep at 1am! Thank you to my wonderful friends for the gifts, the cards/e-cards and e-mails, the company and wonderful friendships, you all made my day fantastic! Thank you for remembering ME!

Since I had another long night with Addy and woke up with a tummy ache myself, and since Art wasn't able to get a second with me yesterday he made me Blueberry muffins for breakfast, and is at church giving the lesson! Yum YUM and thanks Arthur! SOO I am home with our recoving sick, isn't it amazing how they jump around and well don't act sick until their tummy hurts...Gotta love um! OH I am still playing catch up on pics, so enjoy!

The Best Jacko Lantern Carnival Ever!!

We had Paisley and her mommy and daddy over for dinner and I HAD to show her how to do a summer salt!
I'm soo glad we have such wonderful, friends! Thanks Aunt
Katie for everything!

Uncle Bret got to go with us, we all had soo
much fun!

I just love paisley, she is a great dancer too!

I got THREE different stamps, a ost (ghost), an itch (witch), and a cat!
it was so neat!

This one was hard, mommy had to help me!

This was another one of my favorites! I kept getting prizes for doing stuff!

The spider toss!

I could have stayed on this ALL DAY LONG, but moommm wanted me to do other things...

She started out in protective hands!
Thanks Katie, Addy, is a slippery little stinker!
She had fun going down the slide with you!

This was soo much fun, it was pretty fast, I went down it later with
Addy, and couldn't stop lauging!


My Great Mother let me borrow her cake decorating
supplies, this is my second cake! It takes time but I really enjoy doing it
I am no pro in any way, but it is something different! Thanks mom!
This was for the Trunk or Treat Cake walk!