Our Year!!

2011!!!

We have had a wonderful year! We have both had 2 jobs and have lived in 2 cities. We had lived in Tucson since we got married. Nolan worked with Pioneer Cable and I worked at Massage Envy in Tucson. I loved Massage Envy and massage therapy, but Nolan wasnt a fan of Pioneer Cable. He worked lots of hours without much pay. So thankfully at the End of August Nolan found out he had got a job with Dish Network in Sierra Vista. It finally is paying him for the work he is doing. So I quit my job and we started planning the move. A week before we moved we found out we were pregnant!!! The lord really knows what is best. The timing was perfect. Nolan has a job that can pay the bills so when the baby comes I can focus on being a mom. I was very lucky and didnt have morning sickness. I maybe felt sick a week or so but thats it. So far I have loved being pregnant. It really is a wonderful thing. We found a good sized house for cheap rent in Sierra Vista and I got a job at Wellsfargo. We love Sierra Vista! it is sooo nice to be close to St. David and Willcox. We have also loved living by my sister Leah and her husband Brek. We love the weather too! We love it!!! The best news of the year will be on Christmas for 2 reasons one we get to see all of my siblings and their spouses and children and two we get to find out what we are having!!! Nolan wants a boy of course lol and I just want a healthy baby. But I think it may be a girl. We are excited to find out. We feel very thankful that we have had a good and blessed year! We are excited for 2012 and all that brings to our family. We especially cant wait to meet our precious little baby! We thank our Heavenly Father each day for the blessing he sends us and for looking after us!

Love,

Nolan, Vanessa, and baby Hatch in the Oven!

Updates on our Life!

So fair warning this might be a really long really boring blog. Oh well. I haven't blogged in a while and feel like writing tonight. Nolan has been renting really freaky movies lately so this will keep me occupied while he watches one of those. We have had a lot go on lately. Nolan has been working for a cable company. He is a subcontractor which means his company works for another. So he is working for pioneer cable who works for comcast. We were really lucky to get this job. Everyone requires a year or so of experience but no one will give you that year. My uncle Dennis Anway knew one of the supervisors there and got Nolan a job. Nolan has really liked cable. Being a sub contractor just doesnt pay very well and doesnt have the greatest benefits. So we have been applying to work for Dishnetwork. He already had his interview and took a drug test and a background test. So cross your fingers cause if we get it we will be moving to Sierra Vista soon.

Work for me has been bleh. I think I am just too nice so I get taken advantage of. I just feel like I am always busy and never stop at work and then come home exhausted. I will be excited for a change of scenery. I dont really want to work as a massage therapist in Sierra Vista if we move there but I don't really have a choice. Hopefully, though Nolan will make enough that I won't need to work. I can't wait for that day.

We have had people living with us for the summer, which was a good experience, but it is so good to just be nolan and I. You dont realize how much you enjoy eachothers company until other people are in the mix constantly. Its been fun to just be us again. Not that others living with us was bad it was a very positive experience but I would rather just be with my husband.

I have been so busy and stressed the last few months that my mood has been kind of in the dumps. It is just hard for me to focus on myself and keeping myself happy when so much is going on. I have a good friend here in Tucson who has been an absolute answer to my prayers lately. For some reason she just knows how I am feeling and what I need to help me make myself happy. She found me a book to read and I actually am reading it. Which is strange for me because I am not a reader. But it is good. It is really good actually. The book is teaching me about how I can make myself happy and not allow thing around me affect my mood. I am thankful for my friend and the support she gives me. She is like my big sister since all of my sisters live to far. She is one of those friends that you cant help but to see Heavenly Fathers hand. It is no coincidence that she showed up at my massage clinic a year ago. I pray that the Lord will bless her and her adorable family everyday for everything she does for me.

I am excited to see if we really move and what will happen from there. If we move to Sierra vista we will live close to Leah (hopefully). But at least close enough to hang out more then we do now. It will be good to live in the same town as one of my sisters again. Life is hard but super rewarding and good. I am thankful everyday for the challenges the lord gives me. But I am mostly thankful for my husband and what a good man he is. He has seriously been an angel the last few months. I knew I married a wonderful man but I didnt know how wonderful. He treats me like his world. He leaves for work early every morning and before he leaves he fixes the blanket and tucks me in and kisses me on the forehead. I dont have a good day if it doesnt start out that way. I sure am a lucky girl. Anyways sorry this was boring but like I said before I dont journal so this is my journal. I hope everyone is having a good August! I'll be 24 in a week from sunday! Yippee!

MOM!

The song that should be playing on my playlist while you read this was sung on American Idol this week. I made Nolan rewind it like 3 times. For some reason it just touched me. It has had me thinking the last few days about moms. I'll start with thoughts of my mom.....

I got lucky have the most amazing mother. I have been thinking about her a lot the last month or so with mothers day and May 6 marked 10 years since she passed away. I think the older I get the more I appreciate my mother. I remember watching her serve so many people. She had figured out what Charity really is and showed me what it is. I find myself caring for people so much and just wanting them to be happy. I tend to put them before myself a lot. I know that is from my mom. She taught me how to truly love someone and see them the way christ would. Even being gone she influences me each and everyday and I am so grateful for that! I am so thankful to the lord for sending me to my mother! I could not have asked to be sent to a better family!!
I found this picture on my computer today! I thought it was adorable! I can't even put into words how thankful I am for my mother in law. Not only am i thankful that she raised such a great son for me to marry but I am thankful for what she does for me everyday. I have never met someone who is so in-tune with the spirit. I hope to learn that from her. I thank the lord everyday for allowing me to be married into the Hatch family. I feel like I am truly one of her daughters!

I have felt so blessed lately. I feel like the lord really knows me and my needs. He knew exactly who my mom should be and who my mother in law should be. I am so thankful for their examples to me and hope to someday be like both of them! Thank you Moms for everything you do! LOVE YOU!

It's APRIL!!

April is a fun month! I love love Easter! I have been thinking of this time last year and how crazy it was with Rachel and Scott getting married and then our wedding! It was crazy!!! My mother in law would text me almost daily reminding me to Keep on Keeping on! I love that saying. Thank heavans we made it through last april. Nolan and I hit our 1 year anniversary in about 2 weeks. It is crazy that it has already been a year. It has been one crazy year but the best year of my life so far. All the job moving and apartment moving and the car problems and everything have been worth everything! We are finally in a bigger apartment and 2 secure jobs. It feels good. I still am not the biggest fan of Tucson but have met some friends here and am liking my ward a lot better. So I guess tucson isnt that bad after all.

I have had a lot on my mind lately. And before I start writing it all down just know I am not pregnant and we are not trying lol just fyi!! ha ha! But babies have been on my mind. We have finally discussed when maybe we will start trying. All of my friends seem to have a kid or 2 so I have started preparing nolan! You know how you have to prepare the husband more then the woman has to prepare ha ha! Anyways I woke up this morning thinking of kids. And I am totally freaked out. To the point of tears. Really I just dont know how new moms do it not knowing anything about raising kids. I am the worst with new borns. When I would baby sit Tenley I would hold her constantly and never set her down cause I like to be able to feel her heart beat. Is that weird? But then I realized I am not real sure what a mother daughter relationship should really be like. I mean I have my stand in moms and all but not that relationship like i see some people have. In fact I dont know if I would know how to even have a relationship like that. I am sure it would just come right? I dont know. BUT IT FREAKS ME OUT!! Anyways those are my thoughts. Kids scare me and being a mom scares me more! lol Any advice sisters or anyone else?

Life is great though! I got to see my dad Leah and Nat the other day at a softball game. I am glad that natalie plays in tucson sometimes so that I can see them. She is one athlete and I always love Leah's passion for the game! Nolans mom stayed the night the other day. It was sooo good to see her. She always just has a way of making us feel accomplished and loved. And she always has the best advice and insight. I am very lucky to have her! Life is great. Thanks for reading this. Here are some recent photos!

Dan and Lily enjoying the Suns game! I think Lily may be a Suns fan now!

Proof that I am still a psycho!

Nolan and i at the suns game! We had soooo much fun!

Steve NASH!!!

My buddy Lily and me!!

Lily took this while we were walking to the stadium and then she edited it! Love it!
In the car window getting to the game!!

nolan wasnt very happy when the suns started to lose they were

winning the whole game then lost!

Driving to the game!

I am not sure when the was taken!

DAY 4

A picture of you night:

I come home from work make some dinner and watch NCIS with nolan!

DAY 3

A picture of the cast from your favorite show:

I love the price is right! I thought Drew Carey would ruin it cause I loved Bob Barker but Drew makes me laugh. I wake up at 10am almost everyday just to watch this show!! My dream is to sometime go and be on it!

DAY 2

A picture of you and someone you have been close with for a while:

This on is easy. Of course it would be nolan!

Facebook Challenge!

I have seen this on peoples facebook but I thought it would be fun to do it on my blog cause then I could write a little more on it. So here we go....

DAY 1- Picture of yourself with 15 facts

This is right after nolan proposed! I was telling my Dad!

1. I married my best friend!

2. I hate my natural hair color

3. I am obsessed with the game show network

4. I am Lead therapist at Massage Envy in Oro Valley, AZ

5. I miss Idaho

6. I hate cartoons. Mostly I hate when cartoons kiss it freaks me out

7. Mine and Nolans first kiss was on friday the 13th by the V tree at the mesa temple

8. My husband is a cable guy ha ha

9. Our new queen bed came with bed bugs. They were awful but gone now

10. Bridget Neilson Shumaker and Angela Kartchner Salmon are the Best!

11. I love shoes. Especially heels!

12. I just hit a poll with my car. Poor Edward lol!

13. I have the best mother in law ever!

14. I love sports! I wouldnt let nolan get cable until football season was going to start then we got it! I couldnt miss college football!

15. Nolan and I have been marrie for 10 1/2 months already and I love him more everday!!!

Changes!

We have made alot of big decisions and changes this week. Nolan was doing road side assistance but was working about 80 hours and week and not making hardly any money. He liked the job just not the hours or pay. So we made a deal that if I got him a new job her would work our with me 5 nights a week. lol. Anyways so i applied everywhere and talked to everyone I knew. We had an opportunity in Boise with one of my friends husbands company. We were praying and seriously considering moving forward with that job. Nolan then got a call to have an interview here in tucson with a cable installation company. We went to the temple a couple of days before the interview to try to get an answer to which job to take. Well we both felt good that if the cable one opened up it was better to stay in tucson with my job. So after he got offered the cable job we went and signed a lease to a different apartment that is double the size of ours! YAY! I also got offered the Lead Therapist position the next day and start my training today. Our house is in boxes because we move saturday. It is amazing to me how things fall into place. Nolan has a good job now that has full benefits and has opportunities for him to grow in the company. We are very thankful for what the Lord has done for us this week!

Sunday Thoughts

Nolan and Dan are up playing Xbox, and as great as Netflix movies are most of the ones on the instant play are pretty lame, after a couple of them I'm burnt out. So I decided I'd listen to some Joshua Radin and write about my Sunday. We've been in this ward almost a year now, sadly I am finally getting to know people. The transition from singles ward to the family ward has been tough for me. Probably because I had such a great singles ward and was so involved in it. It's hard to get involved when your calling is Visiting Teaching Supervisor and is only done at the end of each month. We are trying to enjoy the ward and not sneak off to St.David or Willcox on the weekends.

When we moved into the ward we bore our testimony's the first fast sunday we were there. I mentioned I was from St.David and that my maiden name was Jones. Well too my surprise a woman got up to bare hers a few people after me and said "Sister Hatch is your mother Mary Higginbotham?" I was really embarrassed and just shook my head yes while every head turned at us. Even Nolan was red! Anyways turns out she is married to a guy that was married to Grandpa Higginbothams sister Shirley I believe who died of cancer in her 30's I think. Don't quote me on that. We haven't really talked to her since. Infact she introduced herself to me like 2 months later acting like we had never met. Strange. But she came up to me today and said, "Hello Mary." I just smiled and said hello. Then she asked me my first name.

That conversation got me thinking. So here are my Sunday Thoughts of the day........ Things in our life happen for a reason. And for the time being certain trials or whatever it may be define us. We can't help it they just do. As life goes on though, the things that define us should change. The ones that did in the past should help us grow but should be in the past. Life changes and we move on. I am very thankful for a husband who is very patient with his emotional wife. We have been married for 9 months now and it has been wonderful. I am finding out a lot about myself. The funny thing is I thought I had figured Vanessa out in Idaho. I think I only figured out how to survive being single. Being married is a whole different story. Different yet more wonderful. I would never change a single thing!

I had a melt down the other day for no good reason. Poor Nolan had no idea how to react. It last 3 days actually and finally Nolan cornered me in the kitchen telling me I had to talk. Which resulted in me washing dishes and marinating steak and everything else you can think of instead of talking until I just lost it. We sat and talked everything through and I am so thankful for that. So at church when the lady called me Mary it made me think. It made me think of where I am today. Who I am for that matter. Nobody sees me as Vanessa Jones. Infact no one here knows anything about me. I am Vanessa Hatch. There are so many possibilities for Nolan and I. Dwelling on the past and things that have happened is just holding us back. Its time to learn and grow from them and let something else define me. So that is my goal. So let go of the crazy highschool girl who put her Step mom and father through hell and back(which I am truly sorry for) and turn into a wife and someday (not anytime soon) a mother. Nolan and I have some goals to achieve this. It all starts with daily scripture study and prayer. Not just individually but as a couple. We also want to get out of debt by august so if he starts school he wont have to work and we can possibly think of a family.

I think writing down goals is important to accomplishing them. So sorry to all of you who think this post was too personal or too much information or whatever it may be. But I hate hand writing and I figured that knowing someone read it will give me the encouragement to keep my goals and to become a better person.

Here are some recent pictures so this post wasn't just a boring ramble! This first picture is one I found of our trip to Vegas with Bridget so she could see Travis about a year ago. I thought it was sweet. The second one is from Christmas when Nolan and His dad roped. And the last is us Christmas Eve. Thanks for reading this!