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!

Nolan turned 23 on December 2nd. I realized that there is no way surprise boys on their birthdays! I had to buy a few things on his birthday cause he had already opened everything I got him. here are just a few gifts!

I found this at Checker auto for 3 dollars lol. Hm can't go wrong with a power tool for a man!


Nolan got x box live on black friday as one of his birthday gifts and he was actually put into a drawing because of black friday. Well my husband is so freakn lucky and was one of four who won!
I bought him this game the day of his birthday. He had been wanting if forever so I decided that I had to have something for him to open.

I went to Pac sun and got nolan a couple of hats cause his hat is nasty and he loves hurley. I also got him a couple of hurley hoodies. Stylish!

So in the drawing Nolan actually won a Ninetendo DSi but he asked if he could switch it for a wii. So yes on black friday we came home with a free wii! We love it!

Nolan got a new job and he can have facial hair so he thinks that means he doesnt have to shave. He looks really excited to have a new job huh? lol

His new job is express roadside. He likes it way more then circle k and is making more money. Thank heavans we had a truck! He bought a tool box for his truck for his birthday too. He's spoiled I know!

I am spoiled too. We got our christmas present early! A new HP laptop! I love it!!!!!!

Nolan found this treadmill at Salvation Army and actually only paid 25 bucks for it. Sadly havent used it. The incline doesnt work yet but when it does it is worth a good 700 or 800 bucks. Crazy huh?


Our apartment was kind of boring. So I put a bow on our door. Yeah I'm creative lol jk!

My sister in law Rachel worked at macys and got us 25% off cards and this nativity was already 1/2 and then 25% off after that! I love it!

Our stockings lol the tags are still on!

I convinced Nolan to buy me a real Christmas tree! I love it! Martha Stewart Decorations from macy's! The star on top is from walmart and is super small cause I didnt want to spend a ton of money on a tree topper so i just bought a doller ornament and made it a topper. Nolan thinks it is super weird lol!

Also I just cut 9 inches off of my hair! I was getting headaches really bad and am hoping cutting my hair will help. I havent taken any pictures yet but we will for Christmas and I'll post it then. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!