Stephen's Baptism!

OK, so I am looking at some of my friends blogs to see what is new in their lives, when much to my chagrin I realize that I have yet to update my own blog, and trust me a LOT has happened in the last six weeks! The first, and most important in my book, is that Stephen turned 8 on October 17th, and was baptized on October 31st! We had a wonderful turn out! Both my parents came along with one of my sisters, my grandparents, my aunt and uncle and their kids, Ryan's parents and several of his siblings and their kids, a couple of his friends from school, several good friends, and quite a few members of our ward! I especially want to thank my Mom for giving the talk on the Holy Ghost! It was a beautiful talk! I also wanted to tell Stephen and his friend Julie (one of the girls from our ward) thank you for singing a duet for us! It was a lovely service and the luncheon afterword was wonderful! Stephen, I am so proud of you for making the decision to be baptized! I love you and your wonderful spirit!

Help Raise Money for My Cousin's Daughter Who Has Cancer!

My cousin has a four year old little girl who was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in August 2009. Her name is Taylie and she is a wonderful little girl! I would appreciate it if you would all take the time to check out her website: http://www.tayliebug.com/ ! On her website there is a blog, upcoming events (fundraisers), and a place to donate! In addition, if you post a link on your blog, your facebook page, or tweet about her website; there is a donor who will be contributing $2 per post or tweet. If you want to participate and help us raise money for Taylie please visit http://www.adashofseason.blogspot.com/ ! I really appreciate you all taking the time to read this post and hopefully posting about it too!

First Day of School

Hi Everyone! Sorry that I haven't been great about updating my blog. This summer has been a fun, but busy one around our house. (Then again when aren't things crazy at our house?) I know that I am going to be p0sting things out of order for a while, but I want to get some of the great pictures that I have taken posted. I am starting with the first day of school for Stephen and Jenny.


Stephen was so excited to be starting 2nd grade! (I know that he doesn't look like it in the picture, but I had called him back from getting into the van to take the picture and he was concerned that he would be late for school!)

Jenny actually started Kindergarten a week later. (The school has placement testing for the Kindergartners the first week of school for all the other grades.) She was so excited to be going to school! She even has the same teacher that Stephen did for Kindergarten.

I just had to include this last photo. They were in such a hurry to go to school that they didn't even give me a chance to take a picture of them walking to the van!

New blog set up for my Grandparents!

Hey everyone! I am just making a quick blog to let everyone know that I set up a blog for Grandma and Grandpa Hatch today! I hope that they will continue to update it regularly! I have linked as many of your blogs to is as I have so if you want yours linked to theirs, you will need to email them with the info, or you can send it to me and I will forward it to them. More posts (and pictures) of my own are to follow soon!

End of the School Year

OK, once again I find that I have not spent the time that I have wanted to updating my blog. There aren't going to be an pictures this blog, but at least I'm posting something! I cannot believe that another school year has come to a close! I seems like just yesterday that Stephen started kindergarten and here he is finishing first grade! What makes it even more unbelievable is to realize that he will be turning 8 in October! I don't feel like I'm old enough to have a son getting ready to be baptized and starting scouts! Someone had better pinch me so that I can be sure that this is real! (I'm not even going to go into the fact that Ryan and I celebrated our 10th anniversary on May 7th!) Well, I guess that this will be all for now. (Hopefully I will get back here soon with more posts and pictures!)