Memorial Weekend

We were able to get a lot done with our three day weekend, but really only crossed off a small portion of our to-do list. We have two big flower beds in our front yard and spent a lot of Saturday tranforming them from a weedy garden into a nice plantable area. Jared borrowed a rototiller from a friend, which helped a lot in this process. The next step is doing the same thing to the entire backyard! We planted some little flowers, but still haven't done any of the actual landscaping with trees, shrubs and such.

We were excited to buy a flag and hang it up for Memorial Day.

We planted our garden this weekend also. It actually didn't take that long since it was just one tomato plant and a couple squash seeds in pots. We're sad we won't be able to have a garden this year, but hopefully we can still grow a couple of tomatoes. Plus, we live close to Kevin and Lisa now and we're sure they'll share their crops! :)

We finally got Mackayla's headboard painted and it looks much better in her room with it there now.

We bought the kids their first squirt guns at Walmart and they think they are the greatest things ever!

Jared is now working with the Webelos scouts. He and Mackayla both look so cute all dressed up!

Bradley wouldn't take a nap the other day, and then right before dinner he just layed down on the floor and went to sleep.



Bradley is now getting to participate in more of our school/craft time and always loves the projects.


We've been living in our house for over a month now! It's definitly feeling like home, but we still have lots of work to do. We decided to hurry and get the back yard done, but Jared is going to be SO BUSY at work for the next month that it might not go as fast as we were hoping. Along with a bunch of big estimating projects he has to get done, they also have four homes in the Utah Valley Parade of Homes, so he has to work many shifts (mostly at nights) at those homes for the next couple of weeks. :( I'm excited to get to see the Magleby homes though, especially the one that Jared was the project manager for and has spent a lot of his last eight months working on.

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I've told Bradley a few times at church, during the sacrament as he takes a piece of bread that the bread helps us think about Jesus. This last Sunday, Bradley ate his bread and I hadn't mentioned anything about it that time. He started looking all around the chapel and hollaring, "JESUS??? JESUS, WHERE ARE YOU??? JESUS???" It was pretty cute and we couldn't help but laugh.

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Finally, a video of Bradley dancing and singing one of Papa's favorites. Enjoy!

PS - Next post will have a spotlight of Mackayla and some of the funny and intelligent things she does or says (In case you felt bad because she appears neglected in the video - she really isn't!).

Mother's Day

I enjoyed a nice, relaxing Mother's day. I decided Saturday that I'm really tired. The last couple of months have been so busy. I'm starting my third trimester now and just realized that I'm exhausted. I might not get a lot done this week but I'm taking it easy this week anyway.

Mackayla made me this beautiful card and flower bracelet at church.

Jared took Mackayla out and let her pick out her own gift for me. I was delighted to recieve some colorful rubber bracelets. :) I was immediately instructed that I get to share them with everyone.

I recieved my first ever breakfast in bed. What an honor!

We had homemade icecream to help make it a fabulous day!
Jared and the kids gave me a rose bush for mother's day as well. They worked together and planted it for me on Saturday. The first thing planted in our yard!!

Grandma and Grandpa Hatfield were here for all of last week. It was so fun to have them here. Poor Grandpa though spent a majority of his time working on the Provo house, getting it ready to sell. Hopefully, Mom will take him on a fishing trip now so he can actually relax. Mom helped a ton getting the house in order and things hung up on the walls. We LOVED having them here.

This is Mackayla playing old maid with Grandma. We made her this deck of cards for Mother's day.


The Hatfield Family old maid game

Dad was here for his birthday. Mackayla helped Grandma make him his birthday cake.

The Henrys came over to help celebrate with cake and icecream.

Mackayla with the birthday boy.

Birthday dinner

Just a picture of the boys sleeping.

The Movie (Tour of house)

We've still got a lot to do at the house but I took a quick video tour of the house. It's kind of hard to see but you can still see more of the house than you could have in just a couple pictures. So, if you're interested, here is the house, as is.

The Move

I've had a lot of requests for pictures of our new house, but I really don't have any of those ready yet. Hopefully, I'll put up a little tour of the house in the next couple days, but in the mean time I have a few pictures of the actual move.

The last few days before the move were crazy and I could barely move, so we were so THANKFUL that Jared's parents and grandmother showed up to help us on Friday. Jared's Mom and Grandma did A LOT of the last packing for us on Friday. We were able to borrow a big truck from our Bishop on Saturday morning. We had 13 guys from our ward show up to help us move and they had everything out of the house in about 30 mins. It was amazing. It took about 20 minutes longer to have everything loaded in the truck and then we were on the road to Lehi to unpack. We didn't have as much help on the other end but it still went really fast. A couple guys from our ward, Taylor Nelson, my uncle, and a couple of my cousins helped us and we really appreciated everyone that helped us that day!!

Here's Jared in the back of the truck on our first moving day.

Here are a lot of the guys wondering what to do next after only being there for 30 mins. Everyone was planning on it taking a lot longer.

Jared and his dad getting a ride down from the truck.

Mackayla really wanted to help out with everything. Here she was wrapping up some of my vases for packing.
The kids did a good job staying out of the way. On Saturday morning I opened the stroller in the kitchen and I think Bradley stayed in there for about an hour. That really helped in the last moments before the movers showed up. :)

While they were loading the truck Mackayla stayed busy picking flowers.

At the new house, the kids stayed in their tent and watched a movie for a good portion of the unloading time.

Nini not only helped pack and unpack a ton, it was great having the help entertaining the kids as well.

Friday night the kids took one last bath in their giant bath tub.

Mackayla has been having a hard time with the change so things have been a little rough for her. This Sunday after church she wanted to rest by herself so she crawled under these pillows and stayed for a long time.

Along with the big house Bradley is wanting to be a big boy. He's decided he prefers sitting at the table with us rather than his high chair. He looks so cute sitting there with us.

I wanted to write this little conversation down so I wouldn't forget it because I think it's so sweet. During one of Mackayla's many hard moments during our fist week here I was having a talk with her and the end of it went like this...

Me: Do you know how long I'll love you?

Mackayla: How long?

Me: FOREVER!

Mackayla: (with a big grin finally replacing the sad face) Well, I'll love you for one minute longer than that!