MOLLY'S FIRST BASKETBALL GAME AND FOUR POINTS!
We were all pretty anxious for Molly's game this Saturday. So many basketball lovers who also love Molly and wanted to support her- she was pretty nervous since she "doesn't know how to play". So she had a pretty big cheering section which was a lot of fun. We were happy to be able to watch her play but didn't realize just what a treat we were in for!! She did SO WELL!!! She made all four of the points her team got. They won by two. She looked so good out there. Stealing, dribbling so well, and helping her teammates out. So fun!! Brad, Noah and Erika were all beaming!! As well as her dad/coach :). We can't wait for the rest of the games! 11-1-25
ADULT SESSION OF STAKE CONFERENCE
We had a really awesome adult session. I really liked it. This conference was right before the stake realignment, so most of the talks the next day were about that and it didn't really apply to us as much, so that was almost annoying. But the Saturday session was SO GREAT!! I loved it. They had the Watts who are serving in the Transition Branch in West Jordan with all the people who are in between prison and life (or who simply cannot go to regular wards because of the crimes they committed). They gave such interesting talks!! The wife read off several things they have read from their journals or just said in their testimonies over the pulpit and that was really interesting. They had some really cool thoughts. Very remorseful and humble for most of them. But also feelings of healing and renewal. It's crazy how the atonement works even on really bad things. They talked about how they cannot take the sacrament, so they don't do the sacrament in their "worship service", but they've asked if they can read the prayer, so they do read the prayer every week. Very cool. Makes me realize what a blessing it is and what a gift being able to take the Sacrament is. I hope I am always worthy of that blessing. They talked about how we have covenanted to bear one another's burdens and pointed out that that doesn't just include the burdens that accidentally fall upon us, but the ones we cause ourselves. Those criminals deserve to be mourned with and that is part of our covenant. So interesting. There was another talk from a woman who had been divorced. I really liked her talk as well. I think she talked about forgiveness. It's weird because I was staring right at Pres. Larsen (Brad was with me and chose the second row on the left side of the chapel :) ), and I kept thinking about the things I keep trying to forgive him of. It's been a road for sure. But I think it's okay to just keep forgiving when it comes to my mind. I don't have as much control about how often I think about it, I can control how LONG I think about it, or who I talk to about it too much, but I don't have control about when it pops in my head, so I need to use my agency to control what I do with those thoughts and I think it's perfectly fine to just keep forgiving him every time. It was a good meeting. I wish Nate had been there. 11-1-25
STAKE CONFERENCE
I got to go to the training meeting in the morning with Nate and Brad. It was mostly about the wards realigning. So kinda lame. Then the general meeting with the kids. That one was also very focused on the changing wards. We were glad our ward wasn't changing at all, but it was kind of boring to hear about it all. I liked a lot of the talks though! So many good things. I like that we have our spot on the stage now :). I think it's been a few times now. The kids did great. Nate had to get to work, so he only stayed for a few minutes of the realignment meeting, then took the kids home. I stayed so I could give hugs after. It was a crazy shift with new ward names and everything. I almost think our ward could have used a little shake up, but I also don't want to have to go through another split. Should be interesting to see how this goes for all the young women presidencies. 11-2-25
NO MORE PLASTIC AND ZIPPERS!
They okayed our leak mess Monday! Took down all the plastic and got rid of all the fans! It felt so quiet all day. We learned that we will might get to remodel some of the spaces in our house and that we have a ton of money in the bank at the moment, so that's kinda nice! Since we're in a shut down and have missed about three paychecks. Heavenly Father finds the coolest ways to bless us. I like it. 11-3-25
APPLE SUPPORT
I had called Apple the other day to fix my phone, it's been crapping out on me because it's full, and they were not able to help me on the phone. I finally made the appointment on Thursday and got in there to Restore it. The guys there were super nice and fixed it so fast!! I was so happy! It is now only using about 30%. So that's nice. And it feels almost like a new phone, still getting used to that. HOpefully those guys were wrong and I can keep using my phone past January. We'll see. 11-6-25
DEVAN'S BIRTHDAY
We got to see Kelly and Devan for a few minutes on his birthday- that was fun. I can't remember why. But then Friday I spent a lot of the day making his Tron cake :). Kelly had requested it and designed one on ChatGPT. I don't think I'll ever allow a fake design again, but it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. I only wish I could figure out how to prevent that marbling when I freeze the cake. It was really marbley and frosty for some reason. Kind of a bummer. We went over to the Brenchley's Friday night for some cake and ice cream and games. I was shocked at how similarly they celebrate birthdays as us. Kinda cool for Kelly and Devan I guess. They do bunt cakes though, so we just looked at the Tron one :). We had so much fun playing all the games- the Name one and then Psychiatrist. Pretty fun stuff. Happy Birthday, Devan! 11-7-25
CRAWL SPACE AND EXTRA ROOMISH
I finally did it!! I bent over and reorganized the crawl space!! It was well overdue. Molly helped a little til we found some boxes with clothes for her and Sadie. My knees and back are not happy about things, but 2 and a half hours later I was bringing up the garbage bag. It's not completely done- we need to go through the totes of toys to find out what we want to do with them, but it's organized at least. I had no idea we had left some games down there and even less idea that the kids had just dumped some of them out into the room. That was annoying. But we're getting closer. 11-8-25
TESTIMONIES
We had our first testimony meeting since Elder Bednar suggesting just bearing a pure, simple testimony. I was planning on it after my training meeting and then I heard that Bishop had encouraged all of Ward Council to do the same and so the first five or so testimonies (including Nate's) were JUST testimonies! Nothing extra. It was SO INCREDIBLE!! The Spirit was SO STRONG!! Sadie and Molly both closed up their coloring books and just wanted to listen- they were totally feeling the spirit. Brad, Erika and Noah all got up as well and did the same- they had spaced theirs out a little which was cool because there were some extra ones in between that totally changed the vibe, kind of disappointing, but this was a really neat experience. I hope we can have that again soon. 11-9-25
PREP FOR LIFE- EMIL HARKER
We went against what the youth had chosen in our council and got Martha's therapist to come speak to them. It ended up being SO AMAZING!! I was so glad we had that right before Erika's tryouts. She's been getting really stressed and full of anxiousness lately and this just hit the spot. He taught us about LIFT- Living in faith today. He taught that if you are following the laws, you will be happy- just like if you follow the laws of nature you can create lift. It's as simple as that. Looking in the great and spacious building is not where you will find happiness. Then he talked about how if a thought is not PSE- Positive, Supportive or Encouraging, that it is coming from the devil. He taught how to change those thoughts and make them PSE. I loved that. All the negative things we think about ourselves and the things that bring us down are from satan. Don't listen to them. I liked how he said to schedule the life that other people would want to live. Very interesting and "Be your own butler". Catching things ahead of time and being prepared for what's to come- very cool. He said the way to overcome anxiety is to take time each night to plan out tomorrow. Think through everything you have to do that day, feeling good and happy through all of it and just basking in the good that you will feel and then praying to Heavenly Father to help you feel the way you felt as you were imagining it. I LOVED this!! Just a really good message the whole thing. I really loved it! The kids seemed to really love the rolls too! They were a huge hit! I couldn't believe Christa wanted to get 144 rolls for our 30ish (that's what we had been getting) kids. But there were almost 50 kids this time and they all ate a LOT- 143 rolls to be exact!! So crazy! Fun time. 11-9-25
MONDAY
I planned out my day last night and it has been SO PRODUCTIVE!! It's been really nice. I haven't done everything exactly how I planned, but pretty close! It's been awesome though! I really need to do this everyday! This week was a good one to do this on cuz it's packed!! It's been a great day so far though! 11-10-25
LUNCH WITH BECKY
Becky invited me over for some lunch and chatting. It was such a good time. I always love spending time with Becky but this was extra special for some reason. She got us Firehouse subs. It was just a really nice time. I hope I always remember it. 11-11-25
ERIKA FAMILY PARTY
We just had Erika's party here at home in our torn apart house. Grandpa Hatch, Grandma Hatch and Simon came. It was a pretty chill party. We didn't do much. Erika chose to have an ice cream cake. It was a pretty good time :). Erika was waiting to hear back about tryouts for the basketball team the whole time, which I felt a little bad she had to stress about that at the same time as her party. But she found out she made the team, just not which team until the next day, but she was relieved :). 11-11-25
DATE WITH NOAH
Noah and I went to Chick-fil-a for our date this time. We had a good time. I sure love Noah. He is a great kid and has such a future ahead. I really can't wait to see what this kid does. He is a blessing in my life. 11-12-25
MOLLY THE WHO!!! IN SEUSSICAL JUNIOR
Molly did such an amazing job in her musical!! We were all so proud of her!! Everyone got to see it, so she had people to watch and cheer her name really loudly at every show! She knew the words to every song, all the actions perfectly, she looked so great up there with her hair and makeup just so :). I think she may have even had some fun. We all loved watching her get into it and being part of the project she has worked on SO HARD this past couple months. She did amazing!! We love Molly! 11-13-25--11-15-25
CONCESSIONS
It came! We had Seussical and did the concession stand for all three nights. This year was a lot smoother than past years, it almost felt like we had fewer customers. Some of the cool things we sold were inflatable monkeys- which didn't really sell until Molly sent one to her friend Jayne who said her mom doesn't send candy grams to her ever :). Then they were a big hit. I made some Cat in the Hat cakes- small mini loaf cakes with red and white stripes, super cute- they all sold out. We had bags of green eggs- square pretzels with a white chocolate melt and green plain m&ms on them- people loved those! I sold some jungle animal stuffy keychains, some "clover" pens and feather pens. I thought we did a great job! They did the volunteers a little differently this year, three ladies for each cast and they were all there every showing of the opposite cast. So they were not brand new helpers every night. I liked this so much better! I hope they do that again. If I do concessions again. We had all the usual candy, popcorn, roses. I had Erika's help a couple of the shows, Molly was usually there helping. Noah and Nate and Brad helped haul everything in and out and Jack was there a few times. It was a successful week! I actually kind of like doing it. I'm not sure why. But hopefully they let me do it again. 11-13-25--11-15-25
MISSIONARY MOM BREAKFAST
We did a breakfast instead of lunch this time. We went to Kneaders. It was a nice time, just Emily, Cathie, Shar and I. 11-14-25
ERIKA'S DRIVER'S LICENSE!!!
This was very exciting! Erika passed her test the day before- even with Agnello!! I was so glad she was able to chat with him about Track and Nate doing the meat for Davis Invite and all the other things they were able to talk about. She did a great job!! I checked her out for lunch and we went and got her driver's license and then some lunch. It was so great! She's a driver now!! 11-14-25
ERIKA'S FRIEND PARTY
We had to race out of the Elementary school from the last performance and our mad dash to clean up concessions and hurried home for Erika's friend party! This was so much fun!! Erika had about 15 friends meet up here at our house, we drove everyone (all of us except Jack and Noah) in four cars down to The Call Tower. Chris was SO NICE to meet up with us there and host us. The kids all had a blast!! I loved watching Easton golfing the whole time- haha! Kate spent a lot of time playing with Sadie on the ping pong table. The kids loved having ice cream sundaes and were so enthusiastic singing happy birthday. I think Erika had a good time, which was all that really mattered to me. I loved being part of it all with her. 11-15-25
PRIMARY MISSIONARY ACTIVITY
The girls (well, and Brad, Nate and Jack) LOVED this activity!! The Primary leaders did an amazing job! MIssion calls, Molly got called to South Korea, Sadie got called to Australia. Brad got to teach some things about Peru and Preach My Gospel. It was great! I wish I could have seen it, but everyone loved it. 11-18-25
DINNER WITH CLAIRE
WHile everyone was at the Primary activity, Claire and I went out. We decided to try this new place called Nacho Daddy. The atmosphere sucked. The music was too loud, they put us under a tv with trashy music videos, everyone there was from the abc club and had piercings, tattoos or colored hair or all three. We probably looked like we fit in almost. I got Enchilada nachos which were AMAZING!! But I don't think I'd ever go back there. Maybe to go. But Claire and I got to talk- that was nice. She's such a great friend. We need to get together when she can bring her dog soon. 11-18-25
DR. KAREN BRADLEY
This was a MUCH anticipated appointment for me. We talked all about my perimenopause symptoms. I will be going on estrogen, progesterone, and some physical therapy. Should be good- we will see. 11-19-25
LUNCH WITH PAPPY
Does it seem like I go out to eat a lot? I think that's fairly accurate. I got to go out with my dad for our usual. We went to Olive Garden, ate what we always do. It was a great time. I'm really grateful for my dad and that he makes time for me. 11-20-25
DATE NIGHT AND TWO CARS KAPUT
We had to move our date night to Thursday for Luminaria on Friday. As we were leaving for our date we got a call from Erika that the Forerunner wasn't starting. We assumed it was the battery so we went and jumped it and were on our way. We went to Zupas and then to see the movie Now You See Me Now You Don't. While we were at the movie Nate got texts from Noah saying that Nate's car he was using was also not starting. So after the movie we went over to the stake center to try jumping the white car. It didn't work. This was a little more frustrating and we finally just ended up towing it home. Can you believe we had two cars call it quits on the same night!! So bizarre. Right after paying the guys who will be working on our house. 11-20-25
ERIKA'S FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON
Erika did such an amazing job in her game! She even got to play quite a bit. We were all there, cheering her on :). Such a great game even though we lost. 11-21-25
LUMINARIA
We hurried out of Erika's game and raced down to Thanksgiving Point trying to get there by 6:00, but no later than 6:30 (because that's when I thought we were supposed to be there), but ended up stuck in traffic for quite a while, arriving at 6:25!! I was so panicked running to the entrance. Surprise though, we didn't need to be there til 7:00, 7:30 at the latest! And we ended up standing around waiting for Charity and Hunter til even later :). Which was totally fine, we just got ditched by the rest of the family. This was a fun night though! I didn't think it was too cold (course if I'd been in just a hoodie like Noah, I would have been colder, poor Noah left his coat in his car back in Kaysville). We got to see everything. Grandma got us all hot chocolate and churro bites. We got to hang out with the Taylors through a lot of it. The lights were beautiful. We loved the Book of Mormon display with the Lehi's Dream display- very cool! I loved spending that time together. We missed Luke and Erika. It was nice of grandma Ruthie to plan that and spoil us all. 11-21-25
GIRLS NIGHT
The girls and I have gone to Nutcracker together for the last few years as kind of a girls night tradition and we wanted to do something again this year, but not really feeling the Nutcracker, so we chose to go see the Davis High Musical- Catch Me If You Can. I wasn't sure how I would like this, even though I love the movie so much, but it was REALLY FUN!! Such a high energy, FUN, colorful show!! The girls and I loved it. We decided to go to Zupas for dinner after. This wasn't my favorite part because we need to work on manners about where and what we eat. But I loved being with my girls and having that time together. We all got a good laugh while Sadie was performing for us all :). 11-22-25
THANKSGIVING DAY
This year was pretty chill. There wasn't a lot to do or anything to cook really, so we pretty much just chilled all morning. We were able to go up to Grandma Ruthie's for dinner though and Nate was off, so that was awesome. We had dinner with her and just a few other families and then as per her request, we did not do gingerbread houses. Kind of a bummer, but she had some fun games for everyone to play- minute to win it style. It was a lot of fun. We loved being with everyone too. I was happy that the Hollists and the Brenchleys made it :). Feels weird putting it that way, but that's their names and it's easier than writing out all four names. 11-27-25
WHITE FRIDAY
This didn't quite go as planned. There were no appointments, but we've been able to get in lately without at the Bountiful temple, so we risked it. They didn't seem to happy with us being walk-ins. We had so many of us too. But they eventually let us in and let us do confirmations. It's fun to have so many melchezedek Priesthood holders with us. Nate stayted home with the little girls. I still love just being in the temple. Especially the Bountiful temple. 11-28-25
GINGERBREAD HOUSES
We ended up doing gingerbread houses with the Taylors afterall- they came all the way down to experience this tradition with us. So nice. We had a lot of fun. Everyone got into it and had a lot of fun. It's cute that they love this tradition so much. I'm glad. It is always fun to be with the Taylors. The guys of course played basketball when we were done. Claire made a guest appearance as well. That was fun. She had something up this way and decided to stop by. We still need to see her cute doggie. We all went to Mod Pizza (or whatever it is down there on 2600 S. Yummy stuff- and they have gluten free. This was the night that Sadie told the Taylor's cousin that she wanted to kiss him with her tongue. So funny and so awkward. Poor kid. 11-28-25
ZOOTOPIA 2
We've been hating being at home so much with all the construction and such, so we've found lots of things to go and do. Saturday it was Zootopia 2! This was a LOT of fun. We were lucky to get seats. I LOVED hearing the kids laugh- even Noah :). The movie was adorable. I think I liked it better than the first. Maybe. SO fun! The kids were all happy- first movie in a while as a family that wasn't torture. 11-29-25
MUSIC THING
Our ward did this cool music thing. I guess they did it last year too. I had no idea. The choir had been asked to sing in it, so I had to go, and I dragged everyone with me. It ended up being pretty cool. Not a huge turnout, but so much talent. I really want to try to put something together for it next year. Maybe me and Luke and Charity could do something?? That would be cool. 11-30-25
