MAY 2026

TANGLED DINNER
It's been a minute since we did a movie themed dinner and this one turned out so perfect!  We loved it!  It was fun to have Kelly here for it.  5-1-2026

NOAH SENIOR BREAKFAST
This turned out pretty good!  I was grateful for all the help my cute family gave to set up and that went pretty smoothly.  In the morning, not so much!  I went a little early to do some last minute stuff and of course, I picked up the giant paper cup full of syrup from Kneaders by the lid and it of course slipped off, causing the entire HUGE cup of syrup to fall and splatter all over me, the table, the floor, everywhere!!  It was SO embarrassing, so sticky, and SO embarrassing!!  I had time, so I ran home and changed my clothes, but I really was pretty sticky all morning.  It was annoying.  But after that whole mess- luckily everyone else cleaned it all up while I was changing- HUGE EYEROLL!!!  I hate that everyone had to clean up my mess!!  Bro. Sagers got the mop out!!  It was crazy!!  But anyway- after that, I had to serve the seniors, but then it was time to sit with Noah and enjoy his company.  I loved seeing his cute baby picture and recent photo in the video.  It's so hard to believe we are here already with Noah!  It feels so unreal for some reason.  The clean up wasn't too bad, we got out of there pretty quickly.  Onto Saturday!  5-2-2026

GOODBYE KELLY AND DEVAN
We wanted to devote the whole day to Kelly and Devan and their last time with us for a while.  We ended up going to Slackwater Pizza in Salt Lake and doing a big kickball game!  Slackwater was amazing!!  I could eat there everyday!  I got the Gyro pizza.  It was delicious.  We all traded around and everyone had so much fun talking pizza all night.  I loved this time together.  I think Brad was missing, but we had everyone else, which was nice.  It's not very often we get everyone so I try to enjoy things regardless.  It was a lot of fun.  It's really hard to think about them being gone for possibly three years.  I am very excited for them though.  I know how good it can be to get out on your own, so I guess I'm also excited for them.  Also, having this opportunity so early on in their lives is so great!  We will of course miss them SO MUCH!  They drove off in their little car packed with everything they need for the next few months on Monday the 4th.  5-2-2026

BARBECUE AND GAMES WITH WOOLSEYS
This was a good distraction from having to say goodbye to Kelly and Devan.  We went to their house for some yummy food and then over to Gailey Park for some Badmitton.  This was a new one for us, but it was really fun!  I think everyone liked it!  It was fun to have Brad with us for part of it as well!  Good times.  5-4-2026

LUNCH WITH JULIE CLEMENS
It's always such a good recharge spending time with Julie.  She is one of those keeps ya grounded friends.  I loved hearing how she is doing and her awesome example of just trucking on in life even through so many trials.  She's amazing!!  I just love that she will still make time for me and that she is my friend!  Love ya, Julz!!  5-5-2026

MOUNTAIN MAN RENDEZVOUS MEETING
This meeting was a bit of a bummer.  We basically decided not to bother with the fish pond.  Things just weren't working out at all.  The fish were a fortune, the timing was off when they could drop it off.  I couldn't get the big trough, the new location of everything was lame.  All of it.  I don't think very many moms really wanted it anyway.  But I was bummed.  5-5-2026

LUNCH WITH MEGAN WALTER
This was kind of random.  We had texted for a few minutes and ended up planning lunch and then rescheduling a few times before finally making it to Kneaders for lunch.  She is really fun to talk to, though!  I was very glad we made the time.  I really enjoy her friendship and I'm glad I was able to meet her at Girls camp last year.  We need to do this again soon.  5-6-2026

THE PARK WITH BRIGGS
This was a lot of fun.  We even had quite a few big kids with us!  Which is always more fun.  Courtney and Briggs met up with us at the new Farmington park- should we call it North Cottonwood park?  I think that's what it's called- so strange.  We had a lot of fun talking though!  It was great!  Briggs is adorable.  I'm so happy he likes my kids and that we get to spend time with them.  5-9-2026

SOCCER
Soccer season has been going good so far!  Molly had to do the treat this week and she just HAD to make something homemade, so she did Muddy Buddies in little bags for everyone.  So cute!!  Turned out great!  5-9-2026

GRANDPA HATCH'S 71st BIRTHDAY
We met up at Mueller Park for some hamburgers and cake :).  I made a chess board cake- it turned out okay.  Not quite how I'd imagined.  And it melted pretty quickly in the heat.  We had fun though!  It's always good to spend time with Grandpa and Steve.  5-9-2026

MOTHER'S DAY!!
I loved my Mother's Day this year!!  As always it was perfect!  Breakfast in bed, showered with gifts, church with my new bag that Molly made me, in tow.  Games and fun all evening.  Nate took the day off even so that he could help spoil me- it was great!!  I just love my family and I love being a mom!  5-10-2026

MOLLY'S DECATHLON, SADIE'S ZOO FIELD TRIP, NOAH'S AP TEST
This was a crazy Monday!  Nate and I had to divide and conquer with the decathlon and the field trip- I went with Molly, Nate with Sadie.  Molly did amazing!  Her team got 4th place which is pretty awesome!!  I loved watching her compete- she seemed to enjoy it along with some nervousness.  I heard the zoo field trip was also great!  Noah did his AP test without any extra help from his doctor note- took it just like anybody else even though he could have had more time, spread out, etc. because of his stroke.  He's pretty cool.  And since I'm typing this up since he got his results, he got a 5!!  Pretty proud of him!!  Go Noah!!  5-11-2026

ERIKA PT
We finally have some answers about Erika's knees- tendonitis in both knees.  Brian Pennock says shock therapy will be the best thing for it, so we will be starting that soon.  5-13-2026

MOUNTAIN MAN RENDEZVOUS
It came!!  I didn't die not having the fish pond.  I was glad :).  Instead, I worked with Stefani's father-in-law on the leather stamping station.  The kids liked it, it was easy, fun, and very mountain man-ly.  Molly was happy to have me there.  It was great!  And so easy :).  I came back to help with the trading post as well, and this was pretty fun too.  I didn't do much, just set up and then sat and played with the puzzle/games with some of the kids.  Molly was so nice to make me feel welcome and sit by me a few times.  She got to buy lots of fun things with her beaver pelts.  It was really fun!  I will admit it went better than I thought it would.  5-13-2026

DR. SWINYARD ONE LAST TIME
We had our two minute zoom appointment with Dr. Swinyard.  This was lame.  I'm not gonna lie- I am so at my wits end with the endocrinologist search!  This is killing me.  I am hoping we can find someone aweosme, but it's getting so frustrating.  Poor Jack.  He really liked Dr. Swinyard.  5-14-2026

MAYCEMBER CONTINUES- PICNIC ON THE PLAYGROUND
This was a fun picnic.  We got all kinds of food for everyone.  I don't even remember now, but I think we actually went with a dessert pizza again.  We sat off to the side of everyone else, since there was a little shade, but we missed out on the neighbor group.  Erika and Jack stopped by.  We were happy and all was well.  It's fun to think about summer almost being here.  5-15-2026

HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY TO US!!  
I hope I have some sort of documentation somewhere of what we did to celebrate- my mind is blank (it has been almost five months!).  We managed to squeeze in something though- I know we did.  And I think I got Nate a gift.  But it's all a blur right now.  I love Nate!  I am so happy I chose him.  5-15-2026

LACROSSE TEAM BANQUET
This was great!  Nate made the meat and buns at Karen Wright's request.  It was fun to celebrate Erika.  Kelly got to be here for it as well and that was awesome.  I am trying to remember what she had come back for- I think it was Paige's wedding.  But she was here for the banquet and that was awesome.  Erika got a cool award, can't remember what it was.  The weird guy did the weird raps for all the seniors.  We had fun sitting with Krista and Emily.  It was great :).  5-16-2026

NOAH SEMINARY GRADUATION
He did it!!  He graduated Seminary!  And I survived making a balloon arch with my presidency even though we didn't need to- it was completely my fault that we had one.  My brain has been so strange lately.  Doing some weird things.  I loved watching Noah walk across the stage- he looks all grown up!!  It's so crazy how real things are getting.  We had yummy refreshements that I picked up :).  It was great!  Congrats Noah!  5-17-2026

FIELD DAY
This field day was pretty fun- I had Erika there with me for most of it and Kelly came too.  We had fun running the Obstacle course for the first group and then 9 square for the second half even though my two kids were in the first group.  We had fun though.  I only got mad at a few kids that day :).  Improvement.  5-19-2026

NOAH'S MISSION PHOTOSHOOT
This was so much fun!  Noah and I at the Salt Lake Temple in the wind :).  I don't feel like the pictures turned out perfectly, but it was a lot of fun.  We talked a lot and had fun together.  I am really goign to miss him.  I feel like we are good friends.  It's going to be so hard to let him go.  5-19-2026

ELEMENTARY WALK- NOAH
This is a fun tradition now- Noah got to get all dressed up in his cap and gown and go parade around the Elementary school and in their assembly.  It was a lot of fun to see him with all his Elementary friends again.  They loved wandering the halls and visiting old teachers.  They were hilarious high fiving all the kids as they went back to their classes.  All the jokes about how many germs they would have on their hands after that.  So funny.  I loved it.  Some of the pictures turned out.  My phone still has a massive crack on it!  5-20-2026

KELLY TO THE AIRPORT
Another sad goodbye.  I have loved having her here.  I hope Oklahoma City appreciates us sharing her with them.  5-20-2026

JACK BROKEN ANKLE
Jack was playing capture the flag over at the Maughan's and jumped off the deck, just a few steps high, and landed wrong on his ankle.  Nate had to help him walk home.  He was hurt pretty bad and I was pretty sure it was broken, but we waited til the next day to take him in.  Just in case we didn't have enough going on that day!!  We went to the doctor and sure enough, it was a distal tibial fracture.  Right by the growth plate.  Luckily it wasn't displaced at all.  They told him to use a boot and stay off it completely.  5-21-2026

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!
Sadie got a field trip to Ponds Park.  Molly got a field trip to Gailey Park.  I got to go do a mini photoshoot with Noah in his cap and gown in the backyard.  Tradition.  And then we raced off to Graduation!  5-22-2026

NOAH'S GRADUATION!!!
Noah's Graduation went really smoothly.  It was strange that it was later in the day, but it worked.  He left a little early with friends.  Brad drove me up to Dee Events Center and we found seats for everyone.  We sat there, saving seats, much to EVERYONE's dismay, up by the handicapped section so that we could have Ruth's scooter there next to us.  It was a great spot- I think it's the same spot we've had at all of them.  Noah looked all grown up in his walk and so handsome in his picture.  It was fun to find him through the zoom lens and see him wave at us when he found us.  Pretty cool.  We went to Buffalo Wild Wings after for dinner.  He had lots of support from Nate, me, Charity, Hunter, Bradley, Grandpa Hatch, Grandma Hatch and Simon, and Grandma Ruthie.  So fun!  Congratulations Noah!!  Class of 2026!!!  5-22-2026

PROJECTOR MOVIE NIGHT
We did our usual projector movie night on the last day of school tradition again this year.  It was a little tricky with graduation being so late, so we had to rush home from dinner to get things set up.  The girls had taken invites to school so we had a GOOD turnout!  So many kids!  I really can't believe how many 1st graders showed up at our house and stayed til the late late hours of the night!  We watched Super Mario Bros 2.  There were a few dramatic moments with Liberty and Lincoln.  But overall it went well.  I'm still shocked at how many showed up.  Good thing we got plenty of popcorn!!  Good times.  5-22-2026

MOTHER'S DAY LUNCH WITH MOM
I took my mom to lunch for Mother's day.  She wanted somewhere with salads, so we went to Zupas.  It was delicious.  I made her try the Dubai Chocolate strawberries.  I think we had a good time.  5-23-2026

MEMORIAL DAY BREAKFAST
This was nice.  I don't think Nate was able to come even though his schedule has been so different these past few months with his new position.  But the kids and I had fun.  Yummy food too.  5-25-2026

BARBECUE
I think we went up to Lynn's for Memorial day barbecue in the evening.  We had a good time.  I think I spent most of the time talking with Charity.  It was nice.  I got to see Maryn's baby also.  So cute.  5-25-2026

NOAH SENIOR TRIP
Noah and his friends planned a pretty fun senior trip to San Diego the week after graduation.  We were sad to see him go, but I think he had a really good time!  They had some funny moments planning talking about food and where to get food.  I was happy to hear that Noah knows how to conserve and be frugal.  I was really proud of how awesome they did and that they came home all in one piece.  5-25-2026--5-29-2026

ANIMAL FARM
We went and saw Animal Farm with Janeel.  Pretty cool movie- once I remembered the book.  I actually want to read it again now.  Janeel is awesome.  I am glad she lets me be her friend.  5-26-2026

TAKE THE VAN IN, FIX THE DRYER, ERIKA PT, LUNCH WITH STEFANI
Just another crazy day!  Lunch with Stefani was therapeutic.  5-27-2026

JACK ORTHOPEDICS
We had Jack's appointment with Primary Childrens Orthopedics.  This was a long drive to Salt Lake, a LONG walk through the hospital- pretty much as far as you can walk in that hospital- that ended in a cast!  Poor guy.  5-28-2026

STAKE CONFERENCE
We survived another Stake Conference.  I don't know why I said that.  Stake Conference is great!  I love it!  We had a really good evening session that I barely made it to and sat by myself basically.  Getting used to that.  We had Elder Larreal there and he was awesome!  I actually really loved his talks.  The morning training meeting was also awesome.  I got to sit by Martha there.  And then back in the back with the family in the dark for the Sunday session.  Noah was sustained as an Elder.  Went well.  I enjoyed it.  Everyone did so well.  5-30-2026--5-31-2026

NOAH'S ORDINATION TO ELDER
This went really well.  Noah was all business and so grown up through the whole thing. I know I keep saying that, but he really is just so old all of a sudden.  I'm really proud of him and the choices he's making and steps he's taking to better his life.  He will do some pretty great things, no doubt.  I loved hearing what the Lord wanted to bless him with that day.  It was just our family, I think Brad got to ordain him which was also a really cool mom paycheck.  I loved that.  Cool stuff.  5-31-2026

April 2026

 SPRING BREAK CONT.
I made "spaghetti and meatballs" pancakes for April Fools breakfast.  Everyone had fun pulling pranks all day.  Mostly just putting toilet paper all over the house.  We also went to Chick-fil-a and the Planetarium with Grandpa Hatch.  That was a lot of fun!  Good times.  Thursday, we had lunch with Grandma Ruthie (and Aunt Jen and Nancy), before dropping Nate off at work and then stopping at the Church Art and History Museum on our way home.  That was pretty fun too.  On Friday we WEnt and got Steve and went and saw the new Super Mario Bros movie.  This was a major highlight!  We really should have done lunch or something too, but we had fun.  It was a good movie, just a LOT.  Maybe a little over stimulating.  That night we did Buddy Dates!!  Everyone was so happy about this- it ended up being pretty fun.  Nate and I had each other.  Brad and Kelly went thrift shopping and dinner.  Erika and Sadie went to mini golf and Chick-fil-a.  Jack and Hunter stayed home and got Chick-fil-a delivered and played video games.  Charity and Noah went to get food.  Molly and Devan went to Dylans and mini golf.  I think everyone had a good time!!  We magically had enough cars and drivers for this.  Good times.  4-1-26--4-3-26

EASTER SATURDAY
This was a packed day.  Conference in the morning.  Then we had Courtney, Brett and Briggs come for a morning egg hunt in the front yard and some yummy egg salad sandwich lunch.  This was a lot of fun!  I was so glad we made it happen.  It was cool that Courtney kind of invited herself to hang out for Easter.  Good stuff.  After that we had the next session of conference.  We did our Easter baskets and Egg hunt in the backyard- this was fun because we changed it up a bit with a fun game and spelling out the words of prizes with letters in the eggs.  Pretty fun.  And then we finally colored the eggs!  That was pretty fun too.  Everyone but Noah I think.  And Luke- we miss him so much this time of year!!  4-4-26

EASTER SUNDAY
We really tried to make this Easter a Christ focused one.  I got a cute book at Deseret Book with a lot of the symbols of Easter and we read a page each night.  Then we had the new creche that Nate bought and tried to really make an effort.  We did all the commercial stuff on Saturday so that we could really do Resurrection Easter on Sunday.  I think we did pretty good.  I think we want to add and do it even better next year.  We're getting there though.  We did get to watch the second day of Conference though which was awesome!  Such a good conference this time!!  4-5-26

MINISTERING
I finally got to meet Elizabeth Walker.  She is interesting and very nice.  Kris and I visited her.  It was nice to get to know her a little.  4-8-26

SOCCER SEASON!
First games of the season!  Everyone won!  Good stuff!  4-11-26

PROM- ERIKA AND NOAH IN THE SAME GROUP!
This was a fun one for me.  Noah and Erika were in the same group!  Noah took Laurie and Erika was asked by Zack Geckler's brother Josh.  I think they both had enough fun.  It wasn't Erika's favorite, but she survived.  They went to the salt flats for their day date.  Then the night of, I got to take their group pictures!  We went up to the Tunnel Springs Park.  We were there at just the wrong time.  The lighting was difficult.  But we made it work and caught some golden hour at the end.  I loved it.  4-11-26

THE SKIT
I said no to doing a skit and now I am down a friend.  Kinda weird, but I guess I should learn to "do my part".  Not sure how I feel about this all right now.  Oh well.  4-12-26

NOAH NEUROLOGIST FOLLOW-UP
We did Noah's follow-up.  Things are looking good.  They want him to get an MRI.  Hopefully everything is fine.  4-13-26

LUKE'S FUNNY STORIES
Luke's had some pretty fun stories to share with us when he calls.  One was about a pregnant cat who showed up on a porch the same time as him and his companion.  They were knocking and the people had peeked out the blinds to tell them they didn't want to talk to them, but Luke asked if that was their cat instead.  It was looking pretty sickly.  So they opened the door afterall, and right then, this mom cat, gave birth!  The woman at the door was shocked!  Luke was shocked!  Then all the chaos of the family's dog coming to the door and then the cat started to walk in their house.  It was so crazy!!  Luke felt horrible.  The people assured him that they had it from there.  So crazy!
Then there was this Nigerian lady who was slurping on chicken wings (her snack, not food), and then chomped on a bone in the middle of Luke's companion's testimony!  So funny!!  Throwing the bones behind her back- HA!  Fun stuff.  4-13-26

PORTER'S BAPTISM
Sadie and I drove up to Idaho Falls, Saturday, for Porter's baptism.  We had so much fun talking on the way there, and listening to all of Sadie's favorite music- mostly Greatest Showman.  The baptism went really well.  It was cute to see Porter in his white clothes.  He took it all very seriously.  Cute Alyssa didn't want to just sit quietly, so we got a fun show during the second half of things, but she was being so cute with Sadie.  After the baptism, we went to their church for some yummy food.  It was fun to talk with Heidi a little and get to know Joe a little better too.  Sadie had fun running around the gym and stage with all the kids.  Good times.  We had to hurry home for Ruth's FUNeral planning meeting.  4-18-2026

FAMILY HISTORY- MOLLY
Molly has been anticipating getting called into the Family History Consultant group for a while now, but this week we got to have her "experience" with them coming and teaching our family.  It was a lot of fun.  It's cool to have all these great kids for her to look up to and anticipate working with eventually.  4-19-26

LUNCH WITH ELDER ALLRED'S MOM, GINNY
This ended up being a really cool experience.  Luke's companion just really loved Luke and had begged his mom to get together with Luke's mom sometime.  She finally called me Saturday, wanting to "get together sometime", so I said, "Sure."  I really liked talking to her- we had a bunch of stuff in common- they live just over the freeway- so I figured it could be okay.  We met up at Zupas and it was really awesome!  I liked it.  She was so nice and so complimentary of Luke.  I wish Luke had talked about Elder Allred a little more so I could have returned the compliments, but it was to hear.  I wonder if we will ever get together again.  4-23-2026

ERIKA SPEAKING IN CHURCH
Erika did an amazing job on her talk today!  So proud of her and who she is.  She is going to do big things.  4-26-2026

TULIP FESTIVAL
This was a pretty fun evening.  It had been raining all day so there was hardly anyone there.  It was still a little cold, but not too bad.  I actually really loved the weather.  The tulips looked pretty ragged and weren't really worth seeing, but I loved the time with our family.  We went to a yummy restaurant after, but I can't remember what it was called.  So delicious.  4-27-2026

NOAH'S SENIOR PHOTO SHOOT
We finally took Noah's Senior Pictures!  We went up to Tunnel Springs Park.  They turned out SO GOOD!!  I was really pleased with most of them.  He was really helpful with settings while we took them and then helped with the editing and chose the background and everything for his announcements.  I was so happy to do that with him and have his input!!  Good boy!  4-29-2026