Hawaii

Last week and the week before we went to Hawaii with my family. We spent the first week on Maui and the second on Oahu. It was a nice to go on a relaxing vacation because our big trip to Europe last year was a lot of running around. The beach in Maui was awesome!! It was just half a block away from our condo. It is the second best beach I have ever been to- Cancun being the first. Ethan was scared of the water at first but soon became quite the beach baby. I unfortunately lost my sunnies twice in the ocean. The first time Aaron found them in the water 20 minutes later. You would have thought I learned my lesson not to wear my sunnies into the ocean but big waves kept on taking me down by surprise. I love to play in the waves!!!

It was nice to visit Oahu again. I can't believe it had been almost 10 years since I went last. We visited all the touristy places such as: the Polynesian Cultural Center, Pearl Harbor, Waikiki, Waimea, Hanauma Bay, and the Dole Pineapple Factory. The place we stayed at on Oahu had a bunch of man-made lagoons that we had fun playing in too. Oh, and not to forget shopping!! My family loves to shop. My favorite store we went to was a Japanese department store. It was just like being in Japan again.




Ethan with his Uncle Jacob and cousin Seth

Photos

I'm slow at posting pictures but here are some of our recent move, Aaron's graduation, etc.

Ethan's first rice cereal feeding

Playing on his tummy

Aaron and Ethan "in the hood"

With Aaron's sister Janelle, Aaron's mom, and my mom

Ethan "helping" us pack

Recently

I love living in a house with a big kitchen and yard!! It's been almost 2 weeks since we moved into Aaron's mom's house. We will be here until the middle of August, which is when we will be moving to College Station, Texas- Aaron was officially accepted to Texas A&M a few weeks ago!!!
Aaron's mom is living in SLC for the summer so we get to house sit and take care of Elise, Aaron's 17 year old sister. We planted a garden a few days ago and Aaron has been loving the big garage for all his projects. He is building a custom bumper for his truck. He taught me how to weld today!
Mother's Day was great this year- my first one being a mom. Ethan gave me the best present ever! He slept for 10 hours Saturday night with one brief feeding and then had a super long nap Sunday afternoon. It was amazing! Aaron gave me flowers and a CD of hymns. I love being a mom and I am even more grateful for my own mom now that I am a mom. I hope I can be as good as a mom to Ethan as she is to me.

10 Reasons

I haven't been in the mood to blog for awhile but my sister-in-law Sami tagged me a while ago so I guess I'll give in.

10 Reasons Why I'm Lame

1. I don't like to spend money on myself. Aaron pretty much has to drag me to the store sometimes.

2. I sleep in until 10 or 11 am. It is so so hard for me to wake up earlier than that especially now that I wake up a lot during the night for Ethan.

3. I worry too much. Most of the time it's about totally absurd things.

4. I get motion sick when I swing on swings. Just the other day I was barely swinging with Ethan on my lap for about 5 minutes and I felt like up chucking after.

5. I like to watch ET, Extra, Access Hollywood, etc. For some reason I find celeb news so fascinating. Aaron thinks it's funny!

6. I can be a little too competitive sometimes and I don't like to lose. I get mad at Aaron when we play Stratego because he always finds my flag way too fast. Also when we play Chinese checkers he ruins all my awesome moves.

7. I always sing the wrong lyrics to songs. I don't do it on purpose, but for example, I honestly thought the song "It's too late to apologize" really said " It's too late to fall in love". Oh well, I secretly think my lyrics are better!

8. I am obsessed with this season's American Idol. I like the Davids!

9. I think it's fun to organize things. I like to organize the luggage in the trunk when we go on road trips.

10. I have spent way too much time on this!!!!!!!!!!

10 Reasons Why I Rock

1. I can beat my husband at leg wrestling 18 out of 20 times! Arm wrestling is another story.

2. Aaron and I came up with an awesome business idea: "Mansies"! These are onesies but for men. I think this would be very popular with the plumbers because they wouldn't have to worry about showing off their bums every time they lean over.

3. I make really good pizza! I'm not very good at rolling out the dough into a perfect circle though.

4. I won the fight for Aaron with my roommate. Luckily she's married now and over it.

5. I have a great husband who helps out with Ethan in the middle of the night and takes him in the early morning hours so I can get some sleep.

6. I can measure out exactly half a pound from a big block of fudge. Thanks to working at the BYU candy counter.

7. I can do an awesome baby voice- unfortunately for my siblings who feel like I am torturing them every time I do it. Friends at work told me I was good enough to do voices for cartoons though.

8. I just got called as a family history indexer! It is fun to do and really easy.

9. I am good at playing practical jokes on people. Ask my sister Lindsey about the time I put a lobster shell in her bed. When she found it she was laying in bed and was too afraid to move because she thought it was alive.

10. I have traveled to 23 different countries. Hopefully more will be added to the list in years to come.

Tag! You're it: Lindsey, Rebecca, Brooke Berges

Lately

Here are pictures of some things we have been up to lately:

Aaron and Ethan washing the car

Poor sleepy babe

The Hatch cousins after an Easter egg hunt

Ethan's incredible balance

Aaron's 24th Birthday!!!

Police Beat

Aaron brings home The Daily Universe for me everyday because I like to read the newspaper. My favorite section is Police Beat. It cracks me up with some of the crazy happenings and absurd reasons the police are called. If any of you have read it I'm sure you will agree. Here's a couple entries out of the other day's paper that I thought particularly odd and funny:

Disorderly Conduct
March 12: A male student posted fliers in female dorm halls asking for dates to satisfy a dating requirement for his marriage preparation class. The fliers not only violate BYU policy but were disturbing female residents. Police discovered that the student was not enrolled in that class and the professor he said he had has retired.

Suspicious Behavior
March 14: A student called BYU police when she noticed three suspicious males walking around a parking lot. When police responded they determined that the suspicious males were actually grounds crew who had been picking up trash.

Home Again

We really enjoyed our trip to Texas! The plane trip went pretty well with Ethan and on the way there some passengers even commented on how good he was. We are pretty sure we will be moving there in the fall for Aaron to go to Texas A&M. I liked College Station because it had a lot of shops and restaurants and most importantly a mall. Since it is a college town it reminded me of Provo some. We especially had a lot of fun visiting the Barksdales. Ethan liked having so many kids to watch and entertain him. The following are some pictures of Ethan and his cousins.
Eliza, Ethan, and Hyrum after church

Ethan and Hazel ( 2 months)

Ethan and all the Barksdale cousins