Gratitude alphabet list!

My sisters will always be such great examples to me, I look up to everyone of them and love them so much! Seeing Brooke and Brianne post what they are grateful for, inspired me...and as usual I just had to follow their example and jump on the band wagon! It's so Important that we remember how blessed we are even if we are going through a tough time. Heavenly Father has given us so much to be grateful for and we need to make sure we share that with others! So here is my alphabet gratitude list...

A- Africa. Going to Africa changed my life forever, In the short period of time I was there I learned the greatest lesson about being grateful for what we have, because those wonderful people have nothing!

B- Brittany, Brooke, Brianne, and Brenna!

C- Chips and Salsa. If I was stranded on a desert Island that's the food I would want to have!

D- Dad. I love my Dad so much!

E- Elevators. Need I say more!

F- Flowers, fourth of July, fire works, fortune cookies, friends and food!

G- Gospel, Grandparents, Giraffes and Garage sales!

H- Heavenly Father, Home and the whole Hatch family!

I- I-pod, Internet, Italy!

J-John, He is the best husband in the world!

K- Koda our family dog, Kids.. Kids are my life, I can't wait to have my own!

L- Lake Powell my favorite place on earth, Light, Love and LOST!

M- Mom, words can't even express how much I love my mom she is the greatest women alive, Movies I love watching and going to see movies as well as movie quotes!

N- Nieces and Nephews!

O- Opportunities!

P- paper plates, people watching, and parties!

Q- Quarters!

R- Ribs and roller coasters!

S- Sun light, swimming!

T- Temple, TV shows, and Target!

U- Umbrella's, It's been awfully rainy here in California!

V- Vehicles, I love my car Stella!

W- Water, weddings, and web-cam!

X- Xenodocheionolgy.. Love of hotels! Ha ha this is legit, I wanted to come up with something different but I do love a nice hotel!

Y- Y as in bYu!

Z- Zoo and Zebra prints!

*There is so much to be grateful for and these are just a few of the billions of things I am grateful for!

All you need is LOVE!

John and I had such a fun Valentine's weekend filled with family, friends, and a lot of LOVE (and food)! It was a blast spending the past 2 weeks with Liz, Paige and Erin. I felt like I was the one with bad health because those girls can go for hours:) I love my new sisters...We just wanted to say thank you to my family for the wonderful package of valentine goodies, Mom and Brittany sure know how to make me feel at home with cute decorations, which gives our home a holiday feeling of love. We were stoked to have a Dupree spend the weekend at our home, haha... MJ drove solo all the way from Utah, and we loved having him! I just want to say how much I love John and I'm so grateful for him, he truly is a wonderful husband who knows how to make me so happy!

I love getting surprises in the mail.. especially when I see that it came from Utah!

This was filled with the cutest Valentine treats and decorations!

Thank you so much.. Mom, Dad, Brenna, Koda, Brittany, Adam, Lincoln and Avery!

I couldn't wait to start baking!

Jessica and I made the BEST sugar cookies and cup cakes.. They were a big hit!

Valentines Day.. This is what I woke up too~

Yummy!

I really did feel so special! A perfectly heart shaped pancake dyed pink just for me... I think John should be a professional pancake maker

Thank you Johnny for the wonderful V-day breakfast.. I love you sweet heart!

I loved spending Valentines day with my sunbeam class, they are so cute!

Dinner with MJ and the Luv Sac's!

Lunch with the boys at Mr. Pickle.. (It's the best sandwich place)!

My Birthday Bash weekend!

I've said it once and I'll say it again (and I'm sure I'll say it a thousand times more) but I have the best husband in the world! John, being the wonderful man he is, decided he wanted to plan my birthday for me this year. I was happy about this because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for it! Being away from my family is hard enough just on a regular bases but holiday's and birthday's are even harder. John, knowing this about me, knew he needed to plan something SUPER FUN and let me tell you he did! John got up Thursday morning and made me a wonderful and delicious B-day breakfast, which I was really grateful for because he missed one of his classes. After a very long day at work and not knowing what John had up his sleeve, I opened the best presents from my family and John and then he put me in the car and we were off for a fun filled night! As soon as we arrived, I saw the building, I was so excited to see where we were...Dave and Buster's! Dave and Busters is a GIANT chuck-e-cheese for adults. John invited a bunch of our friends and family to come and enjoy the night with us! We had such a good time eating and playing games! I honestly felt like I was 10 years old again, it's exactly what I needed!!! Thanks again for those of you who could come, and thank you thank you for all the GREAT presents I received:) I have the best friends and family's in the world!

This was a fantastic breakfast!

Yippee...presents

Mom and Dad always go above and beyond

John has pretty good taste

Here's the birthday partier's: Ty J, the Morley's, the Babcock's, the Foulger's, Mama and Papa Hatch, and John and I

Mama Liz and I beat everyone else, she was the life of the party...the old folks showed us young couples how to party:)

John trying to show everyone he can shoot the rock

that's right... JACKPOT BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!

John never passes up the claw game, especially the life size one... and of course he grabs one. Wes had to of helped him on that one:)

We combined for a grand total of 1232 tickets

Thanks Bri... it is so beautiful that we hang it up in our kitchen for all to see

Thanks brooke and fam, with all the earthquakes popping up I'm sure we'll need it soon

Our newly painted walls, we will redecorate them soon. it sure makes our table and couch stand out. it makes our little apt feel so much more like home.

CRUISING THE BAY

This was another wonderful surprise. John planned an excited fancy night on the town. So we got all dressed up and headed into San Francisco...so i thought

It looked like we were ready for prom

SURPRISE... we are going on a cruise around the bay. Dinner and Dancing, WOW i had no clue

This is from the port we left from

it was well decorated and we enjoyed a wonderful dinner with the Babcock's and the Oliver's. The night won't have been as fun without them, especially the dancing:)

the faint lights in the back are those from the bay bridge. It was cold but clear skies and a beautiful San Francisco sky line, truly magnificent

Those are some pretty good looking boys

We had such a fun night, I just want to say thank you to my sweet heart for being so thoughtful and planning such a fun weekend for me! Thank you again to my family and friends I love you all so much!

Happy Birthday to ME!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I'll write more when i get some pictures of the fun night John has planed for me!

I also just want to say Happy Birthday Skinner ( Brooke) I love you so much and can't wait till we get to spend our birthday's together again! Have a great day.

A great way to end 2009!

All I can say is I love Utah, and John and I were so lucky to be able to spend Christmas and New years with my family! We had so much fun, and we made a lot of wonderful memories while we were there! I hope 2010 brings us just as much joy and laughter as 2009 did! We love you all very much and here are pictures to show how much fun we had the last couple of weeks! Happy New year everybody!

Ginger bread house's!

John and I finally cut into the top of our wedding cake! Surprising it wasn't to bad.

Christmas Eve at Grandma's!

Christmas Morning!

Santa never disappoints

Koda was so excited

Lincoln finally got his yellow bike!

Yeah for Clear play!

Snuggie power.. I love my snuggie!

Dad got a ping-pong table

Koda even got a snuggie!

John made his mom's famous cinnamon rolls and they were so delicious!

We had the best Christmas breakfast!

Need I say more :)

Koda new that present was for him, and he never left it's side till we opened it.

Yummy Christmas dinner!

Brenna and Eli got ENGAGED on Christmas Day!

The whole gang went and saw Avatar in 3-d.. cool shades!

How could we not go to Denny's after?

New Year's Eve!

Waffle Fest 2010

Thanks Mom and Dad for a AWESOME New Year's party!

Family fun snow day!

It wouldn't have been a Utah trip without a puzzle!

Bri and Brandon taught us how to make homemade pizza's it was so fun, everyone made a great pizza!

Smile!

As sad as I was to leave back to cali, it was hard to look at this beautiful sun set and not just be so grateful for everything we have! We are truly so blessed and I love my family so much, Thanks for a wonderful trip, we can't wait to see everyone again!