Happy LOVE day!

John and I had a very chill and relaxing Valentines Day this year only because Valentines is celebrated every day in the Hatch home!! :) I love Valentines because of the decorations, colors and especially all the CANDY AND TREATS!!

I love sugar cookies and cinnamon hearts.. oh they are to die for but sooooo hard to find! So naturally my mother being the wonderful person she is, she sent us this fun and yummy package filled with all our favorite treats, the movie Red and the cutest wreath she made!

Thanks Mom and Dad!

Do to Valentines Day being on a very busy school and work day, we decided so go into the city on saturday with our friends the Luv Sacs and do some shopping and have a nice dinner! We had so much fun and can't wait to go again!

This was one of the best pizza places to eat, so yummy!

I love you John!

Ok so on Valentines day after dinner and visiting John's parents I came home to this little beauty..

I can't even tell you how surprised and EXCITED I was to see this beautiful gold ring! I have been telling John forever that I have wanted a plain single gold band that I can wear to work! He is such an amazing husband, I love my ring... its perfect! Thanks again babe it was a wonderful Valentines Day, I love you!!

Happy Birthday to me!!

I had such a fun Birthday this year, I'm so grateful for all my friends and family for all the calls and gifts! I really appreciate all the love and support everyone gives me!

This year was awesome because my parents flew out to spend time with John and I for my birthday! It was the best gift I got, we love having visitors and they made the week so fun! I'm so grateful for all the work that John and my parents did so I could have a wonderful Birthday!!

Of course I woke up to this wonderful tradition, and lets just say it was in fine form this year, we had the yummiest b-day breakfast and it was the best way to start the day!

I love having them in my kitchen!

Later that night we had a very fun Birthday party with my friends!

We had a great time playing headbands, just dance, and darts!

We had to hit up the Donut Wheel!!

Saturday morning we woke up early and started the trek to the Calaveras big trees!

Let just say it was worth the drive, words can't even explain how BIG and BEAUTIFUL these trees are!

If you have never seen these big trees it is something you need to ad to your bucket list, It is truly incredible, I'm so glad we were able to go!

After we got back form the big tree's we got ready for a nice dinner with Jani and Jared stone! Jani called ahead and had this fun surprise waiting for me! I felt like a celebrity, we had such a blast at dinner!

Thanks again to everyone for making my birthday so special, I love you all so much!!!

Better late then never right?

Well Christmas and New years have come and gone but I do have some cute pictures I should post just so we don't forget how great the holidays were!

John and I had so much fun this Christmas season buying decorations for our apartment! We didn't last year so we kind of went all out this year! Our little cubical felt so warm and cozy we wanted to leave our decoration up all year! I can't wait till next Christmas when we can do it all over again!

This year we spent Christmas with John’s family and It was a very special holiday because Johns entire family spent Christmas at the Hatch house! All 7 sibling and their husbands or wives and all the grandchildren! We had so much fun altogether and Liz had planned so many fun activities through out the week that we enjoyed! Thanks again to mark and Liz for all there hard work putting together such a wonderful Christmas, we will always remember it!

Happy New Year...

2 days after Christmas we were on a plane heading to Utah to spend New Years with my whole family! We had so much fun just spending time with friends and family playing games, sledding, shopping, and lots of eating! Thanks Mom and Dad for such a fun filled week!

Happy 2011 everybody!!!

Love the Hatch's

It feels like just yesterday!!

Happy 2 year anniversary Johnny, I love you so much! Thank you for being such an amazing husband, these truly have been the BEST TWO YEARS!!

xoxoxoxoxoxo

Love always.. your wife!!

A great way to spend Halloween!!!!

My sister Brianne and her Husband Brandon finally got a chance to come up North and visit us!! We were able to get a beach house in Monterey Bay for Halloween weekend, due to some trade work John did with Chiropractic! After a long week of school and work we were so excited for this weekend, we left around 10 p.m and arrived around 12. Bri and Brandon got in about 2:30 and of course I was to excited to sleep I waited up for them!!!

Since we only had 48 hours before we had to get back in the car and drive home, we packed in as much as we possibly could. Friday afternoon we went to a little deli for lunch and then walked around these beautiful gardens.
Look at these AMAZING flowers. They are called passion flowers and grow on a passion fruit vine. We could not believe they were real because we had never seen anything like it before.
The gardens were so fragrant and the architecture of the buildings around it were so neat. Perfect place for a photo shoot.
We went to the beach because the waves were at least 15 feet and watched some professional surfers in action.

Later that night we went for a LONG bike ride. Half of it was literally on the beach (which didn't work out so well) the other half was on a bike trail surrounded by eucalyptus trees.
Since not all the bikes were in working condition, Brandon had to ride a bike like a scooter because it had no chain! I guess it was better than the alternative above.
After really working up an appetite we looked up a highly rated pizza joint and had some really yummy dinner. This restaurant was in a large out door mall that you would never know was in Monterey because it is completely hidden from the road by huge trees. It took us a little while to find it but the scavenger hunt was half the fun.

Saturday morning we woke up and went to the most beautiful state park. We hiked for over 2 hours and saw some of the most gorgeous landscape ever.
It was the PERFECT hiking weather.

This might be one of the only places you can be hiking through the forest and along the coast.

Look at this chubby little seal. Of course Brandon threw something at the entire family before we could get a picture of all of them. This guy was too slow so I caught him before he hid in the water.

3 WORDS: gorgeous, amazing, beautiful!Same 3 words as above.

Nothing like a "PHAT BURGER" after a long hike. I know this picture turned out awful but the food tasted so yummy.

After our hike and lunch we got cleaned up and went to CARMEL. This is such a quaint little town with lots of shops and places to eat. This is a historic building but I thought this was the most beautiful RED FALL tree.

Carmel again had so many cool places you could do a photo shoot at. All the streets and building had so much character, it looked a lot like Europe.

This is a very well known FANCY restaurant called Casanova. It came highly recommended!

Next we went to the Monterey Pier and walked around the Wharf. They had it all lit up at night and it was so awesome. We didn't get any picture of the Wharf because we left Bri's camera in the car. We did take a lot of mental pictures so we could remember how fun it was!

We went home after and made some sugar cookies and watched the second half of Sherlock Holmes since we didn't finish it Friday night.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Before we said our goodbyes we had a yummy breakfast of muffins, eggs, yogurt and fruit. This weekend FLEW by, it wasn't nearly long enough but we loved EVERY minute of it. We were so glad that Bri & Brandon could come up and spend Halloween with us, we had so much fun we never wanted it to end!! We love and miss you guys so much and we can't wait to get together again!!!