Hatches Do Cleveland

My parents came to visit a few weeks ago and we had so much fun!  We went to Kirtland one day, toured Cleveland another, and shopped the rest of the time. I loved being able to show my parents around our new city, and Carly and Holland loved playing with Grandma and Grandpa non stop!

Holland is 1!

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We had a little party for Holland with some friends and during the party I couldn’t see Holland anywhere and then I found her under the table playing with ice.

You are such a sweet, happy, chill, momma-loving baby. You are so chill that you haven’t wanted to crawl, stand-up or walk at all yet.  You bum scoot everywhere which is so cute and everyone has a good laugh at church when they see you scoot around.

You love to eat everything, which is so nice since Carly has never eaten anything!  Your favorite food is chicken nuggets, but you will eat anything! Whenever you see a can of soda you whine until someone will take pity on you and give you a sip. You also love to try to eat other people’s food at dinner time.

You gave up nursing about a month ago which made the weaning process so easy.  One day you didn’t want to nurse so I tried giving you a bottle and you downed it!  You wouldn’t ever take a bottle before then so I was shocked.  I still nursed you at night time for a few days and then you stopped then too.  I am glad that I have some freedom but I miss all that cuddle time I used to get.

You love your momma and not many other people.  You’ll let daddy hold you but rarely anyone else.

You adore Carly and  love when she’ll  play with you.  Carly is very sweet to you sometimes but most of the time she gets mad if you touch anything of hers.  I really hope you two will become friends sometime soon!

You have one of the loudest cries I have heard!  You usually bring out the loudest cries at night time, and you still don’t like sleeping very much.  You still wake up twice during the 12 hours you are in bed, and you’ll cry for a LONG time… Maybe you can show some pity on your poor family and just go back to sleep without crying, soon please :) When we get you out of bed in the morning you hurry to grab everything in your crib (blanket, glow worm, pacifier) so you can bring them with you, its so cute!

You love bath time and whenever you hear the word “bath” you try to pull off your shirt, we have to be careful when we say it now.

We can already tell that you are going to be a social girl because you love waving and blowing kisses at everyone.  You love going shopping with momma because you can sit in the cart and wave at everyone and get lots of attention from people!

You are such a blessing to our family and we love you so much!  Happy first birthday! 

Hello Cleveland

Now that we are finally settled I feel like I can blog again.  We have loved Cleveland so far.  We love our house, our neighborhood, and our ward.  The week after we moved in our good friend Ann came to visit from Wisconsin.  Carly was so excited to have Ann come play with her for and entire week!  We went to a farm, the zoo, and then hung out at home for 5 days because Carly and Holland (and me) got strep throat.  Ann was SO kind to clean up throw up, and help me deal with ornery, sick kids.  My camera was lost in an unpacked box while she was visiting so I didn’t get any pictures :( 

The week after Ann came our BFFs from Wisconsin, the Callisters, came to visit on their way back from visiting family in PA.  We had a blast with them.  We went to see the Kirtland sites, to one of Michael Symon’s restaurants, B-Spot, just a couple minutes away from our house. We also went to the Christmas Story House, and an Indians game.  We stayed up late and played games like the old days, and The Callisters even brought us a 24 pack of  our favorite soda ever…Sprecher Root Beer!  Sadly it only lasted like 3 days!

 

 

Thanks for coming to visit!

Saying Goodbye

A few weeks before we moved we tried to cram all our parties in so we could spend as much time as possible with everyone before we moved.  We got together with Casey’s best friends and their families. I love getting together with this group because all these guys’ wives are my besties now too!  Casey has been friends with these guys since High School!

The wives, I love these girls!

We got together with my family on my birthday a few weeks before we moved.  I was trying to take in all my favorite things that I already miss so much about Utah.

My sister Brooke.  My sister Kristen was at the party too, but she had to leave to teach a cake deco class.

The 4-3 year olds, or aka “the terrible foursome.” I just came up with that, but it’s so true! 

Carly’s other best friend cousins on the Green side. Carly and Emersyn (Left) are 2 weeks apart.

Carly’s BFF neighbor, Maddie.  Carly and Maddie got matching tricycles and rode them around our four-plex parking lot almost everyday!  Zach, in the background, loved to join in too.

Cleveland

A day after we got back from Disneyland Casey, Holland, and I headed to Cleveland to look for houses.  My sister Brooke graciously watched Carly for us while we were gone for 4 days, and I know it was not an easy task! (i.e. Carly tried to escape in the middle of the night) We flew in and out of the Provo airport and it was AMAZING.  It was so nice to get to the airport an hour early, walk right through security and not spend an hour on the tarmac waiting to take off.

My first thoughts of Cleveland: A lot like Milwaukee,  nice and green, lots of Chick-Fil-As, This EST time is going to kill me! (probably because we had just come from PST time and it was hard to adjust, especially with Holland)

AG set us up with a realtor to help us find a house to rent while we were visiting.  Our realtor had been working with us for a month beforehand getting a feel of what we wanted.  While we were in Cleveland we found a place that we liked enough and we decided on it to be just be done.  The owner of the house couldn’t go over the lease while we were there because he was busy or something so we left it up to our realtor to finish things up.  Right when we got home from Cleveland our realtor called and said she found our dream place and that it was a sign that the owner of the other house was busy because she knew we would want this new place.  She sent pics and we fell in love because it was EXACTLY what we wanted in our #1 city and in our price range so viola we signed. 

In short I am so so SO excited that we got a place that we really want. I think it will ease the hardness of the move of bit to be moving into a nice big place that we love.  I can’t tell Casey enough how much I’m going to love to be down the street from a Costco AND a Target too!  Here are some pics.

Disneyland!

We had the time of our lives at Disneyland!  It was so so much fun.  I was worried at first about how we would work everything with Holland, but she ended up being able to go on a lot of the rides and LOVED them.  On the other rides that she couldn’t go on we just got a stroller swap pass and either Casey or I was able to run to the front of the line after the other one went.  She slept really well in the stroller when she was tired. Carly was able to go on every ride except California Screamin and Indiana Jones.  She loved all the rides.  We went at the perfect time of year and we didn’t have to wait in lines very long at all.  We went with my mom and my sister Kristen and her family.  It was so much fun to go with all of them and they helped out a lot with our kids too! 

We spent a full week in So Cal.  Three days at Disneyland, two days travelling and a few days at the beach.  We stayed at my parent’s time share in Newport Beach and it was amazing.  We have stayed there before but before I was married.  We got our own condo which was a lot bigger and nicer than our current apartment!  It was so nice to have Carly and Holland in their own rooms.  A day after we got back from Cali we flew off to Cleveland to look for places to live, and we found an amazing house that I am so excited to blog about in a few days…

What happened to the kids whenever we got in the car!