Six and a half weeks

Graham is six and a half weeks, 7 weeks on Friday. It's so fun to see him growing, his personality developing, and him staying healthy. We haven't been so good at keeping everyone updated on our blog, so we have a slideshow of some of the pictures that we have from the hospital to yesterday. They are chronological, or should be anyway. He's starting to get some cheeks and leg chub. We also included the first smile that we caught on camera, which is fantastic.

We're making it through the semester. We have one more week of class and then finals, and we've been fortunate to stay healthy and do well in our classes up to this point. Hopefully we're able to finish our final projects and do well on our tests.

Anyway, enjoy the slideshow. Also, we really appreciate the support that we've received from our parents, siblings, and extended family. The gifts that we received and some help baby sitting really helped.

Baby-Graham!

Graham Verlin Hatch was born on October 10, 2008 at 9:35 am. He weighed 7 pounds 4.8 ounces. We have a picture of him on the scale to prove it. He was 20 inches long, and as you can see in the pictures, has lots of dark hair. He's doing really well. He's been really sleepy as have the parents. He has this wonderful ability to fall asleep anytime anywhere, especially while he's eating. His head is back to its normal size and shape now and he is so handsome. Maybe this happens to everyone when they have kids, but all of the nurses have given him compliments and have told other nurses to come have a look at him because he's so cute.

Laura is doing really well. Labor in the hospital was relatively short and the epidural helped a lot. She is very tired, after a few days of contractions through the night before birth, and a couple of nights of interrupted sleep here in the hospital. She's learning how to nurse well, and recovering very nicely. I am very impressed with her. She's been very strong and patient and selfless. I think giving birth is the most Christlike thing anyone could ever do.

We are all very happy, a little bit tired, and excited to come home from the hospital this morning. We appreciate the congratulations and support that we have received. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

P.S. Graham also brought snow with him. Since he was born it has snowed each morning, and we are fortunate enough to have a nice view of the mountains, that have remained mostly covered by clouds, but then peak out every now and then and show their new white attire.

Who's the Rocket Scientist Now...

I just figured out that if you click on the picture it will take you to a larger version of it. So, everyone should be able to see his handsome face now. (Reference the previous post if you have no idea what I am talking about.)

Homework Break

Alex and I are at the USU library doing some homework, whoopee. Well, we just wanted to let everyone know that our brother-in-law, Mike, is famous. USU Homepage baby! Way to go Mike. (If you can't find him, just look for the only guy who forgot to wear his blue shirt that day.) We love you!


P.S. Sorry this picture is incredibly small; I couldn't figure out how to make it bigger. Mike could probably figure it out; he's a rocket scientist.
P.P.S. Nine days until we are supposed to have our baby!

Sweet Sixteen

A shout out to my brother Stew on his 16th birthday! This picture is a couple of years old but I carry it around in my wallet because it makes me laugh. Here's to you Stew-Pac.


Stew, Laura

A Few Weeks Gone By

For anyone that checks our blog fairly regularly we apologize that for the last few weeks you've had the opportunity of seeing our lovely pictures of our dental woes. With a little nudge from a comment from Jess we've decided to update the old blog.

Last Saturday, my brother Ammon and I hiked to the top of Mount Timpanogos. It was a pretty good little adventure to say the least.



We had to park quite a ways away from the beginning of the trail because of the number of vehicles that were there. So after some creative parking we began our hike. Things went smoothly until we got to the upper meadow. It was then that we decided to follow some directions that we found online to find a B 25 Bomber that wrecked on the top of Timp in the fifties. Our suggestion to anyone else that may choose to try and find this airplane in the future is not to follow the directions that we received which included following the trail past a toilet in a northwest direction where the trail fades and 1/2 of a mile after some ponds you're there at the airplane. That was the basic idea. We didn't make it to the airplane. We saw it off in the distance after wandering through some intense vegetation for an hour or so. It's just above the vegetation in this picture, kind of a twinkle in the picture.



After making it to the top we decided to slide down the snowfield close to the peek. While walking across the top of the mountain toward the snowfield we heard an interesting noise, which ended up being a life flight helicopter. Someone else that went down the snowfield broke their leg somehow and was stuck there in the middle of the snow with his bone sticking through the skin. We didn't get really close to the person, but we were able to see the whole life flight operation which was pretty remarkable. It wouldn't have been so enjoyable if the person were more seriously injured or if I was paying for the lift.





After carefully going down the field we decided to take a dip in the glacial Emerald Lake, which is appropriately named. It has a really interesting color, for how clear the water is. It was a cold swim, but nice and refreshing. The rest of the hike down was uneventful, but neither Ammon or I were pleased with the way our bodies responded to a day of hiking. We were glad to see our car still creatively parked where we left it and free of parking tickets.








Beside that, Laura and I have just been getting ready for the most interesting semester of school of our lives. Laura finished a full time summer semester with a 4.0, which is very impressive. She worked really hard in her classes and her professors were constantly complimenting her work. Seven more weeks until Graham's due date. We're grateful to all of those that have been willing to pass on some of their baby goods to us. Also we're very appreciative to those that gave us so much at the baby shower. We love our family and friends and think of you often.

"Health insurance is like a punch in the mouth." -Alex

We've been meaning to make it to the dentist for a while now (we've even been saving our change in a tea pot on our stove) but it's just so expensive. Hopefully it's not too late for us.




Can you tell we don't have any children to keep us busy?