Hayden, Melanie, and Verity spent the night serving food at Culver's as a fund raiser for the Christmas adopt-a-family project Hayden was involved in for Student Council.
Alex got to spend a day in Rexburg for work, so he and Given enjoyed work together...
Then Alex went to the BYUI ward temple night at the Rexburg temple
Melanie, Hayden, and Verity had their own special temple night together.
Pictures from the tender, touching SNAP program Christmas presentation. it was beautiful!
Verity helped out in the program in many ways. She loves helping mom with SNAP.
Our good friend Andrew who offered the closing prayer for the program. So tender!
Hayden looking good - ready for his Sadies dance!
Hayden and Kate Leavitt before the dance
Best buddies!
Saturday we went to the BYUI Christmas performance with special guest Jeremy Jordan (from Broadway). Great presentation!
SNAP Christmas activity with Santa/Mrs. Clause as special guests!
Some of our YSA friends after a FHE activity Monday night at our home.
Melanie and Verity visited Gwen Whitney before a BYUI ward Relief Society activity
Special Christmas weekend with Given and Grace. Activity 1: Temple night
Then we went to the reading performance of A Christmas Carol (done by one very talented guy).
Saturday we went to an awesome radio show of "It's a Wonderful Life". So well done!
(Part) of Kaleb's Christmas village. Finally got it out!
The wonderful, powerful, Light the World Christmas-music production from our Stake. Here's Verity doing her solo.
Verity sounded like an angel!
Some of our YSA friends came to listen to Verity: Noah, Gabe, Margo, Emily, Emma
Alex and Melanie took a day trip to Kaysville for Melanie's Aunt Karma's funeral. Here's Alex and Gpa Hatch being silly after the events.
So glad Averly could join us at the funeral from Provo, too.
Given's BYUI Graduation!
Congratulations, Given and Grace!!
The walk in the BYUI Center
Incredible crowd!
Hayden with his hand over his heart during the graduation procession.
The walk out
Receiving his "diploma".
Bachelor's degree looks good on ya, Given!!
Right in the middle. Can't miss that tall guy.
Friends of Given and Grace
Jayson and Chris came all the way up from Utah (even though there was a snow storm!)
Our family and the Haller family. So awesome they came up to celebrate from Arizona.
Haller family
Super proud of this guy!
Here we are trying to navigate our way out of the parking lot with very slick snow and ice!
We met at their church after for dinner and the gender reveal of their baby!
It's a BOY!!!
Unbelievable caramel apples from one of Alex's Midwest teachers (sent from Missouri!)
Our YSA friend Gabe Bingham came down for a couple of days for the weekend and brought flowers and a nice Christmas gift.
We all got to go to the temple together (except Verity who was sick and Mel who stayed with her).
Friday night Filipino food that Gabe made for us. (Hayden survived - proud of him!)
Saturday after backyard football with the boys!
Christmas Eve was an incredible day. We started with our Elderly visits to Teena Loveland first, and then to Layne and Michelle Merritt.
Then to Chris Cunningham
Then we went to Cabela's to get our picture taken with Santa
Later, we went to the movie, "David", then back home to make Santa's gingerbread cookies.
Then we went to Dixie's Diner to celebrate Grace's birthday dinner
Then we finished our great day out by going to the CrossPointe Christmas Eve service.
Christmas Morning together!
Wow! What a spread of gifts under the tree. We are so blessed!
Great "The Chosen" shirt from Verity to Hayden
Nice ear coverings
Odor-neutralizing devices for dad's van (he doesn't recognize the smell)
Verity gave Grace new Jandals!
Hayden created a very clever tennis ball picker upper!
Averly created a beautiful picture of Jeremy giving a hug to Jesus Christ. Alex was very touched!
Christmas morning breakfast from mom - french toast breakfast!
Um.... yeah
Loved chatting with Elder Chatelain. He created so many fun activities for his Zone and had a wonderful Christmas making it great for his missionaries!
The cards we sent to Kaleb with our testimonies on the back(for him to share with others).
Back to the gifts!
Dad published (on Amazon) the book he and Verity worked on - "Kid Inspector - the Adventures of Blake Johnson."
Sweet new Samba's for Hayden!
Hayden demonstrating the "pregnancy pillow" he and Averly got for Grace
Give gave some very silly gifts to Hayden.
Verity got a rice-pack animal (you can warm it in the microwave).
Hayden's gift from Santa (a weight bench).
We finally concluding unwrapping gifts at about 3:00 pm (then we played with them)
We concluded an incredible day by celebrating Grace's birthday. Happy #24, Grace!
December 26th = Hallmark Movie Marathon! Hayden, Verity, and Averly laying on top of each other as we enjoyed four straight Hallmark movies. Great night!
