February 2023

Happy 17th birthday, Kaleb!

A blessing for dad to be able to celebrate Kaleb in seminary, too!

Birthday lunch in dad's office

Verity enjoying a little birthday vice-grip courtesy of older brother, Given

New guitar for Kaleb! So excited!!

New air fryer for his birthday?!

Donuts made in the air fryer for Kaleb's birthday "cake". So delicious!

Day after, we celebrated Kaleb by going to our favorite place - K'Lani's, in Rexburg (with some Dominos)

Then we got to go to the Nashville Tribute band concert at BYU-I. It was awesome!!

Abby back for a nice Sunday visit and dinner with us!

Hanging out cheering on Verity with coach mom and coach Given

GREAT defense, Verity! (The one locking down right in the middle)

Another win for Verity's team! Hooray!

Having some fun at Home Depot

Time for the Sweetheart's dance! 

CUTEST couple ever!!

Dad wanted to get in on the formal pictures.

Dad and Given doing their Sweetheart's pose

Averly with friend, Grace Johnson

Kaleb and Kayvri Haworth

Melanie got to go and take group pictures for Averly's group

Nathan Elison and Averly

Averly with friend, foreign-exchange student, Andrian

Averly and Nicole SO excited to finally connect after the Sweethearts dance

Given's efforts to help wake up Hayden one weekend morning

Verity's beautiful TP roll "Thank You" sign.

Dad made this poster for Given's return. One of Given's favorite scriptures

Time to clean the room and let go of a few relics :)

Kaleb and Verity coming back from shoveling BB's driveway. What a great help Verity was!

Verity's Taco Valentine's box! Mom helped her make this. So talented!

Pictures of all of the Miss Hillcrest contestants (Averly's picture in the top middle)

Averly and Nicole Winder - dress rehearsal night

Dad coming out to escore Averly on dress-rehearsal night

All the girls had SO much fun. This is them letting loose after the dress rehearsal

That night of the dress rehearsal, Averly found out she got accepted into BYU. Congratulations!!

Go cougs!!

Getting ready to turn over the crown for Miss Hillcrest 2023!!

One last practice on the piano before the final Miss Hillcrest performance

Celebrating Taylor and Cindy Eubanks for all their work on the pageant!

Averly's final piano performance, "Spinning in the Sun" She did a remarkable, bare-footed job!

Averly reading bestie Nicole's on-stage question.

Averly reading the on-stage questions for the gentelment escorts. They were amazing!

Alex escorted Averly on stage for her final Miss Hillcrest walk, and their awesome handshake. Alex said his favorite part of the night was when they announced her name and all the girls off stage went crazy cheering for her. They loved her because she loved and helped them all so much!

Hayden surprised Melanie by surprising her with flowers as she walked off the stage. Great hug (and almost tears :)

Great big hugs for Taylor and Cindy Eubanks. They did so much to make the pageant so special!

Averly presenting prizes to the girls

New Miss Hillcrest = Annabel Woolstenhulme (the third girl in row from our ward). Congrats!

Great picture with all the girls and the escorts. Great great kids!

With Miss Thunder Ridge

Kayvri Haworth

Shauna Bragg was one of the greatest friends for Averly's Miss Hillcrest experiences. Great mentor and organizer of her events!

With the Eubank girls

Escorts: Daeson Grover, Porter Grummert, Prescott Christensen, Dan Chambers

Averly with Daeson's little sister, Kaebryn

Averly and Nicole Winder

Mari Brizzee, Averly, Emma Weber, Nicole (great great friends there to support!)

Averly with the Winder family

Averly and Nicole letting loose after the whole even was all done. Dancing barefoot in the hallway!

Nice hat, Hayden!

Nicole, part of the family!

Ways to celebrate President's day: 1) Indoor miniature golf with the golf club of your choice!

Bake-off competition

More of Hayden'ts 7th grade games

Dad and Averly enjoying Hayden's game together. Hayden's team unfortunately lost in the first round of the playoffs, but had a decent season winning 9 games and lost 5 games.