Hayden loving on Graham at one of our FHE activities for the BYUI YSAs in our backyard
Looks good on you, Papi!
Our BYUI friend, Gabe, who came back to our BYUI Church to visit us.
Hatch Reunion in Eden, Utah. This our day playing at Pineview Reservoir (we went to the Ogden temple together the night before)
Water Spikeball
Shade that baby!
Nice work, Libby!
Even Gma and Gpa getting in on the boating action!
People loving on Graham: JaNae
Marci
Gpa
How many Hatch Sisters does it take to deflate a beach ball?
Elsie loving on Graham
and Libby
Marcie and Alecia being extremely silly
Morning hike in Ogden Canyon. Beautiful!
Good work, Nana!
Hot sauce eating competition. The Whitney girls won - hottest one didn't even affect them. Given, Hayden, Verity, and Alex all tried some hot sauces and it about killed 'em!
Verity trying to survive the whiskey habanero!
Verity and Kate matching cute picture poses
Time to start our annual Island Park trip. Averly babysat Graham while the rest of us...
did baptisms at the temple
Then had a delicious lunch at Kainoa's in Rexburg
Then went bowling at Fat Cats (Alex scored a Turkey!)
Hayden and Given snatching bballs to do some arcade shooting
Next stop: Lower Mesa Falls
Always so beautiful!
This year we stayed at a new place in Island Park: Blue Buffalo Resort. They let us check out e-bikes that we rode around on a couple of days. Super fun and super pretty with storm clouds!
Our tiny little cabin
This pose deserves a kink in the neck for Hayden. Yikes!
Free breakfast at Blue Buffalo each morning - bonus!
More e-bike riding!
We even played soccer there - it had rained a ton, so the field was so wet and slick. We slipped and fell a million times.
Family games in the cabin
We saw "Home School of Rock" at the Yellowstone Playhouse. Good times!
Our little walk along the Big Springs trail.
Wonderful Island Park weekend!
Verity and a bunch of friends playing at the Idaho Falls sand dunes
FHE activity acting out scenes with famous "mom quotes". Hilarious night!
The first celebrity tomato of the season!
Annual camping trip! Pasa La-Coma won't let families come anymore, so we switched to West Piney this year.
After a walk up the little river through camp
We performed some epic dances on this stage
Innocently playing games under the pavilion, and a little friend decided to join us!!
This little fella spent about 15 minutes just sniffing around our tables. We stood on the tables so as to not spook the skunk. Finally, he wandered off and left us alone.
The G's joined us all day the next day
Played some games
Ate good food
Played volleyball
And enjoyed time around the fire
Packing to leave Satuday morning
Saturday temple trip
Hayden's hot-dog roast friend party as summer comes to a close
We celebrated Averly's birthday before she went back to college because we won't get to be with her on her birthday
The rude birthday awakening
Papa John's breadsticks for lunch
Hayden super proud of his new speaker (and his biceps)
Temple trip for Averly's bday
Birthday dinner with fries from Dixie's diner!
Happy Birthday Averly!!
Hayden asking out Sadie to the Homecoming dance
Oh what a day! Melanie and Alex took Averly down to Provo, and it turned into a car-shopping adventure. We test drove four different cars on Friday night, then found one more car to test on Saturday. About 6 hours later, Averly had bought a car and we finally got her moved in to Liberty on Freedom (Alex lived 3 doors down from this apartment his freshman year at BYU!).
Went to church with mom and dad Hatch the next morning in WJ.
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