Christmas with the Hatch's and Williams's

We had such a fun time with the Hatch and Williams families over Christmas!

First here are some fun pictures from
Christmas Eve with the Hatch's...

Cute Beth with cute Taizley

Avery loves sitting in the "big kid chairs" with her cousins

Grammie read a Christmas story to all the grandkids

Avery with Grampy

Avery with her bell, right before being jingled to bed on Christmas Eve!

Cutie!

Again, sitting in the big kid chair by Tommy and James

This wasn't with the Hatch's or Williams's, but here is Avery all ready to go to see Zoo lights one day with mommy and daddy. 

Now here are some pics with the Williams's the week after Christmas when everyone was in town...

At the City Creek food court

Love the temple where we got married!

The lights on temple square were beautiful (and it was freezing!)

The Christus statue in the visitor's center

City Creek with the kiddos all bundled up!

The boys with their boys

The girl Williams cousins: Sadie, Abigail and Avery

The grandkids lined up, waiting to go into the living room Christmas morning

Singing on Christmas Eve "under the Christmas tree"

We borrowed the red snow suit from Ty and Elisabeth because Avery had never played in the snow before! (What kind of parents are we?) She had so much fun while Bryn pulled us around the yard on a sled!

New Year's kiss!!!!!

You can't really tell from this picture, but Avery was freaked out by this big stranger with a huge white mane. She started bawling the minute we put her on his lap. This was in Daybreak at Ivory's Gingerbread Festival.

Hooray for holidays and spending time with family!!!

Thanksgiving Hatch Family Reunion

This was such a great trip, and we were SO grateful Bryn was able to come for the whole weekend! Months ago, Bryn switched rotations with a Canadian gal who doesn't celebrate our Thanksgiving. So he was doing a rotation where he just normally worked Monday through Friday (which is great any time), but because of the holiday, he got off Thursday through Sunday!!! It was an amazing blessing, especially because it allowed us to go with his family down to St. George for the weekend, for the first ever Hatch Family Reunion!

We drove down Thanksgiving morning, and got there in time for the Blake family lunch (his mom's side), which was DELICIOUS, of course. Then we checked into a little hotel where we stayed through Saturday. The next few days were filled with fun and quality time spent with his siblings, parents, and darling nieces and nephews. We played games, went to Zion's National Park, went to a family fun center, went swimming, and visited Snow Canyon on the last day before driving home. Here are some pics of the fun we had and the beautiful scenery:

Grammy Blake and Grammie Hatch with all the grands

Self-taken pictures are usually unsuccessful, but oh well. ;)

 

First picture of the entire Hatch family that I've been in!

Silly faces :)

I love the beautiful contrasting colors with the red rock and deep blue skies

At "Weeping Rock"

Reach for the sky!

Silly daddy making Avery giggle

Avery wanted to run off and explore everything herself!

At Zion's visitor's center

Avery's egg from the hotel's continental breakfast... which she didn't want to eat- just hold.

She loved playing in the soft red sand (which got everywhere!) at Snow Canyon

In front of the St. George temple, which is special because it's where Bryn's parents were married and where his grandpa was temple president for many years.

Here we are at the end of a hike to this little arch.

Loving the sun and the warm weather down south!