Saturday, December 31, 2022

New Year's Eve

For New Year's Eve, Katie went to dinner, the symphony and played games with Shane Skidmore and his family.  She won $280 playing the cup game!  Kirt and I went to the Damiano's house and visited and played games with friends.  Garret went to a party at Brandon Osborn's house.  Of course Katie is the only one that took pictures.  









 

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Emilie's Best Friend Katie Gets Married





 

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Garret and His Buddies

Andrew Hebden, Garret, Dan Ivory, Kowen Sanders

 

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Christmas 2022

Christmas Eve at Grammy and Pompa's.  Kirt, Katie and Garret went after they got done skiing.  They had lots of food, played the cup game, Deal or No Deal, Bingo, sang the 12 days of Christmas, and acted out the Nativity.  I had to work and made it just as they were finishing the Nativity.  





I also had to work on Christmas day.  Katie and Kirt hosted Christmas breakfast at our house.  Then they went to church at noon.  I made them wait to open presents until I got home from work.  It was kind of a weird Christmas.  

I worked with Artie Waite and Nicole Tallmadge, 2 of my favorite co-workers so it wasn't too bad of a day.  My patient was crazy, but otherwise it was a good day. 







 

Tanner and Emilie's Christmas

Tanner and Emilie stayed in St George for Christmas and spent it with Emilie's family.  

They made gingerbread houses a few days before Christmas.  (And then they went out and blew them up.)  I think Tanner liked blowing them up more than building them. 
Tanner got some bright blue size 17 crocs that you can see from outer space.


Christmas was on Sunday this year, so they got all dressed up for church.  Aren't they cute. 
Dinner with Emilie's extended family.

 

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve Skiing

I had to work on Christmas Eve, so Kirt, Katie, and Garret went skiing at Lookout Mountain.


 

Friday, December 23, 2022

Katie Goes to the Temple

Katie went to the temple and received her endowment today.  It was a really special day and we are so happy that she chose to do this.  I was wonderful to be in the temple surrounded by friends and family.  The people that came and supported Katie were Kirt, Emily, Grammy, Pompa, Marsha, Ryan, Angela, Jon, Michelle, Cameron, Rachelle, Cary and Delphia Fry, Tiffani and Chris Zapalac, Sarah Hawkins, Cindy England (Katie's Seminary teacher), Shauna and Madison Crandall, Olivia and Jon Tolley, Rhett Hatcher. Two funny stories for the day.  Katie and I were just about to leave to go to the temple and I asked Katie if she had a white bra.  I had totally forgotten to ask her that before then.  She said she didn't and then said, this is just like my baptism when you forgot to bring me a towel and you had to search for something and found a table cloth to dry me.   Then when we were going to go through the veil, I went to get my name out of my pocket and I had the thought that it wasn't there.  I then reached into my pocket and it wasn't there.  I looked everywhere and could not find it.  The temple worker went and looked for it in the first endowment room and couldn't find it.  They took me into the celestial room and kept looking.  They eventually found it stuck in the chair in the first endowment room and I was able to go through the veil.  





 

Dinner and Wedding Reception

We went out to dinner and then went to Rachel Tolley's wedding reception. 





 

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Pre-Christmas Party

Ryan and Angela and Cody came up to go to the temple with Katie.  They really wanted to be home for Christmas, so we had a pre-Christmas party.  Only people 14 and older were invited.  We had dinner at Grammy's, visited, played the saran wrap ball game, and each picked our favorite attribute of Christ to share with the group and then lit the candle that had our attribute on it. 

 

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Lunch Date

Katie and Lilly missed not seeing each other every day when they were home on Christmas break so they had to go to lunch.  Katie and I and Lilly and Melissa (Lilly's mom) also went to breakfast at Little Euro one morning but we forgot to take a picture.  I'm so glad that Katie and Lilly are getting along so well.  Thanks for taking such good care of each other.  


 

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Tanner Plays Santa Claus

Tanner got to play Santa and take presents to some Spanish speaking kids in his neighborhood.