Christmas 2016

Following a long standing Hawker family tradition, we kicked off Christmas with a Christmas Carole at the Hale Center Theater.  It was a great performance.  Interestingly, this was the last time ever seeing the play at this theater. They are building a new one in Draper and the West Valley one is being shut down.  So, in a way, this was the end of an era.  I’m sure the play will be fantastic in the new theater too.

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We got a chance to go to Temple Square and spend some time there.  We walked around and saw both Visitor’s Centers.  I haven’t been in them for a while.  The South Visitor’s Center has a fantastic model of the temple.  It’s definitely worth stopping by and looking at if you’ve never seen it.

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Readings of the Grinch Who Stole Christmas were frequent and popular.

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On Christmas Eve, we got in some rounds at Top Golf with the gang.
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We certainly awoke to a white Christmas!  Check out the back yard.  It took quite a bit of digging, but were were able to make it out to Church for special Christmas Sunday program with Elder Ballard and David Archuleta.
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We also had a great time talking with Sam.  It was so fun to see him.  Wont’ be too long until he’s home.
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Christmas afternoon and it’s finally time to open presents!  I doubt we’ll ever get away with stalling this long again.
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Some Family Fun in the snow 🙂
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Kathryn played a gig one of the nights, so I went out and had some fun with the girls at Micky Ds.

 

Mid December Adventures

December is always a very busy month, and has lots of adventures.  These are some of them in between by birthday and Christmas.

Kathryn put together a violin studio service activity where they went and played for a couple of rest homes around town.  They did a great job and it was great to see all the hard work they’ve put in.  Kathryn has been teaching the boy in the green shirt for 4 years now.  He has turned into quite the violinist.

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Snowy adventures up at the cabin.
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Chilling by the fire eating popcorn.
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Mega carmel popcorn operation for neighbor gifts.
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