January 1-4

 We spent the week in Utah. 

We visited with Caroline and Jim

    Spent New Year's Eve eating Thai take out in Caroline's beautiful home with her beautiful Christmas tablescape and impeccable hospitality. Watched TV, played a game and basically relaxed. New Year's day we picked them up and drove up Ogden Canyon to see some snow, drove through Huntville, which Dorothy had never seen. Drove Trapper's loop over to Weber Canyon and ate lunch at Taggart's Grill. Went back to Caroline's and relaxed - watched football - played games - took a nap.

We visited with Aunt Marilyn Olds and Suzi 

    Met them for lunch at their favorite Mexican Restaurant. Great conversation. Marilyn looks good and is managing her many aches and pains with a cheerful attitude. We then drove to West Jordan to drop off packages to Salt Lake South mission office. Dorothy had brought 2 packages for Natalie Jacobson who is serving her mission there. The Taylorsville temple was just a mile away so we went over there to take picture. We then drove back up to Syracuse to take a picture of that temple, which is not quite finished yet. We then headed to the airport to pick up Cassidy/Alex and baby Elena from their flight back from Minnesota visiting Alex's family for the holiday break. We drove them back to their apartment and checked into our hotel. 

Jake's graduation celebration dinner

Dorothy caught a cold, so the next day she stayed in the hotel while Russ and Heather went over to their apartment and took Elena for a walk around the neighborhood. We met Jim and Saucha Bramwell, Jake and Hannah for lunch, then went back and took a nap at their apartment. Did some food shopping at Costco later in the afternoon, then met up for Jake's graduation celebration dinner at Tepanyaki in Provo. We had a grand time, although Will was the only Hunter family member that could come since Kristy had surgery just a few hours before and needed help getting home from the hospital from her husband DR and the twins. We took Dorothy back to the hotel then went back over to Cassidy's to visit with them for just a little bit longer before we left for home the next morning.