Earliest Utah Jazz Memories

Earliest Utah Jazz Memories

How John Stockton, the old Salt Palace, and the lowly New Jersey Nets changed my life back on a cold, wintry day in November, 1987. My latest Utah Jazz 360 blog.

Girlisms

Tayah:

• "I love playing with my Mulang and Pocanhontas dolls!"
• "...8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14..." (she must be superstitious, for our red-head always skips 13)
• "Don't worry Mommy.  When I'm married, I'll still come visit you!"

Kadence

• "Let's start at the beginding."
• "I had a dream I got baptized and you did it for me Daddy!"
• K: "Stockton is the cutest baby in the whole wide world!"  D: "You and Tayah were amazing cute too!" K: "Oh Daddy, we were never that little!"

December 2010 Nuts and Bolts

Our family newsletter entry for December 2010...great summary of a most wonderful month. 
What can be said about December? There is just something magical about it all. Here are the highlights of a very jam-packed month for us:


• Two weeks off of work!
• First Presidency Christmas devotional
• The Festival of Trees in Sandy
• South Jordan Christmas craft boutique
• Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork
• Temple Square lights (it wouldn’t be Christmas without it)
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir and David Archuleta Christmas concert with the Wilkins
• Mini-concerts at the South Towne Center featuring Jon Schmidt, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band, Peter Brienholt, David Tolk, Nancy Hanson, and many others.
• Kadence (with the Primary), Elizabeth, and David singing in the Christmas sacrament meeting, with David also speaking.
• The Twelve Days of Christmas, the seventh time I’ve done it for Elizabeth and once they arrived, the kiddies.
• Ward Christmas party, as well as a bishopric Christmas dinner together.
• Several work parties for David (LDSP, LDSP BYU, Telefund, and Annual Giving)
• BYU Christmas party with music, crafts, and food.
• Tithing settlement as a family and David taking his shift with the bishop.
• A Souper Christmas party at the Wilkins’, complete with gingerbread houses
• Illnesses all around (tis the season to share)
• Family dinner at Danny and Mary Sue’s for the November and December birthdays
• My birthday celebration, thanks to my sweet wife and children.
• Stake Court of Honor and a week later, pizza with the Young Men courtesy of our Stake Presidency thanks to winning the scout competition.
• Dinner with the Fransons
• Fun dinner with all the Jazz bloggers up in SLC, while watching the Jazz win
• Mailing, e-mailing, and Facebooking our 2010 Christmas letter and receiving the same from many dear family and friends.
• Delivering neighborhood gifts
• Collecting and delivering gifts from ward members for our annual giving tree. Helping out with Secret Santa shopping
• A fun visit at my aunt Sandy’s house
• Nelson Family Christmas party
• Grandpa and Grandma’s celebration
• Christmas Eve celebration with family and neighbors, with the Nativity and Twas the Night Before Christmas being the highlights
• Christmas day dinner at Dad and Donna’s with the entire clan.
• New Year Eve celebration at the Hunsakers’, with a lot of our amazing ward friends there.
• Preschool fun for both girls, including a field trip for Kadence to a local candy store.
• Lots of Noel movies, with the girls loving Rudolph, A Christmas Story, and Mr. Krueger
• A million Christmas songs, again, with Rudolph being the most sung
• Besides the usual assortment of toys, clothes, books, and movies under the tree, our family received a new camcorder and another Disneyland trip in February!
• Watching and feeling the Christmas spirit from the eyes of our beautiful children
• Especially feeling the love of Savior the entire month.

Snow, Friends, and Cute Kids!

Here is a random post, just so as to catch up a bit.  First off, here are some photos from a recent snowstorm we experienced a few weeks back.  So beautiful.  And it was even more beautiful because we did not have to go anywhere and could enjoy it from our ward house!

 Here is Kadence fashioning some of Mommy's pants.  Such adorable kids we have!

Here are a few shots of the girls with their friends, after Tayah's preschool.

And lastly, we had Brother Franson, one of great neighbors over for dinner one Sunday night (his wife was ill).  The kids adore him!  Here he is performing a magic trick for our enraptured children.  Stockton goes to him all the time at church!

New Year's: Look Not behind Thee

Christmas Eve Festivities

We are woefully behind at posting things on the blog, so just bear with us as we do this piece-by-piece.

Hope you all enjoyed Christmas!  We certainly did.  On Christmas Eve, we had family and friends over for our little get-together involving lots of finger foods, our new chocolate fountain, a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas, a rousing reenactment of the Nativity, caroling, and a bunch of cute kids.  What a great night!

Gordon Hayward’s Christmas Present | Utah Jazz 360

Gordon Hayward’s Christmas Present Utah Jazz 360