BYU Homecoming dinner

This group was all lucky enough to be guests of Sharon and Hugh at a homecoming dinner at BYU for past student body officers.

Fun for these cousins to get together from across the world and room in the same building at BYU!

Grammy and the boys

If my mom looked a little worse for wear after this summer it was because of this crew!  We, however, had a fantastic summer!  It was everything we had hoped for - bearable temperatures, time in the backyard, sprinklers (I have never seen such delight in Cash as his first real experience running through the sprinklers!), ice cream, swimming lessons down the street, parks, parades, cousins, cousins, and more cousins.  My mom was a real trooper putting up with us all that time - but at least she was rewarded with a good picture with my boys!  That is a really rare occurrence!  I have tried for ages to get one with these uncooperative boys and one shot with her and it was perfect. Thanks to her and the rest of my family for working so hard to help us have the best summer ever!

4th of July

Looks like some of us really missed out on the Hayes 4th of July barbecue this year!

 

 

Family History

Two months after Grandpa Hatch's 10th birthday his father passed away. When Grandpa was 17 years old his mother, Henrietta, married a man named James B. Ross. I have the simple gold band he gave her, inscribed "J to E"; James to Etta. The 1916 Canadian Census shows that James and Etta Ross lived next door to Tom and Grace Hatch.

In this picture we have James and Etta with Grace, Tom, and I assume, Tom's sister, Lucy.
Here are Mary and Henrietta with their grandma, Etta Ross.
Etta, James, and Dog.
Here are Grandpa, Grandma (behind James Ross) and their children with James B. Ross in the middle. Doesn't Henrietta (on the right) remind you of Emily in this one?
We have had very little information on James B. Ross, and what we had was inconclusive. I think we knew that at some point he lived in Colorado. With the help of a dedicated ward member we found a census record with James living with his grandfather, Alexander Oliver, in Pennsylvania. It indicated Alexander was from Scotland. One thing led to another, and now we have some temple work that needs to be done. We have three men needing baptisms, confirmation, initiatory and endowments, and 6 men who need to be sealed to their parents. We also have 10 women who need baptism, confirmation, initiatory and endowments, with nine needing to be sealed to parents. We have one one marriage sealing to perform. I think it would be ideal if we could do the endowments and sealings together, which would require 3 men and 10 women. If anyone would like to do the baptisms and confirmations, or initiatory please let me know.
Please indicate if you are interested in participating in this.

Voila!

Bunny Cake

Can someone please put a picture of Grandma Young's bunny cake on here? I want to make it for Easter and can't find a picture. Thanks!

One more treasure! So glad my parents found each other!

One more treasure!

50 years ago today!

50 years ago today

SLC

Hunsakers are safe and sound in SLC.

Martha's quilt

Here we have President Monson marveling over Martha's quilt! Copy and paste the address until someone who is more clever than I am can post it right on the blog. http://broadcast.lds.org/newsroom/2011-03-0100-church-history-quilting-exhibit-broll-1500k-eng.mov

Japan

I talked to Jane about 7 AM our time this morning. She was with the older boys at the school when the earthquake happened. Tomorrow, or now I guess today in Japan it is supposed to be their big festival/carnival/fundraiser. (Can't remember what she calls it exactly. But I believe that was why she was at the school, getting ready for it.)

Greyson and all Elementary students had the day off as it was parent/teacher conferences. Greyson probably had the worst experience. He was over swimming at the American Club. He was on the top floor where the swimming pool is. They all got out of the pool but then the pool did it's own type of tsunami thing. All the water went one way and then back the other way and down the stairs. From what I understand. Scary and freaky.

On Jane's ride way home she stopped at the store and she said the shelves were literally empty. She was at home listening to CNN when I reached her. She said when she got home she had about 15 phone messages. 10 of them from Mark. Cell phones were not working, only the landline. I am a bit confused because I think maybe Mark was trying to fly to Japan. I'm wondering if he was coming for the weekend or the festival or just trying to come and be with his family. I have not heard anything else on that.

Greyson returned home while I was talking to Jane. He had been with a family from the American Club. He was going to sleep over but that family had so many others over that couldn't get home. Also I'm sure Jane just wanted to have her boys near.
Morgan and Jackson had not returned from school yet and by then they would have been on the bus for about 8 hours. While talking with her the school emailed that their bus was going to be another hour.

I haven't talked to them again but I'm thinking the no news is good news saying holds true. I am hoping they have slept some and are possibly sleeping in.

Jane said they were fine but definitely shaken up over the whole thing.

Here is the amazing news!!!! She wanted to get home and clean up the mess, such as broken glass before the boys arrived. There wasn't a single broken glass or any signs of damage at all. She said they must be living in the strongest place!!!! Even the chopsticks remained, they hadn't moved. So that is good news! That is what I am thinking about and picturing as these aftershocks continue.

Julie

Japan

Hunsakers are all safe in Japan. Safe and shaken. But SAFE! Quite an experience to go through.

Look at the World - John Rutter - A real treasure!

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo3ISKHnKlU
Marc wants Grace to be famous.

Would anyone like a start from my Brigham Young wagon train spider plant? I got my start from a plant at the Beehive House that was a start from one hand carried by a little girl in Brigham Young's wagon train in 1847. I don't know her name, and the one at the Beehive House is no longer there. It has about 10 starts on it.

Grandma and Grandpa

So I have been missing grandma and grandpa a lot lately. Maybe it's because now that I live in Utah they are not here or it could be because right after I had Grace my mom and I went and walked through their house and both burst into tears when we walked in the front door. (and just so you know the downstairs ceiling still exists--so if you put your initials there they are still there). Or it could be because I bought a skittles game for my parents to have and we have tournaments (Matt Moench, Crowder family and Eggertsen kids).

So the reason I am writing this post is because I was thinking it might be fun to have people comment on a few memories they have of both Grandma and Grandpa. A lot of time has passed and I'm forgetting a lot. It's also sad that I don't have a picture of them that I can post. All the ones I have are in California. I think Carolyn's comment also helped contribute to me missing grandma. I want to be put together like she always was.

I will post mine in a comment, but right now Grace is screaming so I don't have anymore time.

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We're grateful to Galen and Jayne, and the Nielsens, and the Annens, who joined us for a simple soup supper and singing on Christmas Eve.

We had the usual lively rendition of Sleigh Ride along with a few other numbers and some singing.


Then we headed down to St. George Christmas day to be with the rest of our family. . . we waved as we drove past the MTC, where Jon reported they heard from Elder Nelson on Christmas. Quoting Jon "So Friday night we had a fireside and all the missionaries sang the 12 days of Christmas. I can't remember all of them but I'll give you a few... 12 hrs of class, 11 loads of laundry, 10 new commandments, 7 luke warm showers, 6:30 wake up, 5...hours of GYM!! 3 new companions, 2 free new haircuts, and a rock solid testimony!"


We enjoyed Christmas dinner at the Millers with Sharon and Hugh and the Ure family.


We repeated Sleigh Ride with new pianists and new audience members.



Hugh and Sharon brought some fun race cars so we all enjoyed some wild races.
After Church Sunday Steve and I and sons continued on down to San Diego, where we enjoyed some Maritime museums and famous boats, ships, submarines, etc. Here we have Nate, Steve and Will enjoying the spacious bunks on a submarine.
Nate got lucky enough to model the apparel of the members of the Mormon Battalion when we checked out their visitor's center. Sister Miller and Sister Stott (believe it or not) took us through. This is a great place for children (and Senior missionaries) with lots of hands on activities.
We took a cruise around the bay.
The next day Nate and Will (with their brother in mind) went on into Tijuana where they found the mission home and posed with Jon's future mission president (left of Will) and the office elders. Then they waited four hours in the line to get back across the border. They succumbed to hunger and bought a couple of tacos from a vendor - and lived to tell the tale.


We drove home in the storm on Thursday and are grateful for our safe arrival. We hope you all fared as well. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!