Monday, October 12, 2009

Guess Where we were this week end


John & Jenni called and were going to Lynn Nelson's 70th Birthday, all the kids showed up and surprised her at the temple. This is cute little Evie getting ready to dog pile on her cousins. You can tell she has lots of brothers.

John with Josh Thompson, Kathryn's husband, and son

Jenni Joan, Jessica, Chantel, Jenni, Evie and Matt

Kathryn, Jessie Matt and Lynn, Bob was around somewhere

Love this picture! Tatum Cottam, Isa Thompson, Elle Nelson. There were many cute photo ops of Evie Hatch, Ivy Cottom, and Mimmi Thompson, they are all about 1 1/2 but you have to be quick and not take time to socialize. Les did a pretty good job though

Friday, September 18, 2009

Keeping Busy


It was a beautiful day so we decided to go ATVing to our favorite place

It's quite a job getting ready, I guess, you don't see me out there!

Pilots Peak is a beautiful area. It's the highest mountain so you look down on all the other mountains from here. The bathroom facilities aren't great. No door on the porta-potty and it's strictly bring your own tp!

But the view from the restroom is beautiful and quite restful!

Pilot's Peak is actually a ranger station for fires and a satalite station for the media also. We sit on the cement patio you see out front and eat our lunch and enjoy the beautiful view. The trail is getting quite bad but it's worth the view! I will miss this about Idaho.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Nice place to live!


Makes you want to dive in

Huge water park

Full size gym

Fishing Pond

golf course, this hole is an island

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Hatch Family Reunion at Zion's Ponderosa Resort


We decided it was time to have our first official family reunion. Lindsay lined everything up. It was quite pricey but really worth it, and we all just paid parts at a time. This place had 7 bedrooms, a loft full of bunk beds, a top and bottom family room and large patio's on each floor.

The greatest part was that the kitchen was separated from the living quarters by a large covered eating area. We all hung out there and the rest stayed clean! The weather was in the hi 80's and low 90's. Everyone got a long great and stayed busy.

Besides balloons and shooting, they had 2 beautiful pools with slides, a ranch house with pool tables shuffle board etc. It cost more for zip lines, Rapelling wall, some of the mom's had massages, so there was plenty to do. Each night there was entertainment, like movies under the stars. The favorite was the barn dance. Everyone joined in, they had a leader for the line dance. The favorite was when she showed everyone the dance steps to thriller.

One of our favorite things was family night, we all got letters and things together for Cooper Trost who is on a mission and was just made AP

Being together was wonderful and a great times for cousins to get to know each other again.
I miss them all! We have great kids and you never know what a good job you do until you see what great parents they are!

More Good Times at Family Reunion


All of our families were there. It was Les's Birthday and everyone got together and got him a nice camera. Stacey's the professional so she is showing him how to use it.

Whitnie, Molly, Sadie and Les just relaxing.

Hunter Hatch and Averi Bishop just back from the pool

Josh, John and Jenni just relaxing. Josh was injured in a train accident, and had surgery so it is so good to see him doing better.

Older boys relaxing and doing "face book" to keep up on the latest, I think especially from girlfriends.

Fun at the reunion


Balloon launch was a great hit. They aimed at a truck parked quite far away, most had a turn and they shot over a thousand balloons.

Games and entertainment was provided at the resort, these were some of the kids from our family

Have you ever seen so many white tummies and most of them not too small! The guys went shooting and decided to compare tummies. Left to right, Kyle Trost, Tucker Trost, Adam Bishop, Keith Klinger, Randy Trost, John Hatch, Gabe Hatch, Jake Trost, Michael Hatch. Don't know where Conner Hatch or Josh Hatch were. Les was taking the picture.

Fun Shooting

More Balloon Launching. Evidently there is quite an art to it.

Babies at family reunion


Gunner Hatch, Josh's latest

Ashlyn Jolley, love those powdered sugar donuts

Wade Bishop prefers chocolate donuts

Evie, John's youngest likes all of them

Sadie, Molly's youngest is just getting used to all of the people
We are so lucky to have so many beautiful grandchildren!