This and That in January 2025, Part 1!

 

It's January and time to...

Some recent birthdays:

Josh celebrated the Big 5-0!

Zeus looks excited about it!

Penny turned 16! 

 She had a New Year's Eve/Birthday sleepover

 with these friends from Band.

Jeff celebrated another birthday with this Cranberry Orange Trifle.

He looks more astonished than excited!

And Daniel turned 16 as well!

A good time of year for crafts and hobbies.

Bethany is taking an art class and she made this:

Peter and Sam went to a family gingerbread house event.

This is Peter's:

This is Sam's:

Michael is making amazing things with planks!

Peter went to the Kansas Thespian Festival Thursday through Saturday 

with some of the drama club at Derby High School. 

He is the only one in purple.

Suzie made this quilt for Penny's birthday. 

She loves sharks!

Suzie teamed up with some ward friends

 to participate in this puzzle competition in Rose Hill.

They had fun and she thinks they came in 5th place.

Jacob and Lily have been doing Turbo Type

 and are getting VERY fast!

We had quite a few return "home" after the holidays:

Julia, Emma, Matthew, Katie, Elizabeth, Sam, and Hannah.

They are keeping in touch with their families!

New year and new opportunities at the temple.

David was ordained a priest and had

 his family with him for the first time he was able to baptize!

Thanks for coming over for dinner afterwards!

Daniel was ordained a priest, 

Michael was ordained a teacher

 and Nathaniel was ordained a deacon!

First time at the temple for Nathaniel

 where he did Confirmations and was a baptistry witness,

 and first time for Daniel to baptize.

We loved being with them in Chico this past Sunday!

Sunday Family Dinner in Clinton!

Eleanor moved into her own place and she got a cat!

This is Prometheus:

Looks like she is already growing!

Harrisons got professional family pictures taken.

These are some they are considering still with the watermarks.

And now a look at the McClellans Winter Break trip!

San Antonio temple:

A stop at the Alamo

The Alamo Bowl game

They happened to be coming out of their hotel

 and saw the team and Kalani board the bus to head to the game!

The River Walk in downtown San Antonio

A stop here in New Mexico:

And then a stop to see the sunrise over the Grand Canyon!

Then on to:

They got to spend time with Caleb!

He LOVES to slide!

And they got Elizabeth settled into her apartment:

They also attended the Kevin Young BYU basketball broadcast:

Featured player was Dawson Baker

And they got to meet Greg Wrubell:

Then the long drive home back to Kansas.

Look who is doing some of the driving!

It doesn't look too wintery in Santiago

 but Sister Melanchuk looks happy!

Enjoy some winter scenes for some of our family!

And now time for a January nap!