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Monday, May 19, 2025

Anders Taylor Hasting -- Class of 2025

The third round of graduation celebrations was for Anders in Fort Collins, CO. It was great to be with the Hastings family for a couple of days to honor Anders' Cum Laude degree in Restoration Ecology. Fort Collins is a wonderful and vibrant college town with tons of great old, well-cared-for homes, and a surprising number of good restaurants. Who could ask for more?

Breakfast at the Urban Egg

Unusual (and delicious) tamales Benedict

Young's Café Vietnamese Cuisine

CSU Trial Garden

Peonies are a treat

The Farmhouse at Jessop Farm for lunch

The Hastings at CSU

The old folks with Anders

The man can fly

Gold robes for Cum Laude graduates

Lucy, just arrived from Paris, and her papa

The old folks parked on a wall

He still makes her laugh

The Hasting brothers

Japango for fine Japanese dining

Delicious poke

Bonus Graduation:

Meanwhile in San Diego, Meagan was graduating from her Doctorate Program in Educational Administration. We were sorry we couldn't be in two places at once.

Doctor Taylor, newly hooded

Ollie, Meagan, Meg, and Phillip

Next up is Phoenix.

OXO

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Kathryn Taylor Colver -- Class of 2025

Katy Kathryn completed her Masters in Clincial Mental Health Counseling at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. We flew off from the Provo airport to Roanoke with her to celebrate her accomplishment. It was a very fun trip despite involving six flights. That part of Virginia is very beautiful, and we were early enough to be spared the humidity. Liberty is an Evangelical (Southern Baptist) school and is everthing that BYU wants to be: beautiful, shiny, and perfect, all there to create "Soldiers of Christ." The drive from Roanoke to Lynchburg is breathtaking, and Roanoke, where we stayed, is delightful. It was fun to have Katy all to ourselves, and the trip was a banger!

Grand Canyon from 35,000 feet on our first leg from PVU to PHX

This is as close as we got to Charlotte, NC - BTW the airport is grim

The beautiful drive from Roanoke to Lynchburg

There is never, ever a time when this isn't my place

Liberty University

The girlies

This smaller Arena was the wrong venue,

but, happily, it is physically connected to the right venue

The correct venue: Vines Center

Kathryn Taylor "Clover" on the Jumbotron

Pure joy!

Objects in motion overtook gravity

Oh my forking goodness! Shrimp and fried catfish with grits

at a little Roanoke eatery that does "Southern Cooking Right"

Basilica of Saint Andrew, 1902

Roanoke from St. Andrew's

Old fogies in the hotel

Next up is Fort Collins for Anders' graduation from Colorado State.

OXO

Monday, May 12, 2025

William Tucker Hastings -- Class of 2025

Tucker graduated twice from the University of Utah: degrees in Environmental Science and Spanish. The first was May 1, which is also Oliver David's birthday, so we also joined in his festivities. Tucker's second was the next day, followed that evening by a fête in his honor at Emily's in Spanish Fork. Sunday morning we met again in SLC for brunch at Avenues Proper. Lots of celebration in just a few days.

Huntsman Center

The graduate

With Clara, Anna, and Rob

With the old folks

The scholar and his parents

Ollie's birthday at La Casita with the grandparents, Meg, and their

Wai cousin Lokana and his fiancé, Joey

Graduate in Spanish

With the family outside the Huntsman Center

Party prep at Emily's

The spread

Some cousins

Gathered to honor Tucker

Sunday brunch at Avenues Proper

The crew

Next up is Katy's graduation in Virginia.

OXO

April 2025

There were some highlights this month, some usual, some less common. We had family dinner with all the local kiddos, and Cousins' Breakfast as usual. A bit different was participating in an anti-Trump/Musk demonstration in little old ruby red Provo, dinner with Katiana's family -- the Goffs -- and a bit of visiting with Mark Boynton in what was to have been a "Boynton Reunion."