Art, X 3

When this report was issued the Millers were up in Idaho, and Matt was at work, and Spencer was already inside the Museum of Art that the rest of us are walking toward. This is us, then, Mum and Dad, Drew, Spencer and Claire, on our art safari!

Escher exhibit

Printmaker

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The entire family

We had everyone, six consecutive children, two kids-in-law, one deluxe grandchild and two animal offspring, home for Christmas!

Forgot to take a photo though ...

Parents and siblings and cousins and aunts and uncles and everyone engaged in cool fun holiday activities

All is calm

Christmas Eve, 2017. We've taken or filmed or posted this same image over and over again, haven't we? It's still so nice ...

Daddy, daughter, doing things

Spencer and Christopher Taylor planned and adapted and got fed up with and then bore back down and finished this Christmas gingerbread cathedral

That last shoe finally drops

Here, as in those shelves up there, is the final stage of Sharon's longstanding kitchen project. Congratulations and kudos to its various contributors!

More unsettling changes around here

Sharon ...

Say!

Without permission, respect or even any basic decency, Mum pinches Dad's very valuable, even precious vintage jacket in order to dress up as some kind of suspicious character, for a multi-ward LDS youth activity. Let us suggest that any suspiciousness derives from her and her alone!

Celebrity sighting

LDS Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé, as stocked and photographed at this BYU French language Christmas concert by Frère Spencer Duncan.

New movie theatres in Spanish Fork, UT

More screens on which to watch the same old blockbusters!

Pretty classy

By Sharon, predictably.

Writers, writing

Just one artifact among many, in evidence of a pretty productive couple of years for Drew!

Testing out

Francophonic Spencer challenge tests his way through a semester's worth of college French courses.

Tae Kwan Dopes

Matt and his companion Erin, mid mentoring these young hooligans.

Miss Claire goes to Washington

Lincoln Memorial, MLK Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial; provocative headware; Ford's Theatre; Williamsburg; the Capitol:

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Hard work

Sarah geared up, planned out, bore down and really followed through in her autumn-long effort to conceive of and create this booth's worth of art-for-sale at Utah County's popular and prestigious Beehive Bazaar, in early December. Here's just some of the tons that she produced.

(Up at the U; cut and print of "Bless the Food"; "Elect Lady"; "Napping in Nature"; "Aunt"; untitled acrylic painting; "Star.")

And then, happily, after all that, sales! Success ...

Red chair

More manifestations of really top rate parenting

The kids, of course, are aware of how profound a thing this really is ...

"Obstacle"

Or, "Entitlement."

Young person

Swinging up a storm, do-do/binky scootering, calling an important meeting to order, participating in the putting up of her first really conscious Christmas tree, standing in front said tree in a way that kind of makes her look like she's a member of Run-DMC, making her far away techno-linked loving elders happy ...