When they aren’t reporting on the news, the TODAY family is making memories at home.
And 2022 left plenty of souvenirs: anniversaries, graduations, birthdays and lots of nostalgic adventures.
Join Savannah, Hoda, Al and the rest of the TODAY family in a look back at their behind-the-scenes moments that made 2022 spectacular.
Hoda Kotb and her daughters went on ‘mini adventures’
Hoda Kotb, TODAY co-anchor and co-host of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, did a whole bunch of traveling in 2022 with her daughters, Haley Joy, 5, and Hope Catherine, 3.
Hoda shares her daughters with ex-partner and “great dad” Joel Schiffman.
In March, Hoda brought her girls to New Orleans, a city that she loves and that she once called home. In July, Hoda and her daughters embarked on a boat trip and caught fish. (The girls accessorized their life jackets with mini captain hats.)
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“I was just thinking, summer is full of a lot of mini adventures,” Hoda told her co-host, Jenna Bush Hager. “Sometimes it’s just hanging around the sprinkler, and sometimes it’s doing something like that, that’s a ‘wow.'”
Hoda and her daughters also took off for the weekend in September with Hoda’s mom, Sameha, and her sister, Hala, at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware.
It was the first girls’ trip of its kind for Hoda and her daughters, who lugged two car seats and other baggage, she explained on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.
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Hoda turned to nice strangers when she needed help.
“I’m often a person who’s like, ‘I got it. I got it. I got it.’ You know what? Here’s my takeaway: ask for help,” she said. “Don’t sit there and think I’m going to be a martyr. I’m going to do it. I’m gonna lug them on my back. Why?”
“It takes a lot for me to ask for help,” Hoda added. “And I realized on this trip life is better when you ask for help and you realize how kind everybody is.”
Jenna Bush Hager shared her own childhood memories with her children
Jenna Bush Hager re-created special memories for her kids.
In September, the co-host of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna returned to the White House, where her father George W. Bush served as president from 2001 to 2009.
Jenna brought her husband, Henry Hager, and their daughters, Mila, 9, and Poppy Louise, 7. (Their 3-year-old son Hal was not photographed with the family that night.) Jenna’s mother, former first lady Laura Bush, also accompanied the family.
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Jenna posted photos of the family at the White House, where Elton John performed a concert hosted by President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden. “A magical night we will never forget!” Jenna wrote on Instagram.
The Bush Hager children had an action-packed summer — Mila went to summer camp, Hal celebrated his third birthday, and Jenna shared that Poppy wondered whether her family might get any perks on Presidents Day.
“Poppy goes, ‘So, can we go on Air Force One?’ And we were like, ‘No,’” Jenna said.
The family also traveled to Maine over the summer and again in December. “I basically stepped into a Hallmark Christmas movie this weekend,” Jenna told Hoda on Dec. 12.
Al Roker sent his son Nick off to college and became an empty nester
Al Roker’s son Nick graduated high school and went off to college this year.
The TODAY weatherman and co-host of the 3rd Hour of TODAY glowed about Nick’s achievement on Instagram.
“We are sooo proud of this young man,” Al wrote in June.
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Al shares Nick and daughter Leila, 24, with his wife, Deborah Roberts, an ABC News senior national affairs correspondent.
Al also has an 35-year-old daughter named Courtney with ex-wife Alice Bell.
Late last year, Al shared a video in which he and Roberts learned that Nick was accepted into two colleges. “Way to go, bud,” Al said in the video. “Congratulations!”
Then, in August 2022, the time came to say goodbye. “I guess this is happening,” Al wrote on Instagram. “Taking the last one to college.”
Although Al ended the year in a “tough slog” after being hospitalized for blood clots in his leg and lungs, he was reunited with his children in time for Christmas — and the entire TODAY cast and crew who surprised him at home, caroling in Santa hats.
“Words cannot express how much I love my @todayshow family for coming over to do a little caroling,” Al wrote on Instagram, “including a special rendition of ‘I’ll Be Home For #Christmas.'”
Dylan Dreyer’s children made leaps and bounds
The children of TODAY meteorologist and co-host of 3rd Hour of TODAY Dylan Dreyer and her husband, Brian Fichera, made big strides in 2022.
Their eldest son Cal, 6, learned to ride a bike.
“We’ve had quite the afternoon!!” Dylan wrote on Instagram, sharing a video of Cal pedaling across a lawn. “Summer vacation is almost over and Cal learned to ride his bike today! Training wheels are off…I’m so proud!!!”
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Middle son Oliver also reached his “golden birthday” (when a person’s age matches the day of their birth).
“1/2/22…and he’s turning 2!” Dylan captioned a January Instagram slideshow of her son. “Happy happy golden birthday to the sweetest little devil I’ve ever known! You make us legit laugh every day and we are so lucky to have you in our lives. Your stories and your hugs are the absolute best…we love you Ollie!!”
Rusty, 1, made a leap too, according to a November video in which Fichera waves a remote control as motivation for the toddler to step forward. Rusty, however, jumped toward it instead.
“Who says you have to walk before you leap??? Rusty doing things his way!” wrote Dylan.
Dylan had a special moment herself this year, celebrating her 10th wedding anniversary with Fichera in October.
