Thanksgiving in San Antonio!

We spent a wonderful week in San Antonio at Zac and Joy's new beautiful home - Megan, Jeremy and their family were in Austin visiting his folks so came down for 3 days and we had a great time together.  We played a lot in the back yard, played a lot in the house, visited and played at lots of parks, went to the famous River Walk, ate great food, and really enjoyed each others company.  Zac left the day after Thanksgiving, like we did, but he went to Georgia for a few days and then to Kuwait awaiting a flight to Afghanistan.  He will be there for about 6 months.  Here are some pictures from our trip, though we have lots more!  Thanks Zac and Joy for your loving hospitality - thanks Meg and Jeremy for coming down.

The grandkids sitting outside of the hospital where Zac works

The grandkids at a park on a very rainy day

The rain didn't stop these kids!

How fitting that our last activity before Meg and Jeremy left for Austin was at the frozen yogurt shop!

Helping Dad cut the lawn

We visited a beautiful mission called San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo - Anne had been there recently with her school class so she served as our guide:)  And a very good one at that!

Caught a glimpse of the Hemisfair on our way to the River Walk

Darlin helping Anne and Andrew with some watercoloring

Exploring "cub caves" with Dad and Grandpa

Thanksgiving day preparations included Pumpkin Pasties from Harry Potter

This was a feast to remember:)

Drawing, coloring and creating are the favorites of every day

Trimming the Christmas tree

What a wonderful time we had - thanks so much!!

Flying home into Seattle



Pete Sampras comes to town!

Marcie and I have loved watching Pete Sampras play tennis over the past 20 years.  Last week he and 3 other "oldies", John McEnroe, Jim Courier, and Michael Chang, played a tournament at the Key Arena in Seattle.  We went and had an absolute blast.  There were two semi-final matches won by Chang and Sampras and then they played for the "Seattle" title which Sampras won.  They move a little slower but it was so great to be there.  I'm sure they staged it this way but there was a questionable call that Mr. McEnroe was able to argue a bit with the umpire over which was quite fun.  They made jokes with each other and once Pete even gave his racket to the ball boy who won a point off McEnroe!  It was a delightful evening and a dream come true for Marcie T!  We had great seats at about the 50 yard line - I guess better said would be right at the net line!  Here's a few photos including the beautiful moon as we were leaving:

Marcie's Halloween Paintings!

On my 365 blog over the past 8 days I've highlighted Marcie T's delightful Halloween paintings which give our home a most festive feel.  Here they are - enjoy:)

Mom T - 80 years young

We spent a fun very weekend with Scott's Mom and 2 sisters celebrating Mom's 80th birthday, a little early.  We had a wonderful dinner at the Garden Restaurant on the top floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, fun shopping at the new Creek Side development across the street from Temple Square, participated together in a session at the Mt. Timpanogos temple, watched the BYU game with students at the Wilkinson Center - anyway we had a fun filled and busy weekend. 

Beautiful sky as we leave Seattle

Always great to be on campus at BYU

Some pictures from our dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

The hostess had everyone sing happy birthday to Mom, then she wrote a birthday wish which was attached to this balloon and the balloon was released through an opening in the roof!

The beautiful Salt Lake Temple

Caught in the revolving door?

Watching the BYU game in the Wilkinson Center with the students.

The moon as we left campus - had a wonderful visit to Utah:)