Spring Break

Mom's favorite flowers - we had them fresh for a whole week!

We took Wednesday off and went to the temple -besides the marvelous spirit inside the temple, the grounds were gorgeous.

We had a great time at our first Mariner game this year - we went with Uncle John and Aunt Shelly. We had wonderful seats down on the first level, right off home plate about 30 rows up. Here is Ichiro coming to bat - he had a double, triple, single and walk - and scored two runs! It made it nice that the Mariners won. Click on the picture and you can see him up close.

Guess who the Mariner's played? The Detroit Tigers! The team we saw play last August.

Spring Has Sprung - early!

We took some of these pictures about a week ago which is about a month early for the spring flowers to be blooming. We love it!!

Yes Dad is on the ladder cleaning gutters - however, Mom is supervising quite closely:)

Finally - all together!

Marcie T was able to spend 4 weeks in Ann Arbor helping Megan with her sweet family! Scott was able to go back for a long weekend and fortunately Zac and his family and Brigg & Havalah were able to come to Ann Arbor as well. We are certainly appreciative that they came even though they couldn't stay too long!

Us with our 7 grandkids!!

The 3 newest grandkids all together - even though Jackson isn't that much older than Emma and Justin, he looks huge compared to them! How fun to have them together - staying straight thanks to Marcie's loving hands.

All of the family together - how grateful for a healthy and well family!

Justin Taylor Shakespear

Emma Louise Shakespear

Jackson Howard Turner

Proud grandpa with the 2 newest ones!

Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas!! This year we had Brigg and Havalah in town from Erie PA and Scott's Mom from Utah - Marcie's Mom was in Seattle with Uncle John and so we were able to spend time with her and them.

The bathroom was finished a week before Christmas so that's when the tree went up - (we didn't want to dust it like the rest of the house:)

Marcie T putting the finishing touches on - it looked great this year!

Christmas morning around the tree -

Brigg and Havalah opening their stockings

Scott received an action figure of Mr. Spock and joins him in the Vulcan salute: Live long and Prosper

Grandma T was quite delighted with her new hat made by Havalah - she had many chances to wear it while visiting with us. She liked it so much that Havalah taught her how to make another one!

Sweet Hava in her new sweater!

Enjoying our relatives at John and Shelly's home in Renton

Bridgette favored us with a beautiful solo of O Holy Night with Grammy at the piano - we were very impressed with Bridgette's voice and Grammy's ability to sight read:)

We were so happy to get the two grandma's together

Back in Lacey - Brigg set the table for dinner one night - notice the mis-matched glasses (on purpose).

New curtain for the bathroom

Jackson's Blessing

We had the chance from December 10th to the 14th to travel to Pittsburgh and visit with Zac and Joy and their family and participate in the blessing of our newest grandson Jackson. Brigg and Havalah came down Saturday afternoon to be with us as well - Megan and Jeremy really wanted to come also, but her doctor strongly suggested she not be 4.5 hours from home, being 8 months pregnant with twins! Though we missed her & family dearly, we are quite satisfied she made the right choice to obey her doctor!



While Zac was at work Friday, the rest of us went to a bakery that was most impressive - we had sandwiches and cookies and took some treats home for dinner that night!! The smells alone were enough to put pounds on! Yummmm!









Saturday morning we had a great time walking in downtown Pittsburgh - it was quite chilly but it was so fun to be with family! Anne and Andrew had a chance to visit with the jolly old elf himself.


Anne's face says to us: "Who are you REALLY?"

A section of downtown featured gingerbread houses made by children from local schools and other groups. We were very impressed with the creativity of some of the displays - and there were hundreds of them.

The star of the weekend - Jackson Howard Turner in his blessing outfit - the same one Zac, Brigg and Andrew were blessed in!

Brigg, Havalah and Dad T.

The 3 Turner kids - Anne and Andrew sure do love their little brother:)

The sweet Turner family - what wonderful hosts they were for the weekend - we sure do always love being with them.

Grandma Darlin and Grandpa Pickle with the 3 Pittsburgh grandkids.

Andrew and Anne got to open their big Christmas present while we were there - a new air hockey game!! They were quite excited and very intense as they played.

Good thing President Kimball said napping was an appropriate Sabbath activity - looks like the 3 Turner boys took that advice!


Thanks Zac and Joy for hosting such a wonderful weekend!

New bathroom

We wanted to share a few photos about our remodel project - downstairs bathroom. We are not quite done yet - still need to install the shower door, paint the room, and get curtains for the window - it's substantially done enough to share. We quite enjoy the new look!
(This was going on during my recovery at home!)

Old fiberglass shower has been removed - and we discovered we had a large hole around the drain... (Mike our plumber)

which was built back up!

Old bathroom

Prepping the walls of the shower to receive the tile - (Stuart our tile-guy. He's the one who found Scott out walking around the driveway with blood all over his head immediately after his fall)

and the tile now installed - notice the space we had to the right of the shower now has a nice cabinet installed.

New toilet and sink adorn our new room - notice how the tile comes part way up the walls.

Cabinet to the right of the shower.