Autumn at Lake Tapps

We are enjoying the spectacular fall colors in our yard and everywhere this year
Even pink colors soccer shirts add to the color mix
Lydia and Coach Zeke at their Saturday game

Lydia at Spooner's pumpkin farm in the pumpkin house

Grandma made a trip to Utah

Why is everyone smiling?? Because grandma is driving Dad's suv really F A S T!
Special day with Kaitlyn at a session of conference

Kaitlyn's goal! Very nice looking young lady. Mom and Dad, we need a pet!

Ready for school, don't forget your shoes.

The east coast adventure

We arrived in Baltimore and first stop was the Washington DC temple. That was nice.
We had dinner with some old friends from USU married student housing days. Hadn't seen them for 36+ years. (Julia Anderson, Parvone, Barbara)

Visited the Arlington Cemetary and watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Williamsburg was a living museum, where we spent several full days

Continued trip

We spent 3 full days in Willamsburg, Va and saw a lot of re-enactments
We went to a concert, where among other things this fellow played a glass violine. One of only two in the world.

We decided to visit the Atlantic coast and went to Virginia Beach. Very pretty. In two weeks we had visited both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. (Last saturday we went to the Washington coast for the day and enjoyed that just as much)

Virginia beach was having their Neptune Fair with about 2 dozen sand sculptures. This was just one of them

We toured the battleship Wisconsin which is moth-balled in Norfork, Virginia

East Coast History Trip

We visited Mt. Vernon - home of George Washington

The Vietnam Memorial was really interesting with all the symbolism. Since we lived through that era, it really brought back many memories
The World War II memorial was impressive since so many lives were lost.

We got tickets from our representative and were able to tour the capitol

Nobody was home at the White House so we decided to just take a picture outside the gate. The President didn't know we were coming, or for sure would have invited us in.