Last night Paul and I went to the Houston Astros Baseball game and it was AWESOME! Craig Biggio, the Astros 2nd baseman, had a 5 hit game which put him as the 27th person in history to hit 3,000 hits.

It was also the second time in his 20 year career that he hit 5 hits in one game. The game went into extra innings and was won by the Astros in the 11th inning by a grandslam homerun. We are so glad that we were able to go to the game.

I just have a quick story to share that happened today.

As most of you know, Aaron LOVES The Book of Mormon. He wanted me to read it to him today so after I put Brian down and started the laundry we began to read. We ended up reading in Ether 12:6 which says:

And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that afaith is things which are bhoped for and cnot seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no dwitness until after the etrial of your faith.

I was trying to explain this verse to him and the following conversation took place.

Mommy: Do you believe in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost?
Aaron: Yes.
Mommy: Have you ever seen Heavenly Father?
Aaron: Yes.
Mommy: Where have you seen Heavenly Father?
Aaron: In heaven.
Mommy: Do you remember seeing Heavenly Father or have you just heard stories?
Aaron: Remember.
Mommy: What does Heavenly Father look like?
Aaron: White.

I couldn't argue with him or discredit him at all. Maybe he does remember seeing Heavenly Father in Heaven, or maybe he doesn't, but it brought me to tears just thinking about this precious child and the testimony he has. He is more immersed in the gospel than I am and I learn from him constantly. He's so excited about having Family Home Evening tonight...I guess I'd better prepare a lesson!

Our vacation is almost over, we leave to go back to Houston early tomorrow morning and we are trying to pack everything up, but we wanted to post one more blog describing everything we've done in the past week. It has been a blast!

We went up to Park City, Utah for 3 days. Here's a great picture of Brian with his cousin Lucy. She is about 5 months older than he is, but they played together well and would crawl around together, bang on the walls and windows together, and just stare at each other in their strollers and point at each other. It was totally cute!



While in Park City, we participated in the Thomas Family Invitational, an 11 event tournament which included games of yatzee, shut the box, poker, battle (rock, paper, scissors), radio game, uno, mini golf, a human maze, egyptian rats crew, trivial pursuit, and a 400 meter run. Our 8 year old niece Kate came in first, Jen got second and Paul made his showing at 10th out of 11 participants. Here are some pictures from the tournament. Note: there was some handicapping of the scores to allow the younger, or more out of shape participants to compete.


Shut-the-Box


Egtyptian Rats Crew




The Human Maze


Poker

Sunday, of course, was Fathers Day and it was also Paul's sister Sara's mission farwell. As a Fathers Day gift for Grandpa Thomas David (that's what Aaron calls him now) we took a picture of all the grandkids together and framed it nicely. Here's the shot we ended up using.


Saturday we went to the church history museum with the "cousins" as Aaron refers to them. Here's a picture of Aaron in the kids section, but it looks like he's infront of the tabernacle choir. We weren't there long and look forward to going back because there is so much fun stuff to look at there!


And here's a picture of the whole family together after Sara's farewell.


Sara was set apart as a missionary last night and it was one of the most spiritual meetings I've ever attended. Everyone in the family bore their testimony and the spirit present was just amazing. We are all very proud of Sara for going on a mission and will do our best to write her often and send her cute packages.

Well, that's about all I have for now. We look forward to being home again tomorrow, but have had a great time in Utah visiting family, friends, and being with loved ones.

We are still in the middle of our vacation, but we had to start posting some of the exciting things we've done so far.

We started off coming out here earlier than anticipated because of Grandma Cole's passing. We miss her a lot, but it was a wonderful funeral service and we are glad she is wth Grandpa again. Paul flew back to Houston for a week while Jen, Aaron and Brian stayed in Utah with the Thomas'. We've had a great time visiting cousins, extended family and friends.

Aaron and Brian are totally enjoying being around their cousins and playing with them. Here's some pictures from our trip so far. We've got Aaron with his cousin Kate.



And Brian with Kate as well.



Aaron got a haircut! Here are some before



during



and after shots.



While we were here Kate got baptised and it was beautiful.





Today we went to the Zoo and it was a blast! Here's just a few shots showing how much fun we had.







We're headed up to Park City tomorrow for the Thomas Family Vacation and we will try to post more after that and maybe even more after Sara (Paul's sister) has her mission farwell on Sunday.