Tsai Family of the Parklands

Taekwondo WOW! OOH! AAAAAH! OOH LA LA! Singles learn taekwondo from a taekwondo teacher. One girl and four boys are masters from the taekwondo class. There's a technique, a bad boy, and mostly breaking wood. They concentrate to bring power to break the wood. By Megan (We attended the Asian Thanksgiving Dinner on Saturday, November 21, at the Annandale Stake Center. After the dinner, there was a special demonstration of Taekwondo.)

It was cool, comfortable autumn afternoon, one of those rare Saturdays when it was warm enough to work in the yard and when it was not raining. I decided to perform the last rite of autumn by mowing the grass for the last time this year (hopefully). When what to my wondering eyes did appear, not one grandma but two grandmas did suddenly enter the scene with rakes and grass bags and gardening gloves and, yes, a small plastic trash container and a dust pan. Together they raked and gathered for over an hour. The result was 12, count them, 12 large grass bags, chock-full of leaves that had fallen from the three tree in the front yard by the curb. The work was definitely worth the clean cut yard and leave-free yard curb. Now, enjoy the pictures.

This past week, we were lucky to have our old friend, Yang Lei, from Taiwan visit us during his stay as a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri at Columbia. After patronizing the Washington DC Temple early in the morning, we drove to the US Capitol for a tour. The one-hour tour was very meaningful because it taught us the importance of the Capitol in the nation's history. The cool thing was that we found the statue of Brigham Young, who represented the state of Utah. Photos were in order.