Tim Comes to Montana

With Tim’s basketball season over, he was free to come and spend a week with us in Montana. Our week together consisted of 5 games of Settlers of Catan, a pretty difficult 1000-piece puzzle, a day of skiing in Whitefish, a trip to hike on the east side of Glacier National Park, homemade meals every day, and LOTS of NCAA basketball! It is so much fun to watch NCAA basketball with Tim because he is in the business….he knows some of the coaches and some of the players. If he doesn’t know them personally, he knows about them and can impart tidbits of information that I wouldn’t have known. It makes watching the men’s and women’s tournament so much more fun than watching on my own. Tim gave me his Big West Championship shirt, which I will treasure. He assured me he got other swag and will get a ring, so he could let me have his shirt I saw him wear on TV when they won. We also used his young, strong body to help spread 13,000 lbs of river rock in the flower beds around our house. We got about 3/4 of it done with those 13,000 lbs. We did this once before in our house in Bellevue, Nebraska and it costs hundreds of dollars for less rock than we already used here. In Montana, home of the river rock, it cost $87! Can you believe that? Crazy, right? Rich and I will finish out the last couple of areas on our own when the weather warms up again. The weather was great while Tim was visiting. The day they went skiing, it hit nearly 70 in the valley. However, winter is going to return this week for a bit. Our snow is gone but the ground is pretty soft and wet still. Anyhow, as Tim wings his way back to San Diego, I wanted to share some photos of while he was here. It is always so awesome to have your adult kids visit, and so sad to see them leave again.