Field of screams

 Grandma and Grandpa took the kids to the daytime Field of Screams. They had a blast!

Helpful

She carefully collected many pine needles and threw them away. 

Pear picking

 We got a lot of pears this year! The kids eat them off the tree but we got out the ladder too

Solitaire lessons

Haircut

Isi got a haircut, after an unfortunate foam incident 

Crochet

Nora finished a big project- her first blanket!

Swinging

Tough Mudder

James's 13 year old trip was to Seattle do to a Tough Mudder. It's a 5k with crazy obstacles, like crawling under barbed wire through mud. He loved it!

Bundled up

It was 50° so everyone needed to dress very warmly

Feral

Baby fork

Bernadette was determined to use a fork for her stroganoff. She dropped a lot, but she persevered.

Isi picture

She wanted a picture 

Lonely

Milky missed Nora while she was on vacation 

Me too!

I was taking a picture of Max and Bernadette needed in on it 

Peak Tessa

Cuddling

I don't get as many pictures now but they're still best buddies

Driver

This is not our car, but Max is coveting it hard

18 months

I don't believe it

Lion

No one has ever been more excited to be a Scout

Vacation

 We spent a week in Colorado with the Junkel grandparents! The kids' favorite activity was horseback riding. 

We also went to Dallas, and here's Isi at the zoo.

Tessa claimed to not have seen penguins before, which is not true. But she has now!

We went to the Denver aquarium twice. Lucy loves jellyfish.

and sea turtles

Eels are creepy and fit in holes

We got to see how flash floods in the desert look

In one rental house, there was shuffleboard. Bernadette loved it. 

Aquarium again

Giant bug-eating flower

There was a hot tub in Colorado

and a pool in Texas!