December, in which we took family pictures

Family pictures 2018

 We watched my parents' puppy for a week. Whew! So much energy.

Peter's come a long way in his guitar playing! 

 Berea sprained her toe

 Everyone loves a sunny spot on a cold day.

 We finished this 1000 piece puzzle! It was a tough one!

November

We loved homeschool day at Bearizona!

 Meet Joe the friendly, scroungy turkey

Javelina 

 This was obviously right after Halloween...

Thanksgiving pie!

 We repainted the girls' room, and Anne painted a mural around her bed

 This is Polly's "patient" face when you don't want to play with her.

 Christian and I made a quick trip to Sedona and walked around the Bell Rock trail

Polly thinks she's a baby sometimes

The Rest of September and October

These are all out of order! My apologies, but at least I'm finally getting them on here!

 Christian enjoyed having his last (only?) tour of the season coinciding with his sister's tour

 With Peter and Anne working the kitchen on our women's retreat, Christian took the other three kids on an excursion to Picture Canyon.

 Halloween!

 While my zucchini plant only grew to a bonsai size, we got a lot of tomatoes from the greenhouse!

 The kids saved up and pooled their resources to watch the Lego Ninjago movie at the theater.

We went on a day trip up to Lockett Meadow, a little late to see many leaves changing color, but beautiful nonetheless

 If you have to have chores, you might as well find significance in it somehow, right?

 I dug up a neighbor's lilac bush (with permission of course...) and split it up and replanted it around the perimeter of our yard- a lot of it survived and even thrived, well into the Fall!

 Me and and my good pal, Jenni T and women's retreat. Sure wish Texas was closer!

 Back to Halloween..

Peter's had some fun with graphic design lately!