Part II and then, on with it!

JULY

 We celebrated the 4th of July as many times as possible.

First with a concert at Woodlands Pavilion, good 'ole patriotic tunes.

 Then a picnic with the fam...

 And fireworks over the Lowe's parking lot.  It wasn't exactly sitting on the Potomac watching them over the National Mall, but somehow we managed to thoroughly enjoy ourselves.

In AUGUST we

 Caught a snake in the garage,

 thwarted the previous owners of our house from involving us in a money making scam of "lost" and "unlost" things...uh uh Becky, no one messes with Costco on my watch,

 got hearing aids,

 let Jonah be happy and free,

 played, played, played in the humid heat of summer,

 and started school.

SEPTEMBER

 The girls started cataloging lizards from the yard...and named them all Lylah.

 Mia was baptized.

 And we rolled with the birthdays...(some left over from August.)

 We had the best kind of visitors,

And took the older girls to their first concert to see Imagine Dragons.

OCTOBER

 I had my first experience at Round Top.  Yes please.

 Clark played football with the kids.

 We did some good deeds.

 Sweated at the zoo.

My cougars beat Clark's cougars in football.

 Haley got her violinin' on.

 And we celebrated Halloween, not freezing under layers of coats for the first time in years.

NOVEMBER

 Best birthday celebration ever that included chicken catching.

Milestone with our oldest daughter.

 

 A rat died in our closet ceiling.  That was fun.

 Clark and Abby killed and dressed our Thanksgiving turkey.  Another first.

 Our super fun cousins for the holiday.

 Family pictures in Austin.

Hang in there, just one more.

DECEMBER

 We picked our Christmas tree out of the back of a truck, in a parking lot, wearing shorts and eating Chick Fil A.  Oh so festive.

 We celebrated our Swedish heritage, both at home and in downtown.

We celebrated New Year's.

We set off rockets.

We opened presents.

And it got chilly.

THE END.