1) Me on a "scooter" as we dealt with a broken bone in my foot from last December until about April.
2) Posing with family in northern Wisconsin in a snowy March as my parents moved to their house near Mountain, WI.
3) Kristine after her Confirmation posing with Fr. Dave, Bishop Jenke, Melissa Bland (her sponsor) and unborn Nathaniel Bland (a godson-to-be). Kris also traveled to Oklahoma on a missions trip this year, graduated from 8th grade, and was in the school play.
4) Flooded steps at the Peoria riverfront showing the high water mark from the record flooding along the Illinois River.
5) Throwing light sticks at dusk of the summer solstice at the Blands' house.
6) Fireworks over Peoria as viewed from St. Francis Hospital.
7) Tailgating outside Packer Family Night with family. The Packers went on to win their division in the 2013 season.
8) Hanging out with a mermaid at the beach at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
9) Katie after a soccer game. She was also involved with tumbling and Girl Scouts. She is all recovered from her mouth surgery during the summer.
10) A view of Rocky Glen Park (not far from our house) with fall foliage.
11) Hunkering down and praying during Sunday School at St. Anthony's Church in Bartonville during a tornado outbreak. Our location was spared, but two of the children in the picture had their house severely damaged by a long-track F4 twister.
12) Karen posing with her father and her girls. She graduated with a BS in Early Childhood Education (her second college degree), capping off years of hard work.
