The first day of school usually gets more than one photo:

 

 

4th grade for Cora:

 

1st grade for Kellan:

9th grade for Layla:

 

Finn can't smile at back to school photos. It's a day of mourning and sadness for him. 

7th grade for him: 

                                                                            Last days of summer:

 

Photos Jonas missed...

 
This was after some Dr. appointment for Kellan, I think?

Watson now sleeps with Finn and  Finn tries to get him in every picture possible. 

This was her 15th birthday:

She got her ears pierced on the morning of her birthday. 

 

Cora and I go for walks with Watson around Como Lake on Friday mornings, because she can be off school on Fridays and gets all her work done on Thursdays.

 Cora got her ears pierced while Layla was away on a school farm trip for a week.

 

Cora wants to do crafts on Fridays with me.  Lord help me.  I had to go to a Hobby Lobby with her for the first time in my life and buy "crafting" things.  

another walk around lake Como

brought out my shirt for yet another school shooting...

One of the last outside meals of the summer:

Kellan has lost several teeth in the last few weeks and has a massive gap in his teeth now.

The face we make when we facetime with Benjamin in Germany