Yes, this is the obligatory "concert selfie" |
James Taylor didn't change his concert date, but we didn't get to see Bonnie Raitt... JT just sang more songs... |
You would think that you would have to fly over the ocean to get to China... apparently not... |
Mom's van (our "youngest" car) managed to be the first to 200,000 miles... |
I finished NAMS! (I'm not actually excited about that, but Mom apparently is given all the pictures...) |
Johanna, Micaela, Rowan, Anna, me, and Sam - don't we look excited to be done with Middle School? |
Mom signed us up for another "race" (we left Dad out of this one) - Seamus and Melinda won, but we placed too... |
See... Dad got his car back... |
You can go back and see basically the same picture in January... |
Buttercup went to the beach! |
OK... we took Buttercup to the beach along with Micaela, Ella, and Jody... |
You might remember the jumping pictures from last year... |
We had just as much trouble this year... |
But, we were able to get it right without Dad having to fake it in Photoshop... or were we? Would you be able to tell the difference? |
We did another race without Dad - is he a slacker, or what? |
And just like we started the month... we end with another obligatory concert selfie! I'm really working on my "Dead Head" vibe... |
Can you believe 20,000 people photo bombed our selfie?! |
You can't people watch in this photo, but I think it captures that Grateful Dead experience... |
And one last picture from early in the month... Dad participating in a beach cleanup teambuilding in China! |
Yes, the answer to the big question is... June 10th was 5th months... In fact, June 22nd was 163 days... but I finally got my car back!
June was clearly about more than that though... What else happened this month?
We went to see James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt. Except that Bonnie didn't make it. No, Bonnie Raitt isn't dead. She's just recovering from something so we didn't get to see her. Instead we got two sets of James Taylor, which was good, but I would like to have seen Bonnie Raitt. Oh well. At least we have a new date to see Bob Seger... That was supposed to be last November. Now it is supposed to be next February...
I went to China again. Of course, part of why I went didn't actually happen so I'll probably be back again this summer... or it will push out far enough that my boss will be back from sabbatical and she'll get to go instead (I was only going because the activity delayed until her sabbatical started - there is a good possibility it will continue to push out... or at least I can hope...)
While I was there Lucie promoted out of Neil Armstrong Middle School. You can see from the pictures that she is moving on with all kinds oy recognitions and awards, but I think she would rather not be moving on at all since she had such a good time at a school that lots of parents dread. Not sure why that is... oh wait... teenagers and hormones... that's right... now I remember why it is that parents dread middle school...
Speaking of dread... I guess there was a little bit of unrest in the rest of the country this month. Good thing I can close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and say "la la la" really loudly. Now if only I can do that for another 935 days or so...