First day....a little late

 The boys and Jonathan's (and Megan's) 4th Grade teacher!  She is awesome

 Fifth Grade

Freshman!

Kota

Waaaaayyyyy back in April, Don casually mentioned that once we didn't have 3 cats, he would be interested in getting another dog.  Well, we had to put Hamlet down on Aug 28th.  A few weeks later, when I came home from work on a Friday afternoon, Don handed me his phone with a video of a puppy that was available through a local rescue organization.  That puppy ended up being spoken for already, but we found another one that looked like it would fit with our family.  As luck would have it, there was a meet and greet the next day.  We went.  We met. And we got another dog.
The kids had no idea.  We told them we were just taking Rushmore to the dog park for a date.  The rescue volunteers followed us home with her the same day.

 She is ~2 years old, and a German Shepherd/Lab mix.  She is a lot smaller then Rushmore, and they think she is full grown already.  I think she has some type of herding dog in her genes, too.

Wild Hog race weekend

Eric and I traveled to GF this past weekend for a 10K.  His 2nd.  My 9th ish.
I trained diligently all summer.  Eric just showed up.  He still beat me.  But only by a little over a minute.