Doerte and family come to visit
Sophie hosts big wedding shower for Emily and Brenda; We meet Brenda’s sister, Iveth, who comes too
Sylvia travels to Millersville PA to conduct week of poetry workshop
Russell attends Antiques Roadshow event in Fort Worth, courtesy of Sylvia's great friend, Susan
Sylvia's Mom has major oral surgery
Russell's brother (Eric Clay), his wife Ava, and daughters pass through Dallas for Tex-Mex food lunch with Russell and Clay's mother
Russell and Sylvia go to New Orleans (to donate more books),
rent an apartment, Russell attends the ELCA's Grace Gathering, and they help Alex and Melissa scope out possible wedding sites
Russell and Sylvia travel to New Zealand for IBBY conference 
and extended sight-seeing including Hobbit movie set 
Russell has oral surgery
Sylvia has a reunion with junior high girlfriends 
Sylvia travels to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to help with wedding preparations
Alex graduates with his master’s degree from Texas State University
Everyone gathers in Chapel Hill, NC for wedding of Emily and Brenda
Alex returns from the wedding to interview and get his first professional job as a Research Analyst for the Northeast School District of San Antonio.
Russell starts team teaching confirmation 
We assemble school kits for Lutheran World Relief at church
Sylvia travels to Bellingham WA for Poetry Camp 
Russell and his brother, Eric Clay, both visit their father, Karol, in Walters, OK. Above Clay's head in the picture is the slight depression in a field -- all that remains of the soddie where Karol's family lived about 1933. 