It's a whole lot harder to keep up with things when there are two rugrats running around.  OK only one is running around, but they still keep us busy!  Karen's birthday was this month, on the 12th.  Mimi came to visit.  We were glad to see her and grateful for the extra help!  And Bennett is now 4 months old!  Other than that, not so much.  It's finally cooling off here and we're getting ready for fall yardwork!

Here are some more pictures from September.

We celebrated the 4th of July on the 3rd (Happy Birthday, Lindsey!) because we were going to be driving home from Arkansas on the 4th.  But we all had a good time.  Homemade ice cream, burgers and of course fireworks.

What's that happening there?  Is that fireworks he's handing to the 20-month old?  You betcha!  Well, it was just the little poppers that you throw–mostly harmless.    Henry had a grand time stomping on them and making them pop.  He also thoroughly enjoyed the Hanlon family traditionals: Cuckoo's and jumping jacks.  Bennett on the other hand was unimpressed.

We arrived home the evening of the fourth in time for our neighborhood's fireworks display, which was really quite impressive.  Several dozen mortars and other assorted artillery, dozens of rockets, roman candles, noisemakers, really the works.  And that was just four houses on my street.  They really take their fireworks seriously in Texas.  And now Henry won't stop asking for fireworks.

Pictures from the 4th at the Paynes here.

A couple of pictures from Father's Day at the M. R. Hanlons.  I will post more tomorrow.

Tomorrow Bennett will be 2 weeks old, so here are some pictures from his first week.  He had quite the slew of callers in his first week.  His Nana and Mimi were here, of course, and also he was visited by Grampa, Aunt Laura, Ethan and Sarah Grace, and Kay and Nick.  It was a full house for a couple of days to say the least.

Things have been quite busy in the MR Hanlon household as of late, thus the dry spell on TeamHanlon (no excuse!)  We are moving to Texas!  Austin, to be exact.  So expect some downtime on the site in the next month or so as we get settled.

In the meantime, we had a small gathering at Gulf Shores for Great-Granddad's 95th birthday party!  Here are a few pictures from the party, courtesy of Mary.

There are more pictures from the evening here.  Somehow, there are no pictures of me.  
I'm sure that there are plenty more to be uploaded!  We'll get them up when we can.

The University of South Alabama's Fall Commencement for 2009 was this past Friday.  I participated in the ceremony and Mike, Melba, Karen, Henry, and Charlene all were in attendance.  Henry made sure to make himself heard--I could recognize his cry at one point near the beginning of the ceremony across the entire Mitchell Center!

See all the Halloween pictures here.

Henry and Mommy spent a couple of weeks in Fayetteville getting Aunt Laura, Ethan and SG moved into their new home!  He really liked the new house and made sure to crawl ALL over to check it out!

See more of the visit here

Many more pictures from CB '09 in the Image Gallery!