Amy
Amy stepped foot in this many countries in Africa.
What is 5?
In this month, Caleb felt a great relief after passing the preliminary exam for his PhD.
What is May?
Both occurring in February of this year, Super Bowl LVIII and Josiah's 27th birthday fell this many days apart.
What is 1 day apart?
During this month of the year, Mom received a bouquet of flowers from her employees to observe Boss' Day.
What is October?
As a very proud parent, Dad currently displays this many car decals of colleges or universities attended by his kids.
What is 5?
In this month of the year, Amy & Blake officially began dating.
What is April?
During Spring break 2024, Caleb visited friends in this capital city.
What is Boston?
Josiah changed his FaceBook profile picture in October, after using the same one for this many years.
What is 8?
This year Mom was inspired to create the "Family Playlist", featuring songs like "Amy, What You Wanna Do". It was initially created for this specific family time.
What is our Plum Island trip?
At Summer Kickoff 2024, this was the minimum fundraising goal needed to guarantee Dad would get a pie in the face.
What is $2,000?
The solar eclipse happened in April of this year. Amy viewed it from this state.
What is Indiana?
A few months ago, Caleb said goodbye to this piece of furniture that supported him through Wheaton and 2 years in Chicago.
What is a couch?
Earlier this year, Josiah found himself watching a track meet in Romeoville to support college roommate David's younger brother, who goes by this name.
Who is Ely?
As of this year, Mom has read this number of books in the Maisie Dobbs mystery series.
What is 12?
In 2024, Dad preached through the entire book of this minor prophet.
Who is Malachi?
At one point this school year, Amy had to choose between having heat or this appliance running in her dorm.
What is a mini fridge?
On the very first day of 2024, this is where Caleb woke up.
What is a cruise ship?
While its owner dealt with the aftermath of a car accident, Josiah took care of a dog with this name.
What is Rosie?
After 3 years of managing Public Services, Mom experienced this management "first" in July of this year.
What is firing an employee?
In June, several of Dad's relatives from California visited Illinois. These are two of their names.
Who are Judy, Jodi, Rhonda, Alexis, and/or Shelbi?
Amy found this unwelcome guest in the basement of Lizzie's house while babysitting the Nicoline kids.
What is a bat?
Caleb enjoyed these two water activities this summer - one on Lake Michigan and one on the lake near his parents' cabin.
What is kayaking and water-skiing?
Including his usual pickup truck, this is the total number of United Rental vehicles (not including equipment), that Josiah has driven this year.
What is 3?
Mom spent the first weekend in March in Lake Geneva with these 3 people.
Who are Dad, Mike & Karen Trout?
Dad's rapid chess ranking started at 800, but fell to a low of 280. This is the hundreds range of his current ranking (i.e. 100s, 200s, ...).
What is the 500s?