2023 State Parks

Texas State Parks

1. Davis Mountains State Park
2. Indian Lodge
3. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area
4. Galveston Island State Park
5. McKinney Falls State Park

Oregon State Parks

1. Collier Memorial State Park

California State Parks

1. MacArthur-Burney Memorial State Park
2. Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
3. Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
4. Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
5. Humboldt Redwoods State Park

2023 Camping Adventures

1.  Big Bend National Park (Rio Grand Village Campground, Chisos Basin Campground, Cottonwood Campground)
2. Davis Mountains State Park
3. Gilbert Ray Campground (Tuscon, AZ)
4. Joshua Tree National Park (Cottonwood Campground)
5. Death Valley National Park (Stovepipe Wells Village)
6. Galveston Island State Park
7. Kaibab National Forest (De Motte Campground)
8. Great Basin National Park (Baker Creek Campground)
9. Lassen Volcanic National Park (Manzanita Lake Campground)
10. Collier Memorial State Park (Chiloquin, OR)
11. Six Rivers National Forest (Panther Flat Campground)
12. Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park (Mill Creek Campground)
13. Humboldt Redwoods State Park (Albee Creek Campground)

2023 National Park Lands

 National Parks

1. Big Bend (TX)
2. Saguaro (AZ)
3. Joshua Tree (CA)
4. Death Valley (CA)
5. Grand Canyon North Rim (AZ)
6. Great Basin (NV)
7. Lassen Volcanic (CA)
8. Redwoods (CA)
9. Crater Lake(OR)

National Historic Sites

1. Fort Davis (TX)

National Historic Landmark

1. Sloss Furnaces (AL)

National Monuments

1. Sunset Crater Volcano (AZ)
2. Wupatki (AZ)
3. Vermillion Cliffs (AZ)
4. Pipe Spring (AZ)

National Forests

1. Coconino National Forest (AZ)
2. Kaibab National Forest (AZ)
3. Humboldt NF (NV)
4. Toiyabe NF (NV)
5. Lassen NF (CA)
6. Shasta Trinity NF (CA
7. Klamath NF (CA)
8. Fremont-Wimena NF (OR)
9. Rogue River-Sisikyou NF (OR)
10. Six Rivers NF (CA)
11. Angels NF (CA)

2023 Books Read: January to June

1.  Conviction by Denise Mina
2. The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
3. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
4. The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West
5. Beauty in the Broken Places by Allison Pataki (audiobook)
6. The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
7. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
8. Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (audiobook)
9. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
10. We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pide and Jo Piazza
11. Honor by Thirty Umrigar
12. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (audiobook)
13. People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn (audiobook)
14. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
15. The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
16. Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke (audiobook)
17. The Winners by Fredik Backman
18. On the Roof Top by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (audiobook)
19. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez
20. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
21. Dominicana by Angie Cruz
22. I Must Betray You by Rita Sepetys 
23. Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore (audiobook)
24. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
25. Everything I Have is Yours by Eleanor Henderson (audiobook)
26. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
27. Stories from Suffragette City by M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis
28. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
29. Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (audiobook)
30. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
31. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Famous Spy and the Sister She Betrayed by Jim Popkin (audiobook)
32. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
33. This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
34. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford (audiobook)
35. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
36. Verity by Colleen Hoover
37. The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron (audiobook)
38. Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon (audiobook)
39. Stars in the Italian Sky by Jill Santopolo (audiobook)
40. One Two Three by Laurie Frankel (audiobook)
41. The Whalebone Theater by Joanna Quinn
42. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy (audiobook)
43. Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu (audiobook)
44. Call of the Penguins by Hazel Prior 
45. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
46. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (audiobook)
47. Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde
48. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Books I've Read to the Boys

1. Lions and Liars by Kate Beasley (audiobook)
2. Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
3. Just Harriett by Elana K. Arnold (audiobook)
4. The Incorigible Children of Ashton Place: The Unseen Guest (Book 3) by Maryrose Wood (audiobook)
5. Three Tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
6. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (Book 1) by Jeanne Birdsall
7. The Heartwood Hotel: A True Home (Book 1) by Kallie George
8. Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman
9. The Heros of Olympus; The Blood of Olympus (Book 5) by Rick Riordan
10. The Penderwicks of Gardam Street (Book 2) by Jeanne Birdsall
11. Mr. Tiger, Betsy, and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner
12. The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart (audiobook)
13. Glitch by Laura Martin (audiobook)
14. The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: The Terror of the Southlands (Book 2) by Caroline Carlson (audiobook)
15. The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City by Jodi Kendall
16. The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (Book 3) by Jeanne Birdsall
17. How to Train Your Dragon (Book 1) by Cressida Cowell
18. The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail by Richard Peck
19. How to Train Your Dragon: How to be a Pirate (Book 2) by Cressida Cowell
20. The Penderwicks in Spring (Book 4) by Jeanne Birdsall
21. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle (Book 1) by Rick Riordan

2022 Christmas Decorations

2022 Books Read: July through December

1. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
2. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (audiobook)
3. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
4. The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (audiobook)
5. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
6. The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
7. What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
8. The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. Sankofa by Chibindu Onuzo (audiobook)
11. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
12. The Downstairs Upstairs by Stacey Lee (audiobook)
13. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
14. The Editor by Steven Rowley (audiobook)
15. Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut
16. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackermann
17. Then She was Gone by Lisa Jewell (audiobook) 
18. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin
19. Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman
20. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie (audiobook)
21. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (audiobook)
22. The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
23. The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
24. The Traitor's Wife by Alison Pataki (audiobook)
25. The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen
26. The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict (audiobook)
27. The Sanitorium by Sarah Pearse (audiobook)
28. The Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
29. Stella by Takis Wurger
30. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (audiobook)
31. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audiobook)
32. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (audiobook)
33. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (audiobook)
34. Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
35. Yes Please by Amy Poehler (audibook)
36. True Biz by Sara Novic
37. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
38. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (audiobook)
39. The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
40. Lucky by Marissa Stapley
41. Northern Spy by Flynn Berry (audiobook)
42. One Year Gone by Avery Bishop
43. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
44. Unbroken by Lauren Hildebrand (audiobook)
45. One Italian Summer by Rebecca Searle
46. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
47. Unbound by Tarana Burke (audiobook)
48. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adington (audiobook)
49. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (audiobook)
50. They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie (audiobook)
51. The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun (audiobook)
52. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
53. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
54. How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior (audiobook)
55. The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
56. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey (audiobook)
57. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
58. Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow (audiobook)

Books I've Read to the Boys

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
2. Once Upon a Camel by Kathleen Applet
3. The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
4. The Incorigble Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery by Maryone Wood (audiobook)
5. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (audiobook)
   
6. The BFG by Roald Dahl 
7. Freddie vs the Family Curse by Tacy Badua (audiobook)
8. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary 
9. A Reluctant Witch's Guide to Magic by Sivaun Plozza (audiobook)
10. Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa by Julian Randall
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
12. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
13. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
14. The  Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle by Christina Uss
15. The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
16. Ms. Rapscott's Girls by Elise Primavera (audiobook)
17. Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami 
18. Heros of Olympus: House of Hades (Book 4) by Rick Riordan
19. The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot (Book 1) by Caroline Carlson (audiobook)
20. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

2022 Camping Adventures

1. Lost Maples State Natural Area (Texas State Park)
2. Pedernales Falls State Park (Texas State Park)
3. Stephen F. Austin State Park (Texas State Park)
4. Bismarck Lake @ Black Hills National Forest (South Dakhota National Forest)
5. Roubaix Lake @ Black Hills National Forest (South Dakota National Forest)
6. Wind Cave National Park (South Dakota National Park)
7. Caprock Canyons State Park (Texas State Park)
8. Columbine Canyon @ Carson National Forest (New Mexico National Forest)
9. Junction Creek Campground @ San Juan National Forest (Colorado National Forest)
10. Ampitheater Campground @ Uncompahgre National Forest (Colorado National Forest)
11. Pinon Flats Campground @ Great Sand Dunes National Park (Colorado National Park)
12. Huntsville State Park (Texas State Park)
13. Cub World @ Lost Pines Boy Scout Camp
14. McKinney Falls State Park (Texas State Park)

2022 State Park Visits

Texas State Parks

1. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area
2. Lost Maples State Natural Area
3. Pedernales Falls State Park
4. Stephen F. Austin State Park
5. Caprock Canyons State Park
6. Huntsville State Park
7. McKinney Falls State Park
8. Palo Duro Canyon State Park

South Dakota State Parks

1. Bear Butte State Park
2. Custer State Park
3. Spearfish Canyon Natural Area

New Mexico State Parks

1. Rio Grande Gorge State Park