2016: Our Year in Review via Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. When Penelope’s at her music lesson, you can usually find Justin and Garrison breeding pigs, collecting eggs for cakes, and killing creepers here.
  2. 7. We binged the first season of this animation reboot. Lions were always better than cars!
  3. 10. We camped three nights under these majestic conifers at the oldest state park in CA.
  4. 11. Vanessa is still trying to get a handle over her four rain ____. A brief effort by a storm will fill 230 gallons quite fast.
  5. 12. Over the summer, Penelope started playing this instrument involving bellows and keys.
  6. 13. Justin got each of us one of these two-pedal contraptions.
  7. 14. Big Basin State Park is full of these in June, and we were delicious.
  8. 15. While in Chicago for Veteran’s Day weekend, we visited this Mario Batali outpost five times in three days.
Down
  1. 1. We went aboard this U-505 in Chicago. It was the first one captured by the Allies in 1944 after an elusive game of cat-and-mouse.
  2. 2. We swabbed Graysie for DNA. Results say she's part this “poor man’s greyhound.” Most people who notice her just say, “That's a nice schnauzer.”
  3. 3. Jr. summer camp counselors streamed this band-on-hiatus during bus rides. Kids then sing their songs. Now we know we’re beautiful and that is the story of my life.
  4. 5. Garrison ended the year with a brown belt in this Korean martial art.
  5. 6. We started the year in this Missouri city, with visits to the WWI, Nelson Atkins, Negro Leagues Baseball, and American Jazz Museums. Then we went to the Truman and Eisenhower Libraries on the same day.
  6. 8. Justin and Vanessa completed their first Spartan ______ course race. Justin did great! Then he help Vanessa with half of her burpees for every fail.
  7. 9. Penelope completed her first year as a Daisy Scout and sold these from a doll carriage.