The day after school was out,in May of '07
we went to Meramec Caverns.
Emma wanted to go in, but as soon as we got in,
she wanted to get back out.
It was dark and damp, and she wasn't very sure about it.
She remembers it fondly, though. Go figure.
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Emma took this picture on our trip to Cleveland, Memorial Day weekend.
This was the day after school was out,
when we stopped in St. Louis.
Emma took the best picture of the Arch that day.
We stayed at Grandpa Grubb's house in Cleveland
even though he was in China at the time.
Emma and her daddy can be pretty goofy.
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We found a fire house having an open house,
and we got to sit in some fire trucks.
and asked me how to get to the fire.
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The T-Rex really did startle us,
but after a while we relaxed enough to get a picture...
Then we ran off as quickly as possible.
It was a rainy summer almost everywhere we went.
I came back from teaching in Ft. Worth
(where it poured every day)
to meet my family in Angel Fire, NM,
for our vacation.
Crossing the Red River was scary.
The river looked high enough to wash away the bridge.
In between storms, the clouds looked like moutains
or skyscrapers..
or...just...clouds.
But they sure were purty.
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Since I went through OKC,
I got to have dinner with my mom.
Doesn't she look fabulous?
That's her dog, Rhoda.
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Emma took this picture
of a motel we stayed in along the way.
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Emma took this picture
when she disocvered that she had slept in a pink bed.
but she is using the little soaps to make ears.
She opened every soap package in the room.
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Goofy Childhood Mom
Through Eyes of Childhood Child
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We stopped to explore the Capulin Volcano.
We walked down to the vent of the volcano.
Notice the slope of the path.
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Alex, Allen
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Emma, Alex, and Jake
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On the rim. Emma talked about Capulin Volcano
for the rest of our vacation.
"Is that Capulin Volcano, Mommy?" she asked me, pointing to another mountian.
"Are we going back to Capulin Volcano?"
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Up high and looking down into the vent
At the house in Angel Fire,
Emma made a new friend: the rock.
She named the rock "Treehouse."
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There was a storm a day,
and a couple of times, we had to take shelter.
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We rode a chairlift
up a mountain
in Red River...
in between storms.
I wrote a story about this special day.
Click here if you'd like to read it.
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We found a shelter up there,
but we didn't need it...not yet.
The picture on the left looked familiar to me,
so I dug into my albums and found this:
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Emma takes pictures of Jake in the shelter.
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Paynorama from the Top of the Mountain
I call this one:
All Good Things Must Come to an End.
And another storm was coming...
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See?
We did beat it down the mountain, and we took shelter in the van. The van protected us as we climbed another mountain in the sleet.
did some serious hiking.
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How a Child Experiences a Road Trip
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Emma plays dress up.
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Emma makes a tortilla all by herself...
and
(not pictured)
Mommy helps her eat it.
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Sean says he took a picture of Emma
in the same McDonald's on the way back from NM
on another year...
so I'm waiting for him to dig through his albums...
When he finds it, it'll probably look a lot like this picture
in the yellow slide.
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IOGI:
Items of greatest importance...