Pancakes (Episode 3)

Written and directed by Emma

My very first musical composition

You'll want to put these on before you listen

Clear out your playlist and make room for awesome. I just finished my first ever musical composition and I want to share it with my loyal fans. Download this and put your music player on repeat and you will never need to worry again about what to listen to next.

There is potential for blogging this under "Low Quality" but it took far too much of my time to be relegated to that hotspot. After listening, I think you will agree that I chose wisely by placing it here.

Greeting Card

Tonight I took my family out for fun times and good... times. I invited Mandi and her family to join us for awesome times, but she made up a quick lie and declined. She missed out on more than just outstanding company. After some errands we went out to dinner at Burger Supreme. I had the cheeseburger with fries. Then we went to Nickelcade which I have been told is for losers. Perhaps, but there is something about that hippety frog race game that keeps me going back for more. After we each shelled out a couple dollars in nickels and exchanged our hard earned tickets for trinkets of abiding value, we headed off to Coney's Frozen Custard with high hopes for a non-terrible daily flavor. I have a theory that Coney's saves their awful flavors for the weekend when they know people are going to come in anyway. If you are unaware of Coney's, here's the deal: They sell frozen custard and it is really good. Each day you have your choice of Chocolate, Vanilla or the flavor of the day. Some days they have awesome flavors like Dreamsicle or Lemon Chiffon and some days they have terrible flavors like Banana cream pie or Grodelated Walnut. Today's flavor was Caramel Cashew. I would have preferred raspberry or coconut cream but caramel cashew was acceptable. Inside the store we saw that their freezer had some strawberry cheesecake frozen custard from a few days before and we decided to purchase a quart of that instead of the caramel cashew. While Anne was paying for the custard, I filled my cup with water and a man came into

It's fortunate I had my cell phone so I could snap this shot

Coney's and was waiting behind Anne in line. When we sat down to eat the custard, I told Anne I thought the man in line was Orson Scott Card and she immediately got up and went over to him and asked him if he was. He acknowledged that he was indeed! I went over to talk to him for a moment and he said that I made his day by recognizing him. He was very kind and I tried to be courteous of his time by not gushing and telling him how much I love everything he's ever written. It was an exciting experience for me and I'm happy to have met him, even if it was briefly.

I'm the only one

This is a video of Emma eating breakfast. Isn't she adorable? Please focus on the dialog between Haylee and myself. Children are the best!

Spring Break 2008

On our way to Pagosa Springs we were attacked by this gigantic spider. It was a portent.

While in Pagosa, we dwelt in this architecturally ambiguous "house." The kids called it the mushroom.

I found this squirrel stealing bird food. He and I shared a good chuckle.

We shared the pool with the local swim team which meant that we got kicked out at different times each day for different lengths of time. Oh, also we were given a limited number of passes for pool use, which meant that when we got kicked out we couldn't come back later. Hospitality.

I swear there was a plague of geese. This pair had learned to honk some song by Patsy Cline. I can't recall the name of it. Weird!

Pagosa Springs, as everyone knows, is just plain famous for its hot mineral springs. Oh, excuse me - its hot, therapeutic, healing mineral springs. The look on my kids faces is indicative of how much they enjoyed the smell and the anticipation they felt at the prospect of bathing in the springs.

We went to Mesa Verde to view the cliff dwellings there. That's me in the red hat.

To exit the cliff dwelling area we used these wooden ladders.

We were allowed to climb down into this reconstructed kiva. That ladder was seriously about 8 feet tall.