Catching Up

So you may or may not be wondering what has happened to us in the last couple weeks, anyway, I (Richard) will try to recap a few of our activities. The journey begins on Friday the 8th of May...

I was down in Ithaca taking a final for my last class of the semester, also the last class of my university career...hopefully... Anyway, I was walking to the classroom when I get a text from Leisha with a picture very similar to this one:

It turns out that Emma got into a fight with the wall in our apartment. Apparently she was walking into the kitchen and turned around to look at the TV and at Leisha, when she turned back around she had slightly veered off her course and smashed into the corner of the wall. She was left with quite the shiner, but quickly recovered as you can see in the following pictures.

We left New York on Saturday the 9th. As with last summer, all of my research is in Ephrata, so we packed up our clothes and headed home. We made it a quick trip this time because I needed to get home and plant some rootstocks. We spent the first night just south of Chicago, the we drove to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, then to Billings Montana, and then home. 4 days of driving, 10 hours each, not too bad if I say so myself. Emma was very good. She spent most of the time watching Wiggles and Little Einsteins while Leisha and I listened to audio books of Fablehaven. The trip was pretty uneventful, just a straight shot, so here are the only pictures we took. Just Emma in the car!

We are staying with my parents this summer. It is pretty convenient because I can just walk out the door and be at work. Emma is enjoying her new found freedom. She loves getting away with everything because grandma and grandpa can't say no! She learned where the Lucky Charms were and realized that the marshmallows taste pretty good. One night, while grandma and grandpa were gone, Emma snuck into the kitchen and grabbed the box of Lucky Charms. We found her in front of the TV picking the marshmallows out of her pile of cereal. It was funny to watch her scramble to get the marshmallows as we started to clean them up!

Well that is about it. We are loving being home and being so close to family. I have been busy, so I apologize to any family members I haven't seen yet. But hey, there are still a few months left in the summer!