I took the kids to Dallas for the Texas-OU game, and then to Amarillo for the week, and my computer had to be shipped to the Dell headquarters in Austin to get worked on. But now we are all home!
Flying with two kids by myself is never boring....but once we got to Dallas we met my dad and he took Emmie to see the Broadway play Mary Poppins. Emmie loved it and still can't walking about Mary Poppins flying over the crowd. I took True to North park with me to shopping while they were at the play.
The next morning, we headed to the Red River Shootout. Traffic was terrible, but my dad had the novel idea to find a taxi and follow it and it would know the fast back roads to ignore all the traffic. And he was right, we were there in 5 minutes rather than the two hours we probably would have spent sitting on the highway.
Perhaps the most priceless moment of the morning is while we were at this party we go to every year that the Dallas Chamber of Commerce puts on. Every year all the state legislators go to it, as well as US congressmen and other Texas business people (like Herb Kelleher, for those not from Texas, the founder of Southwest Airlines, who poured me my morning cup of coffee and we had a nice little chat). Anyways, the party was clearing out and the game was about to begin, and Emmie was on her 4th piece of french toast, when she requested another piece. My dad and I, anxious to get to the game, said, "Emmie, lets go, we don't want to be late". That is when we got "the glare", and she replied, "I am EATING my french toast".
It was an exciting game...but luckily ended in a Longhorn win! True was such a trooper at his first football game. He did not cry once.



Emmie really liked Big Tex.

Afterwards, we made a stop at the Magic Time Machine. My personal favorite. My dad kept telling everyone,"You have never seen anyone so excited". Hoping they would respond. "Emmie"?, and he could say, "No, Jennifer". How lucky was Emmie that Snow White was our waitress.


In Amarillo, we got to see Uncle
Jave,

And Uncle John.

Bebe took Emmie to get Pumpkins.


We also made a really fun trip to Lubbock for a few days, and Emmie went to see Rebecca's play Fiddler on the Roof at WT no less than 3 times. We had a really good time getting to see family and friends.
So once we got back to Portland, Emmie had a Harvest Day Parade at school. She insisted on being Cinderella. Here is her class going across the stage.

But the banana held up the parade. He couldn't make it down the stairs.

Waving to the crowd.

The whole school.

All the princesses on stage, and Emmie getting to speak in the microphone to tell everyone about her costume.

Class cupcake party afterwards.

On Halloween, we went to the zoo. Here is Cinderella by the
Zebra.

I was trying to get our sock monkeys picture by the monkeys, but True was taking a nap.

All the fall colors are so beautiful, we decided to go on a walk on the hill where Sloan works. We had such a great view of our apartment (the tall building on the right) and Mount Hood.

I finally got to wear my Mackenzie Child's hat, scarf, and gloves!

Fall is here.

Emmie made an "Emmie" doll at school and thinks it is the coolest thing in the world. She thinks it is her best friend. Here she is bringing out to me from school. She was so excited.

She was hugging her Emmie doll, she loves it so much!

Last night, the Spurs were playing the Trail Blazers here in Portland. Sloan loves the Spurs so we decided to go. Emmie hardly weighed enough to sit in the seat at the stadium. But she
defiantly enjoyed her large orange soda drink.

Tonight, Sloan took Emmie on a "daddy date" to go see Alice in Wonderland at a local high school. Emmie just loves plays so much it is funny. She sits there the whole time and is really serious and claps intensely. I think we might have a future actress on our hands!