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The ice cream lovers have left the city in search of the perfect cone.

We packed the four scoops in Heather’s van with HungryMan, baby Ilsa and more than our fair share of luggage.

We’re headed south to more lake county in search of new adventures.
Preferably adventures that end with a crispy cone and not a emergency [...]

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Between multiple posts about our New Mexico excursion and a forty degree drop in temperature outside, I am starting to get a bit homesick. The thermometer on my car said 17 today. And I’m not even going to check weather.com, because I’m fairly certain it was the reverse down in Dona Ana.
So while I’m huddled [...]

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roommates

I was going to stick these two specimens of desert wildlife in the New Mexico post, but I thought Ava and my roommates deserved a post of their own. Don’t you?

When I suggested that we cover them up with sheets before sleeping directly underneath them, Ava rejected the idea.
“Mama likes pink, soft pigs, but I [...]

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So in posting the White Sands pictures, it occurred to me that I never posted any pictures from our cross-country caravan.
In June, my cousin Heather and I packed up our four Croc-clad daughters, their four sleeping bags, seven lovies (four belonged to Ava), four backpacks crammed with activity books and crayons,
Uncle Moose (look how helpful [...]

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prophetic

While I would love to say that I’ve been snowed in and been too busy sledding with my daughter to post any updates in a WEEK, it would not be true.
You all are too smart and observant to confuse sledding in the desert with sledding on the snow–I think the bare feet gave it away.
As [...]

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