HaRtLeY gOt OuT!

I have thought about this blog a few times because of our family's reputation with our dog:-) I got Hartley for Brian for Valentine's Day our first year of marriage. Six years and 3 kids later...she is definitely not the top priority around here, but we do love her. Hartley likes to run the neighborhood about once a week when the boys let her out, usually to my frustration. MOST of the time she comes back, but not Saturday! Hartley got out about 10:30 a.m. and we could not find her. Sunday morning when we still couldn't find her we made some signs to hang around the neighborhood.

I immediately started getting calls saying:

-she ran 2 miles with us, but we didn't know where to take her

-she was in our front yard eating Halloween candy but we didn't know where to take her

-we saw her ____ but didn't know where to take her

(did I mention that we don't have a tag on her)

We finally got a call saying that Saturday afternoon Hartley walked through a dog door of a family's garage. They had turned their garage into a "Man Cave" and Hartley just laid down and never left! Brian went and picked her up and she was REALLY sore from all her running and really fat from all her candy. We are all so glad to have our sweet Hartley home! The boys think it's pretty funny that Hartley spent the night with a friend...as we put it:-)

OU Homecoming

The Dudes and the Boys

Watching the Parade

It's Game Day!

OU Pom Reunion

This weekend was OU's Homecoming game. It was also the OU Pom reunion, which means that all former OU Poms can come do pre-game on the field. We couldn't find a sitter for the game, so we just stopped by and saw my old friends. I have so many fun memories from those days! We took the kids to see the Homecoming Parade and met up with some of our students afterwards. Ella managed to get the most candy for the kids!

Trick or Treating

Mickey Mouse

Donald, Daisy, and Tinker Bell

Poppy's house is ALWAYS packed with trick-or-treaters

Port and McKenna

The Rays and Benton's

Sutton (Luigi), Dax (PowerRanger), Port (Dale), Braxton (Mario)

Dale with his red nose!

Preslee and Ella

Playdate at the Pumpkin Patch

Port and Haynes

Ella and Asher

Kerri and Gracie

Ella Rose

This week we went to the pumpkin patch for our play date. We decided to just visit the McFarlin Pumpkin Patch and they were almost out of pumpkins. The kids loved it and we got some great pictures.

Halloween Party

Most Unique- Whitney

Best Overall- The Benton's

Famous Couple- Josh and Laura

Runner up: The LeBeau's...Bill and Benni Johnson

We had our annual Halloween Costume party on Thursday night. It's always so fun to see how creative our friends can be. These are just some shots of the winning costumes. Thanks for a fun night!

Gingerbread Halloween Parade

It rained on Thursday so the Halloween parade was moved inside. I didn't get great pictures, but the kids had a great time. Port was "Dale the chipmunk" for Halloween this year, and he LOVED it!

Leaves at JuJu's

JuJu watches Ella on Wednesday mornings while the boys and I go to BSF. We went to pick Ella up and the boys found a huge pile of leaves. They thought is was SO much fun, I had to run and grab my camera. We don't see that many leaves around our house, so it was so fun for them to play in. It reminded me about how we used to have to rake leaves when I was a little girl in the fall. It was so fun making the piles and so gross putting them in bags:-)