Blurry October

Does anyone else seem like October passed in a blur?

I guess I have a lot of catch-up to do.

First, we sold our house (the one that burnt down). That actually happened in September. The house is beautiful inside. In fact, I kind of wish we would have put a second story on it and moved back in.

I've been allergy tested...twice. And basically I'm allergic to everything. I'm a mess. One of the things I'm off the charts allergic to is Birch trees. Now this is pretty ironic because I grew up on Birch Tree Drive (my mom still lives there) and we have the only Birch tree on the whole street in our front yard. Crazy. Also says I'm allergic to pretty much everything they tested for (except mold and cockroaches). You can see I pretty much reacted to everything. They did that on both arms...twice...and told me not to itch...that is one of the hardest things to not do.

We took our annual visit to the Pumpkin Patch in Bixby. Took Riley's best friend Jack and his family with us. It was like 90 degrees...totally not pumpkin patch weather, but that's Oklahoma for you...the weather is like a box of chocolates...(you know the rest).

If it's a Saturday in October it means were out on the soccer field cheering on Riley. She's gotten so much better as the season has gone on and is having a lot of fun with her little friends on the team.

October brought visitors to T-town.

We got to meet our newest little nephew, Clark who is just precious. Of course Katie and Wesley were here too, Wesley had a job interview (and got the job), which means they'll be moving back soon.

My dad who had to come in the country on business and got to swing by Tulsa for a few days before heading back to the Middle East. He got to help take the kids trick-or-treating and we really enjoyed having him here. Sampson has been moping since he left. Sampson got A LOT of attention that he hasn't gotten recently due to our increasingly busy schedules.

Jarrod and Paula came up from Dallas with Brody for his 1st trip to Tulsa.

October also brought some old friends for the big Homecoming game.

Levi, Clarissa, and their 2 boys stayed with us and we always love hanging out with them. More than any other of Wade's college friends, Levi and Wade are the closest to "twinkies" as you can get. Wade nearly wet his pants waiting to talk business ventures with Levi.

Homecoming brought back some of my favorite sorority sisters too and we took a tour of the DDD house and couldn't believe the changes. Not just the decor (which is WAY better than my tenure there), but (for example) they don't have phones in their rooms. We used to send messages to the whole house via voicemail on our phones. I asked how they took care of that now, and she looked at me like I was a dinosaur and said, "we do email for that" (duh)...email was just beginning in popularity when I started college. They all have cell phones so they don't really need room phones. Wow.

Brooke has become a climber. She likes scale anything dangerous...including tables and bunk beds. One morning, I found her on the top bunk playing up there with Cade. This has happened twice so now we have to take the ladder out every morning.

October is full of fun Fall activities and I accompanied Riley's class on it's first field trip to the pumpkin patch. Here's a pic with her Kindergarten teacher, Miss Baker.

We went to Main Street Broken Arrow and celebrated with their fall fun night. Some may remember the video I sent last year of Cade shaking his toosh in his little Incredibles (Dash) costume. Same event.

And of course Halloween always closes out October, and just like any other kids, my kids LOVE trick-or-treating, candy, and all things spooky (not real spooky, just sort of spooky).I'll put out individual pics of the kids in the next few days...unfortunately the pictures don't do them justice.

But they were the cutest little trick-or-treaters.

I hope to get back to more regular blogging, but life has been getting in the way.