Random pictures

Andy camping with his boys
Parker in a box

Turn off the ceiling fan!
We like to torture our dogs by putting them in halloween costumes.
Parker is a big HAM! Whenever you get the camera out he just smiles like crazy. So cute! He loved the dogs...he just says dogdogdogdog whenever he sees them.

Wedding

Last Sunday, my friend Liz's dad, aka Andy's boss, aka Brad, got married. It was a very small wedding in the church Parlor followed by a reception at Le Cep bistro in edmond. Since I actually put on a dress I thought it was worth taking a picture, so here we are.

Camping

A few weeks ago, Andy and I took the week off from work. We went to Owasso to see my parents for a few days, then came home for Halloween. We have trunk or treat at church where everyone decorates their car. We did a camping theme--we set up a tent in the back of andy's truck and i used pillows, a volleyball and the curly wig andy wore to luke's soccer game to make it look like a guy sleeping in the tent. we had a game where the kids threw fishing bobbers into camping cooking pots. the kids seemed to like it and we had fun. then thursday andy and i went down to the wichita mountains wildlife refuge to hike and camp. as we were driving around andy spotted some buffalo that he wanted to take a picture of so we got out of the car and walked a little into this field. andy took some pictures and as we were walking back andy almost stepped on a tarantula. so rather than run away, which is what i wanted to do...andy stopped to take some pictures of the nasty thing. spiders, in general, dont bother me all that much, but when i think about big nasty hairy spiders that can jump, i get a little freaked out. so now we have pictures of mr. tarantula. gross. we headed to the campsite and set up the tent, etc. we cooked on our propane stove, sat by our campfire and played cards, and then slept in our tent thursday night. it was pretty cold and poor scrawny yoda was freezing his nub of a tail off. tucker was staying warm so we left him in his kennel next to our bed and yoda slept under the covers snuggled up in my armpit. we were nearly the only people in the whole section of campsites. during the night our watchdog yoda started growling and we heard what sounded like hoofsteps?? outside our tent. We had the dog food in a tupperware and i had put the lid on it but forgot to put it in the car. we could hear whatever it was pawing or biting or kicking the tupperware around for awhile, and then it finally left. we got up in the morning--found teethmarks (maybe) on the lid of the tupperware. i think it was probably a deer. it didnt get into the food, but the tupperware was laying under the picnic table instead of on top of it where it had been when we went to bed. we made breakfast burritos, then packed the dogs up in the car and drove to the trailhead of elk mountain. i say trailhead of elk mountain like it is a real mountain--it is an oklahoma mountain, which when you look at it really doesnt look all that impressive, but there was still a really pretty view from the top. andy, tucker, yoda and i hiked up to the top. the dogs were amazing--they were more like mountain goats than dogs. Tucker living up to his name

after that hike we drove to Meers to eat some longhorn hamburgers. they seemed like they would have been delicious, but i had really bad allergies that week and really couldnt taste anything. so sad. so after that we drove around a little and stopped for a few short hikes. we finally headed back to our campsite expecting more peace and quiet, but instead drove up and every single campsite was full. there were probably 60 or 70 women from the Texas Outdoor Women's Association. We decided that it would be miserable to try to sleep with that many people around with yoda growling at every little noise, so we packed up and headed home to sleep in our warm comfy bed :)

Yoda pooped out on the way home.

it was a great trip, but the best part of our whole vacation was saturday morning. we slept in and then spent the whole morning in our pjs on the couch watching movies. what a great end to our vacation!

Dog-sitting

We watched Mitsy for a few days while our friends Daniel and Canaan were at Disney World! Mitsy and Yoda have played together several times, but this was the first time for Tucker and Mitsy to meet...

Daniel and Canaan were gone for over a week and we were out of town for the first few days also, so they had some other friends (Ryan and Trisha) watching Mitsy for the first half of the week. We arranged for them to bring Mitsy to our house on wednesday because Ryan and trisha were going out of town the following weekend. So, Wednesday night Andy and I were sitting on the couch watching one of our shows, and Yoda and Tucker were sleeping on the floor. The doorbell rang which got Yoda up immediately. He ran to the door and started his whimper/growl which means "please let them in so I can play with them." We opened the door and mitsy wriggled her way out of trisha's arms and darted in the front door. Yoda knew what to expect because, as I mention earlier, they have played together many times. I should explain that Mitsy is a 15lb ball of endless energy. She darted in the house and headed straight for Tucker who, still being a young puppy with limited bladder control, started peeing while trying to escape the white blur that was charging toward him. This resulted in a ridiculous amount of pee on the floor, not just in one spot, but actually marking out the path Tucker took in trying to find refuge from Mitsy.

After the semi-traumatic greeting, Mitsy and tucker became great friends. They wrestled non stop because only a puppy's energy level can rival mitsy's.

This was when the odds were still for Yoda. They were about the same size but Yoda had more coordination and more experience. At last weigh-in, Yoda is 18lbs and Tucker is 26lbs. Poor Yoda.

SO big!

Isn't he just so stinkin cute? We are going to try to start a puppy training class next week. He needs to be socialized. Right now he is a littly timid, but we are trying to let him meet lots of people and other dogs. He weighs 22 pounds.

Andy and I are taking this week off from work...well andy is working monday only. We are going to owasso for a couple of days, then we will do Trunk or treat at our church on wednesday, then i think we might go camping for a few days....unless it gets too cold. it is so great to think that i do NOT have to get up for work in the morning :)

tuck monster

It is quite possible that I am the worst blogger ever! I tried to update this on Tuesday while i was waiting for andy to get home, but as i was loading pictures my computer froze. so i gave up. I will try again now. I took Tucker to the vet tuesday. When we took him 4 weeks ago he weighed 9 lbs. Tuesday he weighed 17 lbs. That is 1/2 lb. less than Yoda and he is only 12 weeks old. He is going to be a monster!Here he is lying in the tray that I usually keep their food and water bowls in. He and Yoda really like to wrestle. Yoda is needing lots of baths because he usually ends up covered in Tucker's slobber. YUCK!

My boys!

Tabor Soccer

This is Luke's senior year at Tabor so we have been trying to get up to Hillsboro to watch as many soccer games as we can. My photographer husband has enjoyed getting to use his new camera lens to take zillions of great action shots.

Cap'n Luke

All the way???
They say this little chant that we really can't ever really understand from the sidelines....something something all the way...i think?