Pumpkin Patch

Despite the 80 mile an hour winds, we went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday. We had such a great time (thank you, Celi, for the post or we never would have known about it)! Alex had a good time running around and discovering all there was to do. I have to agree with Celi, the slide was the best part!








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Volleyball

We finished our volleyball league this past Tuesday undefeated! Yahoo!

Alex's 1st OU Game

This past weekend we took Alex to her very first OU Football game! It was OU's Homecoming against Kansas (how fitting!). We missed most of the parade but we did take her around and got her pictures taken with the "Ruf-Neks" (they are the guys that shoot off the rifles after a touch down) and the Sooner Schooner with Boomer & Sooner (the horses). She didn't really like the horses but I still got a great shot of her on the schooner! And of course, Eric's favorite!, the Cheerleaders!


Alex did pretty good during most of the game, she slept during the 2nd quarter & most of the 3rd quarter. She had a great time playing with the two girls sitting right in front of us during the 4th quarter.


We had such a great time!

Small World.....Long Story!

So a couple of weeks ago my in-laws' truck was stolen! It was parked right in front of my house. The truck was there when I got up early to go the gym and by the time I came home it was gone! So, of course, Shirley files a police report and does all of the necessary paperwork. Well a few weeks go by and now it's Sunday morning (Oct. 12th), Eric & I had driven home from Texas on Saturday so we were sleeping in a little when the phone rings....it's the Derby Police Dept....they asked if Shirley had been informed that her vehicle had been "recovered"... I told them I would have her call them back when she got home from church. Well about an hour after that (plenty of time has passed that I've pretty well forgotten about all that) my mom calls to make sure Eric & I made it home safely. (We had stopped by her house around midnight on our way home to pick up Alex since she had stayed with my mom while Eric & I were in Texas.) Then she proceeds to tell me about how she had heard sirens at 3 in the morning and at 4 her neighbor (my mom lives out in Peck on about 10 acres) calls to tell her that there are police officers in her front yard. So, of course, my mom goes out to find out what's going on. The police tell her to stay inside and lock the doors, they're looking for someone who had been involved in a car chase that had ran & hid in the tree row at the back of her property. Around 9am my mom was standing out on her deck and sees the guy walking out of the tree line, calls the cops and they come and arrest the guy. Well it turns out that the guy they arrested, that had been in a car chase with the cops, was driving my mother-in-law's truck! Of course he totaled the truck during the police chase which really stinks for my in-laws. Apparently the guy that was arrested was not the one who stole the truck but he's giving up names which, according to the police, is helping to break up a large ring of car thieves! I just couldn't believe how all of that transpired! What a small world!

OU/TX Weekend

I wanted to post some pix of the OU/TX game we went to! We had a really great time together despite our team losing! (Texas Refs!) :o) There were so many people there! It felt more like a cattle herd. Eric told me there were over 92,000 people at the game. Oh yeah..."College Game Day" was being broadcast on ESPN live before the game.

Check back next week....we're taking Alex to the OU/KS game. It will be our Homecoming game so I'm looking forward to lots of pictures of Alex and all the parade stuff!