More Blanket....

 

Peek a Boo!

Abby Kate LOVES this fur blanket. She rubs her face in it and just loves to be covered up with it (only to throw it off of her...) 

Everyone can now post...

I now changed the settings on this blog too so everyone can post! We love to see who is reading this! Love you all!

Our Little Ducky

Well, our first Halloween was SO fun! It was freezing here but we bundled up and took a ride in our new wagon. That lasted about 10 minutes and we met up with the Grunewalds to visit some clients houses. Sweetie, Hunk and Aunt Ashley came over to play too. As tradition in the Robbins' home, we had a huge pot of chili and LOTS of treat or treaters! SO FUN! 

The Duck and Superman

 

The Duck and Sweetie

 

The Qualls and the Grunewalds

 

Hunk and Aunt Ashley even came over!

 

Daddy and the Duck

 

Quack, Quack!

 

Chug-a-Lug

This child can put away the OJ like nobodys business. It is crazy! I will give her the sippy and she will have it drank before I can even get her breakfast on the tray.  

Peek-A-Boo!

I really think we are getting so close to walking. She is cruising furniture like a champ and can stand unassisted for about a minute. I am just waiting for her to realize she can take a step! 

Chasing Callie

Now that Belle is confined to bed to heal, AK only has Callie to torture. She LOVES her paws and tries to put them in her mouth (gross) but also loves to just "pet" her.  

GO Daddy!

We are SO proud of Daddy! He just finished his first parade house and it is INCREDIBLE (just look behind us)! It truly is one of my dream houses. He has been working so hard beside everyone else in his company and we are SO proud of him! (*One of the neatest features if you look behind us is a river that runs under the sidewalk. It starts at the top of the hill and falls down to the driveway....great sound!) 

THE PUMPKIN PATCH

We visited the pumpkin patch today. It was a perfect day here in Tulsa. 70 degrees and sunny. There were tons of families out enjoying fall break. Each child was dressed in her best fall attire and parents were clicking away. Stay tuned for pictures of the Halloween costume. It is a hoot! To see the rest of the pictures from today, you can go to share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8KZtWzhy3YTc

More pumpkin patch

 

The Pumpkin Patch continued...

 

Look what else I am into....

 

Disobeying

Well, around this age, the boundaries for a child are basically focused on safety. We have 3 big ones. No climbing on the gate to the stairs, no touching the oven, and no climbing on the fireplace. And lo and behold, EVERY day, Miss Abby Kate must test the boundaries to see if they still stand. I firmly say 'No Ma'am' and she just grins as big as it gets. Hmmmm.... 

Our first Baby...

This is Belle. Many of you have met her. She is our beloved yellow lab mix that we adopted the first Valentines Day we were married. She has been through it ALL with us. I truly would not have made it through our first job in the wilderness if not for this constant friend. Eariler this week, we noticed that she and our other lab Callie had been eating the hose in our backyard. We threw the hose away and thought that was that. They normally do not chew but I had been gone for the day and they were punishing me. The next morning, there was throw up ALL over my house....(they are inside half the time). Now those of you that know me, I am a neat freak and LOVE my house to be clean...I try very hard to keep my house that no one knows dogs live inside. I vaccum almost daily (and have been known to do it twice a day...there is this weird complusion my family has of loving freshly vaccumed carpet (right Hal?), I sometimes even get mad at Bobby for walking on it...how stupid is that? Anway, I digress...) all that to say, I was mortified that my carpet was dirty. I instantly went into offensive mode, demanding they become outside dogs (this is not my usual self I promise) but was torn at being a good steward of our largest investment (our home) and also taking care of the precious animals that have been so loyal to us.
I woke up the next morning to Belle throwing up blood. I was petrified. I threw Abby Kate in the car and rushed her to the vet, only to be told she would need surgery and it would cost a bundle (after some costly x-rays!). Now with one income, a bundle we do not have....so I cried and told the vet we could not afford the surgery and asked if she would die if we left it and he simply replied yes. So in an answer to prayer, he shared he had a student with him that could do it and would be good practice for her and we could work out payments with her. She was in surgery for 5 hours and they removed 8 inches!!!! (holy moly I know....) of reinforced hose from her stomach, intestines and colon. We picked her up today. She is not out of the woods yet so we ask you to please pray for her. I know many would say it was sacreligious, a waste of God's time, ect...praying for a dog but I believe God cares about what we care about. And this precious dog is something our family deeply cares about...