What is going on at our house?? .. the never-ending process of raking all of our leaves. As you can see we started out with quite a task .. but Ella has enjoyed playing in them.

Last weekend Case was sucking up our leaves from about 10:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the afternoon. Somewhere in that time period, Samson ran away .. without his collar on. (We realized that he was gone about 5:30PM!! Yes, we felt awful that no one noticed that he was missing for so long.) We searched the neighborhood for him until about 7:00 and Case even went door-to-door with no luck. We were worried sick about him. The next morning, Case and Ella went to the humane society to look for him and thankfully he was there! It cost us $107.o0 to bail him out! Before he ran away we were commenting on how difficult it was to have a dog on top of our two children. This incident helped us to realize how much Samson is a part of our family.