Talequah? Why you goin' to Talequah?

Does anyone remember that line? It was on Where the Red Fern Grows when the boy is leaving early in the morning to go get the dogs. Matt's family has been taking yearly float trips, and we happened to go to Talequah! It was my first time to Oklahoma. I think so anyway here are a few pics from that trip!

Abby sure is getting cute! You can see her personality coming through. She is walking around very good, and even stands alone and takes up to three steps by herself! Pretty good for nine months I think. Up above is a pretty cute pic of her at Grandma and Papa Lyda's house.

On other news, some of you might know, we just closed on our first house!!! It's still here in the little city of Carbondale. It was a reposessed house, so we got a killer deal on it. The people before us had a lot of cats, so it stunk really bad. We are in the process of fixing it all up. We closed on friday and went and tore out all of the carpet that night, and basically we have everything out of the house. We are finding some small quirks that we didn't notice. None of the bedrooms have lights. The have a light switch, but none on the cieling. I don't think it's a big deal. Matt thinks he can wire it all up! Anyways, we are having our new carpet installed on the 18th, and so we have a lot to do before that point, and we are going to loose 5 days coming to Utah, so every second of our spare time is spent there!

Mark, I know a little of how you feel! It's hard work! How is your house coming? Do you want to come help us with ours? ha.

Well we fly out to Utah next tuesday, and we are all very excited to see everyone! I have lots of pictures to share! See you all really soon.

All our Love,

Allison, Matt, and Abby