One Month Old and the rest of October

This is a photo of Laney when she is 1 month old. She is a good baby. She is very content, even when she is drug around to all that everyone is doing. The kids are adjusting well. The girls are excited to see her everyday when they get home from school. Logan does pretty good. If Ryan is holding her, he will tell him to give me the baby, so he can play with him. Here are a few of the other things that we did this month.

Bailey had a space project due. She had to make the solar system accurate in size and scale. Lets be honest here, Ryan and I were heavily involved, but she really wanted to make it her own and did all that she could. It turned out really well and her teacher asked to keep it as an example.

Ellie was picked to be Principals Pride by her music teacher. She got to attend a special ceremony in the morning before school and she got to hang out with the principal during her last recess. Her teacher said that she is always sweet and enthusiastic. Good job Ellie.

I am also proud of the fact that we all made it on time to the ceremony at 8:30. Everyone was very cooperative this morning. It made a world of difference.

Ellie was able to go the Ag Expo for a field trip. I was able to go with her and take Logan. It is a fun event that they do every year. The kids get to see animals, agriculture and enjoy some milk. They also had.................



HUGE John Deere tractors. This little man couldn't get enough. I spent a good portion of our time out looking at these. He couldn't stop talking about it. He still loves to look at the pictures.

Logan is adjusting well to sleeping in a big boy bed. We made the change a few weeks before Laney was born. He has always been such a good sleeper, he really loved his crib so I was a little worried, but he did great. He looks so grown up in this big bed.

Ryan went on his second annual pheasant hunting trip with his dad, brothers, brother in law and a few of his dads friends. They drove all night to North Dakota and hunted for a few days and then drove home. They all think it is the best time ever. I am not so sure, but I say whatever makes you happy, and I don't want any pheasant!

More Laney photos

Her cord fell off at about two weeks, then she could take a real bath. I had a lot of helpers for this. Logan and Ellie helping with the washing, Bay with the photographing.



Her sisters love to hold her and pose for a photo

Cute girl

First Week at Church

Shootin Birds

Ryan has been after me for about 2 weeks to post about his pheasant hunting trip. Seeing that I am a blogging slacker as of late I told him I would get around to it. So here it is a few weeks later......I wanted to make it a part of the Fall Fun post seeing that most of the "fall fun" took place during the week that he was gone, but he was insistent that the birds have their own time in the spotlight. So here they are in all their glory.......

Ryan, his dad, and his brothers and bro-in-law have been planning this trip for about a year. His dad had gone before and knew the boys would think it was a great time. They drove to North Dakota to shoot these babies, and I think a good time was had by all.

Ryan had to get this new truck for the trip, but he only drove the truck to Burley and then rode in my BIL truck the remainder of the way. I have a love/hate relationship with this truck. Love that it makes Ryan VERY happy, hate the context in which it was bought and the fact that his other car is still in my garage!!

Okay back to the birds.........Ryan left our house after work on Tuesday, met John in Burley, picked up Aaron and Matt in Pocatello and then they drove ALL night to get to North Dakota. They got there just in time to head out hunting with their dad and the rest of the gang. If you know Ryan or John there are very few things that could make either of them stay up much past 11 or 12 so the fact that they drove the entire night and then went hunting all day shows much love for hunting birds!!

I told him if he brought back any birds for me to "cook up" I would hurt him. His dad ended up taking them all home with him and is cooking them up for us all to enjoy in a few weeks. Could be interesting. I love his dad he is always trying to get us girls out of our comfort zone.

In this photo R's brother Matt, BIL John, Ryan, and brother Aaron

I am glad they all had a good time....I am not glad I had to wash the bloody bird vest with feathers in it.