Easter 2011

Here are a few of the highlights from our Happy Easter.

Everyone had fun dying and designing eggs.

The Easter Bunny visited our house Saturday morning. He knew we would at Papa's the next day so we were happy he could come a little early.

Some eggs, some candy, some loot

After our egg hunt we headed to Oakley for the annual egg hunt put on by Papa and Dee. They always do a great job and the kids look forward to it every year.

Papa and Laney Girl

The kiddos after they found their baskets, golden eggs, new jackets, and plenty of candy.

They were very spoiled as usual.

EASTER DAY

We spent the night at Julie's and were able to have Easter dinner with everyone and just enjoy being together. The kids love playing with their cousins.

Loggy Boy

(he fell asleep on the way home from church and wasn't too excited for picture time)

Laney Girl
She does NOT like grass

3 Cute Girls

Ellie Girl

She is always so photogenic

Bailey Girl
She is getting so grown up

I love mommy she loves me, we love daddy yes siree,

he loves us and so you see, we are a happy family.

(Logan learned this song in nursery and sings it all of the time)

All of the cute Payne cousins.

St. Patty's Day

Lucky the Leprechaun visited us again this year. He left gold coins and plenty of green candy. Everyone had something green to wear so no pinching took place. Logan and I made green pot gold cupcakes, he was so excited to show the girls when they got home from school. The kids are starting to remember the traditions, they asked if we were having green corn chowder for dinner. I am glad they are remembering. It is always fun to have a holiday to celebrate and to shake things up a little.

Good Morning Little Leprechauns

Our Littlest Leprechaun

Our Craziest Leprechaun

Our True Leprechaun (thanks to her red locks)

Our Oldest and Safe Guarding Cupcake Leprechaun

The crazy leprechaun is not happy about the safe guarding he wants another cupcake, I am pretty sure he ate 5 or 6 that day.

A Gorgeous Fall Day

We had such a beautiful fall this year. It was great for soccer games and for letting the kids play outside. We like to milk it all that we can, because we know winter is coming. The weekend that we blessed Laney was great. The kids played at the park by Ryan's office for a long time. They loved being outside and playing with their cousins.

Playing in the leaves at our house
The leaves at the park were huge and there were tons of them

The leaf was as big as Laney

Logan and Jackson swinging

Drew and Ellie enjoying a little bar action

Logan loved this toy because it is a tractor

I am the queen of the world

We love fall!

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

The Month of August

Here are some of the exciting things that happened during the month of August................

Ellie after being brave and going first on the ski board

We went to Utah at the end of the month and while we were there we went out on Pops boat. It was the perfect day, the kids in Utah had already gone back to school so there was no one at the lake. The water was smooth and the beach was all ours. It was great. I even went for a little ski I figured I was almost 36 weeks if I went into labor so be it. It felt great.

My dad bought this trainer board for the kids to learn to ski on, it is awesome all they have to do is stand on it and away they go. They were all still a little nervous and we couldn't get anyone to step up to the plate. Bailey had a melt down just thinking about it. Finally (after Bailey's melt down) I told Ellie I would give her 2 dollars if she went first. She thought about it for awhile, then I remembered she had been begging me for more Cheetos at lunch, so I told her I would throw in a bag of Cheetos.......DEAL away she went.

Way to go El

Logan loved being on the boat and especially loved holding the flag. He still asks all the time if he can go on pops boat.

This is a much happier picture of Bailey, the first time I pretty much just shoved her out there and she cried. The video is hilarious, I plan on blackmailing her with it later in life. But once she realized it was fun and not scary, she was having a great time!

All the kiddos and Melly

While we were in Utah we went to see The Lion King with my sisters and their husbands. For our birthdays this year my parents gave us all tickets. We went to P.F. Changs before which is always delicious. Their fried green beans are my absolute fave. The show was really good. Seeing that I was pretty prego, I was a little uncomfortable and hot but it was still a good time. I really liked all of the animals.

I have been wanting to go to a Boise Hawks game since we moved here. We went to them pretty regularly when we lived in Vegas and the kids always had fun. They enjoyed it this time around too. The girls actually liked watching the game and Logan liked the ball, the Hawk and all of the treats.

They let the kids run the bases after the game.

Ryan and Logan Running.

Bailey and Ellie after they finished running the bases

Everyone enjoying their hot dogs and popcorn


This was also the first time Logan had ever had Cotton Candy. He couldn't get enough. The girls love it too, we had to buy another bag.

I love this picture. We took this at the first of August while Ryan was on his golfing trip. We went to the movies and saw "How to Train Your Dragon" and then went to Golden Spoon for frozen yogurt. We do this at least once or twice every summer. It is a fun tradition that the kids look forward too.

These two pictures pretty much sum up how Logan spent most of his summer. In his dad's shadow. He loved mowing the lawn and helping him fix anything. Which happened to be Ellie's bike a lot this summer. After two years with Bay and one with El the poor bike had seen better days, but Logan loved being right in the middle of the action.

This day he was still into the "soccer suits" and he came across one of Bay's beanies. It was quite the outfit. I really have to document that this is indeed Logan. In the years to come decked out in purple with the pink mower and pink beanie he could get confused with one of the girls, but it his him.

The girls were really into art projects this summer. They spent a whole day making a Hannah Montana museum in their room one day and they made this American Girl poster by cutting up the catalog and using anything AG the could find. The results were pretty cute. They kept it hanging in their room for a long time.





We have 1 o'clock church this year. Which does not work out great for Logan's napping. Some Sunday's he would fall asleep in the car on the way home. Others weeks he would sit on the couch and fall asleep. This week he enjoyed a little snooze with dad.