What have we been up to?

Check out our table!!!!! Lane had a week off of work last week and refinished our table. He put new tile in it re stained the wood and painted it black to match my buffet. I love it!!!! As soon as we get our chairs done ill post pic's.

A view of our Dinning room.

This is our table before. Old white tiles and white wood trim. I bought this table for 100 bucks 9 years ago at Shopko. I have been wanting a new table for years but we can never afford one. So Lane and I decided to refinish our old table. It only cost us $40 dollars! I think it turned out awesome!

Laney's Birthday! '8'

I must be crazy! Laney turned 8 last Friday and I told him he could have a friend party this year. He gave me a list of people from school and church that he wanted to invite. It was a modest list and I told him that would be fine. Then I remembered that Lane's school has a rule that you have to invite everyone in the class or all the boys. Ahh! So we invited all the boys in Lanes class. Thank goodness they didn't all show. But we had 11 wild excited boy's running through my house for 3 hours. They had a ball and Laney felt really special.

I wanted Lanes Birthday to be really special this year. We decided on a late night party were the kids come at 6p.m. and leave at 9p.m. We had all you can eat pizza and games. Then when we were done with cake I took the kids downstairs to the "Movie Theater". You probably cant tell from this pic but we put Christmas lights all around the room. I popped the boys little bags of popcorn and made sure they had and endless supply of airheads,glow sticks, and capri sun. It looked awesome!

Laney had been dying to get his hands on his Dad's BB gun. He found it at my Mother-in-laws house a few months back and begged us for it. Lane told him he had to wait until he was 8. He was so excited when he get it. They made targets and practiced shooting them. I must say Laney is a pretty good shot. I was impressed.

Laney blowing out candles! Happy Birthday baby! I love you more then words. I remember the first time I laid eyes on you. You were so perfect and sweet. I have never felt instant love before you. Thank you for the honer of being your Mom. Its the greatest joy in my life. Stay sweet and loving. You are such a great example to me. I love you!

A Baby Byrd!

Lane's little sister had a baby a couple of weeks ago. They named him Kellen Jack Byrd. He is beautiful and healthy. Congrats Tori and Jason we are thrilled for you!

Halloween Happenings!

Harker Grand kids!

My boys with some of there cousins.

Got to get to the bottom of the bag!

Ryan is so excited to go trick or treating!

Working on some Ninja moves.

My Ninja and Race Car driver!

Here are a few fun pic's from Halloween! We had a fun night of trick or treating! I'm go glad it's over for another year ;) Now on to Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Grandma's dresser/new project

Old chairs from the library. Below my dresser.

I told my mom about 8 years ago that when she dies I want my Great Grandma's dresser. She said you got it. So a few weeks ago my Mom came to me and said she wanted some space and asked me if I was ready for Grandma's dresser. I was shocked that she was giving it to me already! I was thrilled to get it. This dresser was my Great Grandma Estella Teel's. It's so beautiful I love it. It's a Thomasville dresser so the quality is awesome. It looks so beautiful in my bedroom. I think its so cool that my clothes are sitting in the same place that my Great Grandparents and Grandparents clothes were sitting. I also Scored some old library chairs from my mom too. I know they don't look like much now but they are going to look awesome at my kitchen table when I get done refinishing them. Ahhh So excited! I cant wait to start on my new project.

The haunted history tour/ Halloween fun with kids!

Pictures from The Haunted History Tour Pic above : Old gun plant/B-E building

Ross park

Gray hound bus depot

Aaron and Melisa on the tour

OK I know the pic's totally suck. I am in desperate need of a new camera. Last night My brother Aaron and sis-in law Melisa went with us on The haunted history tour. They loaded up 5 bus loads of people and took us to 5 haunted locations in Pocatello. The first stop was the old Gray hound bus depot. The story is that there is a mysterious woman in white that sits on the benches in there waiting for her love. The second stop was Ross Park. They talked about Dead mans cave and the Indians that used to use that area as a winter camp. They said that there has been sightings of ghostly Indian man on the rocks. The Third stop was the courthouse. They told us that about 8 months ago a judge was working late in the court house one night and saw a woman out in the hall. He told her that she was not aloud to be in there and then she vanished. The fourth stop of the tour was the old gun plant or old B-E Buildings. They told us about a man that is seen in one of the windows at night. I looked and looked for that guy in the window I never saw him dang! The fifth and last stop of the night was to a "haunted race car" the story was pretty interesting. But I'm to lazy to type that one out. We had a great time. We will definitely do it again next year!

Painting pumpkins with the Topliff's

Painting pumpkins and picking noses ;)

Doing fun Halloween Crafts

A few weeks ago Ryan had a field trip to the pumpkin patch. It just happened to fall on the same day Laney had a day off of school. My friends little boy is in Ryan's pre-school class so we decided to make a fun day of it. We went to the pumpkin patch and went through the corn maze. Afterwards we went to the patch to pick our pumpkins. The night before it had rained so it was pretty muddy out there. The kids were getting tired and cold by that time so we told them we would buy pumpkins at Walmart. So we went back to my house and had lunch and rolled out cookie dough. We also made cute bat paper bag puppets. Later on in the week we went to our friends and painted our pumpkins. We had so much fun! We love fall fun!

Laney (The Missionary!)

As parents Lane and I have always strive to teach our children correct principals. But I must say Laney is too good. I always joke to people that Laney is too good for Lane and I. Laney amazes me with is understanding of the gospel. He catches on to things that I don't. Last thanksgiving Laney went on a no caffeine campaign. He asked Lane and I to stop drinking Diet Coke. He was so sincere. I can proudly say Lane and I have switched to caffeine free Diet Coke all thanks to Laney. Laney is always finding ways to choose the right. One Sunday Lane came home from church all upset. I asked him why he was sad. He said Mom a girl in my class made fun of my favorite President (Good o' honest Abe) She said he was dumb. I told Laney to tell her she was just jealous and she was dumb for thinking that. Then Laney looked at me with bewilderment in his eyes and said Mom if I said that to her wouldn't that be putting her down like she did to me. I felt like crap. I cant believe he said that. I was so touched. Last night we were doing out nightly family scripture study we read one chapter a night. We got through our chapter and Laney begged us to read one more. I had to pick myself off the ground! He said Dad don't stop. I'm really getting into this story. I was so proud. Laney I look up to you. Thank you for being so sweet. You are such a wonderful example to your Mom and Dad. Don't ever change!