Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lane's 40th Anniversary

We went up to Todd's mom's for Thanksgiving & brought the girls' birthday presents up with us. Then we went back home & left on Friday for North Dakota to go to Sonja's Uncle Dan & Aunt Nancy's 40th Anniversary Open House on Saturday afternoon.

Sophia got her present early..........she will be 12 on December 5th. She was super excited about her peace sign to hang on the wall!

Emily got her present late................she turned 9 on September 24th. She started writing a story about her pets right away with the pop-up books kit we gave her. :)

Uncle Dan & Aunt Nancy's 40th Anniversary cake with their wedding picture on it.

Another 40th Anniversary cake with their original wedding cake topper on it.

Aunt Nancy & Uncle Dan

Todd & Sonja

Aunt Nancy, Sonja (the flower girl when she was three) & Uncle Dan

Uncle Dan apologized for the picture of the wedding party that they had for their collage. I was ok with it.........I was only 3 years old............that's what 3 year olds do. :)

My cousin Michelle's daughter, Zoe...........the one who thought I was Cinderella at our wedding..............is growing up. I think she is 6 or 7 now. She is still a cutie! :)

Uncle Dan made cupcake for children "ages 120 and under". :)

Mom, Aunt Nancy & Aunt Maxine

Uncle Dan & Uncle Larry

Snow!

Last weekend we got snow.............Tyler & Maddie could hardly wait to go outside & play in it!

Maddie

Maddie & Tyler

Oops!..............Maddie fell down! :)

Of course, Tyler & I had to make a snowman. :)

Maddie treking thru the snow. :)

Tyler, our snowman, Maddie & Nana.

Luke's 1st Birthday Party!

Luke's 1st birthday was October 28th. We went to his birthday party the next Saturday.

Luke's Birthday Cake

Evan & Nicholas painting pumpkins. :)

Luke was looking out the screen door & Evan came up on the outside.

I thought this picture turned out pretty cool. :)

Luke & his cake.

Eric & Luke blowing out the candle.

Luke enjoying his birthday cake.

Evan thought Luke was funny all covered in chocolate cake.

Luke really enjoyed his chocolate birthday cake! :)

Luke & Angela opening his present from Uncle Todd & Nana.

This is what we gave him.

Luke received lots of good presents.

Evan, Luke & Nicholas in their Halloween costumes.

Evan with all of the painted pumpkins.

Luke & the Golden Doorknob

Angela, Evan & Luke came over a couple of days after Todd had surgery on his left knee for a torn meniscus.

Luke & Uncle Todd.

Luke took the tub from our Shake N Go race track, flipped it upside-down & climbed up on it to try reach the door knob. We thought it was pretty funny that a ring of light showed around the door knob in the picture. :)

Angela took him town & moved the tub away from the door.....flipped right side up again.

Luke pushed the tub back to the door, flipped it over & climbed back up on it.............

He was quite proud of himself! :)

Jude & Estella's 5th Birthday

On October 2nd, we went to Jude & Estella's 5th birthday party. We brought our own little party with us since we had Tyler, Maddie, Brenden, Evan & Luke staying over for the weekend.

They had a treehouse bouncy for their party that was huge.

Fun in the bouncy house.

Happy Birthday to Jude & Estella! Jude had a Toy Store cake and Estella had a princess cake.

Blowing out the candles.

They got a lot of presents, but the most exciting were bikes & helmets. :)