Audreys 3rd Birthday

This was the first year Audrey has had a birthday party that included friends. She wanted a cinderella party. She has been so excited and was really looking forward to the cake. I think she loved every minute and It was fun doing something girly for this birthday.

Tylers scooby doo mystery party

The Birthday season has rolled around again here at the Payne house and we kicked it off with Tylers 5th birthday. He invited all his friends and we had a monster mystery hunt, pin the tail on scooby doo, and ate cake. He had so much fun and the monster mystery was a huge hit thanks to our little monsters played by jack and his friend Morgan. We love you Ty!!

dress up

They were running in the pouring rain dressed up in these costumes.
Audrey found these fabrics and insisted I make her a dress. I thought she made a cute little geisha.

Memorial weekend camping trip

we went camping up payson canyon with the Haynies. we had a great time just hanging out. we had tinfoil dinners and dutch oven cobbler, we went fishing and took a walk around the lake, but mostly the kids just loved playing and hanging out in the great outdoors.

jacks kindergarten graduation

My boy is moving on and up to first grade and I am really not sure how I will cope having him in school all day. Why do kids have to grow up so fast, next think I know he will be 18 and graduating from high school. He just loves school, and he met so many friends. Here are some pictures of his "graduation".

How I Long for the Days

I used to long for the days when I would be able to put ponytails and pigtails in my little girls hair but I think I can say that I no longer have that at the top of my want list. Now I long for days when her hair was to short for her to twist into dreadlocks. I would love to go back to the short little whisps of hair, to small for her to do anything with. Each day I spend 15 minutes slicking her whispy hairs into submissive pigtails just to find that in the time we have driven to the store she has pulled them out along with a significant amount of her already sparse hair. Then she is twisting her hair as if getting it into dreadlock form is of the utmost importance. Sometimes I am actually tempted to shave it off. Any suggestions?

Grandparents day

Jack had Grandparents day at kindergarten. It was so cute. First the had a little program, with singing, reading and poems etc.... then they got to go make crafts and show off their reading and math skills with their grandparents. Jack did so well and I could not be prouder of him. Here are a couple of pics. I only got two pics because my camera ran out of batteries.