Tagged By Sarita

Sara tagged me the other day, and she wrote, "If you love me, you'll do it." Because I do, in fact, love her, here it is:

Jobs I've held...
Salesperson at Old Navy
Waitress at Pinnacle Gate
Supervisor at Avatar
Counselor at Valley Mental Health

Movies I could watch over and over...
Pride and Prejudice
Phantom of the Opera
Sense and Sensibility
The Notebook
Any Audrey Hepburn Movie

My guilty pleasures...
Chocolate
Coca-Cola
Buying too many clothes (or anything else!)
Watching The Office and So You Think You Can Dance

Places I've Lived...
Roy
Price
West Valley

Shows I enjoy...
Friends
The Office (see "guilty pleasures")
So You Think You can Dance

What were the first things you thought of when you saw your significant other for the first time?...
Ooh... Who Is This Hottie?
I wonder if he has a girlfriend?
Crap... He does!

Places I've been on vacation...
Mexico
Colorado
Ohio
Church Sites (Kirtland, Palmyra)
Niagara Falls

Favorite Foods...
Sushi
Thai Food
Cafe Rio pork salad
Chick-Fil-A

Websites I visit daily...
Gmail.com

Body parts I have injured...
Broke Both Arms... the right one twice
Broke My Foot
Several Concussions
Knee Injuries (knee cap pops out)

Awards I have won...
Presidential Award (also an elementary award but hey it's cool)

Nicknames I've been called...
Stelby (don't ask!)
Little Wayment
Wifels

Tag, you're it!!!
Shannon
Becky
(Just copy and paste this to a new post)

If you love me, you'll do it!!!!!!

Family Photo Magic

I know you're all waiting with baited breath to see the family pictures. I'm in the process of working some Photoshop magic on them and then I'll send cds. Gavin really wanted to show a before and after, so here is one example. Let me know if there are any freckles, etc. you think you could do without!

Before


After

Cupcake Making

Carson and Natalee making strawberry cupcakes for the family reunion.

What a Sucker!

As I have stated several times before, I am one of those mothers who thinks that there is no such thing as too many cute photos of her precious baby boy, so here are a few from last night.

Lately Isaac has been fascinated with his fists, or anything else he can get into his mouth. Ryan and Isaac and I went to a family barbeque at my uncle's house. We discovered that Isaac not only enjoys sucking his own hands, but Fischer's as well. Fischer is Isaac's cousin who was born two days after he was. Hope you enjoy the pictures of Isaac doing his best to suck on Fisch's hands. See you all soon!

New family picture

Hi family,

Just wanted to show you the new family picture we took last week. It's at one of my favorite picture taking spots - a tiny, well-hidden park in Longmont.

We're looking forward to seeing you all soon and taking a whole Payne family picture! By-the-way, Gavin and I thought it would be great to take a "Honda family" picture too. So, we'll have to shine up the rest like Mom is doing for the gold car. Maybe they'll make us a commercial. :)

SAHM for real!

Hello all!
I thought I would send a blog in celebration of me becoming a real stay-at-home mom! I had my last official day of school on Friday. I turned in my classroom keys and said good-bye to being a professional teacher for awhile (though I still consider myself a teacher, I just have one student instead of 21). I will definitely miss my students (one of them gave me his phone number right before he left "so I could call this summer") but feel that at home is where I belong now.
Ryan and Isaac and I are taking a trip to Des Moines next week in hopes of finding a place to live in the fall. Wish us luck! Ryan has been very diligent in searching for both homes and apartments online, so hopefully we will find something that suits our family (and our budget) while we are out there next week. We are all very excited for the family reunion and other activities that we have going on this summer. We look forward to spending time with all of you.
Here are a couple of pictures from a hike we took a couple of weeks ago to Donut Falls. Isaac loves to be outside! He is growing up really fast and really starting to react to everyone around him. He is going to miss all of the nonstop attention he gets living at Grandma's house.

The Payne Reunion B&B

Hello everyone!!!! This is Papa Payne putting my first offering on the blog. Stake Conference is officially over except for the report to the Q12 so I am more relaxed and ready to take on other things.

Yesterday, Mom and I went with the Hancocks and located our B&B for our family reunion June 29-July1, (2 nights) in Woodland Utah. It is a 100 year old farm house, redone just a few minutes out of Kamas. We didn't get in to take a look, but the grounds are nice and it is in the country!!

Directions: Gavin and Becky coming from I-80: Take exit 155 Wanship exit and proceed towards Kamas. Go through Peoa, Oakley, Kamas, Francis. This road becomes Highway 32. Stay on this road until you come to a junction and take Highway 35 a left hand turn towards Woodland. At the junction, you will go 3.9 miles and you will find the Farmhouse on the right side of the road. Anyway, the directions are easy, take the Wanship exit, go straight till the Woodland turn off, turn left, go 3.9 miles and you are there.

For the rest of us, take I-80 to Highway 40 on the way to Heber. Take the Kamas exit and take that road to Kamas. Take a right at the first light in Kamas, proceed to the Woodland turn off, go left on Highway 35 for 3.9 miles and there it is on the right.

I will get more info on what we will be doing. We plan to go up after Stephanie Atkinson's wedding and lunch. We guess we will get there around 4pm or so.

I'll blog more when I get more time. Love to all the grandkids. I will post a picture of the shark I swam with in Grand Cayman.

Love,

Papa Payne