Payne Family

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Water field days!

The boys were excited for their water field days at school! Lets face it, the last four days of school are filled with anything other than learning!

Last day of school!!!

Celebrating the end of the 2016-2017 school year! It has been a great school year, filled with new and old friends, LOTS of homework and reading, and fun memories!

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Memories

Brandon brought home an awesome gift from one of his best friends, Kelsey!

Monday, May 22, 2017

my boys

Brandon excited for our new favorite pizza at Mod Pizza! Yep, that pizza is full of bacon and black olives.

Mason had another great game tonight! He is one of our top hitters and is really enjoying learning about the game of baseball (thanks to Coach Daddy!)

Saturday, May 20, 2017

We spent the evening having dinner and a movie (in their backyard) with the McQuown family! It was so fun, the kids got their faces painted, ate popcorn and ice cream, and just hung out together! (top right pic: PJ and Brandon; middle right: Mason and Maddy).

Playformance party!

Chase, Renee, and Brandon-celebrating Chase's 8th birthday!

Lucky Mason got to come too!

Brandon and Chase, friends since kindergarten!

I want Kevin to make this table for us......

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Mason's Kinder program

Thanks to Mrs Olafson (who replaced Mrs Stephenson for the last 7 weeks of school) for the picture of the class before Kinder end of year program.

Mrs Martinez & Mrs Olafson/Stephenson's kinder performance. Mason is the back row, fifth kiddo from the left. Thank you for coming and celebrating with us Grandma, Nama, and Grandpa Bill!

More pictures to upload, stay posted!

Our family

Brandon is now a second grader! He continues to love to play outside, has a great imagination, and is still fascinated by how things work. Literally, how EVERYTHING works! He is quite the little camper and we are still pretty sure he will end up being some type of engineer!
He still likes to watch an occasional animated movie but is obsessed with the Science Channel, so if the TV is on and he has an option that is what he will be watching. His favorite shows are How It's Made, Build it Bigger, Engineering the Impossible, and more recently science shows about Space. He is still very interested in chemistry, space, and the ocean. His favorite book to read is any book in the Fly Guy series and he loves to be read to from all the science books we have collected. His curiosity is endless!!!

Mason is now in Kindergarten and will be six very soon! He loves to ride the bus, chase the girls on the playground, and be outside exploring. He is still my sweet, big hearted, sensitive little guy. He is still my little shadow (I call him my "Momma seeking missile"), and less and less often finds his way to our bed to snuggle in the early morning hours thanks to no longer napping in the afternoon. He continues to love all things with wheels, is an active kiddo, and still loves to wrestle with Daddy! He spends hours chasing after lizards (just like Lilly). He loves to watch The Ninja Turtles, his favorite movie is Hotel Transylvania, and his favorite book is just about anything we read to him (although he is less interested in space and science than Brandon). He is quite the dare-devil, never seems to need as much sleep as the rest of us, and is our little athlete!

Kevin and I have been married for ten years this October, we can't believe how fast time goes and how big our kiddos are getting. Kevin is still a dedicated hunter and is loving his career now that he switched engineering firms! I have spent the past decade plus working for the same hospital and love the flexibility my job gives me so I can be with the boys as much as possible!