Say Cheese

While the girls as I were in AZ we had my sister take some pictures of us to give to Dave for his birthday. The gift wasn't that he now has updated pictures for his office, it is that he got them without having to be part of the planning, taking, or being in them! He HATES pictures more than veggies and a picture party with three little ones is a party that he'd rather not attend. I think that he's missing out!

Bryleigh insisted that her feet be on each side, at least she was in it this time! She looks like the next new power ranger don't you think?

Happy Birthday Honey!

I figured that I better post Dave some birthday pictures before all the Christmas pictures take over! We love you baby and hope that you had a great birthday in between your 2 plane trips and falling on a below zero ice cold Sunday!

Dad, opening up Camryn's home-made binoculars! She was so proud of them, and she did a great job creating them too!

Almost ready for Church, but is there time to open the presents first?

This is how you get burgers on your birthday when it's the Sabbath ,and it's below zero, so I sure as heck am not going out there to grill them! Poor Dave, had to freeze on his birthday to have a good burger! He looks like he didn't mind! Love you baby!

Merry Christmas from Dave and Ceri

Yeah, I know that we have kids, but do you think they would cooperate for a family picture! Thanks to Camryn's great photo skills (she's 6) we have a Christmas picture for 2008 with Me and Dave! Thanks Camryn!

Where's the little one? I'm not kidding, she wouldn't get into a single picture unless Mom and Dad were in it. There's one problem with that, one of us had to take the picture! These were intended to be Christmas pictures of just the girls, I never planned on being in them

Hey, where's Mom?

yep, no Dad!

Merry Christmas!

We found a few real horses!

It's a real horse and I am riding it "ALL" by myself!

B, wouldn't let go of the lead rope!

I think they are "high" on the whole REAL horse experience!


This was the only horse B was riding! She was afraid of the real ones!

Can you see the lead rope in her hand? She lead the horses around for at least an hour! I think she would have walked around with the horse all day if we had more time.

Thanks Aunt Annie for a great idea!

If only these horses were real!

B loved the horsey! She kept asking to go around and around in circles again - When I told her that she already rode the pink horse she looked and me and smiled and then said but I didn't ride the pink giraffe!

The spinning tea cup was Jamie's favorite! The big girls in it with her had it on spinning fire!

Pure heaven to this little chicken!

Cousins!

Thanks for the matching jammies aunt Heidi! You made us all look SO cute!

Love Hate Relationship right here!

Happy Turkey Day 2008

We made yummy (just ask the kids and Dave, they loved them!) red velvet cupcakes that were intended to look like Turkeys. This was the dessert for our Thanksgiving Dinner! More about our yummy not so traditional dinner later!

Yes, they are still in their PJ's but it's a day off and my girls have already learned to take full advantage of not having to wake up and get ready!

Watch out Sprinkle's Cupcakes - Jamie and Camryn are in town! Don't they just look too good to eat? A pound of candy should only make them taste better!

Here Jamie is holding the delicious masterpieces created by her and her sisters! Yes, she's changed out of her PJ's and now she's in dress-up clothes!


Here's B holding the cupcakes that we served to our friends! I think they turned out sorta cute! I was supposed to use more frosting to create a neck and give the cupcakes a 3D look but I hate frosting and couldn't bring myself to add more of the stuff!

Payne Family 2008 Thanksgiving Day Menu (Dave thinks it might be important to know someday what we ate!) This was our second year cooking Baby Back ribs and our 4th year boycotting the traditional turkey dinner

* BBQ BABY BACK RIBS

* Prime Rib (so yummy, thanks Brett!)

* Rhode's Rolls, can't beat how easy and delicious they are

* Spinach Artichoke Dip with pita chips and crackers

* Red Velvet Cupcakes with chocolate frosting

*Chocolate chip and cherry chip cookie pie

So not very traditional but way yummy! I didn't even think about the stuffing as I was eating the delicious melt-in-your-mouth meat selections that were provided! I must admit however, it was too much meat for me and not enough carbs!

HAIR CUT TIME!

Jamie got a hair cut, we curled it, I thought it was cute, so why not blog it... right?

Paci's have been mailed off to Paci Princess!

She couldn't have been more happy to mail them off! If she only knew, poor little thing!

Putting them in the envelope -

B is showing off her fun new replacement... make-up, it truly in the next best thing to a paci according to her! This set is so perfect for her, it even has a blow dryer that makes a great sound a blows out air. This morning she told Camryn, "hurry Camen I do you are hair real fast, come fast". After the hair blow dry B put make-up and nail polish on Camryn and told her that she was "so pretty!"

Tinkerbell P A R T Y !

While Dave was gone last week the girls and I had a Tinkerbell party! All the movie snacks were green or came in green wrappers, and the white chocolate pretzel sticks were sprinkled with green sprinkles and were "Tinkerbell Wands". The girls enjoyed eating the snacks and had a blast playing with the green balloons but the movie was only a hit for about 20 minutes!

Rub a dub dub!

Bath time after the church Halloween party!

My precious little spooks all dressed up!