Quote of the Day

Mason singing his day's of the week song: "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Hey Mom! There isn't even a yesterday!"

Good thing someone had a camera

Thanksgiving post preface

I must give a huge thank you to Eva for taking a few pictures of our Thanksgiving this year, then posting them on Facebook so I could steal them to post here on my blog. Your the best Eva, for without you where would our Thanksgiving post be? Picture-less, thats where, and no one likes a picture-less blog post. 

So the Payne's Thanksgiving this year was very low key. The kids were out of school on Wednesday so my friend Shauna and I decided to take the kids to see a movie, Bolt was the overwhelming winner. I didn't actually see much of it, our 19 & 22 month old baby girls thought there were far too many other things to do than sit and watch a movie. So me and the girls went out and walked the mall, it was pretty fun to watch those two explore together. I dont think I told Shauna this but I took the girls into a Brighton Store and two stores later I notice Cambria used a little five fingered discount to score herself a $45 Brighton lipstick case. Don't worry we brought it back, but afterwards Cambria tried and tried to get herself back into that store. She's not only a very smart girl, but has impeccable taste, can't blame her for that. That night the boys got to have one of their best buddies Tanner spend the night, I think I can safely say that was probably their highlight. We love having Tanner over. 

After a Wednesday like that Thursday was extremely quiet. Darren went to our ward's Turkey Bowl, (have to get pictures of that next year!) while I made apple and cherry pies and sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes people, not canned yams with marshmallows, real sweet potatoes with pecans and yumminess. Then after cooking and hanging at home for most of the day we headed over to Darren's parents around 3:30, where we started your typical Thanksgiving revelry of talking, eating, hanging, eating, repeat. It was fun to see everyone and the kids always have a blast with their cousins.  

Mmmmmmm, looks tasty guys. Just save some for the rest of us. Chad and Travis going carnivorous.
Friday morning Shauna and I got up early to do a little black Friday shopping at Target. We got some good deals but mostly had a good time doing a little Christmas kid-less shopping. 

The rest of our long weekend was spend just hanging out with the kids, and enjoying time off. And here we are a week later already decking the halls and looking forward to our Christmas vacation. T minus 11 days and counting.