Star of the Week

Calyn is Star of the week this week. We created her little poster this week.  I think some of you will love her interests and favorites.

Calyn and her poster

 All about Calyn. I am "6" years old. My favorite color is "blue". My favorite animal is "a cat". My favorite food is "cook carrots"

 This is what I look like

 My family

 When I grow up I want to be "a baluringu" (ballerina)

 "Pocusite" (Ponca City) is my favorite place.

 My favorite thing to do is "go to the butrfliy moozum" (butterfly museum)

 If I had one wish, I would wish for "a cat"

Calyn thought long and hard about all of her answers. In fact the butterfly museum one actually had hide and seek there first but then she changed her mind (after I had already translated her words in pen). I thought she did a great job decorating.



 One final picture before I go, here is Max in Calyn's house slippers.

One Busy Weekend for The Payne House

Friday was my Friday off and Calyn had early release from school so we took advantage of the beautiful weather and played in the yard. Our back yard has beautiful landscaping but for some reason the back bed was never touched. Mom, Dad and I worked and worked until we had it cleaned out. The kids played around in the back yard. It is all cleaned out now and ready for mulch.
Friday evening Calyn and I were invited to an Mommy and Me makeover night with her girl scout friends and their moms. I can not believe I did not take my camera! I will tell you that Calyn had me looking like a street walking clown. In other words, I was lookin lovely!

Saturday morning we started the morning off early. Calyn woke up at 6:45 ready to go! Max followed shortly. We had breakfast and a little time to play with Batmans before Calyn and I headed out for an outing.

With the sales from the Girl Scout cookies Calyn's troop voted to donate a portion of their proceeds to the Montgomery County Animal Shelter. Saturday morning Calyn and I met her troop at the shelter so they could present them with a check and take a tour...heart wrenching :(

Calyn and Ella. Ella is in Calyn's Kindergarten class too.

 The troop the leader, Rachel and her little girl Charlotte, Mia, Paz (also in Calyn's class), Calyn, Lilly, Chloe, Caroline, Ella, Abbie, Layla, little Gretta and the co-leader Grace.

 Calyn and the little Sheppard mix puppies (she cried for 10 minutes when we left because she wanted one.)

 Calyn, Paz and Lilly checking out the baby kittens. These little cuties were sitting right outside the shelter. Calyn turned to me and said "Mommy! I have a great idea! Let's surprise Daddy and get one for him. They were cute and it was tempting,  but I chose to live another day and not get one. 

 Calyn holding one of the puppies

 I will spare you any pictures of the tour. It was so sad in there. I feel so sorry for those cats and dogs! It broke.my.heart!

While we were at the shelter Matt and his mom and Dad began cutting down some tree limbs in the front and back yard. Here is Max carrying one of the limbs to the limb pile. He was such a good helper.

 These next two were just so cute of Max. I couldn't decide which one to post so they both made it on here.

 This is Calyn and Olivia. They played on the side of the house for about an hour smashing big river rocks to see what they looked like inside.

 They were so sweet and let Max join in the fun. Every time  they would crack one in half Max would pick it up and say WOW! look what is inside of this one!

 After a while Calyn and Olivia went into Olivia's house and I made Max stay behind with me. He was getting really bored. After all this was the second day of yard work for the little guy. I called Merrick to see what they were up to. They were going to be swimming so the kids and I got all our swim gear together and headed over. 



I laid out nude by the pool. Ok, that isn't really me it is a Barbie that Calyn positioned by the hot tub.

 Corry catching some sun in the raft

 An overly happy Drew

 Calyn had been avoiding the camera. I finally was able to get one of her. She was in the middle of saying "hey! you got me!"

 Super Max

I don't think anyone enjoys the diving board more than Uncle Jimmy. He is quite the flipper.  

The last two days have been so busy that I might need a weekend from my weekend. They days have been fun and we have really enjoyed this beautiful weather that we are having. I hope you all have had a good weekend too!

President Lincoln

If you had a hat like President Lincoln what would you do with it?
Here is what Calyn would do....

"If I had a hat like Lincoln, I would put lupstsic (lipstick) in it."

Furniture and Color Songs

Kind of a random post title, I know. I have had some requests for pictures of some of our new furniture pieces. I have heard that ordering custom furniture is a pain, when people tell you this, they aren't kidding.  Matt and I purchased our furniture in December I never dreamed we would be in mid-March and still not have all the pieces. Although I love every piece that we have purchased it would have been nice to have all pieces at once. Our latest addition is our dining room table, end table and because I can't remember if I already posted a picture of it, our coffee table. We are still missing one of our dining captain's chairs. We actually got it when we got the set but it had a small hole. With little curious fingers in this house we figured in no time that small teeny tiny hole would soon become a large one. We are hoping that are replacement will be here next week sometime.
For now here is the pictures of our dining table -1 chair, end table and coffee table

The backs and seats of the side chairs are leather and you can actually see the brand mark on one of the seats, it is kind of cool. (sorry PETA) The captains chairs we decided to do something a little different and out of our norm, they are cowhide.

 This is just a close up of the wood on our dining table. It is 100 year old pine that they stain whatever color you choose. I think we had 5 different stains to choose from. Being dark wood type of people we chose this stain. It looks great with our floors and ties in with our cherry cabinets in the kitchen

 This is our trunk end table. You can see the handle on the left top side, it opens up for storage. This is great to hide toys when you have unexpected visitors... not that I have done that.

 This is a three in one picture. A picture of our coffee table. It is square and is the exact same style as the end table. This table has handles on the top of the table on each side (similar to the end table) and opens up all the way. The puppy in the picture is Cozmo, he is almost 16 and we all know Max and his super heroes. I would like to introduce you to something that you may not know, "mean eyes." This is the look Max gives you  when he is fed up with your nonsense like when I interrupt play time with batman. Max has been called Mr. Mean Eyes a lot lately

Now onto a video, Drew came over yesterday and sang these great songs for me. These will surely help you remember how to spell your colors. If by the end of the day Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow stuck in your head, I will be shocked.
Enjoy

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