Meeting Reese Payne

The newest addition to the Payne family is Reese Payne, born May 27th to my brother, Justin & his wife Mandy.  We took a day trip to Memphis in early June to meet her and visit the family.  We wish we could have stayed longer but we took full advantage of the day with them.  Sweet little Reese was an angel and we all enjoyed our turn with her.

Christian with Reese

Rebecca's turn

Reese was stretching for Julianna

My turn!!!

So pretty....with her new blankie from Aunt Katie

My friend Susan (Aunt Su-Su) came over to visit with us and had to have her turn with Reese too.

Me & sweet Susan

My 2 nephews.....James & Kramer

We took advantage of a family photo shoot

All of us

My sweet Brothers Family - we love you guys!

Goodbye Hutchesons

We have some sweet friend that moved to New Jersey.  We were very excited for them because it's a great opportunity for them, but they are so far away!!!  We had a little get together with them and unfortunately, I didn't take too many pictures,but I was too busy visiting.  This is the family that invited us over to their house for Easter Sunday lunch on our first day as new staff at our church.  

We will miss them greatly.

Some of the girls - Becky is the 2nd from the left!

Me & Becky - I miss you already!

Great Fall Pictures

Tubing Fun

Tubing was their favorite - so we spent a lot of time tubing them.  Here are some of the good shots I got:

Success!

Out of the 4 boys Christian took with him, not a single one could ski, kneeboard, wakeboard, etc.  So we had the great opportunity to teach them.  Some of them had a harder time than others, but in the end, every single one of the boys had mastered something they hadn't done before the weekend, including Christian, who figured out how to switch his feet on the wakeboard.  I can't find a picture of it, but I think I got a video of it.  Anyway, here are some "success" pictures.

CJ actually popped up on his first try...here it is....although don't be fooled - he was never able to get up again.

Christian enjoying the wakeboard

Michael got the kneeboard pretty quickly and was jumping the wake by the end of our time there.

It took Cameron a while but he loved the knee board once he got up on it!

Tristan was awesome - he worked SO HARD to get up and once he did (our final day there) you'd have thought he conquered the world.  It was awesome!

Water fun!

I took over 850 pictures on these 3 days so it's very difficult to pick out my favorites.  Plus I know you don't want to see that many pictures of ANY kids on the water.  So I broke it down into a few different posts.  Hopefully they are good ones you'll enjoy looking at.

Lean back, boys!

Christian showing off his slaloming skills

Tristan worked so hard to get up on that knee board

CJ with some kneeboarding success

What a great group of guys

Good thing Michael had on some shorts under his swim suit or this would not be as nearly cute of a picture!!!

Michael decided to get fancy and try a 360 on the kneeboard....he made it 180 and got stuck!

You will notice a theme in these next few pictures......