washington adventures with eric, rachel, addelyn and payne: 2007

Friday, December 21, 2007

Happy Holidays

We wish each of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

the past week...

our small group - we love them to death!

Kendall and me on the docks

our favorite dessert at the Coeur d'Alene dessert

Eric's bears

my bears :)

Christmas is almost here! We cannot believe how fast this month has flown by! Eric finished up his first clinical internship and has been enjoying his time off since then! We are enjoying the snow but not so much the slush and rain that come along with it! :) Just hopeful that we will have a white christmas! Here are a few pictures of this past week with friends...We went to Coeur d'Alene with part of our small group to look at Christmas lights and of course eat dessert. And the bears were made by Eric and me the other night--even though they look like a 5 year old made them! :) ha! We had fun!!!

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

December and SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We cannot get over that is it already DECEMBER!!!! We usually already have quite a bit of snow at this time of year--but not this year! :( We did get some this past weekend and if you can't tell by the pictures--

were are very excited!!!!

Here are a few pictures from what we did this over the weekend....

the first big snow
I LOVE SNOW!!!!!
Jayma, Randi, me and Lindsey at our cookie exchange/sugar cookie decorating party

how pretty are mine and Randi's cookies?

we were determined to make a HUGE snowman

Eric and Blake showing how tall our snowman is :)

Blake and Randi

our 7 foot tall snowman - can you tell we are proud of him?

Eric and me

Randi and me making our BEAUTIFUL snow angels!!!!

Tennessee trip

First of all-thank you so much for all of the sweet comments that ya'll have posted!!! We are so excited about having a baby! I am 12 1/2 weeks so far and things are going great - except that we are STILL getting over the shock that this is real! :)

So the weekend before Thanksiving I was able to go and visit my family in Tennessee! It couldn't have been anymore perfect timing because of being able to tell them about the baby in person! We had a wonderful weekend at my parent's house in Leipers Fork, TN....we were all able to spend the entire weekend together--it would have been perfect if Eric was there--we all thought of him alot (especially my niece Leah--Eric is her "best buddy") and missed him--but hopefully next time we will all be there together!! We played outside, celebrated Julianna's 2nd birthday, watched football, went to a local songwriter's night and loved every second of just being together. I had a ton of pictures I wanted to post and it was so hard to choose out of the 100something I took...but here are a few! the entire clan minus Eric (but the kids did name a stray dog after him for the weekend!) ha!

me and my sweet Papa
me, Justin and Mandy

Mom and Daddy

the original Payne kids

how sweet are they? this is after Julianna got her shirt! :)

Mom even made me some amazing FRIED GREEN TOMATOES...thanks Mom!!!

Ruth and Julianna--so sweet!

Katie, Mom, Cassie and me

Ruth, Leah and Julianna after playing ring-around-the-rosies

Christian and Rebecca in Mom and Dad's front yard

Julianna and Aunt Rachel

precious Josiah (this was my first time so see him)

Caleb, Leah and Anna Blair

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

June 18th, 2008

So here is our little surprise!!! This is from when I got to go to Tennessee a couple of weekends ago and share the news with my family!!!! If you can't tell-they are very excited.....I'll post more soon! I am way behind!

Sunday, October 28, 2007

UCLA vs WSU game

This past Saturday we went to Pullman to watch the Washington State game against UCLA. We went with Ryan, Tiffany and Tiffany's parents. Tiffany went to WSU and showed us all around campus and was a great tour guide! :) We had a fabulous time hanging out and the game was a lot of fun! It definitely got chilly by the end of the game! The Cougs beat UCLA 27 -7! Go Cougs!!! Thanks for inviting us Tiffany and Ryan!

A little cold during the game - but fun times...

we were so close to the field

Go Cougs!!!!

ready for kick off

Eating in the fieldhouse before the game

Thursday, October 18, 2007

apple and pumpkin picking in Greenbluff

This past sunday we went apple and pumpkin picking with Ryan and Tiffany. The weather was perfect and we had a great time! I really don't think I could ever get sick of Greenbluff. It is the cutest little community. The colors of the leaves were also amazing! I love fall and having fun with great friends!

The Clouses and Harrisons

I love all of the colors of this tree

having fun in the pumpkin patch

so many pumpkins to choose from

Tiffany and Ryan

this picture makes me laugh because you can tell their wives made them do this! :)

showing off our yummy apples

Gala apples

Monday, October 8, 2007

go MadDogs!!!!

Here is a picture of the U-10 soccer team I coach. They are about the cutest girls ever! Our team name is the MadDogs--at one point, they wanted to be the Mean Pigs because I had on a Razorback baseball cap one day and they had no clue why I had a pig on my hat!!! They thought that would be a cool name! Ha! We are definitely NOT in Razorback country anymore! I just couldnt resist a picture from this past Saturday's game--we won 12-2!!!! whooo hoooo!