3 Scorpios

I flew to Utah and all I took were these 3 pictures!

It was a lovely trip and a happy occasion.

Strange goings on!!

Dad always complains about how cold it is in our bedroom. On Saturday, he was upstairs reading. When I walked up to talk to him, this is what I found. At least he looks comfortable.
Who are these cute little long legs?? Why it's our bodelicious little Pipi Longstockings! This is what she chose for the school parade and for Halloween night. Have fun everybody.

a REAL Pain

Did you get my pun....since those are my favorite kind of jokes??

Zak has a very uncommon disorder:
Benign Exertional Vascular Headache

The Nuerologist said he only sees 2 - 3 cases like this a year; Zak won the lottery on this.

This headache comes on quick and fierce WHENEVER he does anything physical! It just started last Monday. He was running track as usual, and at about the 400 meter mark he got a terrible headache. It was mostly gone (but still feeling some slight effects) by Tuesday, so on Tuesday night he thought he would show the younger scouts how to do pull-ups. By his fourth pull up that headache was back with a vengeance.

We went to the doctor, to the neurologist, to an MRI, it is a definite diagnosis. Thankfully, it is a condition that will go away sometime within one to six months...usually. The doctor gave Zak some medicine to take 30 minutes before he wants to do any physical activity that should stop the headache pain. The pill lasts 4-6 hours and he can only take one a day. The doctor would prefer that he only take the pill 3 days a week, but no more than 5 days a week.

The doctor did appreciate and recognize my exceptional skills at asking questions.
And don't I have children that come down with the most odd medical conditions?

Sweet Story

Do you remember Polly Wood? Well, even if you don't, she tells a sweet story on her blog:

my happy little things

It's her parents anniversary. She tells about her grandmother dressing in a dress or skirt every day with lipstick, nylons, heels, make-up....every day. Click the link for a bit of entertainment.
This is a picture of her mother and father in the same Kindergarten class. This is where her mother fell in love with her father. Sweet.

A Day off at Disneyland

I realized I had not been to Disneyland since Tanner was 5, so I decided to take my two boys to Disneyland for a fun day off. We had a lovely time. It was sprinkling that day so that crowds weren't so bad.

At the entrance. Teo is sucking on his bear-bear.

After the Haunted Mansion. Teo did great. No crying.

Tanner was a great help taking Teo on all the rides. Here they are at Dumbo.

In jail at Toon Town.

This was part of Teo's lunch. I have to say, the pickle was very good!

He loved this!

This is exactly how I felt when the day was over!!

Fall at the Juarez Family

THE QUILT

Chase finally received his quilt. This was a project done in love.










Julie and Nana worked for two days getting the patches sewn up. The binding took a day, as well. The good thing is that it covers the big boy from head to foot. So fun!!

Fall from Cole Family #2

When mother calls, I respond (and fall also happens to be my favorite season) Therefore, here is fall from the second Cole family's perspective.

 

 

 

 

 

It always feels so much like fall as I'm working and cooking around the house, and then I step outside and the first thing I see is this! California will never cease to amaze me. P.S. There is something seriously wrong with this blog template.  It has epic problems in how it lets you format.  Can this be fixed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Christopher and Chase - A Little Taste of Home

**OOPS - I thought I was posting this on the Cole family blog! I thought it odd, why the background was yellow...I finally reaized it was the PAYNE blog. Oh well, ENJOY!

Here is a bit of Fall at home....hope it doesn't make you homesick! It's been raining here for a week

















Finally, a pumpkin on the 8 ft. long plant! It will (maybe) be ready by Thanksgiving.

Really, there are 3 pumpkins! And plenty of leaves.

I took the tarp off the pool last week - I was going to dry it out....

It has become a nice tent for the cat.

Can't wait to see you at Thanksgiving!

**NOTE: now I have showered and thought, and I don't regret putting this post on this blog; in fact, I HOPE EVERYONE takes pictures of what fall looks like at your house and puts it up on this blog! I can't wait to see it!! Show your house, what you see out the window; what's in your garden, show your favorite part or/and your worse part. Come on! It will be fun!!

Christopher's House

Thanks, Christopher. I took this off of Facebook.
It looks like a great house.

It's a Beautiful Day in HIS Neighborhood....

Congratulations to

Christopher!

Today he gets the keys to his newly bought house!

It's a GOOD thing.

Football Fever

Here are few pictures of Tanner's football season this year. Just wanted to share.

Conversation With Griffin

Griffin: Mom, do you know where there is an American flag?

Me: yes, in the hall closet, why?

Griffin: ok, do you know somewhere else there's an American flag?

Me: (thinking...what kind of mess is he planning on making, what does he want to do with the flag; I just got that put away, I don't want him to play with it.....) umm, no...

Griffin: ON THE MOON!!

Day's of Birth

Mom and I had so much fun doing this!

SBP 1936 31-Jan Fri's Child Is Loving and Giving
GBP 1937 1-Nov Mon's Child Is Fair of Face
Mark 1956 19-Nov Mon's Child Is Fair of Face
Kerry 1957 11-Aug Sun's Child Bonny, Blithe,
Good & Gay
Bart 1958 1-Nov Sat's Child Works hard for
His Living
Gil 1958 4-Sep Tue’s child Is Full of Grace
Dawney 1960 27-May Fri's Child Is Loving
and Giving
Julie 1961 11-Jun Sun's Child Bonny, Blithe,
Good & Gay
Don 1962 2-Jul Mon's Child Is Fair of Face
Diana 1965 19-Aug Thur's Child Has Far To Go
Tatia 1966 12-Jan Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
CMP 1972 26-Jul Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Bethany 1981 9-Jan Fri's Child Is Loving
and Giving
Hope 1981 28-Dec Mon's Child Is Fair of Face
Christopher 1983 9-Nov Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Tim 1984 17-Jun Sun's Child Bonny, Blithe, Good & Gay
Madison 1985 7-Apr Sun's Child Bonny, Blithe, Good & Gay
Steven 1985 10-Jul Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Jessica 1988 25-May Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Morgan 1989 2-Jun Fri's Child Is Loving and Giving
Heather 1989 30-May Tue’s child Is Full of Grace
Chase 1989 5-Apr Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Haley 1990 28-Jun Thur's Child Has Far To Go
Adam 1991 1-Nov Fri's Child Is Loving and Giving
Allysa 1992 14-Jan Tue’s child Is Full of Grace
Zachary 1992 30-Dec Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Matthew 1993 8-Jul Thurs’ child Has Far To Go
Quinn 1995 24-Aug Thurs’ child Has Far To Go
Katy 1996 3-Jan Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Daniel 1996 27-Mar Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Jenna 1998 21-Jul Tue’s child Is Full of Grace
Tanner 1998 26-Aug Wed’s child Is Full of Woe
Kylie 1999 19-May Wed’s child Is Full of Woe
Sophia 2000 2-Jun Fri's Child Is Loving and Giving
Griffin 2003 30-Jul Wed's Child Is Full of Woe
Teo 2010 3-Apr Fri's Child Is Loving and Giving
Hayden 2010 20-Sep Mon's Child Is Fair of Face

Cancelled!

I just discovered that TWO of the shows I have enjoyed are now cancelled...

Lone Star

My Generation

My TV load is lessening...I guess it's a good thing.

P.S. Thanks, Zak, for teaching me how to add pictures!! That's lovely.

All of a sudden I can't comment...

I kept clicking on the comment link, but I could never get through - SO here are my comments about TV (keep in mind I didn't get to read anyone else's comments) AND my thoughts on the latest "Check-In" blog.

TV - Monday: I am crying because The Closer" is over for the season. My #1 MOST favorite show. I LOVE Kyra Sedgewick. I want to be her...well, I want her hair, her body, her accent - she is terrific.

Hawaii Five-O: I had great expectations. I will keep watching but it was all a little too contrived. I did really like Scott CAAN's character.

Tues: You left out the best shows on TV! NCIS and The Good Wife. These are the shows I will never miss. Great stories, great acting, humorous and very little sex. I REALLY wanted NCIS Los Angeles to do well, but really, the acting is terrible...

Thursday: My 2nd daughter (I am her 2nd mom) and Allysa's soul sister Kristine got me hooked on The Mentalist. Now, I can't stop watching. Simon Baker's character is FANTASTIC and it always is shocking to me to discover an American character being played by an English or Australian actor. When I hear their "real" accent I am dumbfounded they can sound so American! As far as the Defenders go, I didn't like the promo's. But I didn't know that Jerry O'Connell is Rebecca ROMIJN's husband!

Friday: I have been looking forward to seeing Blue Bloods, but instead, I went back to high school! Allysa was a homecoming princess and so she had to be there and everybody else wanted to go too. High school is SOOO time-consuming, I have been SOOO happy to not be involved this year. But, it was such fun to go back just for one night and see everyone again! I get great validation from those kids! So , I missed Blue Bloods. I really really like Tom SELLECK. Do you ever watch the "Jesse Stone" tv movies? I really like those a lot, too.

That is it for TV. Now, for my "Check-In" blog comments.

• I want to know how to remember the 10 commandments, too.

• "What is the face I am making?" I recognize it, because I have done it, too. I don't know what YOU are thinking, but for me it means "Please wait for me to get into the right position so my double chin doesn't show!"
• I gave the RS lesson on Sunday. It was about Elder Ballard's conference talk "Mothers and Daughters" Afterward, an older woman in the ward told me she wanted me to be her mother! Isn't that funny!
  
• Julie, I think you should invent a contact lens that doubles as a camera. That way you could take all the same pictures but you wouldn't have to carry the camera!

TTFN! SLY!