The Man-Cave

For the seven years that we’ve lived in this house our basement has been a place for storing stuff. One year, Cari asked me to clean the basement for her birthday present. I still haven’t given her that birthday present, but we made some progress last weekend by making the kids a mini ‘man-cave’. It’s nothing fancy but it gives the kids, especially Levi and Samuel, a place to go and play video games, read, or just get away. The man-cave consists of a lot of stuff that was mine as a kid: a 13” TV, Nintendo (that’s about 20 years old), CD player, a Garfield clock, and some sports stuff that I’ve collected over the years.

Below are some pictures of the cave and some miscellaneous pictures from the month of September. Enjoy.

Chris

Adventures in Babysitting

The past few weeks have been different than normal in the Payne house. With Cari suffering from constant headaches for the past several weeks our normal routine has changed a bit. We have been very blessed to get some help with meals from our church family and offers from people to watch our kids when Cari has different doctor’s appointments.

We have received a lot of help from our friend Julie. She has been available several times when Cari had appointments and I was not able to get away from work. On Thursday Cari had an MRI and MRA to try and figure out what has been causing the headaches. Julie agreed to watch the kids, which included picking up the two oldest from school and taking them to her house. The plan was that we would pick the kids up from her house after the appointment.

Now I’ll try to make a long story short. After the appointment we went to her house to find that no one was there. We knocked on the door, walked around the house and found no one. I called Julie on her cell phone and found out that she was in the urgent care. What had happened was that after she picked the kids up from school they went to a local park to play. While a couple of the kids were playing on the playground she took two of the kids on the stage of the amphitheater. When she went to step down she missed a step and broke a couple of bones in her foot. You don’t expect the babysitter to get hurt when watching four boys. I guess if you’re going to watch the Payne boys you need to have good health insurance.

Regarding the MRI/MRA, we are still waiting on the results from the MRI. The MRA was unsuccessful because there was interference from Cari’s braces. She has another scan scheduled for later this week that should not have a problem with the patient wearing braces.

We’ll keep you posted on what we find out.

Josiah's Birthday Weekend

Enjoy the pictures and videos (including Josiah singing 'Happy Birthday' to himself) of Josiah's Birthday weekend. The theme of the birthday was guitars and motorcycles.

Chris

Nathanael's Big Boy Bed

It was a big day in the Payne house last weekend. We took the crib down (which had been up for over 8 years) and put up Nathanael's new bed. He loves his new bed and seems to sleep better in the bed than in the crib. Pictures are below.

Chris