It's official. I'm a student again. Just sent in my enrollment form and paid my seat deposit for the Masters of Accounting program at the U! So excited to be back up at the U and getting my masters degree, but a little nervous about it too. Apparently its brutally intense and demanding but I think I'm up for the challenge :) I've decided to embrace my nerdiness and just go for it haha! After I complete the program I'll have all my education requirements to sit for the CPA exam which has about a 40% pass rate... yikes. So excited and nervous about this new chapter of my life!

Yesterday was Tyler's 13th birthday! To celebrate we went to dinner at one of my favorite places, The Dodo. So good!! Then we went home and had some homemade chocolate cake and opened presents. He got lots of new clothes and some new skateboarding shoes. Must be a teenager :) Hope you had a great birthday Tyler! Love you!

We had a great Easter weekend this year! We left all the snow and cold behind and headed to Arizona for the weekend to visit Grandma and Grandpa Williams! It was a quick trip but we all had so much fun! We drove down all day Thursday and arrived in Phoenix late that night. The next morning we woke up and Grandpa and Grandma told us we could all go outside and pick grapefruits for breakfast! They were so delicious!

Then they showed us around their house. It is a great house. So nice and pretty with all the cactuses and flowers and palm trees! And the orange blossoms smelled SO good!

The boys even got a grand tour of the neighborhood in Grandpa's golf cart!

Then Spencer got his birthday gift from Grandpa and Grandma. Some new coins for his collection specially picked out by grandpa!

Then we headed out and Grandma and Grandpa showed us around Phoenix. They had already scoped out a great skate park for Tyler and Colton when we got there. The boys had a lot of fun skating around at the park.

Then we headed over to Old Town Scottsdale to walk around. We did a little shopping and had dinner at a great mexican restaurant. I don't remember the name but they had amazing fish tacos!

Then all the boys went to the Diamondbacks - Cubs game and the girls headed to the mall to do some shopping.

On Saturday we had a nice relaxing day at the pool. (I'll spare you the pictures. It's been a while since my skin has seen any sunlight. Not cute:) Then grandma got each of boys an Arizona hat.

That night we had a great Easter dinner with a ham and potatoes and fruit salad. Such a pretty table and yummy food! Thanks grandma!

Callie won the family March Madness brackets while we were there. She was excited :)

Easter morning we woke up and opened our easter baskets/bags and left for home.

It was a great trip! So much fun to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa and hang out in the sunshine! Thanks for letting us come stay with you Grandma and Grandpa!

Happy 19th Birthday to Spencer yesterday! Hope you had a great day! Last year of being a teenager! :)

On Saturday night Tyler came home from skateboarding at his friend's house looking like this:

He said he did a really cool trick on the half pipe and basically landed on his eye. Not good. Apparently it happened that afternoon and he held some ice on it and just continued skateboarding all day. Then he woke up the next day and it looked like this:

And today it looks like this:

Yikes. Everyone at school was asking him who he got into a fight with. haha. Don't worry its not as bad as it looks. He was totally still able to go snowboarding the next day and do plenty of tricks with Colton ;)

Happy 11th Birthday yesterday to Colton! It was a fun day! Can't believe he is 11 already! Crazy how fast he has grown up! We went to dinner at Rocky Mountain Pizza last night and then came back to our house for cake and presents. He was so excited to get some new skateboarding shoes, a "coupon" from Spencer to go pick out a frog for his fish tank, a couple games, some new clothes, nice cards from the grandparents, and his "big gift": cabella's big game hunt. Not so sure how I feel about the hunting game. Kinda scary haha but he loves it! Today is his friends party. They are going snow tubing up parley's at Gorgoza Park. He is SO excited! I think it has been a great birthday!

So this blog has been neglected for a while. I have been posting on my new Tumblr blog:
http://ashleypayne.tumblr.com/

I will probably still post here too sometimes, but I'll mostly be posting there for now. Also, my dad has started blogging. Check it out!