Tyce Troy Payne

Tyce Troy Payne was born February 4, 2010 at 8:40 am. He was 8lb 7oz and 21.5in.

Early Thursday morning at about 2:00 am I started having pretty consistent contractions. I tried not to get too excited because this same thing had happened at least 2 other times. By 2:45 they were getting strong and close together. We called Mom and headed to the hospital at 3:15. By 5:00 I had my epidural and it was smooth sailing from there (p.s. those were the longest 2 hours of my life). At 8:40 Tyce was born.

As with Brek, it took us a while to figure out this little guy's name. We felt it was important for our son to have a family name, and we finally decided on Tyce Troy after his Great Great Grandfather John Troy Ball. Grandpa Troy came over from Arkansas to California years back in search of a better future for his family. It was there that they found the Gospel of Christ and were baptized. They have 3 daughters one of which is Brock's grandma Phyllis, Brock's mom's mother. With so many great men in both our families this wasn't an easy decision. Grandpa Troy has been a great example to Brock, and we think he can be someone our son can look up to and follow.

We were kind of worried how Brek would react to having a younger brother. She absolutely loves him! The first few times she saw him she just kept saying over and over, "Baby. Baby. Baby." She would give him kiss after kiss. Now that he's home she still loves him and smothers him. We have to kind of watch out for her because she is constantly kissing and hugging Tyce.


Family of Four


We love his cute, little dimple


Daddy and Tyce


Brek checking out her new brother


Tyce, Aunt Kacy, and Nana


Papa and Tyce

Animal Noises

This video is with Aunt Tamra at Thanksgiving. Brek loves making animal noises and has since learned many more.

Christmas

Christmas was really fun this year. Brek had lots of fun taking the balls off of the Christmas tree and the stickers off of the presents. I found her many times crouched between the couch and the Christmas tree sneakily getting into something. Nana and Papa watched her one night while Brock and I went to the movies. When we came to pick her up I found a pile of broken ornaments and ripped Christmas presents all around their tree. They said it took her all of 5 minutes to do it. That's my Brek. :)


These pictures are Christmas Eve at Nanny and Papa's. Sadly, they are our only Christmas pictures because that night our camera turned up missing. We found it the next day in the street by their house. Yes, it was broken. I think the saddest part about this story is that the almost same thing happened last year at Christmas!!! But last year our camera broke all by itself. Hopefully next year we will not have the same luck.


It snowed in Childress and stuck around for Christmas!


Aunt Savanna with Brek and Avery.

Best Friends

Jim, Bekah and Ellie stopped by to see us on their way to Amarillo. We were so excited to see them since it had been so long! Brek and Ellie had tons of fun playing, and it didn't take Brek long to become best friends with Bekah and her bag. We hope it will be much sooner for the next visit especially since our daughters are destined to be best friends.

New Found Passion

Since moving to Texas, Brock has found a new passion...hunting. He loves it, and I'm pretty sure I didn't see him when the sun was up from November through the beginning of January. Just kidding.
This is his first buck. A nice, young 10 point.




Buck #2 Really wide and knarley looking 8 point

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we stayed here in Childress. My whole family except for Savanna was able to come. It was really fun to hang out with everyone. Here are a couple of pictures.


Daddy spent lots of time hunting (more pictures to come of that).


Elizabeth is trying to look like she has a belly. :)

My Cute Baby

I was trying as usual to entertain Brek one day when I got this picture. We were playing with Brock's cowboy hat because it is pretty much the only hat I can actually get Brek to wear. She was being really cute with it and then she took off. I decided to take advantage of this time by finishing getting ready for the day (Brek hates it when I'm getting ready and usually throws a fit which takes me about 10 times as long to actually get ready). So anyway, she comes back looking like this! What happened to my little cowgirl??? I don't even know where she found this hat of Brock's, but I thought that it was hilarious that she left a cowgirl and came back a thug!