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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Latham world tour.. or at least the tour of Saint David, Chicago and Texas

Saint David
Easter was a lot of fun, we went to the Easter Pageant at the Temple in mesa with family until Hendrix started to get tired and we left a little early. For Easter weekend we went to Saint David With Mariah (Ira’s sister) and Taylor (her husband) so we all could spend some time with Ira’s family before he leaves for boot camp. we had a lot of fun down in Saint David, we went to the catholic monastery in saint david to see the biggest cross! Ira, Taylor, Mariah and myself also went hiking at the dragoon mountains. 
The catholic monastery in Saint David has the biggest cross I have ever seen
mexican style catholic chapel
The Dragoon mountains in Saint David are super cool so we went for a hike

me climbing up the mountain
Ain't he handsome? We were tired!

I slid down some of the rocks because it was so steep and got a little hole in my workout pants! Dang it!
this picture doesn't do the view justice
 
Seriously, it is a hardcore climb!
Someone had to take the pic, so lucky ole Ira wasn't in the pic with us!




CHICAGO


Hotdogs, Gangsters, Baseball and Pizza!!!! Does it get any better than this? Well if you add Shaun April and the 3 cutest little girls in the world it does!!! we had a great time in chicago with Shaun and April saturday we went to down town chicago and took a tour on one of those double decker buses. what a cool city!





The chicago theater sign
Gotta LOVE Ira's face in this pic!

The cute Chicago Payne Family!

This is the view of Chicago right after we left Navy Pier!
Hendrix enjoyed riding on the top of the bus, I LOVE this pic!
Hendrix LOVES Papa!!
Daddy and Hendrix at the Sear's Tower!

This was the sky deck at Willis Tower 103 stories up on a glass floor! An uneasy feeling looking over the city and the street below! But it was AWESOME!!!
Hendrix on the sky deck at the Willis tower (sears tower), cool huh? This is kind of a good pic, but you really have to be there to experience it, it was fun!


Navy Pier
Our little family at Navy Pier!!

Aren't you in love with that smile????
Marah and Hendrix are still a little young, but still had fun together!
Oh Brea.... She is just so flippin cute!!! Those girls sure do love their popcorn, they got their love for it from their mama!!
Hahaha....
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Hendrix wasn't always so happy to be on the bus, especially when he was tired!

Marah is darn cute!!

Thanks Shaun and April for letting us stay and hang out for the weekend! We had such a good time, and can't wait to see you soon! We had a blast learning about Chicago and spending time with your family! It's so beautiful there! Can't wait to visit again!



TEXAS

Hahaha, funny pic! (In front of Trent and Erika's house)
This is way to close to my face.... but, we went to this restaurant that overlooks the river, and we sat on the porch and fed the ducks, turtles, and catfish some of our bread, it was so cool to see soooo many turtles in one place. Fun fun!!
We went to an authentic Texas restaurant.... TEXAS ROADHOUSE! Where Hendrix wanted to represent the U of A proudly with Uncle Justin's hat!!
Haha, silly kid!
The kids about to go on Grandmas sponsored Easter egg hunt, doesn't Raylee and Taylor look so happy! lol
This wasn’t even a posed picture they got on it themselves so cute, Greyson is sure a fun kid, they had fun together after a couple of days of getting to know each other! 

At the Waco Zoo, the animal's were so super close! It was really cool!
Stupid poses! But really cool how many trees there were surrounding the walking decks, and tons of bamboo! Loved it!
Erika's boyfriend! Isn't he cute? But seriously, isn't this awesome? We were that close to the Orangatang! It was really cool to see them that close, I've NEVER seen an animal that close up

This was a cute pic! Hendrix was grabbing the monkey's nose, cute little cousins!

1 comment:

The Paynes said...

We make the dumbest poses! Oh well, we had fun! Hope to see you again this summer!