Thanks to Gigi we listen to a lot of Broadway and so when I decided to finally start writing about our trip in May I naturally put it to a tune from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Not wanting to bask in my cleverness all alone I took the song to David. He looked at me with a "am I seriously married to you" look and then asked me to sing it again so he could remember the tune. I started singing it and then realized that he had his blackberry strangely positioned on me. Yes folks my husband was attempting to blackmail me for my dorkiness. I will save you all the trouble of hearing the song, but these are the lyrics for your enjoyment and my humiliation:
way way back many weeks ago
not long after the summer began
the payne family took a trip across the nation
to visit a lot of family, friends and neighbors
Okay so I guess I know where Gigi gets her singing and dancing from. Sorry kid!
On to the actual post:
Our first stop on our trip was to Champaign, Illinois to see my brother Ephraim graduate from medical school (he also completed his PhD, which I think makes a total of 10 years of school in that little town! Wow!!!)
We were scheduled to go to his new home in St. Louis first, but our apartment flooded yet again so we had to postpone our trip for a day and go straight to the commencement exercises. (Why do they call it exercises anyway? The only real exercise you get is practicing sleeping with your eyes open until your family members name is called and commencement, um hello it's the end not the beginning. I'm sure someone out there is much smarter than me and can explain this, but to me it seems a bit backwards)
Eph graduating. I am so proud of him and all of the hard work that he has put into his career. He and his family are an amazing example of hard work and diligence. Way to go guys!!!!
Eph and his beautiful family (His wife Amy, Hazel 5, Asher 4, Daphne 2)
The Siblings
Hazel and Gigi had such a fantastic time playing together. It stinks that we live so far away!
Unfortunately the parent dork gene has passed on...sigh
7 comments:
Ah, I sure like your family, Bethany! Amy is such a sweetheart and her kids are so cute! I see a lot of the Parent genes in them, which reminds me of you--*sigh*--anyway, you sure need to come visit them sometime in STL so you can visit me too!
Such cute pictures!! lol I think I may have been guilty of encouraging the carrots in the mouth thing... So funny. Love you guys!!
But I am pretty sure that the dork gene shares an allele with the fun gene, so not to worry.
I am loving your new banner pictures. I inherited from my dad the tendency to make up my own words to various songs. I have, in turn, passed it on (a bit) to Nick. You are not alone.
Oh, so that's the family with Asher. He's got a great hairdo.
Miss you guys.
Hey, I've worked long and hard developing my dorkiness. It's not just inherited, it takes lots of work to really be a supreme dork. And speaking of which, I'm going to hold my wife's comment against her every time says I'm a dork/weird/strange/annoying (well maybe not the last one)...apparently she secretly likes it!
I love your new blog background! Very cute! That looks like such a fun trip with fun, fun cousins. :) Oh, let's talk soon. I want to hear about David's internship, etc!
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