Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Catch up #1


My Uncle Mike's lake at sunset!

Steven and I went with my awesome family to Illinois to visit my Dad's side of the family. We spent 4 days in Fairview Heights, IL.. 1 night in Cedar Falls, Iowa.. and 3 nights in Nauvoo. It was such an awesome trip and I loved every minute of it! Steven hadn't met my Shaw side before so it was nice to have him finally meet them. Everyone was very friendly and went out of their way for us! It was really nice to see them and I didn't realize how much I missed them until I saw them again! It had been about 6 or 7 years since I saw them last. So this first catch up blog will be just of our visit to Fairview Heights, St. Louis arch, the Casino boat (which is now not a boat! Bummer!), and the family reunion at my uncles lake. Which by the way was like the coolest thing in the whole wide world!! My Uncle Mike has property in Coulterville (I think).. where it is all by itself. He has a nice lake and a bunch of open property as well as corn growing all around it. He had 4-wheelers, little boat, we swam and caught frogs, fished, visited with family, ate delicious food, played a little soccer, and watched the fireflies. It was a blast!

Corn Corn Corn!

My Uncle's lake.. ain't it a beauty?

Meg and I hopping on the 4 wheeler for the first time at the lake.

The Shaw family

My Dad and his brother (my Uncle Mike)

I caught a fish!! Of course it died right after :(

Steven caught like 28 fish!

Steven and I by the soon to be sunset. It was beautiful!


We had fun taking these pictures by the sunset!

The Shaw fam. waiting for a dinner.. and waiting.. and waiting..

The Shaw family at my Grandma and Grandpa Shaw's grave site. They died within two weeks of each other, I was little and never got to know them. :(

My brother Casey, Cousin Sarah, and I on the Sky scraper at Six Flags.

Us up in the air! It was a blast!

Steven and I outside the casino boat.. no winnings here!

St. Louis Arch

So there ya have it! The first catch up pictures!! I will prob post the second batch tomorrow! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

4 comments:

Steven said...

Very fun trip! Really everything went pretty smoothly and every day we got to do something fun. Except the last day when we flew home, but 7/8 isn't bad!

Casandra said...

I'm jealous! But I'm glad you had a good trip.

Natalie said...

Looks like you guys had a great time! Can't wait to see more!

Rachel said...

The corn pictures made me miss Iowa. I didn't know you did that flying thing. Was it scary? Great sunset picture.

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