Sunday, December 7, 2008

Airplanes, Thanksgiving, and Mission friends...

Latimer had his first airplane ride and major trip for Thanksgiving this year. During the summer Trev and I decided that it would be a perfect time to go to Atlanta, GA. See Trev went on his mission there and has really wanted to go back and see friends from there since we have been married. It is completely amazing how friendly and nice everyone was. I could tell that Trev loved visiting and seeing where he had lived for 2 years.


Ms. JoAnn and Mercedes w/Latimer


The people in the South know how to cook!!! I swear we gained 100 million lbs. while we were there.


Mercedes and Latimer


Cute little guy!

One day we decided we would travel across the Chattooga River and see Auburn University. I thought the campus was beautiful. It is really historic with a lot of older buildings.


Auburn: Where the Eagle soars, and the Tiger roars!

So this is Toomer's Corner, this is the place that after an Auburn football game gets CRAZY!!! It is funny because Toomer's is acutually a little old drugstore. I don't know...I guess you just have to be there to get it. Rhonda, Trev, Me & Lat
They found a new girlfriend...hahaha.



When Trev was in ATL on his mission he said that there are people with some unreal names. I always thought that he might exagerate it a little bit, that is until we saw this poster...DeWanna Bonner??? Who does that to their child!?!?!?!?

The CNN Center was pretty unreal. It was huge. I was bummed cause we just missed a person doing the news.

Cartoon Network place inside the CNN Center. The thing on my front is Latimer in his pack. It was great to have it because a stroller would have been such a pain for us since we stayed with so many different people.

ATL has one of the best public transit systems in the US, MARTA. Trev spent 1 1/2 years on MARTA while in ATL. He was giving Latimer a little lovin while we waited for the next train. It was so great to use the trains, a lot cheaper than taking cabs all over the city.

One of the coolest things I think we did was when we went to Coke World in downtown ATL. Since Trev had left ATL they built a new place and he had never been to it. This was our sad attempt at taking a picture of ourselves in front of these sculpted Coke bottles from all over the world.
We finally had this guy take one of us. Again, there is Lat in his pack. He was such a good boy as we were site-seeing. He pretty much slept the whole time.
These huge Coke bottles were really intricate, but you can't really tell in this picture.
So this one room had so much old Coke stuff. This guy walked right in front of my picture, but the boy with the dog is an original Norman Rockwell painting. 1 of 7 that he was commissioned by Coke to do. The coolest thing I thought was the oldest piece of Coke memoribilia, if you look hard you can see this little red bell with Coke $0.05. I so wish it was still that cheap. It was from the 1890's (I think but can't really remember).
Downtown ATL was so cool. I loved all the different types of buildings. The big gold round one that looks like is has some of it's windows broken is the Wynn. It has a rotating restaurant in the top of it that we ate at one day. You got to see the city from a whole new perspective!

Me and Lat in front of the Olympic rings fountain in Centential Park in Downtown ATL.

No matter how much fun and how good the food is and how nice the people you see and meet are, there is no feeling quite like the one you feel when you are finally home from a vacation.

8 comments:

Kassi said...

It looks like your trip was so fun! We were so glad you came and stayed with us one night and would love for you to do it again! I love you family pictre it is so cute! Love you guys!

Chelsea said...

Wow. First I have to say, I love your pic of the fam on the top of the page, so cute. And I can't believe how many incredible pictures you had of your trip. It looked amazing. I love the one of Trev giving Latimer loves. And the coke bottles are so great!

. said...

How fun! I'm so pumped that you are becoming a real blogger now. I love your family pics too. They turned out great... even Trev looks good! Lat is such a little cutie. He needs to come hang out with me one night while you and trev go on a little date.

Ashley Jackson said...

Looks like you guys had such a fun time. That is awesome that you guys could go see Trevor's mission and enjoy a fun trip. Fun pictures:)

Hollie said...

Your family pictures turned out soo cute! It looks like you guys had so much fun for thanksgiving. I can't wait to go see Scott's mission. Latimer is so cute!

Malinda S. said...

Lots of fun photos. Travis has been wanting to go visit his old mission stompin' grounds...but Mexico is a little more difficult with a baby! Hopefully soon. How lucky you guys are!

Chelsea said...

Would you go to my page and give me your address so I can send you a christmas card?! Thanks bunches! I wont post it, I will be the only one to see it!

Kassi said...

can you update your page PLEASE!!