Busting moves together

Dinah Payne was pulling away from her then-boyfriend Clayton’s home on Church Circle when he said ‘I love you’ for the first time — but she said ‘thank you’ in response. “I got to the end of the cul-de-sac and realized what he had said, and called him as I drove past the high school to say ‘I love you too,'” Dinah says. The 2004 LHHS graduates first met at Freshman Center, but they weren’t official until summer 2006 while attending Texas Tech. Dinah says she knew Clayton was the one since she could put up with his constant singing and “tone deaf voice.” The Paynes were married in 2009, and now have twin 9-year-old boys, Benjamin and Henry, and a 7-year-old daughter, Hiley Kate. Since taking Country & Western Dance together in 10th grade, the couple always makes time to dance. “To this day, we can’t hear God Bless Texas and not bust a move,” Dinah says.

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