Snow Cone Lady

After we dropped Nick off at gymnastics, the rest of us headed to the Library. We collected some good books and went over to visit the Snow Cone Lady!

Once again, Christopher snowed us all and ordered a mint, pink lemonade snow cone. I gave him "the look" and he quickly changed his order to rootbeer and green apple. I gave him another look and he was dumb-founded!

"What do you want me to get?" he kindly asked.

"Something that will not make you barf!" I was quick to reply.

He ordered a redhot with cream... like cinnamon. He loved it! I know, I know I should just let the kid get what he orders! But those just sounded way too gross!

The Drive-In

A few months back I read an article in a Frisco Flyer magazine that comes monthly (free in the mail). It spoke of the drive-in theatres of long ago. It was a very fun article with nostalgic items of the past.

At the end of the article it highlighted The Galaxy Drive-In Theatre in Ennis Texas. I checked out the show and show times and up was Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (one we have not seen) and Night At The Museum: Battle At The Smithsonian (one we HAVE seen and loved). What could we want more - A DOUBLE FEATURE with TWO GREAT MOVIES.

The only problem: showtime is at dusk (after 9) and Ennis Texas is 21 miles South of Dallas. We are about 20 miles NORTH of Dallas. Then we have to travel THRU Dallas - another 20 miles (it seemed, but probably not THAT long).

Long story short - we arrived home at 2:30am. I don't think the boys ever stayed up that late before. Emma and I slept through the 2nd feature in the back of the truck. (We brought a blow-up air mattress.) But Those Thomas Boys have TRUE Thomas Genes: they will stay awake through any movie and not even get a bit tired and fall asleep. Oh No Way!

Thomas Reunion 2009

Glenn has 1 older brother (Eldon) and 1 younger brother (Brent). He also has 4 sisters that are younger than him. All the siblings are married and most of them have kids. So, it's a lot of fun to get together. And when we do ALL get together, it's a FULL HOUSE!

The summer of 2003 found us ALL packing our bags and going to Aspen Grove Family Camp in Utah. It was a lot of fun! In 2006 we returned back and had even more fun. But, we found out that even though it was so convenient (meals are ready, clean-up is done, housing/bedding is provided, etc.) we really didn't find our families much together. We all kind of did our own thing and there wasn't too much interaction between all of us.

So, for 2009, we decided to have our own Thomas Family Family Camp in the mountains of Arizona. Hats off to a wonderful SIL who planned most of the adventure, we ate GREAT, we had fun doing dinner duty (only twice in the week), we had fun activities and we had fun being together - All 35 or so, of us! It was Fun!

We had a creek about a 1/4 mile from the cabin. Most of the older kids could be found in the stream hunting for crawdads. (They brought them home, boiled them and ate them.) About 2 miles up the stream there was a swimming hole. Near the cabin was a 3-story tree house. Each day found us doing water balloons. There was ping-pong, foosball, pool... One afternoon we shot guns. We drove the Rhino all around the property and beyond. There was crafts (t-shirts and bracelets). We also had a talent show. Card games and board games galore! We did rockets and water balloon launchers. There was a scavenger hunt, pinatas, hair braiding and all sorts of other stuff. We also did bike rides and lots of hiking/walking. There was the diligent (5am) morning exercise crowd doing runs, walks and biking.

Here's a few pictures: