Grandmom's thoughts

Well, our shortened Camp G-mom is about over. The Cedar Park Crones have gone home. The Cedar Creek Crone boys will spend one more night in the camper. Tomorrow we will run some errands and clean up some.

Each year brings many blessings. Watching these cousins bond and grow up together, make memories together, and have fun together is a special treat for me. This has been our 7th Camp Grandmom. I love having them here.

But as Teresa said, "Your house is a mess!" Time to clean up tomorrow while I review some of the great times we had.

Top sayings of the week

10- "Sweet rutabaga Pie!"- Malachi
9-"After you smell the Off this one smells like lemons"- Caroline
8-"Look at this! It hunts itself!"- Peter
7-"I am getting smart at this game!"-Asher
6-"I can do it in one move!"-Granddad
5-"The brown vinegar and paper...Wait brown paper and vinegar!"-Caroline
4-"Jed, you are making up so many words, you should write your own dictionary."-Claire
3-" Hey guys! Grandmom should have a Revolving door leading into the Dining Room painted Scarlet!-Jerusha trying to give Clue hints
2-"How romantic! They are rubbing therir backs together!"-Jed on an ending pose for So You Think You Can Dance
1-"I'm Hungry!I'm thirsty!I'm Bob!"-Our favorite exchange between Grandad,Peter and Asher from last year!

Parrting is such sweet sorrow!

Today, alas, is our last day.( we will allow a few seconds for sobbing) Uncle Rob has just arrived. He will stay for dinner and then off go the cousins. This morning the girls stayed in bed late. (like 9 0'clock. Wow!) After we awoke we created pictures and notes to send to Great-Gramma Crone. Thereafter, we had a watermelon seed-spitin' contest.Or as I just incorrectly said "speed sittin' "
Claire won with a whopping 23feet 7 inches. Malachi topped it off however in the "Free-spit" round with 33feet 5inches. Later we watched Tom and Jerry, and the Jetsons. As the TV turned off we all gathered around the table to eat a jumble of leftovers. I happened to eat Goulash mixed with Cowboy beans mixed cheese with ketchup mixed with chopped up hot dogs. Delicious! We tried out Asher's newest game Scrabble Slam. We discovered it to be exeedingly entertaining. We played at least 5 rounds along with more Clue and Uno. I MUST leave you!

Movie Review

Last night we watched Fantasia. We had homemade popcorn (yum! yum!). We all had our favorites. During the dinosaurs, Claire got thirsty because the dinos couldn't find any water. We were all about asleep before it ended. This morning we had to vacumm 'cause there was popcorn all over the floor.

Museum reveiw

Yesterday I had the advantage to take a self guided tour of the Texas Memorial Museum. As I arrived I was greeted by the man at the front desk. Up in the first room I saw many gems, dead beetles (gross), and skeletons of dinosars and animals. In the bottom story,wich was under the ground,There were all sorts of dinosar bones. I regret to say but it was extrodinarily easy to tell the real and fake ones apart. Over all it was very good and the blue light that gave off the impression that there was water around the sea dino was very convincing.On the third floor it was all about Texas wildlife. I saw many exibits full of stuffed, but definatly realistic animals. To name a few, we saw snakes, dear, bison, cougars, andfoxes. I would deffinatly like to put a good word in for their night creatures exibit. The tempeture was even cool like it normaly is in the darker time of day. The forth floor was filled with exibit that consisted of things from Darwin's therory to ants to HIV to pond scum. Soon after I visited the gift shop only to find my self quoosling with puppet monkeys, shiny rocks and small bottles of "real" gold, silver, and copper. Over all I found the experiance exeedingly fun and educational. Sighning Out.
Sincerly Yours,
She Eagle (and to my friends Jush)

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Random things from the week

Hi! this is Jerusha. In the last 2 days we have,
eaten carrot cake,
snuggled with a dachshund,
made waffles,
eaten all the cheese-its.
jumped in mud puddles,
watched yogi Bear,and Popye,
read a ginormus amount of books,
discoverd that Mrs. White ALWAYS kills Mr. Body,
had games and popcorn,
slept in a camper,
rehearsed a play,
the boys have played "pickle" several times,
played like we are storm-troopers,
and decided that today is not a good day to go swimming in Lake Bastrop.Darn hurricane Alex!Anyway, we are sooooo productive!

Today

Last night the girls slept inthe camper while the boys slept inside. 4 Breakfast today everyone (exept Mac.) had yogurt. Right now we're trying to figure out who killed Mr. Boddy. However, they must watch out, a stormtrooper keeps popping up. Here is today's scedule:

1. Eat lunch

2. Go to Texas Memorial Museum

3.Ice Cream

4.Play time

5. Hotdogs 4 dinner

6. Fantasia

7. Pajamas

8. Stargazing

9.Sleep

Game night

Game night is fun and exciting. We all had are favorites.

Peter:Clue, Onto the desert,and UNO

Asher:Clue

Jed:Clue,andUNO

Caroline:Onto the desert,andUNO

Mac:Onto the desert

Claire:Clue,and UNO

Jusha:Clue,and UNO

Playing in the Rain

fun, exhillerating, muddy, awesome, wet

splashing, dunking, kicking

clouds, puddles

everlasting

New play featuring King Bubbles once again

King Bubbles says that this new play is fun and adventurous. It features some of our favorite fairy tales. Now we are working on scenery and costumes. Asher says that there are lots of funny lines. Peter likes his role as the Big Bad Wolf [BBW]! It's going to be SO exciting!! This cast of actors are cooperative says one of the directors. It can only be seen on Leisure Lane on Thursday!

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Review of the Fireworks!!

We absolutly loved the fireworks last night!!! Thank you Issac! :)
Here's the review:

Peter - loved the smokebombs!
Asher - loved the red smokebomb!
Jed - loved the smokebombs!
Malachi - loved the blue smokebomb(it smelled good)!
Caroline - loved the Friendship Fountains!
Claire - loved the Friendship Fountains and the up in the skyes!
Jerusha - loved the Gold and Silver pops!

Claire and Jerusha started the watch for "the last embur" game.
It was very noisy.

The Madness begins!

Our fun began with a celebration of Asher's 8th birthday. Corn dogs and carrot cake for dinner, yum! Then after opening the most awesome presents, Isaac orchestated a grand fireworks show.
The boys slept in the camper; girls inside. Not much sleep this first night for the boys.
Now after breakfast, activity is pick up again. The girls are anxious to write something here. The boys have built Asher's new Lego kits and are playing dominoes after playing "pickle" outside. Whew! I'm tired already!
More fun to follow. G-mom