The Thomas' Post

I am at my Aunt Jessica's and Uncle Caleb's house right now, so I am dedicating this post to their family. Uncle Caleb, Aunt Jess, Tyson, Tony, Arianna, and Brianna. Here are some amazing pixs of their amazing family! I love you guys!!!

Adventures the Galley Cabin

We left left Tursday to spend 4th of July weekend at my Aunt Jessica's family cabin in Grand Lake,Co. We had some pretty amazing adventures that I don't think anyone will be forgetting soon! There were 25 people in, 8 beds (some people had to sleep in the cars, and Nana and Papa slept in a tent), and 1 bathroom, for 4 days! We went swimming at the local pool, canoeing at Lake Granby, fishing, Cliff Diving at Lake Granby (Grand Lake was crowded), we ate s'mores almost every night!, we atched the fireworks on the 4th from the City Market parking lot, watched movies, cooked...a lot, and talked, all weekend! Most of my mom's siblings and their family were there, except Micah who is touring Ireland, Prouge, and Rome! You know how OCD I am about taking pictures and documenting every little bit of everything, so here is some visual documentation of our adventures at the Galley Cabin!

It was a beautiful drive up!

Tales from around the Campfire...

The Kids loved to play out side!

Maren and Gabe

Derik and Sunny

Arianna

Caine

Now for the lake pictures!

Now Here's a couple of us Cliff Diving! P.S. Right after I jumped the third time it started HAILING! and we ran 1/4 of a mile and jumped a fence in our swimsuits in the hail/rain! It was most definatly an adventure!

Here's Samantha!

Me! I look like kid don't I? How sad....I felt like all that!

And here's a few of us hangin' around the cabin and makin s'mores!

Now for the sad part. I think everyone suffered from the goodbye blues when it was time for our adventures to come to an end. My heart always suffers a little when I have to say goodbye, but there were a few little hearts this trip that utterly shattered when it was time to leave.

Alright, it's gettin close to dinner time, so I'm gonna go for now. I'll talk to you all soon, and please feel free to comment, I love hearing from you!

~Ali~

The joys of Life

Do you ever just stop and think about those little, every day things that often bring the most joy? I do. So I'm going to use this post to share some of my little joys with you.

Derik singing in the shower. He only sings for the first few seconds, but I kept filming in hopes that he would start again. He's pretty good!

Playing with my cousin Gabriel.

Hangin' with Braji (Brianna) in the trunk of her mom's suburban...

Seeing the joy on the faces of Derik, Cordell, and Sunny while they held doves.

K, I gotta go. Were getting ready to go to the big family 4th of July weekend at my mom's family's cabin! It's going to be really fun! I'm gonna go Cliff Diving! Wish me luck! I'll be back to tell you all about it soon!