Bales Family Reunion
Houston, June 2010

I am finally posting again! I am waaaaaay behind. So much has happened in the last month! Last month in June, we drove all the way down to Houston, Texas for a Bales Family Reunion. It was a very welcomed break!!

We all started down in Galveston. We rented a beach house and had fun going back and forth to the beach. Here are some pictures of the boys at the beach the first night we got there.

We all had fun playing the Wii and, thanks to my mom for getting a fun dance game. All the grandkids had a blast playing the same songs over and over again. Since then, I've had "The Eye of the Tiger" in my head!

We also had fun making shirts for all the grandkids. Everyone painted their hands and put their hand prints on every shirt. Ryan didn't do very well with this part. he wasn't use to this and he had a huge meltdown while we forced paint on his hands.

Benjamin didn't do too bad. He just didn't understand why we kept getting him dirty with all the paint.

We also had to get the grandkids together for the grandkid picture. My mom made all the girls WAY CUTE pillow case dresses! We pilled all the kids on the stairs and started shooting.

Another reason I love being there was when things settled down at the end of the day and all the siblings with my mom and dad sat on the deck and talked. It was great.

After leaving Galveston, some of us went to the Rainforest Cafe. It was really cool inside.

But, Ryan didn't do very well inside. He was paralyzed with terror. Every 20 minutes or so, the lights would fade and it would start "thundering and lightening." He really struggled with that. Poor Ryan.We also went to a really cool store called Murdocks. It is a huge souvenir shop that has everything you can think of. I got some cool wind chimes, some t-shirts that say Galveston Island on them, and a sundress. Really cool stuff!

After the fun of Galveston, we headed back to Humble and chilled for the rest of the week. We had fun going to the movies to see the new Toy Story 3 in 3D.

This was Ryan and Benjamin's first time going to a movie! They both did really good. At the end of the movie, Ryan fell asleep because we've been keeping him up at nights. Ben was pretty restless and I had to go out a couple times with him. I didn't see the last of the movie so we'll have to get it when it comes out.

We also took the wonderful opportunity to eat wonderful BBQ!! While we ate there, they had karaoke set up and the kids got up to sing "Sweet Home Alabama." We also sang happy birthday to my nephew Kaleb. He's 12 now!! He's getting so old!!

One of the most important things we did, we ate Blue Bell ice cream!

Lastly, we just had to get some family pictures done. (Please excuse how I look. I know I'm really big. I'm working on it!)