Last night Colton and I went to Frontier City for "Fright Fest". We had Frontier City passes this year, so we went there ALOT, but it was great last night! Everything was so different. The shows were all changed and the decorations were all out. Even the food was different. They had turkey legs and corn on the cob! We only rode about 3 rides (the lines were longer than we've ever seen them) but we had a BLAST in the "dance party". They would play songs like the Cha Cha Slide and the Cupid Shuffle and the Twist. Of course, this was all lead by dancing gouls. Two of the guys were truely AMAZING! I could have just stood there all night and watched them dance! Colton says he's "got that one guy's moves now". We stayed until they closed at 11.
Someone from school gave me a new program this week for the computer. It's a family tree maker. So I've taken "the book" of family information and started putting in all that I can about the ancestors in "the book". However, this information filters out around my grandma's generation. So there's no information in there about me or my cousins or even aunts and uncles that I've actually MET. We used to have big family reunions around my great-grandma's birthdays. She lived to be 103! After "grandma-great" passed away, we just didn't get together anymore. So that's been my mission. To get on paper the family that I've actually known in my lifetime.
Well that mission blossomed a little this week. We were out of school on Friday, so my mom and Colton and I went over to Kingfisher to find the marker of my great-great-grandfather who died there. It took several hours to find the cemetery even, and then to trek through the stickers and actually find the marker. Thank goodness it wasn't a very big cemetary!! On the way back to Crescent, we talked about the reunions and decided to try to find some of these people. My great-grandma had 7 kids. We are talking about finding all of their kids, and their kids, etc. I did manage to find the 2 kids of hers that are still living. Of course, they gave me numbers of a few of their kids, etc.
Here's the kicker on all of this though. In contacting all of these aunts, uncles, and cousins, they all miss the reunions too! In fact, "oh you should put together another reunion!" (uh, that would be ME??) So now it's a thought. Next summer, maybe around grandma-great's birthday on July 2nd. Hey, July 4th is a Saturday..........
