Thursday, June 5, 2014

May 17 - Trip to Colorado Part 2 - The Ice Cream Social

The day of the Ice Cream Social finally had come. Our whole family has been looking forward to this weekend so we can support Grandpa and be together with our whole family again. Mom's oldest sister couldn't come, but her two kids, Michael and Melanie made it. And well they did. Both Michael and Melanie had worked in an ice cream parlor, of sorts, so they knew just how much to serve everyone. Mom's younger sister and all of her family were there. They are a family Blue Grass band, so they provided the entertainment for the Social. And they did a fantastic job. Mom's youngest sister lives very close to Grandmother and Grandpa, so she has played a huge part in this whole campaign. Organizing events, honoring his name, and doing whatever she can do to help.





All the sisters brought cookies for the Social. We had over 10 dozen homemade cookies. And about 6 gallons of Ice Cream. By the time we were done, we had only about 3 dozen cookies and close to two and a half gallons of ice cream left over.
Bessie White, a longtime member of their county, and a friend of the Lambert family since before Grandmother even came into the picture. Stood up and gave the best recommendation that she could have, and somehow it seemed like the best that anyone could have made "He's a good guy." 
 After it was all over, the whole family pitched in to clean up. Now when you have 13 kids from the ages of 19-3 who haven't seen one another in a long time, there tends to be some competition and goofiness when they finally get some slack. Boone and Zach had the "fun" job of vacuuming the community center. So what else did they do, but race. It took almost everyone to "manage" the race and to "make sure that they were doing it right."

 Now that the serious part of our trip is all over we can get to the fun(er) part of the trip.



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