Our Family Is Complete

Look who finally made their appearance at the castle house to make our family complete--Abe, Klarissa and Newland. It was so good to see them!

They got to the house right after we returned from going to church in the Disneyland Ward as one member of the bishopric called it because they are the ward that has Disneyland in their boundaries.

Dallas and Rebecca took their family to the LDS visitors' center in San Diego, the Mormon Battalion Historic Site, and they stopped at a beach to watch some seals.

It was blue day. We had gotten matching t-shirts for all 22 members of our family to wear each day. This design has our family cheer making up the Mickey ears: "We are the best. We stand the test. In us you trust, the family Thomas." The bottom part of the head says: "THOMAS FAMILY REUNION 2013."

Sarah's family and Ben did the morning posing in front of the castle for their picture with their matching t-shirts.

Jacob's family, Abe's family and Glen and I did our posing as well.

Our first ride of the day--the tram ride from the parking lot. 

Disneyland was all decked out in Halloween decor.

 It wasn't long before we hooked up with Sarah who was trying to get Carson to sleep.

Ahhhh... Success! For both Carson and Newland.

When he woke up, we had a ride Newland would be able to go on.

Klarissa bought Newland some Mickey ears.

Perfect headgear for posing in front of the castle.

 We got in on some of the castle posing as well.

Then who to our wondering eyes should appear but the fairy godmother--the very one who sprinkled fairy dust on my side of the bed where I slept every night.

We had her all to ourselves on that secluded sidewalk that dead-ended. Newland was not immediately as happy as I was to have her in such close proximity to us.

No question about it--Newland loved the frozen lemonade treat Abe was sharing with him and I loved the frozen treat as well! It was a hot day at Disneyland.

Cheese balls were a popular treat the kids took for snacks every day.

Glen had bought a huge container of them and a popcorn popper for the grandkids to have popcorn and cheese balls for snacks and he ended up going back for another barrel of cheese balls because they were eaten so quickly. The popcorn popper was a dud because half of the kernels in each batch never popped. 

We ate at a delicious all-you-can-eat BBQ chicken and ribs, corn-on-the-cob, coleslaw, beans and cornbread meal that was so tasty.

Jacob's family found us after we finished our meal and there was a perfect spot for us to get a group picture taken.

Jack-o-lantern Mickey was all lit up when we made our way out of the park.

Our last ride for the evening--the tram ride back to the parking lot.

 Back at the house we were chilling and getting the kids into p.j.'s.

Such darling children who needed their sleep for another big day the next day.