Friday, July 24, 2009

First Annual Cousin Day!

First I want to make it clear that we did not make up this holiday. July 24th is National Cousin Day! You can look it up online!! We were just silly enough to find this holiday and make it into a new annual event. I mean this is like Christmas in July for all the fun we had!!!

Now let me explain what we decided to do so you can follow along and understand. Since Cousin Day fell on Friday we all decided that we would spend the whole day together. To make it fun and exciting we thought we would split up the day/evening into time frames and each cousin gets to pick their activity that they would do during that time frame. See a lot of thought went into planning this day.

The day began at 9:30am with breakfast at IHOP with Shawn, Mindi, Alyssa, Stephanie, and me. Courtney and Stacey had to work so they planned to join us at 3pm for when Cousin Day "officially" began!



After breakfast everyone had a few errands to run but Shawn, Alyssa, Stephanie and I ended up back at my house around noon. That was when Shawn decided he would join us for a few hours for Cousin Day! Since Shawn was not in the original time frame drawing he got the 12pm-2:30pm time slot. His activity was to teach us Pinochle! He came prepared with rules and special cards and everything!


Here we are playing at my house!
This game was actually a lot of fun but we only got to play a few hands. I'm hoping we can play again soon. Shawn also provided lunch for us while we played! Yummy Taco Bell!!
Alyssa seemed to enjoy it!
Tacos!! Yummy!!!
After a quick bite to eat Stacey and Courtney arrived at my house to begin our "official" activities! Before we began though I had a special Cousin Day gift for everyone! Earlier in the day Alyssa and Stephanie had commented on a cute pair of shoes I had just bought myself. As a surprise I decided to get a pair for everyone!! Yep, even Shawn has a pair. Can you pick out his foot below???
This was our first of many Cousin Day photos!


Let the fun begin!!!!


P.S. Shawn did decide to give his shoes to Mindi.....as I knew he would!! : )
She loved them!!


More to come

xoxo

4 comments:

poo head said...

Um first, I can not believe you put the picture of me eating my taco. That is not a very cousin day kind of thing to do!

I love the foot pic, so cute!

C Brown said...

I love the foot pic cause you have to try to figure out who's foot is who's though mine is a dead give away. Plus thanks for saving a couple of taco's for me.

LB said...

I didn't have many pictures from that earlier activity so I had to include them all. Don't be mad cuz!!! Next time you can take a picture of me eating and I will post it! : )

Stephanie said...

Love the foot pic! I can't decide what will go in my frame....maybe I will rotate new picturesmonthly or something!
The tacos were super yummy! Thanks for the reminder, Alyssa!