COUSIN'S CAMP 2009

ELISE, AUDREY, NICOLE, CAMILLE, MICHELLE, and TISON(barely in the left hand corner)

Each year my husbands side of the family does something called "Cousins Camp". This was the 2nd year of it with this group of girls. This year we were lucky enough to have them all stay with us for a couple of days in July and I was able to plan a fun time for them. Paul and I love all our nieces and nephews so much. We have 26 nieces and nephews on his side of the family, plus a grand niece and another grand niece/nephew that is on the way. And on my side of the family we have 1 nephew and 1 niece and another niece/nephew on the way. We were so grateful for the time we had with 3 of our nieces over cousins camp. It gave us an opportunity to get to know them better. We hope they come back again soon!

DAY 1

Three of these sweet girls arrived at our home. They played dress up and did a little modeling show. We decorated some aprons for a craft project. They played outside in our playhouse and on the slide. They had a chicken nugget smiley face lunch. They had swim time at the Solomon's Monday evening and played in the castle with the Solomon's grandson, Landon. Wherever the girls were Tison was. He enjoyed his cousins too!

"OUR BEAUTIFUL BUNCH"

"IS IT TIME FOR BED YET? WE NEED OUR BEAUTY SLEEP."

MAKING APRONS AND PLAYING OUTSIDE!

BLAINE JOINING IN ON THE FUN

SWIMMING AT THE SOLOMON'S HOME AND SOME CASTLE FUN.

THANK YOU DENNIS AND EDIE!

DAY 2
They woke up very happy and excited the next morning. We had a fun filled day planned. They had a "YUMMY" Dunkin Donuts breakfast and then we got ready and went to the Science Center where they played in a hurricane wind tunnel, slid down intenstinal walls and stood in a nasal cavity, made their own potato head faces, Tison drove them on a jeep Safari through Potato Head land, and then collected oranges on a little orange farm. They were very hard workers. My brother Chris came down to visit as well while going to audition for American Idol. They all had a blast! When we got back from the Science Center they had popcorn and watched "Bed Time Stories"....LOVE that movie!

"SPA NIGHT"

COUSINS CAMP '09

Tuesday evening I did a spa night and ice cream sundae night with the girls. We painted our toe nails and wore our bath robes. I did glacial mud masks on them and cucumbers for their eyes. They had so much fun and felt very pampered. :) I think you can tell which feet are mine, but can you tell which feet are my girls feet? I think one of them is very obvious.....Nicole and I have the same feet.

LOVE THE PICTURE OF THE GIRLS AND THE ONES OF TISON AND BLAINE JOINING IN ON THE FUN!

"COUSINS FOREVER"
Wednesday morning we did another craft where we made hair bows out of flowers and then they had lunch and I drove to drop them off.....BITTERSWEET!

My Rag Quilt

This post has a little story behind it. About 4 years ago I started to make a rag quilt......one of my very first sewing projects. It was going to be a gift for my cousins 1st daughter. I used the same colors as her bedroom. Well I only did 2 rows of it.....put it away and then pulled it out a couple of months ago to finish it. Since now my little 2nd cousin is 4 years old I couldn't really gift it to her so I decided for Millie's (my nieces) 2nd birthday I would complete it.....and I did.....only it was a couple of months after her birthday. Needless to say Millie loved it and I feel very good having accomplished one of my unfinished projects. It isn't perfect if you look at it closely, but I finished it!!!! :)

And here she is all rapped up in it!

Fourth of July weekend Day 2-Saturday

On Saturday we went to Joe and Lacy's ward over at the church for th 4th of July breakfast. It was alot of fun. They had little booths set up outside for the kids with an egg on spoon race, horse shoe toss, stick pull game, a potato sack race, water balloon fight, etc. Below are some pictures of the water balloon fight and outside fun they had on the 4th.

My brother Joe handed out the water ballons to everyone and explained the rules and then the kids were off. It was so fun to watch them!

Joseph and Nicole kept trying to nail each other the whole time. They got each other pretty wet!

OOOOOOOOO.........So close!

Little Millie excited about joining in on the fun!Blaine just watchin' all the fun.

Our friend Noah!

The John's youngest boy......ADORABLE!! Just LOVE the red hair.

STICK PULL game between Nicole and Tison. Hmmmm...I wonder who will win. :)
Kaden Lavoie......what a cutie!

Sydney Lavoie....LOVE her bandana!
Yes......Tison did have FUN that morning even though this picture does not depict that emotion.

Michelle and Nicole enjoying the potato sack race!
Millie, getting ready for the kids parade!

We missed seeing the kids parade because our kids were ready to head back to Mima and Papa's. Later that day we had more POOL FUN at Joe and Lacy's. Then we arrived back at Mima and Papa's house for some "YUMMY" burgers, hotdogs, potato salad, tortilla chips, salsa...I think you get the picture. WE LOVE TO EAT!!! We had planned on having Ice Cream Sundaes after the cook out, but the kids were pretty wiped out and we were stuffed full. So we had some sparkler fun and watched some fireworks on TV.

It was a FUN, FUN weekend!

Fourth of July weekend Day 1-Friday

We had a blast 4th of July weekend with Mima, Papa, Chris, Joe, Lacy, Joey, and Millie. We spent our 1st day swimming in Joe and Lacy's neighborhood pool until a crazy thunderstorm came carrying lots of lightning. We had to run for cover with the 6 grandbabies. As soon as we got under the clubhouse cover the rain started to pur down and a huge bolt of lightning struck very close to us. The children started to scream and cry so we headed inside the Clubhouse and the kids played there until the rain stopped. Below are some pictures from our pool time that day.

Our happy bunch of kids!

Later on that afternoon we went to Joe and Lacy's, ate lunch, and did a fun little 4th of July craft!
Can you guess what they are making on their pages?

Thank you Aunt Lacy for planning this fun craft!!!

Here are their masterpieces......

And the whole time we were doing the craft Blaine played with the toys on the floor. It was such a FUN day for everyone!