2nd Annual Cousin Fun Week

On Tuesday night, our second annual cousin fun week commenced and we kicked things off the right way with a dinner at Chuy’s!  We quickly discovered two high chairs and 3 kiddos under the age of 5 makes for a pretty chaotic meal…and we didn’t even have any outbursts or fits!  We did, however, have to have extra extra bowls, plates, forks, and napkins!!!  After dinner, Emily and I went to a hair bow party and really racked up!  The 3 kiddos stayed at home with Gramma and had lots of fun playing inside and outside and enjoyed some Charley’s Cowgirl Cookies. Kobey drew a circle with sidewalk chalk and made Gramma run around it 5 times…twice!  Sure wish we could have watched her do that!  Gramma snapped some pictures of the fun she was having with her great nephew and neice and her granddaughter.  Go glad they could enjoy some quality time together!

After breakfast on our second day, we packed up and headed up to the pool!  It was much hotter than we expected, which probably explains why we pretty much had the pool to ourselves for a while.  After a couple of hours of playing and trying out her newly learned skills from swimming lessons, Gramma and I took Charley home for a nap while Emily and the kids stayed a little longer.   We enjoyed a yummy lunch at home, then went to Cheekwood to see the summer exhibit called Tree Houses.  There were 7 different tree house exhibits set up throughout the gardens at Cheekwood.  We had a great time playing on them, and Kobey and Charley especially enjoyed the ones with slides….Laney wasn’t really a fan.  It didn’t take long for all of us to get really hot and sweaty.  After a cooling off trip to the gift shop for some drinks and toys to remember our day, we decided to pack it up and go to Sweet CeCe’s.  We saw 6 out of the 7 tree houses…which is pretty good considering the 1,000 degree temperature!  Needless to say, cousin fun week will not be in July next summer.  On a good note, we may have a cousin fun weekend this fall and enjoy a trip to the zoo since it was way too hot this time!

On our last day we had planned to go to the zoo and tried to come up with some other ideas of things to do indoors, but we ended up having a fabulous breakfast at the Pfunky Griddle to end our fun time together!  We made pancakes in the middle of our table.  Kobey ate his plain, Laney ate hers with blueberries, and Emily, Charley and I enjoyed ours with chocolate chips….definitely a new tradition we will have to add to our list of things to do when we get together! 

I’m so thankful for the amazing relationship that I have with Emily, and that the kids are so close and how you can just tell we all love each other so much!  On another note, Kobey informed me that we would be Super Star Best Buddies forever all the days until we get to heaven where we will continue to be Super Star Best Buddies…pretty sure that one melted my heart!  

2^nd Annual Cousin Fun Week = SUCCESS!!!