Brittneys College Experiences: Maximizing Cousin Time

This weekend was AWESOME! I wanted to maximize cousin time so I drove home after work and got home around 11 pm to all the Smiths awake and waiting to maximize their cousin time too.

Then Friday Lauren, Parker, Kate and I rode scooters and longboards to Mapleton park, Elle was Elle and didn’t want to come. We brought tennis racquets and snacks and had a great time. Sadly there are no pictures of our adventure because I left my phone at home. I told them that we were just throwing it back to the 90’s for the day so instead I will paint a picture of all the fun we had. At the park there is this thing that you can hold onto that if you can touch the ground you can spin it, kinda like a merry go round but you hang, so I was spinning it with Lauren and Kate on it and Parker wanted on so he walked up to it to jump on but he missed then Lauren and Kate both kicked him with their feet as they swung around. We also played some tennis. At first it was just sad, we could not hit the ball back over the net, but as time went on we all got much much better. Kate had some really good hits, and Parker and Lauren made quite the team, they were pretty good at getting the ball back over to me and Kate. When me and Dylan were little we used to climb this huge tree in the park but I guess since then they made an attempt to make it climb proof, yeah that of course did not stop us. I boosted Parker and Kate up to climb the tree, they had a blast! Parker loved it, he went all the way to the top. We had a blast at the park!

We went home and went to In-N-Out for lunch. I learned a new game on our adventure, traveling with the Smiths has got to be the most exciting way to have a trip ever. The game we played was called the what game, the only rule is you can’t say what, oh and your only goal is to get everyone else to say what. BEST ride from In-N-Out to Macys grocery ever! The Dollar Store is right next to the grocery store so of course we went and played in the dollar store. Parker wanted to get some pop-its so I said sure everyone can get one thing, but make it fast before your mom and dad come and say no. So Elle was taking her time and changing her mind like every five seconds, so I was like Elle choose now we need to check out before your mom and dad come and get us. So we go to check out and the cashier looks at Lauren and goes is someone over 18 here? Parker looks at me and goes aren’t you like 24? I assured her we were old enough to buy sparklers. We left the dollar store with just enough time to play with the toys before Nedra and Dustin came out of the store. Then we went home and got ready for Kate’s baptism.

Lauren and I played a special musical number for Kate’s baptism, everyone liked it, even if we did mess up and I forgot to count. Later that night we played the candy bar game. Nothing like a good ‘friendly’ game with the whole family squished around one table. I did see a camera flash, I have no clue whose camera or who was taking them but they are out there, they exist.

Then even later that night I took Myia and Lauren to go get Myia’s temple recommend but first to get slushies.

Now it is finally bed time, and I realize that when you write out all that we did in one day it’s no wonder I was beat! That was one very cousin filled day!

Saturday the Smiths had to start their adventure to Cali so of course we needed to figure out a way to stall that you couldn’t say no to so we went to do baptisms for the dead. I mean, who says no to cousins going to the temple together? After we got back from the temple they sadly had to depart.

Here are the few pictures that I did manage to get.