blood is thicker than chocolate

DO YOU HAVE GOOD MEMORIES OF GROWING UP WITH YOUR COUSINS? I DO. I WAS ONE OF 21 FIRST COUSINS ON MY MOM'S SIDE AND BECAUSE I LIVED WITH MY GRANDPARENTS, I GOT TO SEE MY COUSINS OFTEN. SOME OF THEM  FEEL  LIKE SIBLINGS TO ME. LAST WEEKEND 4 OF US GIRL COUSINS, A COUSIN IN LAW AND A  BRAVE YOUNGIN (ONE'S DAUGHTER)  SPENT THE WEEKEND TOGETHER  IN REDWOOD FALLS. 



THE CREW-MINUS THE PHOTOGRAPHER- ANNA



OUR WEEKEND CONSISTED OF:  EATING GREAT FOOD, SHOPPING AT THE LOCAL SHOPS, EXCHANGING GAG GIFTS AND INTRODUCING THEM TO "BED PRIZES", DRINKING WINE, GOING TO THE LOCAL CASINO WHERE ONE OF US (AHEM, NOT ME) WON ALMOST $400 ON A PENNY MACHINE, SQUISHING OURSELVES INTO ONE

CAR-WHOSE BACK  BUMPER WAS PRACTICALLY DRAGGIN ON THE GROUND AFTER WE ALL LOADED UP, VISITING THE LOCAL FITNESS CENTER-WHERE THESE FUNSTERS BROKE INTO SPONTANEOUS DANCE MOVES,DRINKING SOME MORE WINE, PLAYING A GAME THAT HAD US ALL PRACTICALLY WETTING OUR PANTS LAUGHING, THEN WATCHING A MOVIE TO CALM OURSELVES DOWN, CHUGGING SOME NYQUIL AND HEADING TO BED.



THE DANCING QUEENS. ( LOOKS LIKE KIM MAYBE THOUGHT IT WAS A HOLDUP?)

 A HIGHLIGHT OF SAT. EVENING WAS A SURPRISE VISIT FROM A FORMER MISS AMERICA-SOMEONE WE USED TO KNOW BUT HADN'T SEEN IN YEARS.  (actually this
is my hilarious sister-who seems to have taken over for our dear grandmother-who used to like to dress up to make us all laugh).




GIRLFRIEND ROCKED THOSE JEWELS!





THE GAG GIFTS WERE GAGGABLE-THIS ONE WAS A BIG HIT. A SET OF HOT ROLLERS FROM THE
1940'S FOLKS. YEP YOU READ THAT RIGHT-THIS BABY IS OVER 70 YRS. OLD!



THE MARK OF A SUCCESSFUL WEEKEND IS THE NEED FOR A NAP AND YEP-THIS OLD GIRL TOOK TO THE COUCH WHEN I GOT HOME ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, EXHAUSTED AND FULL OF GRATITUDE TO SUE FOR HAVING US. I HAVE ALL KINDS OF FUNNY NEW MEMORIES TO THINK BACK ON.  LOVE YOU GIRLS!

                                         XO, BETH