in october my cousin, jen, and her beautiful family came to utah for a friend/family visit. we had a fun evening of catching up, eating a super dinner, and having some good laughs about our childhood memories. reminiscing definitely gets funnier the older you get!
jen is a creative master with food and decorations (check this out for some of her christmas amazingness), and has a gift for making things magical and fun. i love that about her!! it was great catching up!
my new favorite photo--i'm so in love! david's so handsome! mushy, mushy...now for some fun:
every summer we spent a couple of weeks at my grandparent's and cousin's house (they live down the road from each other). jen and i grew up roller skating along their road and singing camp songs, swimming in their pool, making pickles and canning with my aunt, going to girls camp, and always making some sort of craft. one summer we made pig houses (instead of doll houses), and the next summer we had a pig wedding! there was always a cousin dramatic theater, as well--twists on fairy tales, productions of our own creation, and always costumes galore from my grandma's basement. the photo above is actually at our house (1988), and i think we're dancing along to a raffi record. i know i was dressed up as a frog for the "frogs jumping off a log" song, but i have no idea what christian was dressed up as...but isn't he buff?!
this was at bethany beach the summer of 1986--the whole family took a vacation together. there was actually a hurricane that year. i remember we all went outside to feel what it'd be like to be in the middle of the storm--ouch...sand hurts! my aunt was pregnant at the time with our youngest cousin, and she got stuck in the sand when the waves rushed up. emily was afraid of swimming when she was little, and we all said it was because aunt donna got stuck in the sand during the hurricane. on the back of this photo i have written--in my six-year old handwriting--that we were talking about becoming famous actresses. i don't remember that...maybe jen can vouch for that conversation?
1984 on the front porch
double pig wedding
jen is a creative master with food and decorations (check this out for some of her christmas amazingness), and has a gift for making things magical and fun. i love that about her!! it was great catching up! 
my new favorite photo--i'm so in love! david's so handsome! mushy, mushy...now for some fun:
every summer we spent a couple of weeks at my grandparent's and cousin's house (they live down the road from each other). jen and i grew up roller skating along their road and singing camp songs, swimming in their pool, making pickles and canning with my aunt, going to girls camp, and always making some sort of craft. one summer we made pig houses (instead of doll houses), and the next summer we had a pig wedding! there was always a cousin dramatic theater, as well--twists on fairy tales, productions of our own creation, and always costumes galore from my grandma's basement. the photo above is actually at our house (1988), and i think we're dancing along to a raffi record. i know i was dressed up as a frog for the "frogs jumping off a log" song, but i have no idea what christian was dressed up as...but isn't he buff?! 
this was at bethany beach the summer of 1986--the whole family took a vacation together. there was actually a hurricane that year. i remember we all went outside to feel what it'd be like to be in the middle of the storm--ouch...sand hurts! my aunt was pregnant at the time with our youngest cousin, and she got stuck in the sand when the waves rushed up. emily was afraid of swimming when she was little, and we all said it was because aunt donna got stuck in the sand during the hurricane. on the back of this photo i have written--in my six-year old handwriting--that we were talking about becoming famous actresses. i don't remember that...maybe jen can vouch for that conversation? 
1984 on the front porch
double pig wedding
the happy pig couple
3 comments:
yes, that picture of us is in front of the mirror at the beach house and we wanted to be actors when we grew up! -Jen
Love all the old pictures-what fun memories!
Is Jen still the imp she was as a young child?
Don't get me wrong - she was a terrific imp.
You all were...
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