Cousins Day

Last Friday we took advantage of the Veterans' Day holiday and had a fun cousins day! Did you know that there is a zoo in Irvine called the Orange County Zoo? Apparently it's Orange County's best kept secret. It's in the middle of Irvine Regional Park and perfect for little kids. It's small (there aren't too many animals there but you probably won't lose your kids) and only costs 2 bucks to get in. Plus there is a petting zoo inside. The whole park is great- on top of the zoo and acres of grass and trees,
they have a train,
pony rides,
and bikes and paddle boats you can rent.

So, Penny got to spend the day there with her cousins on the Dimick side for her first official Cousins Day. This was really exciting to me because I don't have any cousins my age and have always been jealous of people who do. Siblings are great and I love mine, but there's something about cousins. I am lucky enough to have adopted a few through the Smith family!

The kids had the funnest time, and the adults had a great time too.

After everyone rode the train, we saw a cute little photo spot- some pumpkins and bales of hay setup. So we decided to take some pictures of the kids there. We started herding them over when I noticed that Penny needed a diaper change, and then I noticed she needed an outfit change. So I started changing her when my sister- in- law called my name. I looked and some man was loading the pumpkins into his truck! He didn't care that there were kids playing on them and parents trying to take pictures. So I started changing her faster and then ran her over. Once I got there I saw that Sam and Trenton were sitting nicely, but they were sitting amongst some random kids. Now the random kids were very nice looking, but we didn't know them and didn't particularly care to have them in the photo, so we had to beg and bribe the kids to move to a different corner of the pumpkin patch. Once we got them there and gave them the baby, we saw that Travis was out cold. His mom laid him down on the pumpkins, where he woke up unhappily, trying to figure out where the heck he was. For some reason Rosalynn wanted only her back to be in the picture, and then Penny started crying. Lilly was probably the best one, even though she wasn't always looking at the camera. And in addition to all this, the random kids are climbing all over our corner, and the guy is still picking up pumpkins around kids and loading them in his truck. These are the beauts we got:




They're not exactly what I had in mind but they do accurately capture what our lives with these guys are like!

This sweetheart loves his cousin (and she loves him too):

Can't wait for the next Cousins Day!