Top 20 Cousin Memories
By Robert Ord
1.Rolling around inside and on-top of the big yellow barrel at Grandma and Grandpa Olson’s house in Star Valley when we were small.
2. Making homemade chocolate chip ice cream in Star Valley with Grandma and Grandpa Olson and cousins, and being too full to eat my bowl of ice cream after licking the ice cream maker paddles.
3. Sitting together at the BYU football games! Go Cougars!
4. Playing football at Uncle Bud’s Park (next to our house) after BYU football games.
5. Having Uncle Donnie and some of his kids come early and stay late at our house after the football games to let the traffic die down before heading home, and for them in the Cougar Marching Band.
6.Bringing our favorite Christmas toy with us driving to the Olson Christmas family reunion when they use to be held on Christmas day at each Uncle or Aunt’s home when we were small.
7. Attending each other’s baptisms.
8. Attending each other’s weddings, temple sealings, and wedding receptions, and getting to know our new “cousin-in-laws.”
9. Praying for the cousin missionaries by name every day they served, looking forward to the day we’d get to attend their Welcome Home and I’d be able to serve a mission myself.
10. Playing a song at the Cousin Piano Recital Uncle Donnie and Aunt Cindy helped coordinate in Midvale.
11. Playing games of H-O-R-S-E, speed and basketball in our drive-way, Laron & Darlene’s drive-way, and the church cultural halls.
12. Taking piano lessons from Kevin and Ryan for a short time after our piano teacher passed away.
13. Watching Nick play a JV football game when West Jordan came down to play Timpview one year.
14. Mindy, Candace, Ginny & Madison coming to our house to play with Marilyn, Stephen & LeAnn during the summers, and taking swimming lessons with us at the Provo Recreation Center.
15. Hiking the “Y” with Kristen & Melissa in the rain.
16. Having Chad & Janae live in Marilyn & Kirk’s basement, and watching their “Cul-de-sac of Fire” during the 4th of July in 2008. Stephen gave us a firework reenactment of the Battle of the Bismarck, complete with a cardboard cut-out of the ship and firework tanks!
17. Having cousins over to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks from our deck, complete with a table full of cookies, caramel popcorn, and my mom’s chocolate covered Rice Krispie treats.
18. Playing bladder-ball (volleyball with the blown-up inside of a basketball) at the reunions in Brigham City.
19. Sandee Olson & Uncle Lynn singing “Hair of Silver, Heart of Gold” at Grandma Olson’s funeral.
20. Getting to stand in the circle when Madison was blessed (it being one of the first baby blessings I got to participate in).
By Robert Ord
1.Rolling around inside and on-top of the big yellow barrel at Grandma and Grandpa Olson’s house in Star Valley when we were small.
2. Making homemade chocolate chip ice cream in Star Valley with Grandma and Grandpa Olson and cousins, and being too full to eat my bowl of ice cream after licking the ice cream maker paddles.
3. Sitting together at the BYU football games! Go Cougars!
4. Playing football at Uncle Bud’s Park (next to our house) after BYU football games.
5. Having Uncle Donnie and some of his kids come early and stay late at our house after the football games to let the traffic die down before heading home, and for them in the Cougar Marching Band.
6.Bringing our favorite Christmas toy with us driving to the Olson Christmas family reunion when they use to be held on Christmas day at each Uncle or Aunt’s home when we were small.
7. Attending each other’s baptisms.
8. Attending each other’s weddings, temple sealings, and wedding receptions, and getting to know our new “cousin-in-laws.”
9. Praying for the cousin missionaries by name every day they served, looking forward to the day we’d get to attend their Welcome Home and I’d be able to serve a mission myself.
10. Playing a song at the Cousin Piano Recital Uncle Donnie and Aunt Cindy helped coordinate in Midvale.
11. Playing games of H-O-R-S-E, speed and basketball in our drive-way, Laron & Darlene’s drive-way, and the church cultural halls.
12. Taking piano lessons from Kevin and Ryan for a short time after our piano teacher passed away.
13. Watching Nick play a JV football game when West Jordan came down to play Timpview one year.
14. Mindy, Candace, Ginny & Madison coming to our house to play with Marilyn, Stephen & LeAnn during the summers, and taking swimming lessons with us at the Provo Recreation Center.
15. Hiking the “Y” with Kristen & Melissa in the rain.
16. Having Chad & Janae live in Marilyn & Kirk’s basement, and watching their “Cul-de-sac of Fire” during the 4th of July in 2008. Stephen gave us a firework reenactment of the Battle of the Bismarck, complete with a cardboard cut-out of the ship and firework tanks!
17. Having cousins over to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks from our deck, complete with a table full of cookies, caramel popcorn, and my mom’s chocolate covered Rice Krispie treats.
18. Playing bladder-ball (volleyball with the blown-up inside of a basketball) at the reunions in Brigham City.
19. Sandee Olson & Uncle Lynn singing “Hair of Silver, Heart of Gold” at Grandma Olson’s funeral.
20. Getting to stand in the circle when Madison was blessed (it being one of the first baby blessings I got to participate in).
2 comments:
You must have kept a journal growing up. Great memories! Aunt Darlene
yeah, those were lots of fun memories!
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