Cousin

family and I participated in various fun-filled adventures and activities throughout the countryside. Later on, when my cousins joined us, the vacation house was filled to the brim with young, energetic kids and tired, irritated parents. With a house full of mischievous children, the trip became much more enjoyable for me; I vividly remember wonderful experiences with my cousins. One of my most memorable vacations was a trip to Fredericksburg, Texas, years ago, which left me with memories…

the leather couch with my sister while I watched my mother and three men that basically grew up with her interact with each other. Their names were Fred, Keith, and Joe. Keith is my second cousin, but the other two were more like family friends. My mother knew them her entire life so I just call them my cousins too. They were all smiling and reminiscence on old times in the living room. The television was blasting in the background, but no one seemed to pay any mind to it. Later my sister and…

favorite pillow, books and movies. Traveling with a bunch of siblings and cousins was always fun. even though we had to travel many hours to get to are destination it will always be worth it at the end. the summer of 2015 i had the opperunity to travel to houston texas by bus. i was traveling with my favorite cousins and aunty. we took three bus rides and each bus was a different experince. the…

family. We reserved several camp sites in the camp grounds and would gather in the dirt lot next to my family’s camper. My dad has seven sisters and one brother. Each of his siblings got married and had a few kids, blessing me with over forty-five cousins, just on the Shumway side. If you have ever seen my family, you know we are a rowdy bunch. All of us are weird, loud, and slightly short tempered. Especially when all sixty of us get together, we are definitely a walking circus, and, may I…

When I was 9 years old my whole family, including my cousins, aunts, and uncles, went on a family reunion during the summer. Every year after school was out my mom, dad, my sister, and I would either go to India or my family from India would visit me here. This year my family from India came to visit us here, in America, and we decided to drive to Las Vegas. I know, driving to Las Vegas from Cupertino! We rented a big van and drove a long 10 hour drive to Las Vegas. When we arrived there we…

In the novel, The House of the Seven Gables, Phoebe Pyncheon, the main character, visits her cousin, Hepzibah, at the seven gabled mansion. Her visit to the gloomy mansion is one where she makes living almost bearable to an ordinary person by drastically lightning up the atmosphere of the mansion. She certainly does her very best to make Hepzibah and Clifford comfortable and more human. Throughout the novel, Phoebe exhibits the character traits of being cheerful, helpful, and selfless. Phoebe…

From a promised made over a year ago by the directors of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), the Desert Compadres 4-H Club were finally granted the opportunity to visit Los Angeles and attend a special MWD board meeting on Tuesday, June 13. Traveling several times a year to Blythe to tour its desert facilities at Gene Camp, the Palo Verde Irrigation District Diversion Dam and the Palo Verde Valley itself, MWD representatives completed their tour for the day at the local hay press at HayDay…

Over summer I went with some friends to the Johnson Shut-ins in Missouri. It was the first time I went camping in years and it was one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on. It started with the drive which was about two and a half hours through isolated roads which eventually got kind of creepy because we were in the middle of nowhere, every house had confederate flags posted, and we were running out of gas. We finally found the place and found our campground and we wanted to find out what the…

recently had an event like this. My experience of getting lost on a mountain at night taught me many things. Getting lost on a mountain at night with my cousins was a very significant experience for me. When this happened, my family and I were at a family reunion at the Circle J Ranch in the Bighorn Mountains. It was about 7:00 p.m. and two of my cousins and I decided that we would go on a hike together; we wanted to see if we could climb…

Family Trips My family loves to travel and our goal was to get to ALL FIFTY STATES, and we had to stay at least one night in each state. So we had been to almost all fifty states and we had an enormous trip coming up and we were doing 17 states in 18 days, all in the same car! We started our trip and we new this trip is gonna eat us up from being so close for so long. We had funny moments about everyday, I would have some animal fact and I would tell my family and they would all just start…