The Banks family cousins had a blast reuniting for a few days over the break for our first family Christmas in over 8 years!  Brother Man made this amazing lemonade stand for our girls for Christmas.  He and I have been working on it for almost a year.  I will paint it this spring, when Poppa can bring it to us in his truck.  The kids got lots of fun surprises and enjoyed being together.  Everyone had a play mate, and it was wild and crazy fun!

  

 

The make your eyes like little moons face must be a cousin thing! 

Seeing the lemonade stand for the first time!  Their faces are priceless!  Their imaginations are over run with the possibilities! 

They have been wishing for a lemonade stand for at least 5 years, but I’ve never been able to find one that was sturdy, cute and affordable, so Brother Man built one! 

 

We brought the Bean Boozled Challenge game for everyone (correction, almost everyone, lol) to play.  The girls have been waiting for months to try out the game, but I made them wait until Christmas.  Jelly Belly makes the game.  How it works is you take two of the same colored jelly beans out of the package.  Each player tastes their jelly bean.  The audience tries to guess which flavor each player got based on their reaction to the flavor.  For example, the green jelly beans could be the flavor lime or lawn clippings.  The brown ones could be chocolate pudding or canned dog food, the yellow ones buttered popcorn or rotten egg and on and on.  You can make up whatever rules you want to get a winner.  We just goofed off and had fun.  The kids absolutely LOVED it!  I have a feeling we will be playing this game for a long time!

 

Rose has now taught everyone in the family how to do her signature wink, thumbs up twofer.  She is the biggest goof-ball!  She and Noelle did this when they both got good flavors.

Next up, we had sparklers in the rain to celebrate our first night of fun together and pulling off 16 people under the roof that once housed 5!  Like I said at the beginning of this post, it was wild and crazy fun!