Funniest Memory From My Childhood

14 October 2014

blog challenge

Funniest Memory From My Childhood

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I really had to think long and hard about a funny childhood memory. I went through some of my albums for inspiration, and I have to say I had a few ideas about what I wanted to talk about. Then, I started smiling at the amount of photos I have with my cousins. That's when I realized that the best of my childhood was spending time and creating memories with my cousins. We were absolutely crazy and always wanted to play games back then.
There was one particular game we always played, we called it "Family 101". Looking back, this had to be one of the funniest memories I have with my cousins. This game consisted of my cousin Neisha, Nivesh, my sister Ashley and I going on a family adventure. For some reason we always chose the same destination - walking around in the wilderness. Our mission was to get home. For some reason, every time we played this game, we were always on the bridge.
HAHA, I'm actually laughing like crazy as I'm writing this by the way!
And, like every time we play this game, my sister somehow was the one who always ended up hanging on the bridge! We used to play this part of the game in my aunt's room, and sooo my sister would hang from the bed, while the three of us were trying to get her back on this bridge. I don't know, it was just so funny thinking back because this same exact situation happens to poor Ashley. AHAH.
Then, when we made it back to our place from the so called wilderness, a fight would break loose among us. Neisha and I would fight for the 1 telephone to talk to our pretend friends, while Ashley and Nivesh would fight for the last slice of pizza. The funny part was, there was no phone and no pizza slice, but Ashley and Nivesh would take the fighting to a serious level doing body slams on the bed. Just toooo funny of a "Game" that we played.
It's funny. Maybe we were uncreative back then, or really just loved the story line we put ourselves in, but the same thing happened every time we played the game. And it is just hilarious to think back to!

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Favourite Christmas Memory

05 December 2013

31 days

Favourite Christmas Memory

As previously mentioned in one of my earlier post, my favourite part of the holidays is spending time with my family.  I love having this family time as we never really get to experience having the entire family in one location.  We usually get together during the year for the weddings or parties here and there, but it's never the same like when it is Christmas.
Continuing on with my Christmas themed blog post until Christmas Day, today I decided to talk about a favourite Christmas memory.
It is really hard to think of just a FAVOURITE Christmas memory. But if I had to choose, it would definitely have to be a Christmas spent with these guys: my cousins.

From left to right: Ashley, Reedan, Neisha, and yours truly, Vanessa!

Growing up, these two (plus their brother who is not in the picture), were really the only first cousins I grew up with.  I love these guys, and honestly they are just my favourite cousins.  Like we grew up in diapers together, and I see Neisha as my sister.  Just amazing people and we stuck together through the thick and thin when problems emerged just a few years ago… but that's another story for another time.
Anyways, one Christmas, my dad invited their family to come with us to a Christmas party that my dad's working place was hosting.  They came with us, and I don't remember exactly what we did, or how much fun we were having, but all I remember was being excited to go on the bouncy castles with them.  IT was extremely fun, something we probably wouldn't really do today, but these are memories I cherish with my family.
Here are some pictures, enjoy.
P.S, you'll notice some of these don't really relate back to Christmas… not sure about the connection either!

We were too cute when we were younger! You gotta love how I was rocking the pigtails back then!
What's your favourite Christmas memory? If you wrote a post about it, leave your website name in my comments and I'll check it out!

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