July 8th is now my favorite day of the year. For those of you who are unaware of the significance of July 8th, let me explain. Chick-Fil-A offers a free meal to anyone who dresses up like a cow each year on the anniversary of the restaurant. I'm told that a half-cow outfit gets you a free chicken sandwich, but a whole cow outfit gets you a whole free meal (and a special thanks goes out to my sister Allison who reminded me this year). So what do you do when you have a family of four? Dress everyone up in a full cow outfit, and you get free meals for everyone - yes, even the babies. It didn't matter that the workers at Chick-Fil-A looked at us strange for ordering adult meals for each of our one-year-olds- it was worth it when mom and dad ate Connor and Mckenna's food for the next two days.
When we first entered the restaurant, I won't lie... it was a little embarrassing as we realized that we were the only ones dressed like cows. Here we were- dressed head-to-toe in cow outfits, courtesy of paper plates and construction paper taped to our all-black outfits, (and the kids' full-body cow-outfits from last Halloween), and we had the wrong day - or so we thought at first. It wasn't long, however, until we spotted the cow mascot and a few others who entered the restaurant dressed like cows, and then we felt right at home.
After eating until we were full, we wanted to hit up a few more Chick-Fil-A's in the valley for quality leftovers for the rest of the week, but we started to feel a little guilty for dressing Connor and Mckenna in their fur-cow-coat Halloween outfits when it was 115 degrees in the middle of summer in Phoenix, so... we decided one restaurant was enough, and that we'd just continue the fun next year. We'll do it all again on July 8th, 2012!!
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