Cousins

Ted and I both come from fairly large families. A real blessing. Sure, there was divided attention with our parents and not a lot of money pouring down, but lots of siblings is really fun and the biggest blessing and now our kids have lots of cousins. We wish we could see them all more! These are the cousins we saw on vacation;


Well, technically this was the 4th of July and not our long trip, but these are the close cousins, Johny, Isabel, Sam, Izzy and Adriana. Isabel is the one holding Adriana....they look like peas in a pod. We have been lucky to have them only an hour away.



Kevin is only about a month or so older than Adriana, my sister and I have managed to have all our kids at about the same time. This picture is too small to give it justice, but Adriana is laughing. They even hugged, but not when we had the camera pointed at them.



The boys watching the World Cup, for about the 5 minutes when they weren't all running around like a little crazy gang. This is Nicholas and Nathan besides my kids.



This is the oldest cousin, Bryce, he's always doing faces like that and sneaking into pictures and being goofy...he makes me think of Mr. Bean a little bit.



The boys on a ride at Gilroy garden with cousin Atreyu, whose almost 2. He loved Adriana the most, but again, not right in front of the camera. This last trip was the first time we had seen him in person, I'm sad to admit. I love his hair,so cute.



Atreyu with his oldest sister, Anela. Nice kid.



Adriana with cousin Coady, trying to avoid his picture taken. He either acts like a total goof or hides, but I see him peeking. My kids just love him, he visited us last summer and put up with them for days before complaining.



So this is cousin Laiken, and I know you're wondering, but she's not a natural red head. But, still in high school and get's to do fun things like have crazy hair. Anyways, this is the kind of cousin I want around, one who can babysit! And, she's terribly quiet and smart, which I like.




Lastly, these are our cousins Isa and Ludwig. Again, when we were visiting the Rosses we rarely saw our children, they played dawn till dusk with their cousins outside and parents disappeared. It's so nice.

Anyways, seeing the family just reminds me, they are like friends, but even better because somehow you know that people come and go...but because you're family, you are stuck together and somehow that just feels so much better. Maybe safer, I don't know, but wonderful all the same. This is our inheritance to our kids.