Cousins!

My older brother, Keith, and his cute family are in the process of relocating - actually, my brother has already been getting things settled while his family enjoyed wider open spaces out west (with Becca's family). Now that his work schedule has calmed down a bit, he flew out to help them drive back and they were nice enough to do so by way of Houston.

My kids have never met their cousins, so I deemed this an important enough reason to take Leah out of school for the day. We drove down to Houston on Wednesday morning and played with cousins all day! Hooray!

Leah got her pet fix by playing with Craig's dog, Mac. I think she took him for at least 7 walks and one pretend airplane ride (courtesy of the hammock) in the space of one short afternoon. Hopefully that will content her for the next two or three years.

Since we had all the cousins on the my side of the family in the same city, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a formal picture of them together. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get everyone together until after 7pm, also known as the witching hour - and you know what that means....

BRIBERY!!!These pictures required a train ride and...
Chocolate M&M cookies!

Aaaahhh.... the things we do for family :)




Seriously though, it was well worth the trip for our kids to get to play together and to be able to visit a little. I think this is the first time since A and I got married that all the siblings were together (that's almost 10 years now!).


Thanks everyone for making the extra effort to get together and create some memories. Hopefully we can make it happen again sooner rather than later!