I am slowly getting excited for my Mexico vacation. I picked up a bunch of books at the library yesterday and am only having one panic attack a day when I think about leaving my children for 6 DAYS. Breath, breath, you can do this, it will be so much fun and it's free, it's free, it's free, you can't miss this opportunity, breath...

Just Be Cuz'

In an attempt to avoid cleaning out the frog's tank, doing laundry, cleaning cabinets and making beds I am going to post my 250th post. Thanks Mom and Auntie Becky for loyally stalking my blog. Thanks Grandma for printing each post to add to your blog binder. This blog is dedicated to you three and Auntie Darla(she will see it in a couple months when she checks in). I really appreciate the effort you have put into keeping your individual families involved with each other. I have been posting cousin stuff lately and thought I would post some pictures from memory lane. Enjoy!

Hey Cuz'

I love my sweet cousins (pictured in my last post) and my kids feel the same way about their cousin buddies. We spent our New Year's with our California cousins and my kids are still enjoying all the fun things we did with Bella and Braeley. Wylie woke up at 4am this morning to go potty and as I was taking him to the bathroom he was telling me how much he was missing Bella and Brae. I miss them too! They are the sweetest, most fun kids. I love how much Bella loves Wylie and how Brae can sync into Todd's world of imgaination and play. I know that they will look back on their time together as fondly as I do with my cute little cousins.
While I am saluting cousins, I have to add a picture of my Marisa. Wylie was creating some imaginary party in his head last night, complete with guest list. I do this myself from time to time. He listed who he would have at his party and Todd reminded him to add Marisa to the list, "she is our cousin you know".

Merry Cousin Christmas

Oh, these are my sweet cousins and me on Christmas Eve. Our mamas always have us take a picture together when we gather. Love it! We are all so goofy and easily amused by ourselves.

Christmas Morning

Todd and Wylie woke up to a living room filled with fun new stuff on Christmas morning. Jacy and I love to get up early on Christmas morning and make breakfast while the kiddos are still dreaming of sugar plums or at least cinnamon rolls. We get our cameras all ready to take pictures and videos of the boys enjoying their first sight of the Christmas tree. This year my dad gave the boys vintage style sleds that they loved. Todd took a few imaginary rides on his and then sat on it all morning opening his gifts.