Party of 5: Family

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Family

Aside from my immediate family (parents, one brother and now his family) my side of the family consists of only 4 other people. I have one aunt, one uncle, and two cousins. That's it. All four of my grandparents are gone. My aunt, uncle, and cousins all live on the east coast so we see each other once a year if we're lucky. I think it's one of the reasons why I really wanted three children at least. I have almost as many children as I do non-immediate family members, that's crazy.

One of my two cousins came to visit us for a few days. Jennie lives in Boston and was able to get 4 days off of work to come to California. The kids haven't seen her in nearly two years and she'd never met Lauren. Drew and William have great memories of Jennie from when she's visited in the past and they were so excited for her to come. Drew really wanted Jennie to take her to the library and help her check out books about princesses (which kinda flopped but not for lack of effort, our library just kind of sucks) and William just wanted to play. Lauren didn't know it but she just wanted an extra set of loving hands on her. All was accomplished and we had a great time. I took Jennie to the train last night and our little Jennie-vacation is over. The kids were disappointed this morning that no one greeted them with a, "Waz up, homie?" I can do a good impression but it's not the same. Maybe we should move to Boston? There would be a hundred good reasons to do so but the top two reasons would be that William already sounds like a Southie and would fit in great and... Jennie lives there.

Last few days, in pictures:

Sledding at Dell Osso Farms

Mom came to visit while Jennie was here. See ya!

Jennie rode tandem with Drew on the zipline. I went solo. By the way, the worst camera angle EVER is apparently someone on the ground zooming up 5 stories. Gah-ross.