Becoming Good Friends with Cousins

We just had the most amazing 2 jam-packed weeks with our family from Huntington Beach.  We had a fair, days at the water park, Nascar, family reunion, not to mention the reason why everyone came in the first place - a wedding!  And while all the hustle and bustle was fun, the most important thing for us was the friendships that were made among the cousins.  Here are some highlights of the hundreds of pictures that were taken over the last 2 weeks:

FAIR DAYS

JARRETT & LIZZY

LIZZY

NANNY & JARRETT

UNCLE MARK & ABBY

JARRETT & PIGS

CORA, LIZZY & JARRETT & PIGS

ITS A TURKEY

IS THAT A CHICKEN MOM?

SCOTT & LIZZY @ KIDS SCIENCE EXHIBIT

JARRETT 

JARRETT'S FEET MUST HAVE BEEN GLUED TO THE GRASS BECAUSE WE COULDN'T GET HIM TO LEAVE THIS STATION.

WAITING FOR MUTTON BUSTIN'

HANGING ON THE FENCE

CAN YOU SEE THE RESEMBLANCE? I THINK THEY ARE RELATED!

TESSA JOINS THE GROUP @ OLD MACDONALD'S FARM

SCOTT, CORA & LIZZY

FACE PAINTING

JARRETT'S SPIDERMAN

CORA'S PANDA

LIZZY'S FAIRY EYES

BACK ROW:  CORA, SCOTT
FRONT ROW: JARRETT, TESSA, LIZZY

PLAY TIME:

SCOTT, CORA, JARRETT, LIZZY, TESSA, ABBY

LET'S SWING

BABY ABBY GETS IN ON THE FUN

SWIMMING TIME:

TESSA & CORA

BABY ABBY

BABY ABBY

UNCLE KURT & TESSA

GARDENING:

CORA & JARRETT PICKING BERRIES

SHARING WITH FAV. AUNTIE JOYCE

LOOK AT ALL THE BERRIES!

BED TIME:

CORA READING, "EVERYONE POOPS" (INSERT LAUGH HERE)

SCOTT READING, "DINOSAURS LOVE UNDERPANTS"

ALL TUCKERED OUT

It was sad to see them leave.  Jarrett has asked everyday for his cousins to come back and play again.  Its hard to explain to a 3 year old distance and how its not the same coming to Washington from California as it is just going across town.  But we will figure it out and look forward to another visit with our cousins and good friends.  After all, we are family and we stick close together.  Maybe next time it will be on the beach in a tent.....