Cousins At Play

We are loving having my sister driving distance away! We've always dreamed about being neighbors with a gate in between our yards so the kids could just run back and forth, and the adults could enjoy free babysitting... so far that hasn't happened, but we are loving the freedom to hop in the car if we have a free weekend to see each other. The cousins have been having fun getting to know each other, and Josiah has started saying, "Gaston's my best buddy!" It's nice (and chaotic) having kids the same ages! Recently we had all six of them get their pictures taken at Penney's - amazingly enough they did pretty good. I thought six kids under the age of 5 would have had the lady taking the pictures about ready to pull her hair out, but after all was said and done she actually told us they did much better than most big groups. I'm not sure if it was a sales pitch, but it made us mommies feel a lot better! Here's some cute pictures of the kids. Most of them were taken at my grandma's house. She has three turtles that the kids loved! I laughed because it didn't take too long for the turtles to huddle in a corner the farthest AWAY from the kids! There's some cute ones of the kids building castles, and some more of them window shopping in a toy magazine. The last couple pictures were taken at Emily's birthday party.