Cousins BBQ and Radcliff's First Smoke Out!

My cousin Katie was in town last week and Wren and I decided to throw a little impromptu BBQ with her, my cousin Emmy, and her beau Ryan over the weekend. Radcilff loved staring at the fire and Wren mocked the way we girls talk. Rude. Anywho, love my cousins and we'll leave you with this to get you through your Monday...

Hasta la vista baby!

A Family Dinner Affair with the Whole Circus!

I can't believe I forgot to post these pictures!  About a month ago we had a whole bunch of fun people over to my parent's house for dinner.  The guests included Wren's brother Kinley, our cousin Emmy, my friends Jenna and Joel, and my brother's girlfriend JoHanna.  My parents made a delicious meal and we sat around and laughed, and yelled (politics, numerology), and played music, and it was complete mayhem but so fun!  I think my parent's dream of having a family band came to life a little bit that night.  I mean look at Wren's face in that last picture?  And my dad at the harmonica?  They mean nothing but business.  Truly.

A Snowbird Overnighter!

Last night we slept up at Snowbird with Wren's family.  Eva, our newest little cousin, was born last week (and couldn't be cuter BTW) so all the babies are officially here!  It's so funny to see them next to each other.  I'm sure they'll be dressing Radcliff up in night gowns and getting him into barbies before we know it!  They are all pretty, funny, little girls... ;)   Kidding Radcliff, you's a boy! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

The Two Cousins Thang...

There once were two twins (there still are thank goodness).

Who are my mom and her mom...

(We decided to try and be twins too)

Who planned to have all of their little tiny babies together.

And so the list goes:

Adam and I (I clearly got the coolest cousin)

Emmy and Rache

(They're going to kill me for this pic, sorry girls, only one I could find of you two together on FB)

 Al and Ty

  Kate and Hay

 And Heidi popped out a couple extras too who are,

Benson

 And Cam

Who played with Ty and Al, and Kate and Hay.

They're the blondies, we're the darkies. 

We always had a built in friend for all of the family parties.  And we are all shockingly close to the cousin our age.  We all went to the same high school, hung out with the same friends, and it's just been awesome.  They are more like siblings than cousins.  

Adam and I had sleep overs till the ripe old age of 22 if you can believe it.  He'd keep me up till 3:00am telling scary stories until I didn't dare to go to sleep.  

How I love him so.

There we are almost TWENTY SEVEN years ago.

  And now the whole point to the post.

Adam just had his baby last week, three months after I had mine.  And the even crazier thing is I had my baby almost to the day of Adam's birthday and he had his baby almost to the the day of my birthday.

So introducing to you the second generation of cousins...

LINCOLN AND RADCLIFF

We're just keepin the tradition thing alive (right down to the blondies and darkies, but oh wait, theirs is dark and ours is light... mhhh)

Anyway, thank you mom and Heidi for having a little forethought in having all of us together.

And you're welcome Radcliff and Lincoln for your parents having a little forethought.

You'll love each other as much as we did!

P.S. Scroll back to the first picture now... who's moms were this big of babes ever?  Seriously.  

They still are too (thank goodness for bio-identicals right?  I had to say it guys, too funny!)

We Went Down In Style This Weekend

This weekend was a wonderfully uneventful one.

My sister Rache, cousin Em, and Wren's brother McKinley came over on Saturday night to hang out.  We dissected their love lives, laughed till we cried as we interrupted McKinley's deep thoughts, and scared ourselves with creepy stories.

Radcliff was a doll and slept the whole time, with the exception of when I tried to wake the poor guy up for a picture.

No no mom.

 Rache and Em recalled a moment in time's past, where a male friend of theirs said Em's fingers were like pencils, and Rache's were like markers.

 I almost died of laughter.

It's okay Ray, I have marker fingers too.  Member dad voted mine the ugliest?  But I did get the cutest feet.  Remember that.

Oh Radcliff, you got your mama's and aunty's marker fingers.

Lucky guy.

I snuggled lots with my little anchovie...

 And Wren's new bike finally arrived.

(Hilarious story of when his bike arrived coming on Wednesday.  Tune in.  You won't want to miss the moment I could have died of embarrassment.  No seriously, you don't.  It's good.)

I lied.  Our weekend was eventful.  Wren and my dad tore out the other fitzer bush. And it was a beast.  And it was a glorious moment as we watched my dad pull away with it.   We are officially fitzer free. Hallelujah, amen. Oh and hello, I made German pancakes, homemade syrup, hash browns, and sausage on Saturday morning. Now THAT'S a hallelujah, amen.

A Dinner Party

So my sister, cousins, and I started a dinner group so we could be more like the family on Brothers and Sisters, which is basically like my other family.  Kitty's my big sister, and Justin's my younger brother, oh and Nora?  She's my long lost mother.  Sally Fields is probably the best actress EVER in this series.  

But my point is, they have a million dinner parties so why can't we?  

We can...

 Last night was our first night doing it.  A couple cousins couldn't make it (maybe it's because we did it two days before Christmas?  Probably a bad night) but it was still fun with just my sister and cousin and their spouse/significant other.

I'm looking quite homely, it was ONE long day!

Yay to dinner parties!

And guess what?  Tomorrow is Christmas EVE!  YAY!

You all have a glorious Christmas as well!  I can't WAIT! :)