Visiting Cousins

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We had the best time with my sister-in-love (as she calls us) and nieces and nephews several weeks ago. Gram and Gramps, Uncle Jon and  Aunt Robin were also able to join us for a short time. My house was bursting at the seams, but in the best way. Cousins laughed and giggled and had crazy Nerf gun wars; there were lots of slamming doors, lots of hair braiding among Rory and Aunt Robin. Camden and Logan did more than their share of aggravating the littles while Jessica and I were our ornery selves.

As usual, I did a poor job of taking pictures of adults and I really didn't pull out the camera much. Partially because it was busy and there were so many of us.

For instance.
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This picture cracks me up because there are four of us all in this little space. Pretty representative of the weekend.
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Camden's last baseball game of the season happened to be while everyone was in town, which made him very happy. Not that I actually have a picture of him.
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Brian, Camden, Uncle Jon, and Gramps built a new deck while they were here. In the rain.
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Their birthdays are only 2 weeks apart and since we only see them in July, we celebrate with donuts.
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Cameron was a BIG fan of Rory's old camera. I was in a lot of pictures this weekend.
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We love you. Come back soon!

Comments

Christine @ 12,450miles said…
This looks like such a FUN (and busy!) time!! Lots of people always make for lots of memories. What a blast!
6:51 AM
Tim Lewis said…
Thanks for posting these. Wish I had been there!
1:20 PM
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