Cousin Lovin'

The last several weeks we have had lots of family visiting. It began in the middle of June right after my sister Michelle had her baby. My mom, sister Tara, and her daughter Scarlet came for a few weeks. We had tons of fun just hanging around and visiting. It was so great to get to spend a lot of time with my mom after everything that has happened over the last several months. She is doing great and working so hard to get all better. We had fun at the park and one night we went down to the museum in Idaho Falls to see the Titanic exhibit (it made me want to watch the movie again). The kids loved the huge "iceberg" they had and each saw how long they could leave their hands on it. We also had a baby shower for Michelle and we had a lot of fun with everyone that came.We loved having them here and were so sad to see them go.

I totally stole the first three pictures from Tara's blog, but they were so cute, how could I not?

Owen, Rex and Scarlet

At the museum

Mom, T and Scarlet left on Friday night and the Bergens' (one of my other sisters' fam) came on Monday night. Their kids match up perfectly with ours, the exception being Matthew, who has no cousins his age. They all had tons of fun playing together the whole week, hopefully everyone got their cousin fill while they were here. We went to the splash park, Keith took the older kids bowling, we traded babysitting so we could each have a date night (this was great and it made me wish we lived closer so we could do it more often!) we went to Yellowstone on Thursday, Grand Teton NP on Friday and the 4th of July parade on Saturday. We were so glad they came to visit and we had tons of fun. Hopefully we will get to do it again sometime!

Playing by the river where we ate lunch in Yellowstone

The babies, only one day apart (I'm kinda sad I didn't get a better picture of them together)

The older bunch

Check out this massive buffalo herd, you probably have to enlarge it to really see just how big

(there must be lots of cousins in here:)

Matthew, Gracie, Audrey, and Owen

These two crack me up, Audrey is 5 months older than Gracie

Playing on the bank at the lake where we stopped to eat in Grand Teton Park

All the cousins together (whew, it looks like so many!)

Thanks for coming to visit everyone! We love having visitors (we hope you liked it too!)