We heart cousins!

We have had an eventful two weeks around here. My sister and her sweet kids came down to play for about five days. We went swimming swimming swimming. The kids had a blast. Also, Wendy got to come with me to my very first voice recital. We even did a little shopping. We sure had fun. Here are some pictures of the fun cousins getting ready to swim.

Here is Ella and Griff (Ella looks like Garth in this picture, she learned that trick from her mom).

Benson and Sophie. These two are the sweetest and most obedient children alone. Together, they are all kinds of trouble.
Matty and Benson.

Benson is completely obsessed with shoes. He wore Matt's shoes the whole time they were here. What a weirdo.

One night we went boating too (in a thunderstorm). Here is Matt, Ella, and Wendy on the tube. They loved it!

Here are all the kiddos dancing on our new dance floor. I think they danced for close to an hour.

After we played for several days, Wendy and I loaded up the car (you've never seen more stuff and kids in your life) and drove up to Boise together. Lots of fun cousins came up to play. We all went up to the cabin, went white water rafting, ate excellent food thanks to an excellent chef (yours truly haha), did pedicures, went for nature walks, held sweet babies, and talked and talked and talked. I didn't take very many pictures up there, I was too busy talking.

Here is my mom and sister.

Wendy painting Annie's toe nails.

After our fun adult cousin reunion, we had another week of little cousin fun. We took the kids to a fun park (the only day it was nice there) and let them play in the water. They had so much fun.

I love this picture of Ella. She is the funniest little tike ever.

Griffin is a stud, just like his dad.

Here is our attempt at a group picture. They weren't too interested in standing still, especially Griffin.

The Parduhns plus Griff.

Apparently one juice box was not enough.

Whew, what a party. We played for eleven days. Part of the reason for the long trip was our sweet Daddy was at Scout Camp. We sure missed him. He came back just in time for Father's Day. He is a great Dad. The kids worship him, probably because he is so much fun.

Here is Benson sneaking some of the dough of Keith's Father's day cookies. Gotta love the wide mouth shot.

Benson really missed his dad. He didn't leave his side until he left for work this morning, and he cried and cried when he left. Here they are taking a group nap. Sweet sweet. Man, my husband is good looking.
Anyway . . .Yippee for family. We missed everyone who couldn't come to the fun little reunion. Until next year right? Right? Families are forever.