....that Jason and MaShay ever traveled 20 hours to come to our house. Minus the Pilgrims and Indians. Plus eleven kids, including two nursing infants. Add in a torn LCL for Jason, black friday shopping for the moms, the Ferreiras for dinner, lots of late night grown up talks, and waaaaay too many delicious cheeseburgers from various places, and it equals a truly great holiday. Now that's a math I can get behind.
Rhone and Emmett are pretty much the best of the besties. Thick as thieves. They broke all kinds of rules together, and got away with a lot of it-partly out of too much chaos, mostly because it was hilarious. Their bond was forged out of their love of potty talk and cemented with Batman, cars, and tractors.
Nora and Elise were similarly glued together, only brought together by the finer things in life- ie: dresses, the color pink, purses, and princesses.
As for Levi and Paige, they took naked diaper pictures together against their will so they pretty much have to be tight forever and ever.
Lila toted Kate around and ate up the fact that she had a little person to care for.
Anabelle drifted between groups, eavesdropping on every possible adult conversation and locking away bits of information into the superhuman vault that is her brain.
Cousin friends are legit as it gets.
School was a bit of a joke this week. Not in a funny way. More like in a, "Oh snap, make sure we read all the signs at the zoo so they learn something" sort of way. But we just had to soak up all the family time we could. We really had a great time with MaShay and Jason and consider them not only family, but wonderful friends. Hopefully next year we'll be moving closer to them and these get togethers will be without the elements of stress that accompany travel. But the fact that they were willing to endure those factors to party with us naturally bumps them up on our Christmas list. Actually, time bumped them up on our Christmas list and it was a nice thing that they were here while it was our rotation to give to each other. Saved me a trip to the post office and I got to see them open their presents. Just kidding about the post office too. I would never cheat on Amazon with the post office.
They've been gone for several days and I keep thinking about them. Mostly because we're all still sick as a result of this week-long party, but also because I really loved having them here. And also, they left a lot of stuff here and I keep finding it everywhere.
This Thanksgiving when we counted our blessings, family landed pretty near the top of our list.
