Cousins!

I sometimes wonder if anyone reading here grows tired of our endless gushing about all of the fantastic days we're able to enjoy. If that's the case, allow me to apologize in advance, because here we go again with the gushing:

On Friday we took the ferry to the penisula and spent the weekend with our cousins Loren, Jeanne, Lauren Kate, Langdon and Leia. Jan Michael and Jeanne spent loads of time together growing up, and their families even lived together for a little while, so there was lots of good reminiscing about special childhood memories. There was also nonstop entertainment by some of the sweetest, most adventuresome, fearless kiddos we know - tree climbing and fence scaling and tumbling all around the yard.

And besides that, we picked bunches of flowers at a dahlia farm, hiked around and splashed in Lake Crescent, oohed at the views on Hurricane Ridge, and stuffed ourselves silly with Jeanne's delicious cooking.

Jan Michael and I both loved every minute of it and can't wait for the trip we'll take with the five of them to Victoria. What a family we have!