Cousins and the New Year!

The best part about our trip to

California

was the time we got to spend together

as a family.

Girl cousins

getting

re-acquainted!

'Blankie-war' with the Buffalo!

Completely engrossed!

Another cousin shot!

Can you imagine this crew as teenagers???

Scary!

Bottle+ blankie = Heaven

When Aaron was around it was:

Bottle+blankie (on top of) Buffalo= Heaven

There's just something about

Uncle Aaron

the babies can't resist!

Or something about the

babies

Uncle Aaron can't resist!

Either way it's a

win/win!

Audrey made the mistake of agreeing to a game of

"horsey"!

"Yea, your stuck now!"

Fox done ripped off his own diaper

and still won't

dismount!

Snack time!

Feeding the masses!

Story time with Uncle Jay!

The kids loved his stories!
He told the best stories and made them up as he went!

Looks like he lost Fox on this one!

Spooning!

Redlands Temple

New Years Eve

Mom and Ralph

Sisters!

I see pictures like this and my heart just melts!

I love these little nuggets!

Don't grow up!

PLEEEEEEASE!

Hang'n with Aunt Val!

Brothers and sisters,

70% of us!

I love these guys!

Whenever we get together it's a

great time!

We have too much fun together!

This trip was perfect because it brought us back together.

Jay from Washington.

Me from Maine.

Audrey from Utah.

Aaron, Val, and Joy in California.

Bernie soon to be in Texas.

It brought us back to Redlands,

the place of so many

joyous memories

and gave us one last chance to make some more.

This trip was the end of the

Redlands Chapter!

And it ended well.

Always the funny guy!

(I love that you can see our kids walking away in the background!)

Ummmmm.......

Olive Garden.

Someone's excited!

Gett'n ready to par-tay!

Fox...not so much!

Pedicures for the girls!

Liz was doing

'glitter-toes'!

Marah

high on helium!

Jokes!

Yes.

It was THAT funny!

Doin what we all do best.

Hanging out.

Bernie and Marah!

So festive!

We tried to "trick" the kids.

We brought them outside at 8 for fire works.

Got it all out of their systems

so we could put them to bed!

It actually worked!

Jay was the Captain of this crew!

Turns on the slide!

Watching from the sidelines!

Again, I'm kicking myself

for not taking a million more pictures!

We got the kids tucked in and down for the night

and then enjoyed yummy snacks and a good movie!

Most of all, each others company!

I love my brothers and sisters.

This trip was long over due for getting us all

back together.

Each of us agreed it was

amazing

and we can't wait to

do it all again!

It was so much fun being together.

It was great getting our kids together.

I can't wait to do it again

~Thanksgiving 2012~