Cousins

It is so fun watching our kids grow up with other kids in our family. I am an only child and Dustin has one sister with a baby on the way, so our boys don't have any first cousins to play with (yet!). But they (and we) are blessed to have cousins ourselves who have kids (or in Dustin's case, his mom's cousin's kid's kids - say that three times fast!).

It's all girls for the family of cousins who live nearby. We've run into them out in town, and we've been able to make their parties and vice versa. We recently attended the oldest girl's 4th birthday party, and our kids had a blast playing together.

 



We were coming home from Southern's religion class last night, and we were talking about the closing prayer. We were remembering what all Southern prayed for to thank God in class and started adding some more. Out of the blue, Southern added these girls' names to our prayer list. So sweet.

It's all boys on my side of the family! Here are the five great grandsons on our recent family trip to the beach. The older three especially had fun with each other, and Remington will be right there with them next year I'm sure. Give the baby a couple years and he'll be in the mix as well :)

 



But no matter their age, they are COUSINS, and Southern knows cousins = playmates. He gets so excited to hear about upcoming visits with cousins. I get excited to see them interact, and I love how they are growing up with each other.