Cousins

Some of my fondest memories as a child are playing with my cousins. I spent a ton of time in Salt Lake and Reno hanging out with various sets of my 40+ first cousins. I see my cousins rarely now but enjoy visiting their blogs and catching up at family reunions. Eventhough we are grown with kids of our own, I still remember and think of them as children. Nicole will always be the girl who taught me how to tuck my nightgown into my underpants to do cartwheels on the front lawn...Ricky (sorry Rick but you will ALWAYS be Ricky to me) will always be the one who locked me in a closet when I was really little but turned into the best trampoline partner when we were bigger...Michael will always listen to 80s "New Wave" music and make cassette tapes of himself and his "band" for me to listen to...Courtney will always be the one on drill team that drove me up to Tahoe every Saturday with her friends...Devin is the one that wrote the amazing speach about training a hippo (or something like that) and Shelley is the one that was the most fun swimming partner and wrote me letters between Utah visits.

Abbie and Daisy are blessed with 12 cousins...11 on the Thompson side (soon to be 13) and 1 on the Marz size. Three of the cousins used to live here in Vegas. Unfortunately, Abbie was still very small when they moved so she really didn't get to play with them much while they lived here. She had the opportunity to play with Isabelle, Seth & Saige last weekend in Cedar City then again tonight (minus Saige) as Paul & Laura brought their kids over for dinner and our nephew Trey returned from Christmas in Virginia. Abbie had so much fun. When it was time for them to leave, she cried and cried. Poor little thing cried herself to sleep missing them already.

So to all my cousins and all of Abbies, thanks for all the memories.