Hello 2015!

 We started the day off with time with COUSINS.  I tried to get them all to chant, "Cousins play on New Year's Day," but none of them joined in.

They did, however, join in on plenty of games!  Since we met in the parking lot of Karin's school, we had plenty of space for riding things, so the first few games were things like, "Careen-down-the-hill-and-around-the-turns-without-helmets-and-without-dying," and other roller derby-ish contests.  So then we switched to some ball sports, including Ga-Ga ball which young and old enjoyed together.

I love Kai's face in this picture.  And the fact that Colsen is mid-fall.

Afterwards we all headed over to Mom and Dad's where we met up with Mor-Mor, Uncle Pete, Aunt Lisa, and cousins Linsey, Josh, Colton and Amelia for a nice afternoon of chaos and conversation.

The cousins enjoyed each other so much that we decided to continue the playtime through today as well.  Right now 5 boys are on our driveway playing Pickleball and 3 girls are playing upstairs in Rayna's room.  I tried to take some pictures but my camera is on "timer" mode for some reason and I don't know how to turn it off and Pete's not home.  Oh well -- they're cute anyway.

Now while they play, I'm off to tackle the mountain of laundry that accumulated during our last 2 days of fun....