Friends for life

"A cousin is a ready-made friend for life."

Author: Unknown

I love that my kids have cousins that are not only close in age but live 5 minutes from each other.  I have such great memories of weekends at my aunt's house playing my cousins when we were younger.  I love that my kids have that too!

On Saturday Eli and Josiah got to come spend their night so Joel and Christine could go to a wedding.  The kids came in and quickly disappeared upstairs to play.  I was actually quite shocked by this because I had the table set for dinner and pizza was on the counter.  They played amazingly well upstairs for an hour until I finally called them down to eat.

After dinner all the kids got ready to head to the pool to swim.

{Jordan-5, Josiah-8, Michelle-10 & Eli-6}

After swimming we came home and the kids got in their jammies while I prepared the living room for a sleepover.  We got back from the pool a little later then planned but not to late for a movie before bed.  The kids got snuggled in, passed around snacks, and enjoyed watching the Aristocrats.  

Then it was lights out, except the little Christmas tree, and time for sleep.

The next morning they were up bright and early as usual.  The nice thing about them being downstairs is I didn't hear them until around 8!  I got up made some coffee for me and pancakes for them.  They spent the morning playing and taking turns with Jordan's DS.

{friends for life}