My Cousin's Wedding

On my mom's side, I am one of 12 grandchildren. We were all born within a little less then 20 years of one another, so mostly just a year between each one. We all lived within 5 miles of each other growing up and it remained that way for most of our lives. We grew-up together. My Aunt lived right down the street from us, blessing me with the privilege of my cousin being my best friend. Every year we all gathered together for Christmas Eve. Since I've been alive, there's only been one year we have not done this (with the exception that now we get together the Saturday before Christmas). In the last 10, another joyous occasion we get the joy of celebrating together have been the weddings!! A couple of weeks ago, the youngest and last cousin was married. It was a blast. Everyone was there, well not the kids, just us "grown-ups. Everyone now is 33 people from aunts & uncles to us cousins, throw in our kids and you pass 50! It has been such a blessing to grow up with family surrounding you. Even more of a blessing that almost all of my cousins love the Lord! I look forward to every time we get together, it surely is a party and a very loud one!

Here is the beautiful bride, Ali, my cousin and our new cousin, Adrian. Such a great couple! She had 11 bridesmaids, 7 of which she's been friends with since Elementary school. Isn't that awesome!!! How cool to have so many lifetime friends.

Here we are enjoying our night away from both kids! Awesome!! (sorry boys!)

Me and My beautiful cousin Molly. The one I grew up with, my best friend and a constant blessing to me! We now live almost 2 hours apart. I so miss our last minute trips to the grocery store and morning walks to Starbucks. But what a special time it is when we get our two families together! Our boys are each 9mos apart. What a blast that's going to be as they get older! yikes!!

Shhhh.... here we are enjoying some awesome drinks! Smoking Pomegranate Martini's. Those white things are bubbles from the dry ice they put in the drink. It made them smoke!

My handsome hubby and his second date! The Video camera. He's such a great guy, he video-taped the wedding and some of the reception for the lovely couple. He took this little guy everywhere. Such a nice guy!!