I dont have a valentine, i know way surprising, i mean truth be told i had many options and lots of guys just begging to be my valentine but i didnt want one ;) haha no i just am kidding!Well i really dont have one, but that is not what i was getting at!
What i really wanted to get at is how much i LOVE our family!
I mean there are not many families that are as close as we are, and for that i am forever grateful!
It is so fun spending time with my cousins, it doesnt matter if they are half my age, it doesnt matter if it is a newborn baby, or balding aged man! It doesnt matter if it is a cousin i have RARELY EVER seen, or a cousin i grew up with almost my ENTIRE LIFE!
Our family is amazing!
I can be with cousins i hardly knew growing up but still have a blast, and the great part is i feel like we have always been close! I have been blessed enough to growup around the majority of my cousins! And truth be told i can not imagine it another way!
My best friends growing up were and always have been MY COUSINS!
The truth is.... now that i have grown older
all my cousins my age have gone their separate ways!
I mean all the kids i grew up with are married with kids! CRAZY!
I am the last one standing with out a little family of my own!
But the best part is i have plenty of cousins younger than me, and i still get along with them great :) And as all the cousins my age have gone different ways i get to know cousins that are not in my age range! I am close with my married cousins as well as my younger cousins!
I love the new additions to our family if it is a new baby, or a married in cousin!
I am sorry that in some cases i do not know some of my cousins to the best that i can, but i honestly can say i love each and everyone in my family! I would gladly die for anyone of you! Because i love each one of you soooo much!!!!!!
Bottom line! Life would have been so useless growing up without cousins! I have learned so much from everyone... and continue to learn more from everyone, more than you can even realize! SO thank you! thank you for being you!
haha thanks for giving me a childhood of building forts, making mud pies, going on adventures, creating cooking shows, eating salsa and chips on my humpty dumpty blanket, watching That Thing You Do, going to school dances, dressing in matching clothes, stealing grandma's popsicles, making performances at family campouts or in the storage room in the basement at grandmas!
Thank you for letting me hold your babies at church, for letting me live with you, thank you for the tea parties, the hand me down clothes, the countless car rides, taking care of me when i was sick, thanks for laughing with me and crying with me! Thanks for everything!!!
Haha the list could go on forever, ...... most of my greatest memories in my life have been with my cousins!!!!!!!!!!! FACT!!!!!!
