Category: cousins

Carson, cousins, Mallory, travel

More Punta Cana pictures

February 17, 2011

I dragged the kids out to the beach before breakfast the other day. I got nothing good of the two of them together. ARGH.

Mallory cleaning her feet off…

Then that night we tried to get one of all the grandkids on the beach in jeans and white shirts. I haven’t finished going through all of them yet, but here are some of my favorites.
This picture of Mallory CRACKS.ME.UP.

Carson doing his “sleepy face” for me. CRACKS.ME.UP.

And these are all from my little camera from earlier in the week. I have videos to share too but they will have to wait until I …

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Carson, cousins, Mallory, travel

Punta Cana, the beginning

February 14, 2011

Here’s the diary of our trip (so far).
We had to wake up at the a$$ crack of dawn on Saturday to make our 8.30a flight out of Detroit. The kids did fairly well, and Carson napped on the first leg, and Mallory should have napped on the second leg but the excitement of having a Gigi and a Grandpa and an Aunt Emily & Uncle Mike, and four cousins at her fingertips was too much to allow her to close her eyes.
We arrived in Punta Cana around 4p local time (3p ET) on Saturday. After loading all twelve of us …

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Carson, cousins, Mallory, Miscellaneous

Cuties by the Christmas Tree

December 21, 2010

We celebrated Christmas with my family on Sunday (since we’ll be traveling on Christmas day). As soon as my family started bringing presents in the house, Mallory was BEGGING to open them…and then her cousins started in on the begging too. The mean parents made them all wait until we had some snacks first and then they went to town. Oh, I was the mean mom & aunt that also made them pose in front of the tree with all the presents before we let them open any.

I love how excited the girls are to have their baby brothers on …

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Carson, cousins, Mallory

Cookies Cookies and More Cookies

December 13, 2010

I think I’ve told y’all before but my sister likes to make a lot of Christmas cookies, so the kids get to decorate a lot of Christmas cookies. They usually get bored after about 10 minutes, and then Emily & I get stuck quickly doing the rest.
I now present to you the 2010 edition of Cookie Decorating.

And then Carson got really bored.

And then we lured him back with some more cookies (the problem is that he’d start to decorate one and then immediately start to eat it…and he plays that “I can’t talk so I obviously don’t understand what you …

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Carson, cousins, family, Mallory

A Thanksgiving Pictorial

November 25, 2010

A teething baby…
A reading of Pinkalicious by Grandpa…Two of the silliest girls ever…An attempt to get all six in one picture…Decorating Thanksgiving cookies (notice Tank is already eating his…)…After dinner…Zombies watching Charlie Brown.
So much to be thankful for.

Carson, cousins, Football, Mallory

Bowling Green is a bad team

October 1, 2010

Another nasty rainy cold windy day of tailgating…must be Michigan in September.
It only looks like I’m drinking a bloody mary in this picture, but I promise I’m just holding my mom’s drink while she took our picture.

The funniest thing about this day – Mallory was about to head back into the van – it was freezing, by the way – when she spotted her cousin Lauren about five tailgates away with Gigi. Mallory was in the middle of telling me “I’m going in the van, I’m cold…WAIT – WHAT IS LAUREN EATING???” and Mallory took off …

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Carson, cousins, Mallory

Yo, Cuz…

September 7, 2010

I totally meant to head downtown to check out this cool photography spot but instead we just hung out at Aunt Emily’s for a while.
Unfortunately this picture is semi-out of focus in real life – but it’s still pretty cute.

Shane wasn’t interested in hanging with the little kids, so he headed back to his Nintendo DS cave.

And then, because I can – I took a whole bunch of pictures of my baby boy (he was in a trance watching his sister and cousins run around the yard like the crazy people that they are).
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cousins, family, Mallory

Fourth of July – 2010

July 14, 2010

Just some pictures of Fourth of July with Mallory & Carson’s cousins (more later with the annual sparkler shots!).
We let the kids have a great big paint fest (only one dress was semi-ruined in this process), and then it was on to s’mores. I think Mallory eats around the marshmallow and just devours the chocolate & graham cracker.

It had been a long hot weekend with many hours spent at the pool. We had to do some fireworks early because Emily’s kids weren’t going to last until after dark. I just LOVE these pictures of the …

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