Cousins

I am so behind on blogging!  You will have to excuse me!  I could blame it on being 8 months pregnant, but I have taken blogging vacations before and pregnancy wasn't an issue.  So over a month ago, Megan and her kiddos hopped on a plane and came back to KS to visit all of us!  The girls played and played and us sister's talked and talked!  It was great fun!  Here are some pictures from our weekend together!  Pretty much we need to all write letters to the FBI requesting John be transferred to KS pronto!  Start writing everyone, we need our cousins back for weekend fun all the time!

Mya, Ellie and Grandpa Kent going for a ride in the pasture

We (ok, Joe!) some how fit the Gator into the back of my car and we took it to Wellington with us.  It was charged MANY times over the weekend.  I think that was the only time it stopped!

Molly, Ellie and Mya

Molly's driving??? 

Addie watching Ellie's baby for her. 

Tired after a day of playing

The girls had a bucket of water to "clean" the table with.  The ended up "cleaning" the 4-wheeler and themselves.  They went straight to the bath before dinner that night!

Saturday morning, Megan and I met up with some high school girl friends and their kids at Candy Cane City.  This playground has been around since we were little kids, but they have replaced all the equipment.  It seems bigger than before!  Lol  The kids loved it!

Mya (age 4), Molly (age 5), Ellie (age 2.5) and Addelyn (age 1.5) on a walk in the pasture by the hay bales.  I think that is Cooper laying behind them.

Megan got this great shot of the girls running in the pasture

A little out of order, but this is the little table they were "cleaning". 

We missed Kate and Baby Violet but they had stuff going on in KC.  Soon they will be moved to Wichita and we will get to play with them ALL the time!  My dream on of these days is for big cousin weekends all the time.  They loved playing together!  We only see each other a few times a year, but they get along like they see each other every day.  Soon Murphy Baby #3 will be here and that makes Crisler granddaughter #8!  Won't they have a blast growing up together?!?!?!

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