I don't know how it's possible that so many of us ended up in this part of the country at the same time! I LOVE that we have family all over the place.  We went to Chicago so that Kent could take the last set of his boards- but we made it a fabulous vacation and mini cousin reunion, too.

Cousin Hailey and her husband Steve live in Chicago- as do cousin Robert and his wife Laura.  Plus Amy and Craig made the trek over from Grand Rapids and we had a blast.  I really do have the greatest cousins EVER. I just wish that ALL the cousins lived in the midwest.

We all went to church together and let our ten rugrats make lots of noise together!  Plus we spent plenty of time talking, laughing, and eating!  I love that we all get along so well and that we all married such great people who also get along so well.

I hope that when I have a little girl she has curly pigtails and chubby cheeks like Sophie and Kate! 

Here are most of the boys playing on the computer.

Cousin Roberto has the coolest flight simulator on his computer that was the hit of the night at their place.

And here's Kent playing some duets with Annie.  I think Kent is pretty excited for our kiddos to get old enough to do cool stuff like this. 

Getting to see so much family was definitely the highlight of our trip (Zeb has been crying for his cousins DAILY) but I've also got buckets more pictures of our adventures in the actual city and of our snow adventures. Hopefully I can get them posted all in one big swoop tomorrow.