Family

I have such a beautiful family. We have everyone in town this weekend to celebrate some birthdays.

Mom has a new pond/fountain in her backyard, so today we loaded everyone up into three vehicles and caravaned to Petsmart to buy some goldfish to put in it. It was so much fun to go to the store, and we got 22 fish! We hope that maybe 3 or 4 of them will survive. I loved the scene of seeing my family all gathered around the pond watching the fish and just enjoying a beautiful day outside. I hope we get to do this more often now that the weather is starting to cooperate more.

After fish shopping we all went to eat at Chipotle. Man, that was an adventure. We had four children, all 4 and under, and eight adults (4 generations present). I love being in a big family. At suppertime at home we had the four children and ten adults. We somehow managed to fit all of us around the dining room table with the kiddies at a little make-shift kids' table near the two mommies. My two oldest sisters are pregnant, so by the end of this year it will be up to 6 children! What a blast that will be!

It's interesting to think how just 5 years ago when all my sisters and I would get together how the dynamics are so different now that the family has grown in number and maturity. I know that I've experienced a lot in the last five years since I graduated from college that has made me grow up a lot, as well as my sisters. Two became mommies and the other experienced a total life-change by way of changing her career path. It just blows my mind how much we've changed in such a short time. I'm very proud of us all.

A funny thing is that since the older two sisters were married, they used to hold it over the younger two sisters' heads to push us to get married (just a tease, of course!). We then had the retaliation of asking when they were going to start having children, but now that they are both working on child number THREE, my third sister and I are losing a lot of ground for comebacks here! I guess we're both just gonna have to get a move on to finding husbands...ahem.

To those in my family that read this...I love you, and I'm proud to call you my family.