Party time!  We celebrated Rerun’s birthday (10 days later) and Thumper’s birthday (3 days early) in one big birthday party! The spread was out… … and the cakes were ready.  I decided to give Thumper another Star Wars birthday, and finally used some of the specialty decorating kit from Williams-Sonoma that I had been saving. […]

Thumper loves his Obachan.  He walked up to her on Sunday, gave her a clear “hi!” and then a hug. I wasn’t fast enough to snap a picture of the first hug, so I got one of them together. I’m never fast enough with the pictures when something cute happens.

It is always hard to say goodbye to the cousins.  Here’s a picture from August 2013 (before Baby Cousin was born!) and the last time a cousin group picture with this branch of cousins was posed. They all just keep growing…

This picture was too sweet to not post. Ane, Little Cousin, and Little Cowgirl have one last group hug before we left the airport.  It was hard for Ane to say goodbye.