Tomorrow, my oldest niece, our sweet Little Cousin, turns 6 years old. With all of my heart, I wish she was here, so I could hug her.  I can’t believe that she’s really turning 6… which also means that Tad will be 6 in just a couple of months.  (Tad also has his first loose […]

The raison d’etre of this whole vacation was that the Webmaster’s first cousin, R., was getting married.  I had been told that it would be an informal wedding (Nana went out of her way to tell me that people were going to be wearing jeans), and that it was going to be outdoors at R.’s […]

It was the first overnight trip we’ve taken since Disneyland.  And that was in 2008. The Webmaster’s cousin was getting married, and the wedding was scheduled for last Saturday, right in the middle of Memorial Day weekend, in Naselle, Washington.  For those of you keeping track, that’s about a 3 and a half hour drive […]

Every year, Great-Grandma raids Great-Grandpa’s change jar, fills up her plastic Easter eggs, and stages an Easter egg hunt in their family room.  This began at some point during Auntie’s childhood, but now that Auntie is too old to hunt the eggs, she hides them. Once the eggs were hidden, the hunt was ON. Tad […]