Eric and Neil

As I have been typing out a post about our trip to Oregon, it is getting soooo long so I decided to split some things up. Two of my cousins, Eric and Neil, are quite a bit younger than the rest of us and it was fun to hang out with them and see how they have grown up. They were so sweet to our kids. From playing pool or going in the hot tub with them to burying a treasure chest on the beach (Which they ended up having to dig out since it was buried so deep) these guys were the best sports!

Hayden has always reminded us of Eric in that they look a lot alike. It probably has something to do with the glasses but they are similar none the less. I love this picture of the two of them together. The kids had a blast hanging out with Eric and the adults had fun playing games with him at night. We played Catch Phrase and Eric got a word that he couldn't really describe. We kept saying relate it to something else or can you think of something similar and all he could say was, "a really funny sounding word." It turned out the word was "negligee", the rest of us started busting up and I was even on the floor laughing. I am so glad that my kids got to meet Eric and get to know him a little bit.

Eric built a great sand castle at the beach, it was an Eskimo village with igloos, ice fisherman, and a dog sledding team, very creative!

Neil, who just turned 18, was really fun to have around as well. The kids all smothered him and he didn't even seem to mind. What kind of 18 year old would be that cool with a million little kids chasing after him? I don't know many. Neil's a lifeguard so he was gracious enough to stand guard at the hot tub while the parents were inside. He let the kids run and jump on him, he played with them at the beach, pushed strollers at the zoo, went shopping with us and generally seemed to be a good sport, luckily he had his phone and could text his friends all day long! One day while we were shopping, it was Meredith, Meghan, Neil, and I and I and 3 of the kids, they were running around the store and had decided to call him fatty. He leaned over to me and said it sounds like they're calling me daddy, these people all probably think I am a teenage polygamist with 3 wives and 3 kids. I'm sure that is just what they thought! We also had fun playing games with Neil, especially his creative Scattergories answers like when it asked for a tool, he used the name of a person and said that person was the biggest tool he had ever met. And for a color that started with "F" he said, "furple", hmmm.... And thanks to Neil, we are now the proud owners of a Wii, he somehow convinced Andy to get one and so they hunted them down all week and we finally got one.

Brynley, Caroline and Neil at Mo's

Thanks Neil and Eric! We love you guys, convince your parents to send you to Disneyland in October, it would be so fun!!