Fun with Cousins

Disclaimer: I cannot seem to get the photos to line up correctly with the headings, so please excuse that, it looks different in Preview than it does in the actual post, and I can't seem to correct them. =(
We are back from our trip to N.Y. and ready to stay home and relax for awhile. I took so many pictures that it was hard to pick out just a few, so here is a fraction of them. As you can imagine, it was a bit difficult to get 7 children ranging from 3 1/2 mos. - 4 1/2 yrs. to cooperate for the group shots, but I think we did pretty good! I'll put Owen & Ashley's wedding photos in a separate post later, hope this finds you all well! ~Lisa



Cotten Girls












White Kids



Elliott patiently waiting for Levi to finish with his car

Breanna & Levi

Levi "moo-ing" like a cow- he loves them!

The Boys
Their shirts read "Farmer in Training" =)

The whole group

Owen giving motorcycle rides, what fun! Breanna and Levi were both "hooked".

Aunt Lindsey with a tired Elliott

Grandma Jill and Marilla

Kids having fun outside!

Bet and Lilly
Clover & Marilla

There were always quite a few kids at the table! David & Rachel came with Katherine & Nathan, what fun!

Levi with Daddy

The sandbox was grandma's idea, and it kept them all entertained for hours!
Breanna with Daddy

Levi & Olivia

Marilla with Tori
Matching girls, this wasn't planned!!







Another hit was the pool!

Cute bunch after playing all day. Bath-time!

Levie seemed quite attracted to the mud puddles

Tori rode with us to Syracuse and then Maine for the wedding, what a great helper!

Messy red licorice!

Early morning wake-up, the hotel had a fire alarm go off!

Relatives in Boston, Henry & Christine, they treated us to a lovely meeting and lunch before our flight home.

P.S. These are compressed to save time and space, hope they show up clearly.

Tree on the Roof in New York!

We flew into Boston and then drove to Justin & Bethaney's to spend the night and next day. Then we drove up to Lee & Jill's (Tyler's folks) who have had bad storms and got a tree on the roof! Tyler helped get it down, and it looks like the damage wasn't as bad as it appeared. Breanna & Levi had so much fun with Orianna and Lily, and were also excited to get to Grandpa & Grandma's to see them and Olivia and Victoria. The rest of the cousins will be here for the weekend, and also Aunt Hope & Uncle John (Lee's sister, she shares a birthday with Levi!). Both Breanna & Levi really like all the dogs. This computer connection is very slow, so I will just post the tree photos for now (for Lindsey, Clover, & Bet) and the rest when we get home.

Birthday Boy!

This will be quick and quite disorganized, we are trying to get out of here to catch our plane to New York for Tyler's brother Owen's wedding! Levi turned 1 on the 5th, he is really growing up quickly! Various recent photos here, just wonted to post them since we will be gone for a long time then at Wasilla convention when we get back!