Cousins of Fun

We jetted off to Illinois to visit family and celebrate cousin Emily's 1st birthday. The girls hit it off immediately again. Hard to believe they are 5 months apart. Elliot is on the super tall end of the 1 year old spectrum and Emily is on the super small end, so these 2 together are quite the site! Elliot may be bigger, but she is more reserved and Emily is used to speaking up for herself around her brothers, so she showed Elliot a thing or two!

Like hanging out in the cabinet is a good place to hide...


And that piggy tails are for petting...


And birthday girls get ridiculously cute birthday cakes!


And that the Rose Petal Cottage can fit 8 people.


but its best to crawl away when Guitar Hero takes over the fun ...


Unless you can steal the guitar and rock out yourself - Elliot is a quick study!


Back on the east coast, Ash, wearing a George Washington wig (why?), lugs Elliot around the tree as we start to decorate. Clearly, Elliot could care less. Oh, and its a Santa hat, not wig.



We all took a tree decorating break for hot cocoa and fake gourmet marshmallows. (Recipe: cut the ends of jumbo jet puffed marshmallows and voila! its like you got them at Williams-Sonoma, and fun for 7 year olds to make.)

And Cheers! I just think Ellie looks cute with the mini Italian coffee cup.