Family Friends.
My family vacations with 3 other families that we have remained close with for the past 17 years. We try to go to the Outer Banks every year but as we are all families of 5, scheduling and tuition payments sometimes keep us from vacationing as often as we'd like. And that's really ok. Because we all live within 20 mins of eachother.
All of us kids fight like siblings. We tease each other like siblings. We sometimes side-up with our non-siblings when a classic sibling fight is going down. It doesn't matter that our ages range from 7 to 21. I love all of the moments we have and how classic they are! I don't know how our parents decided that it was a good idea to stick 20+ people in house together for a week....but somehow, murder doesn't happen, mayhem occurs rarely, and toilet paper is replenished with little drama. CLEARLY, this is a God thing! Haha
We came home from vacation this past Sunday and went out to dinner for my brother's 19th birthday with ANOTHER family that we've been close with nearly as long. It occurred to me as I was uploading pictures of the night onto my hard drive, that we are astoundingly blessed. These families are amazing. The parents are so supportive and did such an incredible job raising all of us (that goes for their own kids and their psuedo-kids!).
I'm so thankful for these relationships and how much sheer happiness and gumption they give me. This can only be credited to the blessings God has given us!
The only group picture we managed to get wasn't on my camera so here are a some of mostly everyone mentioned!
My family vacations with 3 other families that we have remained close with for the past 17 years. We try to go to the Outer Banks every year but as we are all families of 5, scheduling and tuition payments sometimes keep us from vacationing as often as we'd like. And that's really ok. Because we all live within 20 mins of eachother.
All of us kids fight like siblings. We tease each other like siblings. We sometimes side-up with our non-siblings when a classic sibling fight is going down. It doesn't matter that our ages range from 7 to 21. I love all of the moments we have and how classic they are! I don't know how our parents decided that it was a good idea to stick 20+ people in house together for a week....but somehow, murder doesn't happen, mayhem occurs rarely, and toilet paper is replenished with little drama. CLEARLY, this is a God thing! Haha
We came home from vacation this past Sunday and went out to dinner for my brother's 19th birthday with ANOTHER family that we've been close with nearly as long. It occurred to me as I was uploading pictures of the night onto my hard drive, that we are astoundingly blessed. These families are amazing. The parents are so supportive and did such an incredible job raising all of us (that goes for their own kids and their psuedo-kids!).
I'm so thankful for these relationships and how much sheer happiness and gumption they give me. This can only be credited to the blessings God has given us!
The only group picture we managed to get wasn't on my camera so here are a some of mostly everyone mentioned!
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