Indentical Cousins II

I love when history repeats itself, or I see my kids enjoying the same people that I enjoy. Or when they get to experience fun times with family that I experienced and remember so fondly. Many of my fondest memories happened at my grandma's house in Minot spending time with my cousins. Robyn, Brenda, Darren and I had so much fun together. We ruled the sidewalks on our Big Wheels, raised havoc in the basement, and just laughed and laughed. Brenda and I even lived together in college and have some stories that we'd rather not share. We knew all the free places to get food each day of the week and drank a lot of beer! Hockey games every Friday and Saturday were a must and we still laugh over stories of crazy Mary. Somewhere along the line we started calling ourselves "identical cousins" from the Patty Duke Show.

A blast from the past: Darren, Sharleen, Brenda, Tess and Robyn at Grandma Zs.

This past week we were in Bismarck for a wedding so I called up Brenda to see if we could stay with her family. The kids all just hung out at my cousin Carl's wedding so they were excited to see each other again. We had some free time in the morning before the wedding so we went to Fort Lincoln State Park and toured all of the different houses! They also terrorized the neighborhood on their bikes, chased down the ice cream truck, Rya and Eli both lost a tooth on the same night, and giggled in bed at night before going to sleep.

Hanging out with the CCC: Sadie, Eli, Josh and Rya

Take a look at these identical cousins 30 (eek!) years ago!

Ahhh, history repeating itself: Identical Cousins II.

P.S. More pictures of Sadie being a flower girl are coming up next!