They were playing 'risk'. If you've never heard of that game, the point of it is to take over the world. By rolling dice and challenging the other players armies. Which aren't armies at all, just little peices of coloured plastic.

I think the game is pointless, because people don't really win wars by rolling a six when the other person gets a three.. But anyway.

My dad had quite a strong army in the Congo, and a pretty small army in Mongolia. My cousin, naturally, decided to take on Mongolia.

"Whaat? You're challenging Mongolia?! GOOD LUCK! Mongolia is going to KILL your army!"

"Dad, Mongolia's not in Africa. You only have one army in Mongolia."

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Love is...

Recently, my dads cousin got married. At the wedding reception, they had little cards that you could write on. One card said, "Love is..." another said "Always..." and the third one said, "A little advice...".
We (Me, my sisters and cousins) were all trying to think of something funny and witty to write on any one of the cards (By the way, we came up with, "Love is... ... Sobbing all the way through your wedding ceremony" because Scott, the groom, did just that.)

My dad comes up behind us, "You should write, "Love is... ... learning how to courtesy flush"

"Nice dad. Yeah, if you think that's a good one, you should write it..."

Dad, "I can't. I don't know how to spell 'courtesy'."

Nice.

Dressing up: part 2 - pictures

Ok, so these are not the best pictures, but hoefully you can get an idea of what the dress looked like... These are the only two good pics of the dress I could find... (See, I took most of the pictures we have... So I'm not in alot)

 In case you were wondering, from left to right: Sloan, my cousin Baylie, me. (In my dress :)

 Me dancing with my cousin Gabi.

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Friends

Today Gagey found a family photo from a couple years ago, and he goes, "HEY! Dat (pointing to Gramps) mine damps! He's mine FRIEND! HEY! And dat wanny! She mine friend too! And Roro's friend! (Haven) And peypeys friend! (robie) AND DAR DARS FRIENDS! (Silas and luther!) And Noanies friend! (Carrie) noanie, der is lots of friends!"
Sloan: Do you see mommy and Daddy?
Gagey: Yup. And yum.
Sloan: No, thats YOU! Yum wasn't born yet!
Gagey: Oh. Damps mine friend.

A quote from the Beselt house

Sloan: Y'know why I am laughing?
Charter: Why?
Sloan: Cuz you're going to get beat up as soon as I finish my juice. (Sips juice)

Ummm... yeah... BTW, I don't know what happened with the last of Sloan's juice, cuz Charter's face is still whole... ;)
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And: I AM A COUSIN FOR THE 18TH TIME! WELCOME TO THE WORLD BABY EVA!

Coyotes

Some people didn't belive us when we told them about our christmas playmates.

"So, what did you do over the holidays?"

"I hung out with coyotes!"

"Yeah, right!"

"No, I'm not kidding."

"Stuffed ones!"

"No, real. Alive."

"They were probably really far away though, and you just heard them howling."

"No, they came really close to us. I almost hit one on my sled! But they were howling..."

Christmas

I am home from auntie Jessie's! We had the AWESOME-EST time! When we first got there, we ate lunch, then headed out sledding. There are two coyotes that live close to the Jespersen's house. They like to come and play with us when we are sledding. I know, it sounds dangerous,playing with wild animals, but they are just like puppies. They come and prance around us, but won't get too close because they are scared of us. We were screaming when we were going down the sledding hill, and the coyote would howl back at us. It was awesome. Sadly, I didn't have my camera with me.
After sledding we went in the hot tub. Then we had supper, and had our gift exchange. At the end of the exchange I had a little polka dotted makeup bag and two little glass jars. Then me and Haven arranged a cookie/chocolate platter, and we all stuffed our selves.
Some time we also managed to fit in watching home videos from when mom was a baby, a Christmas play, and a whole lot of fiddle.
That was Christmas Eve.
Christmas Day, we woke up to find that Granny had taken one of each of our boots and filled it with little gifts. I got a 'Sadie book' (We all wrote stories about Sadie then granny made them into a book and all the authors got a copy) And a jar of natural deodorant that auntie Jess got me, a little flashlight and a little, tiny container that you clip onto your zipper. (I mean it when I say tiny. You could maybe, maybe fit two tictacs in it. )
Then we had a breakfast of potato's, eggs and breakfast casserole. After breakfast we, you guessed it, went sledding and hot tubbing, then more sledding. We didn't see much of the coyotes today, which was a bummer because I brought my camera both times...
Gramps read the Christmas story to us, and we ate turkey, and tweeties, and lots of good food - like nachos and grampsies chili on rice. mmmmmmm.
We also had a visit from Santa clause. Since when does Santa carry a hunting riffle with him?!
On boxing day, we went sledding, packed up our stuff, said good bye to the Fehlers, had a lunch of Shepperd's pie and a special bread that auntie steph made (Before she left). And came home.
Luckily, I didn't leave disappointed because the coyote came back and put on a show when we were sledding. And I had my camera :)

Thanksgiving pictures!!!!!

Mmmmmm, thanks auntie steph!

OK, all the families played a part in this little heap of cuteness!

All the cousins! Well, almost. There are 20 of us, but one isn't born yet :)

This is the 'Sumo Hay Wresting' I talked about! It got more intense than this video, though!

This is one of the many laughing fits we had. Haven...

And another fit... Did you hear her choke on her candy? That's the best part!