Ally is Josh's 4-year-old 1st cousin once removed (??). I met her for the first time (that I remember) at grandma's funeral last summer. We played Apples to Apples together last night. And then as I was getting ready to go, she asked me a series of questions. First she wanted to know where I was going. Then she wanted to know where my parents ( Read more... )

There were a lot of people I didn't know at Josh's mom's family reunion a few weeks ago.  I thought this would be a family reunion at the level of Josh's cousins... not my mother-in-law's cousins.  But anyhow, I wanted to write about a funny exchange I heard there.  Some people were talking about how twins fun in the family...

"So and so has twins ( Read more... )

My mother- and father-in-law have asked me to call them Mom and Dad. On general principle, I'm fine with this. And I don't want to let them down or anything. I love them and they are both *like* family to me, and also *family* to me. But somehow now as I go to write an email to my mother-in-law, I find it difficult. We've been married almost 2 ( Read more... )

For the record, we're betting on Becca and John getting married the last Saturday of Spring, 2007...

Turned out to be 8 months early... oh well. :-)

* May 19 (or sometime later) - "The Da Vinci Code ( Read more... )

It's been a big weekend ( Read more... )