Anna and I are in Colorado this weekend for several events in the following order:

1. Anna’s brother, Andrew, graduated from DCHS yesterday.

2. My cousin, Rebecca, graduated from High School yesterday.

3. My cousin, Hannah, is marrying the man of her dreams, Jared, tomorrow. (Pictures to come…)

4. Colorado is the greatest place on earth.

5. Did I mention it’s beautiful out here?

There is something unique about my family. On my mom’s side there are 19 cousins, plus 2 that have married in (3 if your reading this 24 hours or more from the time of this posting). What is so unique about us is not the amount of cousins but the closeness between us all.

It is always so great to be with familly. I don’t know if there’s really a way to explain it other than to talk about how easy it is for us to come together without seeing eachother in over a year or more and immediately laughing, hugging and crying together. It is an amazing bond of friendship and family that I am so grateful to be a part of.

So with that said I’d like to give a shout-out to all the cousins; and when I say cousins I mean the literal kind, not the other kind (it’s a little inside, I know).

Nate, Hanna, Angie, Steven, Jaleh, Ashcon, Bejan, Romeo, Trevor, Tessa, SaraLynn, Kyle, Dirk, Angelique, Elena, Daniel, Rebecca, Jennifer, Elise, Anna: I love you guys.