My sister and bro-in-law are back in the country! They married in Thailand in January with both sets of parents in attendence. For obvious reasons the rest of the family couldn’t be there, but also can’t pass up the opportunity to celebrate with them. So the big reception was this last weekend. This picture of the bride and groom sums them up beautifully!

It was so wonderful to get the cousins all together for the weekend. This is the chaos and it is so worth it. Here are eight of the cousins in action. The four youngest ones were fortunately not involved in this affray.

Most of the time I feel really odd. I love that getting together with family makes me feel so normal. For two nights I counted that 19 people were sleeping under the roof of our 3 bedroom house. Even though there are quite a few people missing from this photo it best captures what I treasure the most about this weekend—

—hours of laughter with the most precious people in the world echoing off the walls of my home!

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I have have lots of crafty things to show you from my preparations for this wonderful crazy weekend. We still have family staying with us this week, and time with them is precious so I will post sometime at the end of the week.

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