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another generation of cousins on the rock.

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dapper dandies.

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why would you want your own chair?

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it's important that your bag match your shoes.

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color coded treasure hunt. genius.

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build your own birthday boat.

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five year olds make excellent swing pushers.

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hubie, master of the balloon games.

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we come bearing a giant birthday card.

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watching noah work his magic in the bakery.

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who needs ladders when you've got tree climbing six year olds to pick your apples.

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back to alstead, where greta teaches kale to make corn husk dolls.

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giant feet. really, they are almost the same size as riley's.

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straight up swing jumper.

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every elbers cousin (minus august and brik) featuring varying degrees of grumpy face, but all in the frame and that's what counts.

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they could have listened to savannah read all morning.

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post star wars themed gift from gee geed.

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lego explosion.

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first attempt at an all cousin shot.

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sarah keeps a watchful eye on the blueness of the blueberries being picked.

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asher found a dead mouse in need of a close inspection.

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stage parents.

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pre-acrobatics jumping jacks.

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thu's birthday party was at a circus school. um, awesome much?

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joining mama for her morning constitutional.

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everybody's got on their fancy for courtney and lawson's pre-wedding contra dance.

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casey is a good sport. also that's popsicle blood on their faces, in case you were wondering.

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reunited and it feels so good.

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and this (he's just finished a cookie - mimi and bop bop's house involves a lot of cookies, both eating and making).

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while the kids did a lot of this...

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and also like this.

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our trip looked kind of like this.

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we dropped the kids off with their grandparents for a week while we went to seattle. mimi knows how to start things off right with housemade maple cream sodas.

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jets in the driveway.

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it takes a lot of grown ups to sort out a toddler kerfuffle.

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on the water.

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what a bunch of nature loving canoeists the spades turned out to be.

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last day of lego camp. pretty much the best $130 we've ever spent.

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nothing like some cousins enjoying an early evening space out.

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goodbye to malikai (and anna, of course).

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they carried them all the way up from the pond like this.

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the three (very wet) musketeers.

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huggies with uncle anton.

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boys-in-berries.

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malikai and riley really bonded over legos (well, malikai is actually using duplos but rye cut him some slack because he's only 9 months old.)

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asher and greta's house is pretty much the most fun ever. what is even going on here?

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blueberries by the bucketful.

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kale and amari shake their groove things.

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early morning ponding.

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these cousins are serious about their blueberry pie.