A fun weekend with cousins!

Daryl's brother (Kevin), his wife (Karin), and their 4 kids (Ephraim, Noel, Selah, and Wilona) came to Kalamazoo for their first ever visit!  We were so excited to have them here.  The kids were even more excited!  Selah and Hope are just a couple of months apart and they have so much fun together.  It makes me smile to see them together.  Samuel loved having his older boy cousins around and they loved teaching him cool things - like how to jump on the trampoline, fly through the air, and dunk his basketball into his hoop!  He loved playing soccer and hockey with Ephraim and there were numerous cousin "Uno" games that happened over the weekend too.  I think that between all 7 of them, they had every single toy out that we own at one time or another!  Wilona and Aliyah had a little bit of a love-hate relationship going on.  Two years old is a hard age to be friends - that egocentric age where they want everything for themselves. :)  They did have fun in the bath tub together.  

Hope and Selah had a cute little conversation on Saturday night about skin color.  Selah initiated it by saying that she wished she had brown skin.  That led to talking about if our skin stayed the same color the whole time we are alive or if it changes color.  Then Hope asked, "What color will our skin be in Heaven?"  A question I could make an educated guess on, but don't really know the answer for sure!  

The guys were able to go up to Grand Rapids on Saturday night to watch a Grand Rapids Griffins hockey game.  Samuel loved it!!  Such a special and fun thing to do with cousins.  My Dad also went along as well as my Dad's little boy that he mentors through KidsHope.  

Sunday morning was a little rough because we had Daylight Savings Time the night before and had to turn our clocks ahead an hour.  We all made it to the second service at Church and then had a relaxing afternoon and evening at home.  The weather was cloudy but in the 50s so we took advantage of that and played outside with the kids for awhile.

They left this morning after going to open gym at The Point with everyone.  

Such an enjoyable weekend with Kevin, Karin, and the cousins!!