Greener Grass in Greater Gilman (say it 5 times fast...I dare ya)

Last Saturday was our family get-together. It was because my cousin, Josh, was up from Arizona, and most of us haven't seen him in years. The last time my family saw him was 10 years ago, and all I remember of that was him saying "I used to toss you up in the air" or something like that.
Anyway, I woke up at 4:30 (against my will), lay around in bed until 5:30, and then we drove almost non-stop until we arrived at 11:00. So no, it was not 6 hours (as my father so kindly pointed out in a comment on the last post), but it sure was a long time!
Once there, we met Josh and his wife and his two cute little daughters. I wish I had had my camera out sooner; by the time I got it out, the girls were down for a nap. But Dad got some good pictures that I'll have to put on here once he gets them loaded.
I also saw three sets of aunts & uncles, my other cousin who I haven't seen in 2 or 3 years, I got to hold my month old second cousin, and stuffed myself with good food. And then right before we left, our host started a hay rack ride. We didn't get to go on the four-county tour he had planned, though, because we had a 5 hour drive ahead of us. But the four-street tour was fun, too!
Here are some pictures: Once again, I am unable to straighten them. I don't get it!!! I turned them in the folders, so they were right-way up! Hmph. But here they are anyway.
Second-cousins.
more relatives.More second cousins....

Josh (a sideways view ;)

We had a great time. I think it was probably worth the 10 hour drive. We didn't get home until 11:00 that night, and I had to shower, so according to my calculations, I was awake for about 19 hours straight. Yikes! That's a long time! I was tired in church the next morning. Very tired.

Oh, by the way: guess what! I'm a second cousin again! His name is Zachary Paul. and he's adorable. But I don't have any pictures of him to put on here.

Okay, I'm being forced off the computer by Someone, so I'll talk to y'all later.

'Bye!

~Kiwi~

Credit for the title goes to my Aunt B. and my Uncle L, BTW.

Just a Few Things to Say

I don't have much to say today. Er, I'm not going to say much. I could probably go on and on, but where's the fun in reading a rambley post? See, I've started already. *zips mouth shut*

I have a few blogs to introduce y'all to today:
Lady Florimel with "Rose of Venice," "Above Rubies," and a new one "Kiwi and her Pictures."
Lady Florimel and Jumbo Shrimp are currently working on a story, which is being posted on Rose of Venice. Above Rubies is a group blog, authored by Queen Lucy and some of her friends. Go check both out! I'm enjoying them. Rose of Venice may be available for only a short time, because I was talking with Florimel last night and she said she may block out the general public. And I take waaay too many pictures and do nothing with them, so I'm sticking the majority of them on my photo blog.

There was apparently some controversy surrounding my last post. (the one about Jordan's Kilt) Yes, Caleb, I know, it is slightly more skirt-like than kilt-ish. But that is through no fault of my own. One of Jordan's conditions was that I was to have no help at all, not even a pattern. So I looked at a picture of a kilt, then made it the best I could. Caleb gave me a link to a kilt site, which shows the entire pattern. Whow. Sewing an kilt the correct way looks reeeeaaally difficult! But thanks for the link. Next time I make a kilt.....

Two posts back I put up a picture and challenged y'all to guess what it was. Alayne came up with the correct answer! It was raindrops on a car window. Queen Lucy came up with the same answer, but (sorry!) I had specified that the first answer won. So 15 points to Alayne!

This weekend should be an interesting one. We're traveling aaaallll the way to Des Moines, IA on Saturday morning. My uncle Leslie is having a BBQ at his place for the clan. We're leaving at 6:00 am (like that's gonna happen!), will be there by 12:00 pm, hang out for a few hours, then come home....the same day. Ugh. I'm glad I'm getting to see family again, but 12 hours in the car???

Jordan's ordering me off ("Get off! Right now!!!), so I'll wrap this one up. I'll try to have a post scheduled for Saturday.
So long.
~Kiwi~

Family Reunion, part 1.

We have a family reunion in Iowa this Saturday. I sure hope there’s good weather for it! The main event will be at a park. We’re taking our portable volleyball net, and a volleyball. (Yay! We’re finally getting our own volleyball! Now I won’t have to keep borrowing Short Stuff’s.) Perhaps roller blades shall accompany Rapunzel and me.
I’ll finally get to meet some baby second cousins! That will keep us occupied, I hope.
I wonder if *coughcough* the cousin closest to me in age *cough* will be there? If she isn’t, I won’t hold it against her, but it would be nice to know… *cough* Perchance she could bring some pictures from her wedding? She was going to show them to us a few months ago, but forgot them.

I wish we had known that we wouldn’t get to go on vacation a few weeks back. Then, Dad could have taken this week off, and we could have gone down and visited Dagmar and Matt’s family. *sigh* I wish I could see the future sometimes.
Love y’all!
~Kiwi~