Oh, Baby!

Well, I'm here! Here in this case meaning a suburb of Minneapolis, MN. My twin infant cousins were baptized yesterday. They are so adorable!! I love them! Their names are Connor Jack and Michaela Rae and they love to smile and "talk" and cry. Mostly, though, they sleep (of course). There is nothing sweeter than holding a baby as it falls asleep.

The craziest part of this whole weekend was seeing all of these relatives that I never see. Like my Mom's little brother (ok, so he's in his forties. . . ) and his family, with whom I spent the last couple of nights. Or the cousins who came to the baptism. They have a daughter who is only one year younger than me -- whom I have only met once. I had my first ever actual conversation with my aunt last night! It's weird to think that I am related to all of these people I am just getting to know. And had it not been for Michaela and Connor, I would probably never have gotten to know them, anyway!

I have no complaints about the babies or being able to talk with my relatives. It's just a big difference from what I'm used to. But I'm too excited about being away from home to think of anything but how happy I am here. We're off to shop (insert Napoleon Dynamite "yesssssss"), so I'll get back to this later. . .