My Family is the BEST!!

Ok, I understand that i posted just yesterday, but i have to say this! My family, extended and immediate, is the best family in the world!! Ok i'm sorry i'm trying to calm down.

The thing is... I have missed my cousins so much! It's already pretty clear from my last blog that my attitude towards my sister has completely changed, which is FANTASTIC! I have just learned how much I really care about and miss my family. On that note, I have missed my cousins SOOOOOO much since I got to college! Me and my cousins are all very close. Really really close. So I always miss them when I'm not up in Utah with them, but this is a crazy time! Me and my boys (my twin cousins that double as my best friends :) have started college and they both have amazing girlfriends, which is only appropriate seeing as they are the greatest guys you'll ever meet. EVER! But the thing that hurts the most is that I haven't seen my BCF since last New Years. BCF stands for Best Cousins Forever :) Anelise is my soul mate. We have been best friends, or BCFs, since i was 7 years old or so. I've grown up with her and we've had the best time and she is literally my favorite person in the world. Well, she went to college last year and got CRAZY busy! And like I said I haven't seen her since New Years and we have barely talked since then too, until just recently. Thanks to the miracle of Facebook I have been able to talk to her alot more instead of just hearing everything from her Mom. Anyway, she's been going through a tough time making some SERIOUS decisions about her future, and I am SO glad i got to be involved! Of course I love to be in everyone's business :) but it's different with her too. It's really hard to give her the advice she needs, because it means she won't be my BCF anymore, she'll be my MARRIED BCF. But he is such an amazing guy, I almost don't have a problem with it at all. Ok i'm sorry. The point is I just love her so much! And she tells me that she loves me a whole lot too and I'm almost shocked to hear it because there are so many amazing people in her life that it's weird that she thinks so highly of me. Oh man I am totally just rambling now.

Case and Point: I love my cousins, and i LOOOOOVE the relationship we all have with eachother!! I'm currently talking to 2 of my cousins on Facebook and we all just love eachother! And my boys' girlfriends will tell me how excitedmy boys get when they talk about how I'm coming to visit soon and it makes me feel soooooo good. The other night i was talking to one of my boys, Dustin, and I was like "I love you Dustin!" and he said it back and it made me so happy and then he says "You know, you're the only cousin I say that to", which totally made my night! We are all so close and I can't even imagine what it will be like when we're all married and scattered :( I'm fairly certain that we'll still get together all the time :)

Everytime we have a huge family get-together with all the relatives on my Mom's side, I like to take a few minutes to just sit back and watch and think. And every time I get tears in my eyes as the recurring thought pops into my head "If this is what Heaven is like, I can't wait." And then I cry harder, because I know that IS what Heaven will be like! And I can not wait :)