I Miss You!

This might be a little of the holiday spirit getting to me but I miss my Iowa-Virginia-Utah-Georgia-somewhereonasailboat family! Maybe I got spoiled with August and September but it was really nice to see everyone and just hang out. I get an email from Andrea and flash from watching Aladin a million times in the basement to sleeping on her couch for 6 weeks. I had a blast catching up with Tiffany on the patio in Iowa and I wish we were lived closer together so we could do that more often. I miss chatting with my brother and wish we could hang out more now that I finally grew up enough to appreciate his sense of humor. I miss my sister because we can just hang out all day and not even chat but it makes me feel better. I miss my nieces and nephews because they all change so much in between visits. I miss going shopping with my mom and getting to go out to eat and talk. Don't get me wrong- there are plenty of things that I love about being in Colorado but I miss you guys. I think about the babies that Cory and I are going to have one day and get a little sad that they won't know the wonderfully strange family that I grew up around! Cory's family is all here so the babies will have a lot of family around but there is something to be said for surviving the holidays- back in the day when Andrea and I would match our clothes and trying to pile all of us into one house! I miss the mass of stockings at the grandparents and the wrapping paper that we thought would never end! I miss Brenda organizing our presents each Christmas morning and dragging me out of bed because she thought she knew what my stocking stuffer was! I miss Barney playing in the wrapping paper and my odd-man-out stocking with the orange stuck in the toe. Even though we all can't be together for the holidays this year, know that I am thinking of you and I miss you!