Cousins Camp

Earlier this week, two of our darling nephews came to hang out and spend the night with The Boy.  The Girl has been at Girls' Camp this week, so it was a great chance for the boys to get together.  They have been trying to have a cousins' camp out for weeks--and their work schedules haven't meshed, until this week.

Garett and Taylor both graduated from HS this year, with The Girl, so they are slightly older than The Boy, but they are great together!  The three of them caught up with each other after The Boy got of his shift at the pool at 8 PM.  They drove over to the Macey's for treats and beverages!  Genius Golfer and the Cousins Trio went to a local Nickel-cade to play arcade games for a couple of hours--which then love because they come home with sorts of silly "prizes".

Then they came back here and hung out and talked for a while and then broke out the computers, laptops, and any other electronic device they could and links everyone together to play a game on the network called League of Legends. They play over the internet together quite often when they can't get tog ether physically.  But this is more fun, I suspect, when they are in the same house together.  It sounds like Genius Golfer got in on it too.

I have no idea how late they were up playing, because I had to go to bed so I could work in the morning.  But they were incredibly respectful and let me go to sleep while they played in the family room, my office and the basement--I never even heard them!

When I got up for work the next morning, this is what I discovered in our family room:

 

It isn't quite wall to wall boys, but they were definitely all sprawled out across the two couches, and The Boy was all over the floor.   Garett was sleeping with his face pointed straight up and when his head was on the arm rest of the couch he almost looked dead--he was so still and quiet.  As I scuttled around to get ready to leave for work, they stirred a little but not much.  When I got home from work, and The Boy got home from the pool that night, he said they didn't all get up until almost lunch time.

I love that they love each other and enjoy doing things together!  Just wish they didn't all grow up so dang fast.  Taylor will be leaving for a mission to Mexico City next month and Garett will get a call to serve once his knee surgery is done and he is healed up.  I do love that they are good examples to each other and encourage one another to do what they have been taught--while having fun at the same time!