I LOVE MY COUSINS!

I've been lucky enough to grow up being inseperable with my 4 cousins. The 5 of us have been the best of friends since the day we were born. From summer tennis lessons, daily swimming at Nani's pool, endless sleepovers complete with tickle trains and peeing our pants, 5 weeks at the cabin every summer, making movies and dance videos together, and even going to college together....we've done it all. We went to the Cheese Cake Factory when Jasmine was in town visiting, and it just so happened to be my birthday too. We got more than a few wierd stares from people sitting nearby....I think they thought we were maybe having a little TOO much fun together....if that's even possible. Thanks for the fun girls! I LOVE YOU!!

Gretchen-Shayna-Jasmine

Bridget-Chiara

Birthday Cheesecake....complete with my name in chocolate sauce! YUMMY!

Oh shoot - someone had to point out the size difference between our bites right before the picture was taken. Okay, so I'm a pig....but there ARE worse things to be you know!

Wow...Shayna has some serious EYES in this picture!!

We tried to make Gretchen take what we would call a "normal size bite" of ice cream. You've never met a more dainty eater than Gretch. Just to give you an example....ONE starburst takes Gretchen 3-4 bites. The rest of us could throw down 4 starbursts in ONE bite. We love to tease her about this and we really wanted to see her eat a big bite of something....it didn't work though...it all had to come back out and then back in in smaller portions. I think I'd be 50 pounds lighter if I could eat like Gretch!!