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So, cousins are up this week. I do love my cousins from Illinois, this could be because I see them so rarely. I love my aunt Ellen and Uncle Herman as well. They are great. Uncle Herman being my dad's only older brother and they look almost exactly alike only Herman is all dark and my dad is all light. Kinda funny that way.

So, went out to dinner with them all the other night. Met Lizzie's fiancé (as he told me one e because he is a boy) who is named Matthew and is French (now say Matt'hue). Dinner was a bit awkward for me. I'm almost up to having lost 30lbs and I kind of feel weird about my body. None of my clothes currently fit me and I really need to invest in a belt. So I didn't talk a lot of the time. Ugh.

However, went out tonight for drinks and some dessert with Sarah &Mark, Lizzie & Matt (John didn't come because he's a recovering alcoholic and it's still really hard for him to be around alcohol since he's only been sober a little over 6 months). We had a blast. Lizzie had finished a bottle of wine before we even went out to New York Pizza. So we all had a drink there and then Lizzie wanted to dance and to give them the out in the county experience we took them to Bobby Lee's ...because it's kind of hilarious there and it was karaoke night. We really got there much to late to put in anything for karaoke. But it was fun none the less. Liz and Matt danced and I swear to you everyone in the bar watched them because Matt clearly dances like a European (meaning he's a guy who can actually dance). It was great. Jack and Greg were there and I talked to them and a few of Mark's friends were there as well. One of them let Matt try on his cowboy boots and it was kind of hilarious because Matt immediately decided that he NEEDED some cowboy boots.

I dropped everyone off being the responsible DD (YAY ME) and felt kind of bad cuz I left Matt to carry Lizzie into the house all by himself. He said he could handle it though.

So that's been my exciting time with cousins so far. They are here til Tuesday so we shall see how it goes! Excitement!