God made us family, our hearts made us friends!! :)

I have to say that I am so incredibly blessed to have my family. Not just my mom, dad, sister, and brother in law (who are amazing).

Mom, Joe, Jenn, Me, & Dad and Jenn's Graduation from her Masters!!! You rock JENN!!!

But I was also blessed with an amazing extended family that are like brothers and sisters to me. Don't get me wrong we have our bad moments, fights, quirks, and embarrassing traditions (Christmas traditions rank up there as the craziest), but I do love them!!! My desk at work is covered in pictures of friends and family because, lets me honest, your eyes can only take staring at a blank cubicle wall for so long. My desktop of my computer is always changing to either pictures of Morelli, my travels with the fam, or to a pic of one of my new baby cousins. Some of my co-workers have asked if the kids are mine, or if they are my nephews or nieces. K, logically if I have a new born baby as my desktop and you didn't see me waddling around all huge you think you'd know the kid isn't mine :) But nope since you asked they are not, they are my cousins kids (i think that makes them my 2nd cousins than) and were just that close!!! So here's the reason for my post I am happy to announce that I have a new baby cousin Cole Brendan Marpe.

4lbs 7oz I believe so he's putting on a little weight

He wasn't due until Nov but he was just so excited to become a part of the family that he couldn't wait.

I have big feet for my size, I'm going to grow up to be really tall like my dad :)



Shades... check... fishy lips... check.... mastering the look that hundreds of girls on facebook try to make look this good... double check :)



He's such a cute little man and I can't wait till he gets a little healthier, bigger, and older so he can go home with his parents and big brother. Keep them in your prayers!

But that's not all folks... my co-worker Hayley yesterday said "I swear a kid is born in your family like every month" I had to laugh because that's not true but we were blessed with another little cousin this last January so I can see where she might think this. Autumn Lynn Hucka was born in January and although I'm a bit bias I do believe she is the cutest little baby I've ever seen with the biggest blue eyes.... I'm a sucker for blue eyes. I've always been jealous of my sisters blue eyes and she said she's always loved my brown eyes. I think it's one of those you always want what you can't have things.... but here's our little musician Autumn...

How frickin' cute is she?? :)

She's a little younger in this pic but so adorable this pic needed to be posted too!!

Well those our the new additions to the family recently.... i guess besides Morelli and my new brother in law Joe that is, but lets be honest he's old news he's been around for years. :) But they did have a beautiful wedding this last January so he's just as new to the family officially as Autumn is.

The newly weds! :)