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A few days after Christmas Westin helped move his cousin to New York City with his best friend's help.

I got this picture about the time they were supposed to be arriving at the house (in Queens!) to be dropping off her stuff:

They went 10 miles in 2 hours.

Thank you Ohio for not having (this much) crappy traffic!

In May...

we went to Chicago!!

In December, Abbe (finally) sent me pictures!

All of us:Back row: Me, Westin (smirking??), and Abbe
Front row: Nate, Jennifer, Emily, Mom, and Dad

Just my sisters, my niece and I:

And a close-up:

More of adorable Emily to come...

On another note... you can probably see I've been playing around with the look of my page. I "pre-posted" a bunch and they still have the "old" signature in them... I redid it to be transparent so the background color shows through, but I'm not going back through and redoing all of the posts that I planned ahead for the next few days. (That's my new plan for keeping somewhat up to date!) So you may notice some more changes the next few days/weeks... I'll get the kinks worked out eventually!

On another another note... or p.p.s... my header is making me mad, so I think I'll give up for the night. I can't seem to get it to be transparent so you see the background color instead of the white without pixelating my strawberries. And we can't have that!

The end of May... a bit late!

Memorial Day weekend we went to Wisconsin for my cousin Laura's wedding.

Westin struggling with his shoes....

My beautiful cousin Marissa!
(Prom Queen this year at her school!)

Mr. and Mrs. Laura and Phil!!!

On the way back from Wisconsin, we stopped in Chicago and saw Abbe, Jennifer, Nate & EMILY!
(Yes, all of my Chicago pictures are of Emily! Abbe - do you have the ones we took of us girls on your camera??)
At the train station waiting on our ride... She enjoyed playing with my phone while we waited!

Checking it out...

Super-excited about the Happy Meal toy the lady beside us on the bus gave her!
(Aunt Abbe looks pretty excited too!)

Makin' faces!

Later that week we had my Aunt Janice's funeral. Aunt Janice was one of my dad's sisters.
Uncle Don and Aunt Cheryl
(Can't tell he's dad's brother, can you??)

Front: Aunt Dolores and Uncle Herm
Back: Uncle Don, Aunt Cheryl, Dad, Mom, Aunt Jean, Uncle Ron, Aunt Naomi, Uncle Rick and Mary

Dad and Uncle Don claim they're "Big Dee's favorites"!

The Remaining Laser Children
Back: Uncle Rick & Aunt Naomi
Front: Dad, Aunt Dolores, & Uncle Don
Not Pictured: Aunt Kathy

Sisters! Aunt Dee and Aunt Naomi

The GRANDKIDS!
Front: Karen and I (Oldest and Youngest!)
Back: Kevin, Margaret, Roberta, Don, Michelle, Brenda, Brian, Paul, Kendra, Becca, & Tommy!
(I think I got everyone!)
Us again a bit closer!