Watching for the Cousins

This is an oldie, but I really love everything about this shot. We were all eagerly awaiting the arrival of my sister and her family. As you can see it was winter time, and we had a little snow. At some point this little guy wanted to go out and watch for them.  He took his binoculars and went out to the sidewalk in front of the house. His excitement, is representative of how we all feel when family is coming to town. Looking at this I’m thinking maybe I need to do a better job of making the effort to travel to visit my family more often. We are kind of spoiled in that most of the family comes our way at one point or another. That means we get to see most everyone without having to go anywhere. Our travel budget has certainly been larger for the last couple of years, and this year will be the worst yet. We’ll have to see what we can do moving forward to strike that balance. We can’t wait till the next time we get to spend time with family.