If you are anything like your dad it will take you a while to appreciate your family. Yes they are nice to have around and can be fun to play with, but the real significance of family didn't sink in for me until some time around my mission. And I still learn every day how meaningful a kind and loving family is. Not just for growing up in and living with, but in an eternal perspective. The quicker you learn that last one the better off you will be. But you are a girl so you already have a head start in the loving department.
Anyways, we took a trip to your Gramma and Grandpa Compton's this last weekend in Wapato. I hope they stay there forever because it is so nice to be able to go back there and have a room for everyone and spend time with family.
You got your first REAL experience with your cousins Chloe and Bryson. Sure you had seen them before but all you could really do was stare at each other for a while and then cry or keep staring. This time Bryson was walking around and Chloe, well Chloe is still mellow and likes to lounge. You could take some lessons from her on chilling out and calming down some. But Chloe got propped up and you guys really got to experience each other for the first time.
Your daddy grew up at Gramma and Grandpa's house and he had lots of cousins there all the time. We didn't always play nice. Sometimes your uncle Jacob would get some of the cousins and be kinda mean to your dad because he was a little smaller, a little slower and really easy to get angry. But most of the time we had good laughs and had lots to do. I really hope that you get to have some kind of similar experience with all of your cousins and second cousins. You already have a great group that are close to you in age. I can only hope that you are close enough geographically to get together often.
That also makes me hope that even if you are geographically close enough to be in the same school or spend every day together that you make good friends. I hope you develop good social skills and make life long friends that you can share your life and heart with. I hope you can be the instigator of conversation and laughter. I hope that you aren't shy. I hope your mom and I aren't embarrassing to you and you feel comfortable inviting people over to socialize. I want you to live life unafraid to be yourself with the only restrictions being living according to the gospel.
I think you are on the right track for that. But for now... you are mine!
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