Visiting the in-laws

As I said yesterday, I was in and around Buffalo for the past week visiting Bill's family.

Shamefully, it's been over 6 years since we've been to Buffalo. Margaret was 6 months old. So we were obviously overdue for a visit.

Since it had been so long, I'd forgotten just how much flippin' fun Bill's family is. I mean, it only makes sense that since Bill is fun that so would his family. But damn, they are a crazy good time.

Mar got lavished with attention and she ate it up. Bill's brothers are both awesomely hilarious and the rest of the fam are people that are easy to be around.

For most of my stay we were with the McCracken side of the family in rural western New York. Here's picture:

You got Sean, baby brother Jamie and younger brother Shannon in the back row.
Me, Bill and Bill Senior in the middle row.
Niece Lietta (daughter to Jamie), niece Alana (daughter to brother Marl), sister in law Sadie (wife of Jamie), Kelly (daughter to sister Diana), Fran (step mom).
And the front row are the two belles of the ball, Siobhan (daughter of Jamie) and Mar, of course.

Here we got the Cheektowaga contingent:
In addition to Sean, niece Alana (pictured above also with the McCrackens), Bill and Mar, you got Bill's mom Clara, his sister Valerie and her son, Ryan.

One thing can be said about all of the members of this family is that they love to have a good time.

There isn't a sourpuss amongst them.