#33

Many years ago while my sister was shooting in New Orleans, she and my mom met a family of street performers known as “the Sardines”. ***read about them from my mom’s blog***  Mom eventually got them to come home with her.  Which, if you know my mom is not surprising…she has always brought strangers home who become part of our family.  So anyways, one of the sons, Orion who was around 14 or 15 hung out with us.  He was one of the most precious little guys I had ever met.  We all instantly fell in love with him and later with his whole family.  We have stayed very close over the years and they have been out to visit us a bunch of times.  When the twins were first born they came and spent Christmas with all of us.  I can’t speak enough of how special this family is.  I adore all of them.

Orion is now grown up and 23 years old.  He came out from San Fran a couple weeks ago, where he is in Circus school.  He played with the twins and taught them some ‘tricks’.  They have talked about him EVERYDAY since!  Raimy does hands stands against the wall all day long and yells “look at me!!!! I’m like Uncle Ryan!”  So finally I have enrolled them into gymnastics.  They had their first lesson this week.  So Orion has brought a new love into their lives and I hope they continue to have so much fun!