Ten signs you are from a close family:

1. You are excited to go to family parties. You will cancel plans with your friends or say you can’t go out with them just because you have a family party to go to. Your friends always make fun of you because who can possibly be so excited to see their family.

2. All you do is make fun of each other. Everyone in the family has one thing about them that everyone makes fun of. No one gets upset, no one gets insecure because it's all to make each other laugh. In fact, the person who is the butt of the joke tends to be the one laughing the hardest.

3. Everyone knows everyone's business. While everyone is out and about doing their own things, whether away at school, living away from home, or on a trip, we still know all the major events going on in each others lives.

4. You support one another endlessly. You go to each others games and concerts no matter how much of an inconvenience it may be.

5. You have inside jokes that only the family laughs at. If any friend came to a party they definitely would have no clue what you and your family are talking/laughing about. And quite frankly by the time they leave, they just think you and your family are just plain weird.

6. There is never a moment of silence in your house because it is constantly being filled with laughter and activity. You all crowd around the adult table and listen to all the gossip, where jokes come from left and right. Someone always has something to say, even if it’s grandma and grandpa cracking a joke in the corner.

7. You have your annual football and baseball games between the kids where everything gets so competitive to the point there are always fights. All the adults are just watching with some kind of drink in their hand laughing, shouting and cheering us on.

8. At every family gathering a new family joke is created that will now be said at every following party.

9. You randomly pop up at your cousin's house just to say hi or hangout and vise versa. There is never need for a formal invite, it would be wrong.

10. Lastly, and certainly the most important sign you are close with your family is that you love each other endlessly. Amidst all the jokes and embarrassing moments that your family will never let go, you appreciate every second of it. You wouldn’t trade the moments and the memories you have made with your family for anything else in the world. As annoying as it is that our moms, aunts and grandmothers constantly want us to get together and take a picture, we will look back on those pictures years after and smile.