You can't live with them, you can't live without them. No matter how hectic things get you wouldn't change your family for the world. Because without all of this craziness you wouldn't be who you are today.

1. Family game nights are the best nights. That is until someone "cheats" and beats the winner of all games.

2. There is no such thing as silence, or inside voices. Shouting has become the regular means of communicating with each other.

3. Group messages can be overwhelming. You don't check your phone for an hour and have 78 unread messages.

4.Your immediate family amounts to the number of a small country.

5. There is no such thing as personal space. Oh I see there is no one sitting in between you and the middle person there on the couch. Let me come lay on your lap.

6. You end up yelling at someone without even realizing that you are. Everyone in your family just talks loudly.

7.Taking a successful family photo is nearly unheard of. There is always someone blocking another's face, three people blinked, and someone else is talking.

8. As a kid, your Aunt went through all of your cousins names before getting to yours. So you've learned to answer to any of them.

9. You've watched eight pizzas and five dozen wings disappear in merely seconds.

10. When you have a new significant other it takes them a few months to learn everyone's names, and who belongs to who.

11. When your "small" family get together amounts to over 50 people.

12. Your Grandparents are your heroes, how did they raise seven kids and keep their sanity?

13. Even though there are so many of you, each family member's personality is different from the rest. There is the worrier, the perfectionist, the carefree one, the reckless one, the innocent one, and there is always the odd ball.

14. There is no such thing as privacy or secrets. Either you slip to one of them, or someone else does. In the end everyone always knows what's going on.

15. They're all your biggest fans and supporters. Your cousins are your best friends, and life couldn't go on without them.

And though you are getting older and moving away from each other, you just have one more vacation to add to your list with the rest of your family. You realize the important things in life, that sometimes friends are only temporary but family will always be there. You wouldn't trade your large close knit family for anything.