Alexis and Jaylynn Buesgens

Q: How far apart are you in age?

Alexis: 18 months to the date.

Jaylynn: Yeah to the date.

Q: What would you say are key differences between you guys?

Jaylynn: Our personalities are almost like completely different.

Q: Do you think you look alike?

Alexis: No.

Jaylynn: No, when we were little we used to. But I look exactly like my mom and she looks more like my dad.

Q: What is the most annoying thing people say about the two of you?

Alexis: Sometimes they do say we look alike but we don’t see it.

Jaylynn: Sometimes people don’t realize we are siblings.

Alexis: Yeah.

Jaylynn: People are like are you guys really good friends or something and we are like no we are sisters.

Q: Who is more sporty? booky?

Jaylynn: She is both.

Alexis: Yeah, we are both both.

Q: Would you consider yourselves best friends?

Jaylynn: I would.

Alexis: I don’t know. Kinds yeah.

Q: What is one thing people would not expect about your sibling?

Jaylynn: That when we get home she actually talks a lot and she is actually like really goofy and outgoing. But at school she is super shy and doesn’t like to talk a lot.

Alexis: I don’t know you are kind of like you are at home. She is just goofy!

Q: What’s the most annoying thing your sibling does?

Jaylynn: She is kinda messy and it’s really annoying.

Alexis: She gets mad at me, alot. Well not necessarily a lot but when we get mad, it’s not good.

Jaylynn: But then we make up right away so it’s not that bad.  

Q: What’s one nice thing you like about you sibling?

Jaylynn: She is very caring I guess you could say, it’s cheesy but like it’s true.

Alexis: She is always standing up for me and picking me up when I’m down.  

Q: Do you like people to know your related?

Jaylynn: Yeah, I don’t like people to not know we are siblings because that would just be weird.

Ben and Chloe Gross

Q: How far apart are you in age?

Chloe: 21 minutes.

Q: What would you say are key differences between you guys?

Chloe: Ben is more of the insane kinda person and I’m more calm. I don’t know, what do you think Ben?

Ben: I’m geared toward focusing on sports and she is more schoolish.

Q: Do you think you look alike?

Together: Yeah.

Ben: I think in some areas, yeah.

Q: What is the most annoying thing people say about the two of you?

Ben: Probably that we look alike, like a lot.

Chloe: Yeah, probably that.

Q: Who is more sporty? booky?

Chloe: We are both kind of the same, we have a lot of the same interests.

Ben: Yeah.

Q: Would you consider yourselves best friends?

Chloe: No.

Ben: Oh, I was gonna say yes.

Q: What is one thing people would not expect about your sibling?

Chloe: Ben is pretty much an open book. Probably that he is actually kind of a sensitive person. He doesn’t seem like it but he is.

Ben: Chloe is really caring.

Chloe: Thanks Ben!

Ben: I can go to her for stuff.

Q: What’s the most annoying thing your sibling does?

Ben: She has got a few of them for me.

Chloe: Ben how about you go first?

Ben: I’d say singing like 24/7.

Chloe: I don’t sing 24/7!

Ben: Or like doing these accents or impressions.

Chloe: I don’t do that but okay!

Chloe: For Ben he just annoys me a lot, he’ll always run into my room and say random stuff and then run out.

Q: What’s one nice thing you like about you sibling?

Ben: I always know she’ll be there for me if I need to talk to her for anything and I can trust her most of the time with everything.

Chloe: The same thing for Ben.

Ben: We are there for each other.

Q: Do you like people to know your related?

Chloe: Of course!

Ben: Yeah, I kinda like people to know I have a twin.

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Ella and Joel Langer

Q: How far apart are you in age?

Together: 2 years.

Joel: Like almost exactly.

Ella: Yeah, I’m in May and he is in June.  

Q: What would you say are key differences between you guys?

Joel: God there’s so many!

Ella: I’m so much smarter and more amazing.

Joel: That’s just not true.

Ella: I’m just so much more attractive.

Joel: I would say organization levels. Well but then there’s your room.

Ella: It’s actually really organized it’s just it’s hard to clean it during the week.

Joel: It’s not clean though.

Ella: On the weekends it’s really clean.

Joel: I would say level of diligence doing our homework. I’m a pretty active procrastinator and she likes to get things done right away.

Ella: Not necessarily that I just get them done period.

Joel: But I feel like you’re more stressed when it comes to school.

Ella: Yeah because I take it more seriously.

Joel: Okay that’s not true.

Ella: It’s true!

Q: Do you think you look alike?

Joel: No.

Ella: No.

Q: What is the most annoying thing people say about the two of you?

Joel: Really people don’t talk about us, people don’t know that we are siblings. People when they find out are like oh my god you guys are siblings!

Ella: Yeah it’s always like surprising.

Joel: Yeah.

Q: Who is more sporty? booky?

Ella: I don’t know we are both pretty equally sporty.

Joel: Well I don’t know.

Ella: We both play the same amount of sports, well I guess you used to play 3.

Joel: Well you didn’t really ski, you were the manager. But I guess when it comes down to it we both did the same amount of varsity sports.

Ella: Yeah, I did a little more varsity sports I’m just gonna be honest there.

Joel: No you didn’t!

Ella: I think Varsity tennis is a little more.

Joel: -then varsity nordic?

Ella: You did it for one year and I did it for 2.

Joel: I did Varsity nordic for two years!

Q: Would you consider yourselves best friends?

Ella: NO.

Joel: No, oh god no. See we getting along it spurts and then we don’t.

Ella: We getting along in front of people.

Q: What is one thing people would not expect about your sibling?

Ella: That he has had two girlfriends.

Joel: Really?

Ella: Actually 2!

Joel: Um that was just a mean thing to say.

Joel: I would say her sense of humor, cause like she’s quiet and then all of sudden she just whips out these savage remarks that no one would expect.

Q: What’s the most annoying thing your sibling does?

Joel: Oh God there’s so many.

Ella: When he opens food and leaves the empty box in there, so it’s like oh my god there’s more kind bars and then theres none.

Joel: You do the same thing!

Ella: No I don’t I throw the box away and you do that every time!

Joel: The fact that I have to drive her here almost everyday.

Ella: Yeah see that’s annoying to me too.

Q: What’s one nice thing you like about you sibling?

Joel: This is hard. Ummm I like it when we can team up on one of our parents.

Ella: Yeah.

Joel: Actually that’s really fun.

Ella: When we sit at dinner and just rag on Dad.

Joel: Yeah not Mom, cause it’s hard to rag on Jill. Jill is just tries really hard.

Ella: Yeah she has to put up with Dad.

Joel. Yeah so when we can team up on Dad that’s kinda fun.

Q: Do you like people to know your related?

Joel: I’m mean I guess.

Ella: It doesn’t make a difference. He is always like you should tell this teacher that you’re my sister, like it will help you so much in life. I’m mean honestly it just gives me a bad rep right of the bat, cause they’re like ugh she must be like Joel.

Joel: That’s just not true at all! I could really careless [if people knew Ella was my sister], I mean all of my friends just make fun of her and a bunch of them sent her crushes and stuff.