Vacation in Virginia

I'm a little late in my posts, but will hopefully get to catch up soon.  We had such a great vacation in Virginia a couple weeks ago.  We really haven't been able to get down for a visit in the summer until this year, so it was a very fun pool vacation for the kids.  We had lots of great family time and the cousins all got along very well.   We made good use of Grammy and Gramps' pool as I think the kids averaged about 6 hours a day in it!  Water guns were by far the toy of choice for the week.  It was so fun to see the kids all horsing around with Gramps in the pool.  There were a few pool rules, including no pushing anyone in, and no squirting people in the face.  However, none of these rules applied when playing with Gramps, (mostly because he broke them first)!  We were also lucky enough to be down there for Linsey's baby shower, due the end of October.  It was a wonderful shower and Isabel loved helping Linsey open her gifts.  That night we had a lot of the Quinn clan for dinner at Grammy and Gramps' house so that was a special treat too, as we don't get to see them a lot.  Aunt Penny came prepared as usual to play with the kids with lots of toys in hand.  It was quite madness at times.  Josh was also able to attend his fantasy football draft while down there and catch up with his college buddies.  Emma was quite good on the trip.  She slept well and started to be much more engaging with people.  She was held constantly which was great for her, and fortunately didn't set us back too much when we returned home!    It was a wonderful trip for everyone!   

Crazy play in the toy room with balloons from Aunt Penny

Fun with Gramps

Cooper didn't want to take off his floaties for most of the week.  With good reason, as he was then able to keep up with his bigger cousin Ryan.  But the last day, he decided he would and to our surprise actually was able to swim a few feet with his head under water!  A good start!