Thanksgiving in Virginia!

Okay, so I'm REALLLLLLLY  behind in my posts, I don't even know where to start!  Let's go back to Thanksgiving.  We had a wonderful trip to Virginia.  We travelled down in our new minivan with the 3 kids, Sadie and a Thule on the roof!  The trip was actually very smooth thanks to the built-in DVD player and the fact that Emma is facing forward in her car seat!   We had the best time visiting with the Quinns.  The cousins seem to play better and better each time we're together which is a big help in the adult "relaxation" efforts!  There are lots of random pics below...

Emma LOVES popcorn! 

Checking out the new fancy popcorn machine-- thank you Stranges!  

This about says it all...silly grandkids...silly Gramps! 

It was awesome to spend time with Aunt Casey and get to know Dwayne better!

Grammy and cousin Gabe

Sisters!

Do you like my headband?  (this lasted on her head all of 5 seconds)

Is this is cute kid or what?

Here we are at the Reston Holiday parade. 

Lots of big floats! 

Thanksgiving dinner!  

Emma has a new shoe fettish, it's pretty cute.  

Dinner at Aunt Cary and Uncle Ethan's house

Josh cooked up his venison for everybody to try.  I think it was a hit.  (Not sure what Cary's doing here...??)

A highlight of the week was a trip to the National Zoo.  It was the kids first trip to a real zoo (not just a Vermont farm), and it was a blast. 

Emma LOVED this exhibit, I think because it was at her eye level and the things were moving constantly.  She would run up and down the glass case with them.  

We had a snack at the picnic tables while the chimpanzees climbed above us

We brought the stroller for Emma to sit in, but she pretty much pushed it the whole way instead.  

Cousins! 

This was our extremely funny and extremely disastrous attempt at making homemade pizza.  The crust burned right to the cookie sheets.  Have no fear, the Quinns were resilient (or just very very hungry), and took forks to the top of it, taking down all of the meat and cheese.