Virginia Vacation!!

Whew!! We are back from our wonderful trip to Virginia, and I am

finally caught up enough to post some pictures of our travels!

The kids really did pretty well in the car. Grace has less patience for long car rides,

but she did very well considering that 26 hours one way

REALLY is a long time for a wiggly one year old! :) We left early in the morning

most of the days so that they would sleep the first couple of hours.

They are so cute (and QUIET) when they are asleep!

The best part of our Vacation was seeing family! We hadn't seen Russ, Katrina, and Cole for over a year, and we had, of course, never met Garrett, so it was quite a treat to get to spend some time with them!

Here is cousin Cole. He is so CUTE! He and Joshua played together

really well, as if they had been playing together everyday! It was fun

to see them have so much fun being cousins! Joshua kept calling him

Coleski and his "buddy" - how cute is that!?!

And of course everyone wanted to hold sweet baby Garrett! He is one handsome little guy, that is for sure! Grace got really excited everytime she saw him and would start squealing and immediately come over to touch him. To her credit, I think she only poked him in the eye two or three times - Sorry Baby Garrett!

Joshua was SO excited to hold baby Garrett - he wouldn't give him back! He kept saying "Look, mom, he likes me!" "Look at his little hands." So precious!
I thought this was a cute picture. The boys were watching Thomas the Train so they wouldn't look at me, but I thought they looked a little bit a like - how fun!

And of course we had to see a few sights while in Virginia! These first few pictures are from Jamestown. It was so pretty, right off the James River.
Unfortunately, the kids had had enough sight seeing by then! Check out Joshua's face :)
These pics are from Williamsburg. It was fun to see some glimpses of colonial life.


Here the kids and I are sitting in George Washington's pew at the church.
We also spent one day in Washington, D.C., which was fabulous! We love D.C.!! Our favorite part (at least the adults favorite part!) was the WWII memorial! So NEAT!
WWII memorial


It was windy and cold!
Jefferson Monument - Bryan took the cool picture!
Iwo Jima - U.S. Marines Monument. I've been reading "Flags of our Fathers" which is about iwo Jima, so we had to stop and see it.
And of course the trip wouldn't be complete without a little mishap! We had the spark plugs in our car replaced before we left, and apparently they weren't put in correctly. Now, I don't know much about cars, but I'm pretty sure that spark plugs aren't supposed to just shoot out of your engine as you're driving down the freeway!! Luckily no one was hurt, some very kind people helped us out, the damage was minimal and repairable, and we were back on the road two hours later!! I was a little worried, though, when I saw the name of the tow truck company! :)