Washington Trip

Whew, I am behind in blogging! So I'm going to try and get caught up here over the next day or two. Here it goes.

For our last official week of summer (well last week for Lance and actually the first week of fall for Mikey as he started school that week--but we missed it. I'm a little concerned about all that he missed during that first week of preschool, but we're working to catch him up ;) we went to Washington to visit Lance's family. Here are some highlights.

We drove there. It's a long drive for three little kids (and a long drive for a mom with three little kids in the car). So we stayed over in a hotel half way through. I just couldn't resist the pictures here because I was taken back to so many nights on vacations having to share a bed with a sibling. Here is Mikey and Luke's first night of many, I'm sure, sharing a bed. And yes, you'll notice the barricade of pillows there that was required to stop the interactions preventing sleep.

And I just love a sleeping Luke

Lance was wise enough to bring a little something to get them to run around during those bathroom breaks

Here is Lance doing what he loves most--barefootin' it up with his brother

Kids in the sand

Kids in the water

Luke was very brave and went tubing on dad's lap--and loved it!

And Mikey, who is sometimes a little more timid with things, particularly things with water, surprisingly went tubing all by himself!

The last day was picture day

All the grandkids (Luke was grumpy through this whole process--you may notice the lack of smiles)

My cute boys!

Luke and Lizzie

The whole gang

The kids with Grandma and Grandpa