Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Vacation Highlights

A couple weeks ago, we headed to Houston and Austin, Texas, to visit with the family. We spent 4 nights in Austin where we saw my brother and his family. It was a fun time having all the cousins together! My parents rented a "lake" house meaning it was near Lake Travis not on the lake. Instead of the lake, it did have a fantastic pool which we used everyday all day long!

My brother and his daughter Reve' share the same birthday, so we celebrated that occasion together.
The cousins playing duck duck goose.
A picture of ALL the cousins! We LOVED that Joe (the oldest one) joined us in Austin for the fun. He is a blast to be around. We teased him that his was the "manny" for the kiddos.
Lots and Lots of swimming
Laura absolutely loves to swim. And after this second round of swim lessons, she is officially swimming using her arms and everything. I think swim team is in our future.....

Grant on the other hand is still not sure of the water. He likes it, but he prefers to be like his sister and not use floaties.

6 comments:

April said...

It looks like you all had SO much fun together! My favorite picture is the one of all four of you...with Grant trying to squirm down and you peering up over Grant! That's a classic. I'm glad Laura's swimming so well and enjoying the time in the pool this summer.

Holly Aytes said...

Yeah for Laura! The kids are taking swim lessons at UT. The oldest 2 can swim like fish but we wanted them to learn all the different strokes. Madison can swim with floaties so we are working on getting her out of those...her swim teacher said to throw them out but we haven't gone that far yet :) I foresee swim team in our future and maybe a diving team :) Glad you had a wonderful vacation...the kids are getting so big!

Ginger said...

Such a blessing that Laura loves the water so much. My boys are doing better, but still not where they should be in the water. We will be on our second round of swim lessons this summer in a couple weeks. Some of my best summer memories are of swim team.

Allison said...

Love the family pic with Grant fighting those swimmies! Syd thinks she can just take off for a good swim too....she doesn't like floats or to be held. It's tough in the big pool!!

amy said...

Yours and Grant's expressions in that last one... HILARIOUS!!!!

We should try to plan a swim play date together (I am sure Grant would LOVE it).

Holly said...

How fun! So glad Laura is swimming so well, looks like Grant is not far behind!