And The Relatives Came

I believe this title was the title of a children's book in the window of our downtown bookstore that we saw last week. It was about a bunch of mountain folk from Virginia piling into their station wagon and descending upon their relatives. It made me laugh.

Because that is sort of what happened at our house last week! My parents, brother, and niece piled into my mom's CRV and drove all the way from Texas! We had a lot of fun and it went by way too fast!

Having a great time swinging with Daddy and Madison.

He loves to climb in and out of his pool.

Taking a little dip in the hot tub.

A Wet dip!

The day after they arrived, we headed downtown to check out the local toy and book stores, and have lunch outside at The Market. Noah was relaxing with his feet up.

That night we had a big adventure! We walked a loooong way out the Greenbrier River Trail and cooked hot dogs! This is the only shot that proves my mom came to town too.

Here is a shot that proves that Madison ate at least one steamed carrot stick! I got "the look" quite a bit over our visit. :)

Scott, Madison, and I hiked up one of the little waterfalls and it was so cool. I can't wait to do it again.

Ah, here we are on the big rock. Madison swam in the river and Noah got to get in a little bit too.

He actually let Uncle Scott haul him all the way down there!

Here we are dragging ourselves and all our junk back to the car. Noah is taking it easy again with his feet propped.

On Friday, we headed to Williamsburg, VA. Sorry, there are not too many pictures of that. We headed down to colonial Williamsburg and realized it was way too hot to be doing that. So we left after briefly walking around. So much for that trip. But we had fun anyway. Scott and Madison spent Saturday at Busch Gardens, which Madison proclaimed was "awesome." And we took Noah swimming and to the outlet mall. He some new Vans and his first pair of Stride Rites! Gotta love those Prime Outlets.

Here we are at the hotel pool getting ready to try out Noah's new float, sans canopy. He had not been in a big pool since he was 4 months old!

I think it was a hit!

On Sunday, my family packed up Noah and headed back to Lewisburg. Jeremy and I had our first night to ourselves in almost 9 months! We realized how close we were to the Atlantic and decided to head to Virginia Beach. I'll get all of that posted later. Here are some shots of Noah enjoying himself while we were away.

I loved having my family around, even if we ran ourselves silly and even though it took me 3 days to do all the laundry and put the house back in order! I miss them. The only downer about the trip was that Noah decided to have a little Mommy-itis while they were here. Meaning he only wanted me and nobody else could hold him. I had to leave the premises in order for them to really enjoy him. It might have had something to do with another ear infection brewing. Yes, we are back on antibiotics and added steroids this time to try to get the fluid out. His doctor said that pretty much this is the last time his antibiotic will probably be effective. Luckily we have an ENT appointment scheduled next week. Hopefully all will be be well and he will be out of his clingy mood soon because Jeremy's parents arrive on July 1st!

See you soon!