Marco Island 2015

We made our annual trek down to Marco Island at the beginning of June and stayed for 10 days this year.  The kids had so much fun swimming in the pool and going to the beach and were thoroughly exhausted but kept chugging along the entire trip.  Nolan turned into a fantastic swimmer and was swimming the width of the pool without his float towards the end of the vacation.  Quinn was very brave in the pool too, getting in and out by herself and kicking around the entire pool all by herself trying to keep up with her brother.  We had great weather, the kids did well on the flights, and we still had some time to relax by the pools sans kiddos since we still have two nappers :)  Another great Marco trip in the books!!

This is how you would find Quinn most of the time; just floating away in the deep end.

Not sure?

Popsicles by the pool!!

Superman ice cream, only the best!

Quinn's goofy attempt at a smile.

The beach was much more enjoyable this year.  Quinn didn't eat the sand and Nolan wasn't afraid to walk on it anymore.  The kids loved digging in the sand and swimming in the ocean.  

The usual…snack in hand.

Checking out the fountain in one of our favorite spots.  My wallet is cleaned out after this trip!!

More ice cream!

Our Columbus friends, the Stefangos, were also in Marco while we were down there.  It was a lot of fun to have friends there to do dinners with and swim.  Our kids are very similar in age too so it was nice for them to have some companions.  Nolan keeps asking when he gets to see Collin again :)

Our attempt at a family picture.  Quinn is always uncooperative for pictures...

…this set up kept getting worse...

…and worse.  I post them anyways because this is our reality with our sassy girl.

Boys checking out the fish.

Also a little bit grumpy...

…but she looked really cute :)

My dad and Mary headed down for a few days to join us again this year.   The kids were so excited to have them around and loved playing with them at the pool.  Unfortunately, we didn't get a good picture of all of us.

Pretty sunset that night.

We made a quick boat trip out to a sand bar one day to search for seashells.

Sand bar.

After dinner at Stilts the kids wanted to play corn hole.  Nolan got the point of throwing the bean bags into the hole.  Quinn, on the other hand, wanted to put all of the neighboring bocce balls in the hole.

The pool at the Marriott had a zero entry and a bunch of other kids were swimming in their clothes so our followed suit and had a blast.

The Stefangos were there that night too so Nolan and Collin got to swim in the pool clothed together.

This is how they ended up on the way home that night.  No towels=naked babies.

Round 2 at the fountain before live music and dancing at CJs.

The cutest outfit on the cutest baby I have ever seen ;)

The kids were doing this dance where Quinn would shake Nolan's head, get in his face and laugh, and then push him to the ground.  He thought it was funny and they did it over and over again.

Quinn wanted to twirl and Nolan reluctantly aided in this process.

Found herself a little seat :)

One last attempt at a family picture.  Quinn still isn't happy but at least she isn't crying and arching her back!

On our last day we spent some time at the pool with the Stefangos.  The kids had so much fun swimming together!  Sassy girls!

Cool dudes.  Later that night, after dinner, all of the boys did a night swim while the moms had some wine.  It was the perfect ending to a fun vacation!!