Spring Break 2016

Instead of flying down to Marco Island once school is out this year we went over spring break and had so much fun!!  It was the first year in many that vacation felt more like vacation.  The kids were so easy in the airport and on the flights, they had fun playing together on the beach, and Eric and I were able to relax more than any other year in the past five.  It was great.

We flew out on Nolan's 5th birthday and spent a week down there.  The weather was nice, except for one chilly day.  We made the most of it and checked out the Naples zoo, which was fun and different since we usually stick to the island.  Other than that, we did a lot of pool and beach and dinners out each night.  We made a lot of good memories and are looking forward to doing more traveling with the kids now that they are getting older!!

Birthday boy at the airport.

Quinn is still a momma's girl and insisted on sitting next to me on both ends of the trip.

We flew out during nap time so she fell asleep for about an hour on my lap :)

Birthday boy got to sit in the cock pit at the end of the flight!

It's very hard to get Quinn to smile nicely at the camera.  She enjoys making weird faces instead.

My pool buddy.

We did dinner at Quinn's twice.  It has turned into a tradition to take Quinn's picture next to the "Quinn's" sign and watch the fire dancer after dinner and some time on the beach.

Fire dancer experience #1

Nolan loves the fire dances and was so excited to take a picture with this guy. 

Monday was our chilly zoo day. 

A little cold weather couldn't stop Nolan and Eric from enjoying a camel ride :)

Making another weird face at the zoo.

After the zoo we headed into downtown Naples and found a cute little lunch spot on a marina.  It was a little too cold to eat outside but they enjoyed watching the couple next to use deconstruct whole lobsters for lunch.

Got a smile out of Quinn!

We like to do one nice dinner with the kids each vacation.  We went to Marco Prime and the kids enjoyed the swanky service.  Quinn especially since she dropped her fork on the floor a solid four times and each time the server replaced it with a new one.  

Yep, this is at 8:00 in the morning.  Dude is ready to hit the pool!

Tuesday morning was still a little cold but we put on sweatshirts and went to the beach anyways.  Within a couple of hours it had warmed up and we had a great beach day!

Love this ruffle butt.

Meet Ice Claw.  It was a small Lego set I put in Nolan's backpack to keep him busy on the airplane.  He placed it outside of his bedroom door each night to "protect him."  We were also given strict instructions to say the magic password "ice" each time we entered or exited his room.  Just to be on the safe side :)

By Wednesday we had sunny hot days which consisted of beach all morning/lunch and then back to the pool for Popsicles and a little more swimming before nap time.

Once again…Quinn and the tongue.

Sand shark.

Boys and boats.

Dinner at Mango's.

Handsome boy.

After dinner at Mango's we stayed for live music and dancing at CJ's.  It was a lot of fun.

It was humid that night and her curls were so pretty.

On our last night we headed back to Quinn's for dinner and another fire dancer show.  This is Quinn's 3rd picture in front of this sign since last year it was under construction.

Quinn agreed to take a picture with the fire dancer with Eric in tow.  As you can tell by her face, she still wasn't very impressed.

They both love this mermaid statue and Nolan thought it was pretty funny that Quinn liked to grab her "boobies."  Oh, boys.

Can't wait for our next trip to Marco!