Palm Desert

Sawyer loves the water, he is playing in a baby pool: 1 foot deep!

Here is the fun water slide the kids loved! That is Maddie coming down!

Carter and his cousin Davis

Maddie and Davis at Mikado

Chris and Sawyer watching our Chef do some tricks!




The little boat ride back to the inside of the Hotel
(notice the chopsticks in Maddie's hair from dinner)

After New Years Day, we went on a mini vacation to Palm Desert. Mom, Dad, and Heather & Cisco and their kids came too. It was so much fun! We all had our own villas at the Shadow Ridge resort. There was a big storm moving through southern California so it was a little colder than normal but it didn't start raining until the day we left. The pools were heated and so we spent lots of time in the pools. They have a big water slide that the kids loved! On the first day we were there, Carter grabbed a cactus with both hands and Grammy had to pull out all of the needles out of his hands. There were probably at least 100! When I asked him why he touched the Cactus he said, "Because it was spikey"

One night we ate dinner at a fun restaurant called Mikado, which is part of the big Marriott Desert Springs hotel and it was very nice. It is a Japanese style restaurant where they cook in front of you so it kept the kids attention very well. After dinner we got to ride the boat back to the inside of the hotel which the kids love. (If you ever watched Saved by the Bell this is the hotel the kids go to when Jessie's Dad gets married in Palm Springs and Screech takes off in the boat with Lisa)

We were especially excited because while we were there, Mom and Dad bought a week with the Marriott Vacation Club! So they will finally be able to travel! They have reserved 2 units in the Newport Coast Villas for our whole family to have a reunion in August! We are all so thrilled to be able to spend a week at the beach!

We got home on Saturday and we are ready for life to get back to normal. Maddie and Carter go back to school today and my life will have some structure to it. This Christmas Break was so busy and we did so much it is hard to believe we crammed it all into 2 weeks! Maddie was so excited to go back to school today, she missed her teacher and her friends. I hope that lasts!