OK so I slacked off yesterday and didn’t continue with the run down, that’s only because I feel soooo run down! :)



Easing into vacation life was pretty easy for us, we stayed at the gorgeous Club Intrawest Resort in Palm Desert and had a two bedroom lock-out type of room. It was nice for us because the kids were on one side and we were on the other. We just had the doors open between our suites most of the time. Each room has a kitchenette, we found this IDEAL for our situation with four kids and needing frequent meals. We decided that we would eat breakfast and lunch each day in our kitchen, and then take the kids out to dinner each night. They loved going out to dinner and so did we!


Noah our youngest has had a track record for being pretty scared of the water. When we first arrived our room wasn’t quite ready so they suggested we take a dip in the pool. When I walked out onto the pool deck I fell in love, Palm Trees swaying in the blistering hot breeze, a gorgeous pool, mist spraying from areas around it. Dylan, Joshy and Brigs all jumped in and were having a blast, but Noah started freaking out. I knew we had days of scorching heat ahead of us so I persevered with him in the water and within a few minutes he had calmed down and was splashing too. In about thirty minutes he was fully prepared to be carried around the pool by someone other than me. And then Dylan was able to get him into a floating tube and kick around on his own!!

Now onto the BIG news of the trip. I relaxed enough to wear my hair curly the entire time! This doesn’t happen very often, I usually straighten it. There was no way I was going to spend 2 hours a day straightening my hair on vacation!! Thanks to some sweet remarks from my darling hubby I decided I had to let it go and just have a blast.

Dylan and Joshy were quite the pair, they had frequent “holding our breath under water” contests. As I look through our pics I’m shocked to see that I have none of Nathan playing in the pool!! Sorry honey, it sucks when you’re the only one taking pictures!