Saturday, September 5, 2015

Palm Springs week!


Mama is oh so far behind on blogging! We decided to take one last trip with the kiddos before they started school.  There was  a big ole fire right behind our house so we ended up leaving much later than usual but all the kids ended up falling asleep(except for our owl Sophia of course!).  The forecast for the week was 118-120 degrees so we had to get real creative.  Thankfully the JW has a ton of indoor activities for kids like cooking/baking/art, and even a movie theatre that played kids movies each morning.  There were also big tv's where the kids played video games so Presto was in heaven! We did venture to the pool late in the afternoon the 2nd day and it wasn't so bad if you stayed in the water! Olivia is our mini-Preston and hung out under a huge waterfall(there were tweens who were too scared to go under it!).  She pretty much never leaves the water! Bentley bear would rather wander around the pool but the heat drove him in.  We also spent the day taking the aerial trap up the mountain where we explored, had lunch, and went a mini "hike"(4 mini's can only handle so much outdoor adventure!).  This was our favorite day though as it was a perfect 78 degrees at the top of the mountain...great way to beat the heat!! On our last day we went to our favorite kids museum.  Sophia still LOVES it at 7years old! She spent nearly the entire time in the pizza parlor area making pizza's for all her customers and Bentley loved the grocery store!  We had the most amazing 1600 sq foot, 2 bedroom suite(which is bigger than our current rental...ahhhh!!!)...Mama didn't want to leave EVER!! We love our family trips!!!!(oh and as you can tell from the pictures...Oliva likes to climb...on everything...always...goooood times!!!)