First of all – you must start playing this song so you can get into the sunshine mood.  This was track number one from our ‘Palm Springs’ playlist.  Everytime we go on a trip I buy new music and make us a new CD.  That way there is always a song that takes us right […]

My cousin Heidi was down in Palm Springs with her kids at the same time I was there with my kids.  This is so much fun because Little Man Jack is the only cousin my kids really know.  When they can see their other cousins (Second cousin?  I have no idea how THAT heirarchy works!) […]

This is Miss Sydney.  Doesn’t she look just like a Kewpie Doll?  I took Sydney’s pictures way back when she was just a month old.  And look at her now?!?  A sweet, happy (sitting!)  six month old girlie. Normally my inclination is to change baby pictures to black and white.  I love how classic they […]

One of the best things about Spring Break for me was hanging out with little man Jack.  It was so much fun to see how big he’s getting.  He’s talking so much now with both sign language and words. (There is something about the messy face and undershirt that in that picture above that is […]

Doesn’t that just look like freedom and happiness and being carefree all in one?  My parents’ house is right on the golf course so after all the golfers finished up the girls had free run of all that lovely grass and rolling hills. When you have a miniscule backyard you REALLY appreciate all that space! […]

Swimming was the main focus of our trip.   All three girls are such great swimmers that I liked this activity.  It meant that I could sit on a lounge chair under an umbrella sipping a nice cool drink while they were happily occupied.  (For you photographer types let me tell you the happy coincidence that […]