The Last Hoorah

My dad wanted to go on a weekend getaway before baby William's arrival and Danny had a conference in Palm Springs last weekend so we rendezvoused there and had a great time! On Friday Danny had meetings all day so I took the kids to the Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert. It was really fun!

Claire on the pulley chair

Making pizza

Claire is very excited about imaginative play and was obviously pleased with her pizza making skills

Claire showing us what she went shopping for

Carter on the police motorcycle

A real VW bug the kids painted on

Writing about her archeological findings

Carter getting into the dig

Playing magnet tic tac toe

Claire also loved the animal hospital

It was a gorgeous day in the desert

After we met Danny for lunch I took the kids to a park down the street from the hotel. They had an enormous slide the kids loved to slide down and climb up!

Our changing family has been on my mind so I attempted to get a photo of Carter & Claire since it won't be just them for long and these were the results. Oh well;)

The other highlight for the kids was the hotel spa, especially Carter. He loves to swim--it makes me excited for summer!

On Friday night, my parents and Eric, Sydnee and Kollin arrived. We had some tasty pizza and headed back to the house my parents rented for the weekend. Saturday morning we headed to the Living Desert (a desert zoo basically). There were lots of very cool animals. We really enjoyed the butterfly exhibit. It was a structure filled with gorgeous butterflies that landed on us.

Making music in the African Village

There were real warthogs right behind the kids but they were more interested playing on these statues

After lunch we headed to the Palm Springs Arial Tramway. All the adults had been up it before but never when it was SNOWING at the top! Sydnee had never been in the snow before and although it was cold it was so, so beautiful and fun!

On the tram on the way up

At the top

The whole group. Claire is asleep in the stroller and Kollin is hiding under the blanket on Sydnee;)

Good lookin' family

After Claire woke up and was acclimating to the cold.

As we were walking around we noticed a lot of people had sleds. We walked passed a family leaving and Danny said something aloud about getting a sled from someone. They turned around and offered to sell theirs to us at a discount. We bought it and then had a great time sledding. We weren't totally prepared for snow but Danny and Papa both went with the kids with leather shoes on and all!

Danny with both kids getting ready for the first run. They went down pretty fast but the kids still wanted more.

Papa and Claire

Grandma warming up Carter's cold hands.

After our fun the snow we warmed up and then went down the mountain and got some delicious BBQ and went back to the house to hang out. It was such a fun weekend and now that it is over I feel even more ready to have this baby!! Thank you mom and dad for a great weekend!!