Palm Springs

We had a great time in Palm Springs this past week. We desperately needed a family vacation - this was Riley's 5th flight, but 1st vacation. It was so nice to get away from work and everything else at home to enjoy sun, friends and just being relaxed! Our friends the Patterson's joined us down there and we had a great time swimming each day in the pool. It was so nice to share parenting duties between 4 adults and 4 kids. What a blessing they are to us!

While we were in Palm Springs Riley had a lot of firsts - mainly to do with eating new items. His favorites now include black beans, avocados, dill pickles, peaches, yogurt, and pinwheel crackers. He pretty much just wants big people food which I'm all for - I can now just feed him off of my plate. He also continues to try and stand up which really had us nervous since the floor of the house there was tile...we had lots of near misses.

It couldn't have been nicer - it was over 100 degrees each day. Our schedule looked something like this:
7-9 AM - wake up and enjoy breakfast and playing
9:30 AM - Riley down for a nap and the rest of us out back to the pool & sun
Noon - Riley up and we all eat lunch
1:30 PM - Riley and all of us swim
3:00 PM - Riley down for a nap and the rest of us continue to enjoy the pool/sun
4:30 PM - Riley up - we all clean up and do dinner
7-8 PM - kids down to bed
8-11 PM - adults finally get to just chat...and laugh - A LOT!!