Palm Springs Highlights

A Real Live Baby!

Tsion does a great job of caring for her "etopian" baby doll...so imagine her excitement when she could hold and feed a real baby! She loves her cousin Lauren.

Knott's Soak City

Here we are in 117 degree heat, so we decided to go to the water park! We managed to stay cool, and didn't get sunburned....and drank a lot of water. Sami and Tsion proved to be daredevils, and i was worried about "warming them up" for the big slides. Tsion luckily reached the 42 inch cut off for the larger slides!

Here is the daredevil, everytime Lance checked on us she had devised a new way to go down.......

Yes, Sami and Josh went on this, even after Josh stood at the top as we anxiously watched as the engineer checked the slide for safetly concerns........

A 24 Hour Trip

Things are definitely different travelling with 4 kids for 24 hours. It is double the FUN (ha!). We have 4 kids gathered around the portable DVD player that you can hardly hear......as we pass cars with players in the back of each seat. Dad wants to listen to his station-cuz he is driver, and everyone wants to listen to Adventures in Odyssey...and a bag of homemade silly putty "accidentally" erupts in the backseat. The FUN goes on and on!! But we made it to Palm Springs, with a quick cousin stop in Santa Clarita.

Deciding How to Mow........

We were debating on investing in a driving lawn mower for our yard.....then we discovered what 3 boys could accomplish!!

Here We Come Swim Team......

.....in our spare time, between 4 soccer teams. Ha! Sami passed level 4, with flying colors. His teacher says "Sam, You totally impress me everyday with your diligence and drive. You have natural talent." Tsion is onto level 3. I am such a proud mom!

Happy 6th Birthday!

Tsion celebrated her 6th b-day by attending an 8 o'clock soccer game....in the rain!!

We made up for it later, at the Spaghetti Factory. She got a vintage Madame Alexander doll which was a replica of the one that I had when I was little, she even cries. When Tsion went up to bed tonight, she handed her to me and said "You take her, she won't stop whining."

I did figure out the Princess thing......it is from too much Gigi!