palm springs, spring break

we wanted to go on a little getaway while the kids were on spring break. we looked at the local weather and chose palm springs because it was the warmest temperature wise than the rest 🙂 i had shot a wedding there just a year ago during the same time and thought the hotels were rather pleasant! and then we shot a wedding at the viceroy in santa monica and remembered there was one in palm springs as well! score!

happy the bigs carved out some family time from their busy social lives 🙂

our bookworm relaxes:

hotel room card:

stunning!

my love for stripes appeared all over the hotel 🙂

mandarin season makes us very happy:

eating out usually makes me very happy but i got homesick for my own kitchen on this trip. weird!

i am aware that time together is so refreshing and rewarding. and that our time together as a whole family is slowly coming to an end as the big kids get older. already now, every weekend the big kids are scarcely around as their social lives expand. i want to keep these little getaways in my heart as it's focused time where we are in each other's faces 24 hours a day. it seems like it was just yesterday when i was a mother with 3 under five. when my days seemed so long and i couldn't fill them with enough activities. now we are trying to please all 4 who are sooo entirely different.. trying to keep their attention for a bit longer before they are off on their own little getaways.

my crew. spring break 2011. xooxoxox