Spring Break: Palm Spring Style

Hello Foxy Friends! Long time to talk right? Although you probably didn't notice. I had all the intentions to blog last week, but then I got sick and was on vacation and motivation went out the window. Good news is, we got lots of family time, and it felt great to put it all away and not think about work or blogging. But I'm back...at least for today, we'll see how I feel about tomorrow, haha. Anyway, my kids had Spring Break last week and we headed to Palm Springs. We had a blast! We went with two of my cousins and their families and my aunt. It's the first time we've all gone away together and I think it worked out pretty great. We stayed at the Omni Resort, pretty much perfect for families. We pretty much spent all day at the pool, and ate all the things.

We got there about 3ish, and headed straight for the pool, no pictures of the kids.

For dinner we ended up getting take out at Sherman's Deli and Bakery (a Diners, Drive-In, and Dive place), highly recommend, really good.

The next day we had a lazy morning and then headed straight for the pool. We decided since there were so many of us that we would rent a cabana.

It was great, the weather was perfect. Then we headed to Yard House for dinner. What's great about this hotel is that there is a mall across the street that had a ton of places to eat, so we never had to go very far.

Tuesday was the coolest of the days at 75, so our family decided to head to the Living Desert, while everyone else hit up the pool. We ended up meeting some friends that happen to be there as well. It was a blast!

Kids even rode on a camel. I don't have a ton of pictures of them on the camel, but I did however make sure to get the kids saying Happy Birthday to my dad from the camel...he loved it, something that you don't get very often.

After we got back we headed to the pool to meet up with the family and then we headed out to dinner to celebrate one of them turning 10!

Darn we should have taken a group photo...oh well, next time!

The kids had to share a lounge chairs, and these two were the cutest.

Best buds, they are 9 months apart. Funny enough, the one that isn't Baby Fox is actually the same size if not bigger than Baby Fox...just doesn't seem like it in this photo.

They are so cute, not the best picture, sorry kids.

They also had some cool water slides, the kids loved it.

We even got in a quick family photo shoot, before we lost the light on the last day.

Thursday we hung out by the pool with one of our cousins for a while, then headed over to some other cousins who happen to own a place out here and were there. So we went over to see their place, since we hadn't seen it before, plus go swimming. It was about 100°, it was hot!

Best way to get all of the pool toys out of the pool? Make it a race to see who can get the most and then take a picture with the stuff they got.

Dinner on the golf course.

This guy, baby hog, if you ever need someone to hold your baby and stop crying and/or go to sleep, have this guy come over, baby whisperer.

And that is a wrap to our Palm Springs portion of our Spring Break.

Spring In My World

Hi Foxy Friends! Welcome to Monday, I am currently on my way to Santa Barbara for a little get away with Mr. We booked this way back in December and it seemed like it was SO far away, but now we are here. It's been a hot second since we got away, so we're driving the fancy car (Mr. has a convertible Mercedes...or do you say Mercedes convertible...anyway, I call it the yellow car). So let's get to it...I'm linking up with the ladies over on The Blended Blog for a little Monday Asks. Today's topic is all about Spring where you live.

First off, for those of you that don't know I live in Southern California, west coast all the way. I grew up here (moved about 100 miles south of where I grew up), so I don't really know the seasons, but sometimes wish I went to college where it had seasons. I went to college about 50 miles south of where I grew up. I don't go far apparently.

Since this is a Monday, I decided to take pictures of things I saw over the weekend. So here is Spring in my world as of this weekend.

Friday was for getting ice cream as an after school treat.

It was windy...evident by my hair blowing above...so I thought it was the perfect day to try out a kite...speaking of which, kite flying is an art I do not possess, it was hard yo. Or cheap kites don't fly?
 

And then someone brought their pet bunny to the park...totally random right?

Our friends came over for dinner, and I felt like surf and turf, so that's what I made.

I added some yummy ribs and baked potoato, not shown is the salad that I had too. Promise.

Saturday is made for all kids sports.

First we started with Mini Fox and soccer. (Mr. did her hair that day).

Then we followed up with some baseball.

The baseball was in Laguna Beach, this was the view from the baseball field.

After the game we took a short 4 minute drive to see the ocean view. It's called Top of the World in Laguna Beach if you are ever in the area and want to see it. It's a fun hike. You can drive to the top, and hike down or just enjoy the view. It was really clear when we first got there before the baseball game, but as the game went on the clouds rolled and it got grey outside, darn. Should have stopped to take the picture before the game.

As I was loading the pictures I accidentally got this cool shot.

Oh and we also went to the Little League fundraiser...it was so much fun and hopefully we raised some money for the kids!

Sunday was for church, and some time with new church friends and running around talking and chatting with people. (Mini Fox is by the fountain and Baby Fox is by the pole light with the boy in the blue and white striped shirt).

Then we left the kids with a baby sitter and went wine tasting with my aunt.

It was the perfect day to wine taste and enjoy some good food and wine (they did, not me...someone had to drive).

And that my friends is Spring in my world. There are some flowers around, but mostly everything is green...for this short period of time after the rain has fallen and before the crazy heat hits. So I'm going to enjoy it while I can!

Now go link up what spring looks like in your world over on The Blended Blog.

April Showers Brings May Flowers

Happy Monday Foxy Friends! I hope everyone had a good weekend. After being a week away from the family, I was happy to get home and spend some time with them. If you're coming from The Blended Blog, welcome! Today's Spring Time Fun theme is: April Showers Brings May Flowers. Boy do we have a ton of flowers right now. With how much rain we got this year, we have flowers everywhere, and they are so pretty. Probably won't last too long, but I'm going to enjoy it while they do last. One thing that try to do each year is visit the Carlsbad Flower Fields. I know every Southern California blogger has probably hit this up, but what can I say, it's a great photo op.

This year we went with some friends and I told them I would take pictures of their kids. We got some great kid pictures with them, but not without a lot of fruit snacks...take two more photos and we'll give you some fruit snacks...bribery is everything in these types of situations. It's amazing how well it really works. Could you imagine your boss telling you, well if you write that report for me, I'll give you a milk shake...haha.

This is sort of at the beginning of the fields. You can't even imagine how big this place it...it's mind blowing.

If you ever have a chance to go to the Flower Fields you definitely should. It's so pretty, I wish we could have stayed a little longer, but our bribe also included going to LEGOLAND for the day, haha.

Now hop on over to Andrea to see what sort of Spring Time Fun she's doing.

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