ok, i’m back!  the thought of having to go through 769 photos from palm springs and select the ones for this entry led me to procrastinate for many days.    but here i am with more than a few photos to post from the last week of our vacation. i think i’ll do this in three installments to keep this from being the longest entry ever. alright, so we drove over to palm springs on a tuesday afternoon.  being that we were at the circus and chuck e. cheese’s only the night before, and i had left the task of packing all five of us til the very day we…

the day before we left for palm springs, we were able to take our kids and our friends’ kids to the circus and chuck e. cheese’s.  we had been wanting to do something with this family since they are the ones who babysit our kids for us the most often.  so anyway, phil came up with this idea and it ended up being really fun for all of us! six kids vs. two adults…  we were very outnumbered, but all the kids were very well-behaved and made it really easy on us.  feeding them lots and lots of snacks didn’t hurt, either.  some shots of the various circus performers… i…

ok, now back to the vacation fun!  making our way through the first week of our vacation…  it felt kinda intense, waking up each day, getting everyone ready to go, packing snacks and drinks and strollers and diaper bag, and getting everyone buckled down in the van for the next adventure.  but totally do-able with phil’s awesome help and since there were two of us to take care of the kids.  sooooo much easier! in other words, it was vacation boot camp!  and what’s a vacation without a trip to… we ended up renewing our annual passes so we’ll have another year to check out the happiest place on earth. …

FINALLY able to post pictures again, so i’m back with one more interruption before i finish up the vacation recap.  whew, came *this* close to moving blog sites if this “server is busy” business kept up much longer… alrighty, so happy belated mother’s day!  mikey had a special mother’s day celebration at his school last wednesday and i was looking forward to being there with him.  it had been mentioned that it was best to be just mom and preschooler (no siblings), but for me, it ended up being a choice to either bring the girls with me or not go at all.  mikey said he didn’t mind and actually…

mikey and i were looking at some older entries this afternoon and came across pictures from his fourth birthday.  at the end of that entry, i had put a sad face because i was thinking about how quickly the time has passed since he was my little baby.  being my first, he was my only baby and little did i know then just how precious the time was when it was just him and i.  and i was getting a little sad thinking about how quickly these next years will pass and how he’ll grow up and one day leave me.  hence the sad face. mikey spotted the sad face…