The rest of the story...

****Warning...excessive pictures****

Here is the rest of the trip.. This picture is for Noah..Charlie is sitting on a Crys...some type of Dinosaur!
And why play with the bone when you can sit on it!
Big surprise that the big checkers were a big hit..
We carried them everywhere..until I was hot and whipped and suggested the pool! Our date night photo
Attempting a family photo before we headed out..but those are far and few between these days!

Pointing again!

These next are an attempt to get just a cute pic of him...5 pics later and we were all over it!
Stick anyone??

Bradley played golf one morning with Rich and Allene and since our room was of the 18th hole we walked down to the 17th and met Daddy for some drive time..of course we let Charlie drive!! Check out his face..SO over it!
Snack time after pool time was probably one of Charlie's favorite times..and it was a great time for watermelon..if he was dirty just dip him back in the pool before we leave!!! So WT!!

It's amazing we made it safe and sound while driving anywhere. For probably 5 miles along the highway there are all these windmills....soooo distracting while driving. We'd be driving and I'd hear us driving on the bumps and I'd have to re-direct Bradley! Not a bad picture for being taken out the window at 70mph.
Love that face!

I don't think we managed one decent picture where both Libby and Charlie were smiling...I am sure eventually we can get one...when they are like 5!

This is at the Children's Discovery Museum...soo much fun! I am pretty sure that Bradley and I had just as good of time as Charlie did! This was us in the dress up room.
Big surprise..he hated the hat!
We had a hard time getting him to throw stuff at the magnetic wall. We spend all day saying don't throw stuff and then we wanted him to throw stuff..I can see his hesitation!
Whatever you call this pulley thing was one of the biggest hits..for me and him!
You can never go wrong with Lego's!

This is at our dinner out. We went to a BBQ restaurant called Babes. It always cracks me up to see what others think of Texas Style!! Out waitress was decked out..but did lack Southern sweetness!! There was one thing on the menu labeled "Texas Style...something", but none of us Texans could figure out what it was. I forget her answer, but it was clearly something special that they only do in Texas...we did not bother to tell her we were from there and had never heard of it.
Always wanting to help push and never ride anymore!
Mutti asked Charlie to love on the pig and give it kisses and he did! Laura is in the background going "Gross mom, you know how many people have had their hands there"..Yuck!!! Thanks Laura!!
Another attempt at a picture together!

Thanks Rich and Allene for an AWESOME vacation!!

Palm Springs...the first half of the trip!!

We just got back from a week in Palm Springs..it is always such a treat to have a week off of work!!! We went with all the Ways and it was a GREAT week!!! This is day one after bath night....Ange looked great in every picture..this kids were a little harder to get!! If you heard the noise I was making then you would understand the kids expressions a little better...amber, you know the noise...I stole it from you!!!
Proof!!!! We have proof that the girls were sweet to each other!!! Just teasing girls!!!

Uncle Sandy and Aunt Marcia were there the week before us. Uncle Sandy searched for golf balls each morning and came up with 48..or 50. He left Bradley the challenge to "Beat that"...so you know where we were the first morning...and following mornings! There were usually geese on the course each morning to help us out so we can now add "What does a duck say"..to our list of animal noises that we know!

Daddy's little helper!

Has anyone seen "I am Legend"?? The kids loved to play behind the curtains..but this creepy picture reminded Bradley and me of "I am Legend"The ottoman served as a great toy holder and often Libby holder!!

Laura and Libby at our daily pool time!!
Daddy and Charlie having some pool fun!!
They had one slide at the hotel and I think the parents enjoyed it as much as the kids did!! Charlie usually had his concerned look on his face, but we found out that if one of us greeted him at the bottom he quickly had more smiles on the slide!
Laura and Libby on the slide..Charlie and Daddy has just gone!
Playing in the ice cold water....by day 5 Charlie had kinda warmed up to it!!

We went to the Living Dessert Zoo..a zoo in the dessert was new for us..and HOT!!! It was a long time before we saw an animal that wasn't a longhorn..so when we saw these pigs the kids had fun!!

He sees the camera and male instinct kicks in and he looks the other way!!
Here is our very poor attempt to get a picture of the kids together..they all turned out like this!!
Derrick, Laura and Libby.

The giraffes were by far our favorite..cause we got to feed them!! You just went through the line to feed them and they totally encourage you to keep going through until all the food was gone. I think we went through like 4 times!

Look at that tongue...NASTY!! And it felt just as nasty!

This was the fourth time..he finally felt comfortable enough to feed the giraffe himself.

I don't know the woman feeding, but I love his pointing!! Side not..Charlie points all the time and he recently learned that a cow says "Moo"..so don't be offended if you are the one he points at and says "Moo"..he did this in the airport!And this is his tantrum..apparently NO ONE told me that 13 months is the new 2...Nice.

He felt more comfortable touching this giraffe!!
His Mutti got him and Libby a giraffe and I love to tell him to love on it...he hugs it tightly and says "Uh, Uh, Uh". (that is so not how you spell what I am saying , but I have no idea how to spell what I hearing/saying in my head!!)