Palm Springs and other happenings...

A few weeks ago, Ian and I had the opportunity to take a "work" trip to Palm Springs for the weekend.  My dad just retired this month, so my parents were already planning a trip down here that week, so we pawned the kids off on them and took off.  We stayed at one of my favorite places, the JW Marriot, and took full advantage.  

Friday and Saturday night we had tickets to the BNP Paribas Tennis Open.  It was amazing.  The first night we caught the tail end of Andy Roddicks match and then saw Rafael Nadal play.  I've always loved tennis, so it was incredible to see it in person.  Even Ian was also impressed.  Our tickets were only about 10 rows back both nights, so I actually got a little dizzy trying to keep up with the ball.  The second night we saw Maria Sharapova play and then saw Andy Murray, who is ranked 4th in the world, get beat by an unranked Garcia-Lopez.  It was unreal.  Enough about tennis...

While my parents were here, we took the kids fishing at Poway Lake.  The kids didn't last too long, but they had a good time.  

A couple of Addi's classmates just happened to be there fishing that day, so there actually wasn't much fishing going on, but rather playing in the dirt and running around.

My mom brought down a couple of my grandma's old recipe books.  It was fun to see how different food was when my grandma was cooking for her family.  The way it was organized reminded me of my "pinboards" I have on Pinterest, minus the technology.  I was able to photocopy recipes I remembered eating as kid.  

I always have a project for my dad when they come to visit.  Not that I can't do these projects myself, but it's just easier if he does them for me :).  And since Ian isn't handy like him, I just wait for him to come and do them.  So we started with two Ikea pine dressers that we got for $35 and turned them into this...

Excuse the mess in the background.  That is actually one of the cleaner part of my garage.  I got the idea from Pinterest, and it was really simple.  The hardest part was just figuring out what the best game plan would be for the stain to make it dark enough.  After buying and returning a few different things, we settled on a separate stain and polyurethane.  And then just painted the drawers white.  It turned out better than I expected.   

Alas, a belly shot.  I am now almost 24 weeks pregnant.  Luckily, other than being constantly tired and having a little cold this weekend, I have been feeling pretty good.  Good enough to keep up my gym routine, which has made such a huge difference this time around.  I'm still doing 4-5 classes a week and am able to keep up.  I'm always just happy to get through it.