Party at the Palms

Oh, how I love getting together with these girls. Yes, these faces look familiar because we got together last summer (sadly, Lindsay couldn't make it-why does Alaska have to be so far away) after a 9 year hiatus, but this go around we didn't want to wait that long again. So we got together in mid-January and in our tradition of traveling around to each one of Jesicah's parents homes (all beautiful and oh do we appreciate their kindness) we found ourselves this time at the "desert house"-near Palm Springs. We sure made use of a long weekend with Julia flying into Phoenix from Houston, we drove to California and met Jesicah that night at the house.

We ate out, cooked, watched movies, soaked up some sunshine (even got a sunburn-it was in the mid 80's), shopped at the outlets ALL day, enjoyed the hot tub, morning walks, shopped for Julia's soon arriving baby boy, danced in the car, and had an eventful car ride back to Phoenix as we nearly ran out of gas! Always a great time with these ladies. A lot can change from being 16 (Jesicah), 17 (me), and 18 (Julia) years old living in the dorms-but somehow nothing changes when we all get together. We'd love for more of our freshmen year ladies to join us in the future- wink, wink, hint, hint ;)

Haha--car ride dance parties-thank you Julia for this picture

Yes, this was our view each evening from the back porch

Pool time in January-it does exist!

Whoever said--a single vice principal of an inner-city LA middle school, a hard-working full time dental hygienist putting her husband through school, and a stay-at-home mom of two girls with baby boy on the way-- don't have anything in common????? :)