What do Palm Springs and Morphine have in common?

My mom thinks they both are the bomb!! (more about that later)

Our trip was great! We left the kids with a cute couple in our ward and headed out on Saturday afternoon. We had such a nice time just relaxing and spending time with "grown-ups". My parents rented a nice house that had 4 rooms and a pool, so it made it really nice because everybody could do whatever they wanted to- whenever they wanted to!

When we got there everybody had already jumped in with both feet! The boys were laying on the couch watching a movie, my mom was taking a nap and the girls were out in the pool reading. It didn't take long for Aaron and I to join in. That night we went to dinner at Ruby's in downtown Palm Springs then went back to the house and played games. My mom wasn't feeling well so mid-way through Scattergories she went to bed. The next day we slept in until almost 10, it felt so good! Then we just floated around in the pool all day (I was reading Eclipse, but I'll save that for another post). That night we celebrated my birthday and went to Kobe Japanese Steakhouse for dinner and my mom made apple crisp. The next morning we woke up around 9:30 and my mom was gone. Come to find out she still wasn't feeling well, so she had "seceretly" gone to Urgent Care while we were sleeping. We get a call a few minutes later and she said "Meet me at the hospital."

So we ran over there as fast as we could and she was in complete pain, crying and not able to walk. After being taken back to the ER and then admitted to the hospital we found out that she had acute appendicitis and had to have surgery that day to have it removed. She was in so much pain, she said it was worse than labor, ouch! She had surgery that night at 11. When we went to visit her before the surgery, we walked into the room and the first thing she said when she saw us was "Morphine is the bomb!" It was so funny and we were all dying! We stopped by to say goodbye to her this morning. It was so sad to leave her at the hospital and all go home, although my Dad stayed. She was relieved to have the pain of the appendix gone, but she had a fever and still wasn't feeling great. So hopefully she'll be able to go home tomorrow.

Overall it was lots of fun, but a huge bummer for my poor mom. At least she had a day and a half of fun! We love you, Mom--get better soon!!!

Ani and I- lovin' the pool!

Ani, Megan and I- OBSESSED with the Twilight books!

The boys watched movies all day!

On our way out to dinner- perfect weather for taking the top off!

Happy Birthday to me!

Ani, Matt, me, Aaron, Dave, Megan, Mike, Mom-in pain :-( , Dad

Dr. Dave? scary thought, no thanks!!

Feeling better!

I had to take a picture, because these remind me of Palm Springs- there on either side of the 10 on the way into the city.
As a little kid I remember seeing them and getting excited because I knew we were getting close.