What Happens in Palm Springs...

...goes on the blog.

For Memorial Day weekend this year, I decided that I needed to be reminded of a few things ("Memorial".... "reminded." See what I did there?)  

So, here are the 

Top 14 Things That I was REMINDED of on our Smith Family Girl's Weekend to Palm Springs.

#1: No matter how long you go without seeing your cousins, you'll pick up where you left off.

 #2: This family is incapable of taking a good picture.  Maybe that's why we have to take 7,000 every time we're together.  

(With the exception of Morgan who looks like a SUPERMODEL in every. single. one.)

#3: If you need sunscreen rubbed in, do not ask my mom to do it. 

("hashtag: am i all rubbed in?  hashtag: no."  haha.)

 #4: If you are going to play Wits and Wagers, make sure Kim is on your team.  (She guessed EXACTLY how many years and days Brad Pitt and Jen Aniston were married for the win.  5 years, 66 days in case you were wondering.)

 #5: Going to dinner with this crew will almost always result in someone squirting water out of their nose from laughing so hard. 

 #6: Wendy tells the BEST stories.  Wendy also photobombs you unintentionally sometimes.  :)

 #7: NO ONE is better than Callie at playing the devil in an impromptu midnight music video.

Don't even ask.

#8: The Palm-Springs-Memorial-Day-Weekend-Smith-Family-Girl's-Trip will be incredible and leave you excited for next year.

#9: Having so much fun in Palm Springs will make you want to invite your family out to partake in the amazing Hotel pool (complete with waterslide and fake beach), and your husband will do such a good job packing for a weekend that you'll be ashamed of yourself.

 #10: Going golfing will be the highlight of the trip for Aubrey (WHAT?!?).  

Turns out, she was not half bad.  And Cameron was not half bad at picking up the golfballs and running away with them.

Of course, every putt was celebrated with a victory handstand.

Naturally.

 #11: If you throw Aubrey up to teach her how to dive, she will hit her chin on the bottom of the pool and people will judge your parenting methods. 

 #12: Instead of building sandcastles, we now will be required to build sand-Disneylands, complete with Splash Mountain, Matterhorn, and Tower of Terror.  (How did I not get a picture of this?!  Curses.)

 #13: Driving home on Memorial Day evening is an incredibly bad idea and you will go 20 miles in 2 1/2 hours.  Oh, and an un-named someone in your family will have to pee the entire time, so you will have to pull off the road and make them pee in the bushes, and then 100 feet down the road, you will witness this sign:

#14: Your Palm Springs weekend will be a highlight of your year and  your kids will beg you to go back every day.