GREAT WEEKEND

The Cruz family sure did have a great weekend. It started out by having a wonderful dinner at Messial's house with friends and family on Friday night. It was a late night for the boys, especially since school has started, but they played until about 10pm and loved every minute of it. I can't say that the next morning was wonderful with the boys, but we made it through. They decided to wake up at 5:30 (not sure of my parents theory of keeping kids up late so they sleep in). They woke up early but distracted themselves in their playroom for awhile until Duane decided to get out of bed. I was the lucky one on Saturday that got to sleep in, and I took advantage of it.

Duane made breakfast for the boys, did the dishes, and then let the kids go outside to play. So great to wake up to them running around playing and having fun. Once I got ready, went to help Duane in the garage. I'm so proud of him!! He has really "cleaned house" when it comes to the garage. His mission was to get my car and the trailer in there. It took most of the day, but we accomplished that mission!! Once that project was done, we went to have some Guamanian food at a picnic that Messial and Aiza were DJ'in at. Hung out for an hour or so as we had a big task in front of us. We had to take down the playset at the old house and bring it to the new house. The kids have been missing it and it's one of the last few beautiful weekends we could get it moved. The boys were so excited to know that the playset was coming home with us. It was almost killing them to wait for it to get rebuilt. Sadly, it was bedtime before it was set up to play on. The playset got moved and set back up with only one injury.....a board fell on Duane's head. Not the greatest thing to see as the wife watching from the kitchen window, but thankfully he is ok.

Sunday morning the boys sleep until 6:30....YAY!!! Now it was my turn to get up with them and let Duane sleep (I love the system we have so we both get to sleep in one day out of the weekend). The first thing Nikolas wants to do......go outside and play on the swings. I'm the mean mom and make him stay in until after breakfast. He wasn't too happy with me but he got over it. Once Duane woke up, we had a later breakfast with Messial, Aiza, Cat, and Jeremy.

After the boys woke from their nap, they went straight outside and played all afternoon and had so much fun. While doing homework, I could hear them laughing and screaming, it was great. I'm thinking that tonight will be the night that they sleep like rocks and I just might have to wake them up in the morning for school. Keep fingers crossed that it goes this way!

Before I end this for the night, I have to tell you all what Nikolas said. He is so funny and I just wonder where he comes up with the things he says. We were in the car this evening and Nik asks Duane to play his favorite song, Bounce. Once Duane turns on the song, Nikolas says "Daddy, you are so smart, you make me so happy". REALLY?!? This kid is to polite to be my child!! I love it! Thankfully he has such great manors because Kaden is starting to pick up on it all now to. At 20 months old he says, thank you, please, excuse me, bless you, sorry, and many more words. He is my little "monkey-see, monkey-do".

I am so blessed to have the family that I have. Love to you all and hope you have a wonderful week!