What a weekend!!

Hope the week was good to everyone, as well as the weekend.  We had a pretty busy one and were pretty happy when Sunday came. 

After work we all went out to dinner at Uncle Scott’s restaurant (well, he works there), and had a great Italian dinner.  After dinner, we asked if my niece, Sierra, wanted to spend the night, sounded good to everyone so we made it happen.  I was kinda nervous having two girls running around crazy, but they were so good!  The age difference is nothing to them with Sierra being 9 and Alyssa nearing 4.  We watched Enchanted, for the 4th time Friday night.  By mid movie, Alyssa started getting a little sleepy (as you can see below, she was in no mood for smiling).  By movie end, Sierra was still awake but was ready for bed, as was Alyssa (passed out and drooling).  Her and Sierra slept in Alyssa’s twin bed all night long!  Morning came, all kids were still asleep come 7:30AM!!!!  Maddie was first to rise, kicking up the most ruckus with her incoherent garbling.  The other girls slept for another 45 minutes.  Alyssa came first, then Sierra complaining that our little foghorn of a daughter kept her up all night SNORING!!!  They finally stumbled to the table to eat and got busy making a mess of the house.  The GREAT thing was, WE weren’t the ones who cleaned up the mess.  Both those girls cleaned everybit of the mess they made, Sierra stole my heart by even making Alyssa’s bed…she even folded all of the blankets that Lyss keeps at the foot.  I almost wanted to cry. 

After taking Sierra back to Gramma’s, we headed to our first birthday party of the day…I would have included pictures, but they all came out really fuzzy for some reason.  It was Alyssa’s 2nd cousins birthday parties, Jacey and Jordyn.  She had a good time, we think…they had a gal from an imagination place doing a little jungle safari thing with the kids that included a couple of dances and songs…instead of participating, our little wallflower just stood there.  HMMMMMMMMM….found out on the way to our SECOND birthday party of the day, that she was so very tired.  Just as soon as we got to Mimi and Poppy’s, she was wide awake!!  I finally got a picture of her on the Jeep, man…take that little “Governor” out of that thing and boy it’s got some serious “get up and go”!!!  One of the neighbor girls came over, McKenna with her friend (whom I think might be Emma, I can’t remember).  It was so great seeing all of them play together.  Another neighborhood gal came over to play with Alyssa in the spa, Colleen…she may be our new babysitter, although we’re going to miss having free sitters…hehehe…love you moms and dads!!   

We were thinking of a Diamondbacks game on Sunday, but quickly overcame the urge.  Glad we did, we lost miserably!!!  We’re thinking next weekend though, Alyssa really wants to go.  We have Gramma and Grampa Cecka coming in for cousin William’s confirmation this weekend too, so we’ll be pretty booked.  Should make for some good pictures!!!  Hope everyone has a great week!  See ya next week!