Weekend Update

Saturday was a rainy day and Devin had to go to work at 3 (he changed shifts for a week) so we had a very lazy yet productive day. Pete and Phil came over and brought us lunch so we ate and watched Cars. After everyone was gone, I spent the whole afternoon cleaning and doing laundry. The house looked so nice. I even tried out a new taco salad recipe I had and Monks and I had that and I made some guacamole to go with it. He ate about half the bowl by himself. Devin doesn’t really get a “dinner break” so he just ran home when it was kind of quiet to grab a bite. We had to laugh but he had been home maybe five minutes and taken three bites of his dinner and then over his radio we heard “shots fired” and so he had to take off. Ahh, the life of an officer. J



How sweet is this pic?



Sunday Devin had taken off since I had a long weekend and we started our day by grocery shopping. We then went shopping and had lunch and spent the whole day running around. We were seriously gone from 10:45 that morning until 6 that evening. That’s a long day! Poor Monks passed out in the car on the way home. We ate a late dinner and put the kids to bed a little early. Devin and I then shared a bottle of Sangria we had bought at Sam’s. It was so good. Yes we finished the whole thing.

Monday was spent celebrating Gigi’s birthday. It was actually on the 16^th but this was the only time we could all be together. Working with 6 different work schedules gets tricky but we always manage to make it work. We met at the cemetery and the flowers Pete and Phil had taken Thursday were still perfect looking so we just took balloons. We took three for each of the kids. We had them hold them and then they let them go and we watched them fly away. Aikman of course let his go on his own. For Pips and Adrian, we made them grab the ribbon and then they gradually let theirs go. They were cute to see all three float off instantly. We then went to China Star (one of Gigi’s absolute favorites) and had lunch. It was nice and we all had fun and then headed back to our house for German chocolate cake. The guys had to all work that evening so Tia and I met up and went to the park and it was pretty windy out so we headed to the mall to the play place there. Aikman had so much fun and despite his meltdown when asked to leave, it was fun and worth it. We then ate McDonald’s and then I took the kids home for baths and put them to bed.



Monks new chair from Academy







At the indoor play place. Sorry for the blur.