Big Birthday Big Dance Big Blog

This is officially blog #100! See mom, see dad, I can follow through with something!

Last weekend was crazy busy. I'm not sure why, but it seems that we have 3 boring weekends a month and one insanely busy one. Crazy was this weekend.

Saturday morning started with shuffling Seina off to her dance lesson for their last practice before their big recital on Sunday. At 10:30 was Mason's BIG 6th birthday party at JJ Jump! Papa Ron managed to make it bright and early (for him) to JJ Jump for the party and found the most comfortable seat in the house.

This is how you tire out a kid. Those little blurs are Jocelyn, Berren, Mason, and Siena.
Papa Ron must have stood up at some point because Jay B found the comfy chair too.

The Grandmas!

Tomas was on board for this crazy weekend too. I'm sure he didn't imagine he'd be spending time at JJ Jump or a dance recital when he booked his ticket to the USA.

I think Siena was having a good time even if she did have to run there straight from dance.

Our friends Sharon and Giada. I think this was Giada's first JJ Jumping experience.

Mason and Giada. I think Giada was a little worn out at this point. Mason was having a wonderful time.

After jumping, Mason got to go up to try to grab tickets from the big air thing. He got 7 little toys as prizes.

Dan and Berren watching Mason pulling tickets.

The kids enjoyed some pizza.

Gloria, Yaya, Jay B., and Chandra holding baby Rory.

Luis and Mandy have some pizza.

Cake time. That's Mason's motorcycle cake. Do you see the motorcycle? Neither do we. Somehow motorcycle became Scooby Doo. Mason certainly didn't care though and the tres leches cake was amazing as always.

Mason loved all of his presents. He's played with all of them continually since getting them home. We have had to set a few ground rules for the squirt guns though...

A big birthday hug from baby Tristyn!

Kids - Berren, Mason, Ellia, Siena, Jocelyn, and Giada. Not sure what Siena is snarling about...

This was Mason's present from Yaya and Papa Ron - a keyboard just like the one he has at school. He and Seina both love it. We got Mason a new bike for his birthday but due to a bent front end, it's still a bit of a work in progress (grrrrrr). Hopefully we'll have a boy on 2 wheels soon though.

Later Saturday, Yaya watched Mason and Siena while Papa Ron, Tomas, Luis and I took Tomas to dinner at our favorite haunt Rogue. We introduced Tomas to some local microbrew and tasty food. After dinner we went to Bartini's to have some crazy flavored martini's. We had a great time and hopefully showed Tomas another side of Portland life.

Sunday was another big day for the Cruz household. It was Siena's first ever dance recital. Unfortunately she started off the day feeling a little under the weather but she's a trooper and the show must be on.

Here she is getting her glitter applied.

Here's Siena backstage all decked out in her Sunday church-lady themed tap outfit.

Hopefully this works - it's my first attempt at embedding a video. As of this moment, we only have the tap song uploaded but I'll add the ballet one too as soon as it's uploaded. These things take time folks.

Less there be any confusion, Siena is the 5th little girl from the left. She's also the one that loses her glove at the end and responds in classic Siena fashion.

After the show, big brother Mason gave his little sister some congratulatory flowers. She was thrilled!

She did a WONDERFUL job in her first performance and we were so proud.

After the big show, we all went out to dinner at Gustavs. It was a hectic but fun weekend.