Happy Birthday Denise!

Yesterday Denise hit the double digits! She is 10 now, can you believe that! We started off her birthday weekend with a bang. We had a garage sale that just wore me out bringing all the stuff down from the attic and upstairs in the guest room, where I had been storing some stuff. I woke up at 3:30 am to start setting up. It is amazing how much we collect and don't use anymore. The recession has certainly hit the garage sale world. Everyone wanted to pay 10 cents for everything. I think the biggest item sold was for $17. Kid's clothes, shoes and toys were the big hit. We made about $120 dollars and what was left over we gave to BCAM(Bear Creek Assistance Ministries). I was not about to put anything back into the attic! Denise had a soccer game at 2:00 pm. Unfortunately, they lost their first game of the season 3-0. When we returned home her girlfriends started coming over for the birthday sleepover.

I had made a strawberry sheet cake for them to decorate. They put all the icing on and tried to make a soccer field on the cake. It came out okay for amateurs. There were 6 kids altogether including Denise and Brianna. Not too bad, but they were just as noisey as it would have been with 12 kids! I believe they stayed up until 4:00 am. Not sure, I was so tired I could sleep through a train passing next to the house. The next morning when I was just about to sit down and read the Sunday paper they woke up early at 8:00 am asking what was for breadfast. They were supposed to sleep until 10:00 am! As soon as they left except for Maddie, we got ready to go to the Houston Dynamo and LA Galaxy soccer match.
This was one of the gifts that Denise wanted for her birthday, so see David Beckham play. He hadn't played the last two years against Dynamo because he was hurt or suspended. It was a beautiful day and the game was really good, except that they ended up in a tie, so both teams are still tied for the Western champs.
Beckham played the whole match and was in a small fight with Dynamo's Ching who was issued a red card and had to leave the stadium. I was not too impressed with his moves, actually Dynamo's Holden and Galaxy's Donovan who both play for the US soccer team are much better players. Beckham definitely had the women swooning especially after he took off his jersey and threw it into the stands. I personnally think he needs to get rid of the beard and smile a little bit more. At least he was wearing Emporio Armani underwear! Besides all that, Denise was happy with seeing him play and getting all the freebies at the game. At this game they gave away Dynamo jerseys to the first 5,000 fans and we all got one. All in all, Denise had a wonderful birthday.