Happy Birthday Jessica!

Jessica turned 9 years old this last Saturday, June 2. We had a laid-back Saturday morning. That week (Thursday May 31 - Saturday June 2) our neighborhood advertised a sub-division garage sale that we decided to get in on it since our basement was filling up with tons of baby stuff, clothes and toys we had outgrown. It was lots of work getting it organized and pricing everything but we thought it would be nice to make a little money with it instead of getting rid of everything. I couldn't believe how much stuff we had and most of it was still in really good condition! We filled up our garage and most of our driveway with our second-hand goods. So, even though it was Jessica's birthday on Saturday, we decided to keep it open that day too since Thursday and Friday we had averaged about $150 a day. We thought Saturday would bring us just as much money.

We opened our garage sale at 8:00 and Josh sat outside waiting for customers while I made the breakfast Jessica requested -- Pancakes, bacon, sausage and scrambled eggs with cheese. After breakfast, Jessica, Spencer and I walked down the street to look at some other garage sales since it was a neighborhood garage sale and lots of other homes were also having yard sales. We wanted to size up our competition and see if we could benefit from other people's junk. Right away, Spencer found a scooter for $5 and Jessica fell in love with a small teddy bear priced at $0.30. When we got home, Grandma and Grandpa Williams called and Jessica opened their present while talking to them on the phone. She was so excited to get 2 Webkinz pets from them -- A Chihuahua and a white Persian Cat.

In the afternoon, Spencer had a soccer game and Alex had a birthday party to go to. Jessica and Logan stayed and helped me with the garage sale. We closed the garage sale around 3:00 pm (just in time for a pretty big storm to hit) and Jessica's best friend, Emma came over to go with us to "Shrek the Third" for Jessie's birthday. We really liked the movie. There were parts that I thought were hilarious! Spencer sat next to me and I embarrassed him by how much I laughed during the movie. He kept looking at me and sighing while covering his face. Oh well, I'll have to get use to that. He's getting to that age where parents are embarrassing.

After the movie, we went home and I made Jessica's favorite dinner, Hawaiian Haystacks. Afterwards, she opened her presents and we had chocolate cake and ice-cream. I forgot that she had requested chocolate pudding instead of ice-cream but she was forgiving. She's not much of an ice-cream kid. Can you believe that? The rest of the kids can't get enough of it!