We had a very hectic weekend here at our house, which is not normal for us. Weekend we try to keep very low key just so we can somewhat recovery from our normally busy week. But for some reason this weekend just had lots of stuff going on. On Saturday we had our neighborhood garage sale for the fall. I spent all day Friday organizing stuff that we need to get rid of. Lots of baby clothes Bree has out grown, toy they don't play with anymore, clothes I have out grown, etc. Chris kept saying I was wasting my time because he has always heard that garage sales in Broken Arrow don't really work because the people want everything so cheap that you practically have to give it away in order to sale it. But I was going to give it a shot. We set up at 7am on Saturday and sold until around 12:30. I made almost 200.00 bucks off of the stuff I sold. Chris couldn't believe it. I will give him this, he was right about Broken Arrow residents wanting stuff for free. I had clothes and toys very reasonable priced and most people wanted to negotiate more. I was pretty flexible on most things except the toys, becuase I knew I could sell them on Craigs list and get what I was asking. I finally sold all toys except one and pretty much all of the baby clothes. Almost half of what I had was gone, which made me happy. Plus I had 200.00 dollars more than before. Not bad for 5 and half hours.
After we closed up the shop on the garage sale it was time for naps for the girls and then it was off to the grocery store to and then Katie and I were off to a birthday party she was invited to. This was her first b-day party she has had a chance to go to so it was all a little new to her. It was a swim party at a local swim school so she was excited about being able to put on her bathing suit and go swimming with some of her friends. She kept hopping out of the pool to come and ask me when they were going to have cake. That's my girl, she knows what is important in life. CAKE!! After the swim they had pizza and cupcakes, which she didn't each much of either. Katie kind of gets overwhelmed in situtations she is not sure of so I think she was just more about sitting back and taking it all in then enjoying the food. Then it came time to open the presents and this was the part that was mosting confusing to her. She kept asking me where is her present. So for about 20 mintues I kept explaining to her that when it is someone elses b-day they are the only ones to get to open presents. The b-day girl did give out bags of candy to her friends but Katie said she wanted a toy. I was proud of her for not getting upset she just kept questioning the situation. It is so funny to me how kids see situations and just don't quit understand why things happen.
Sunday was a much slower paced day for us, but still a fun day. Sunday afternoon we went to watch the youth girls from our church play a game of powder puff football. It was the middle school vs. high school and it was quite entertaining and brought back lots of memorys of when I played in HS many, many years ago. It is so funny to watch girls, some who have no atheltic ability try to play a game, and of course the guy coaches frustrated at the girls because they don't run the right plays. Katie and Bree where on the side lines cheering and do their little dance moves when the music would come on. Even though are weekend felt like we were going 100 mph it was a fun weekend and now it is Monday and back to the same pace for the week.
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