Capping off our week of birthday celebrations...

Yesterday we "put the icing on the cake" of our week-long birthday celebrations! The entire family rented a cancha (an enclosed, artificial turf, reduced size soccer field). The cancha's are beautiful complete with green artificial turf, white, red, and blue lines painted on them and of course the goals.

We named Mauricio and Fabiola as captains and had them divide the family into two teams: Mauricio, Will, Rosa, & Pedro; the other team was: Fabiola, Joyce, myself, Angel, & Cesar. The game itself was a furious, evenly matched, back & forth battle; albeit, unlike regulation soccer we had to take many times out! Without question the stars were Mauricio, Fabiola, & JOYCE! That's right, the ole' girl proved to be a goalkeeper of unbelievable skill, agility, and tenacity! And then when she moved out into an attack position it was as if she were literally playing against her enemy...don't get in her way!

During the course of the game we only had two minor injuries: Fabiola got kicked in an already bruised leg (from her game on Friday) and Will had the ball hit him in the face and knock off his glasses (you know he didn't get much compassion).

The White Knights! (and Knightesses)

The Orange Crush

Post game photo - you can't tell by the picture but the White Knights and Knighteses won 4-3!

I can tell you that an hour never seemed so long in our lives and that today we are all moving much more gingerly; but it was a great, great family outing! Thank you, Jesus!