In all of Chicken's nine years, we've hosted a birthday party of some sort until this year. That's because her big gift was a trip to Dollywood, but I still tried to put together a little something special after we got home from the trip yesterday evening. So while Brad took the kids to the pool, I inflated some balloons, hung up the same "celebrate" garland that we've used for years, and clipped a few roses out of the front yard. I picked up a cake and candles from Publix and called it done.
The look I got after I told Bradley we only got her two presents and she was opening the fifth one...
We also reached out to our neighbors that own Sign Gypsies and they set up a Happy Birthday sign while we were out of town. Delta Mae was so surprised and excited when we drove up and she saw it.
Love you, Delta Mae!
