In all the illness (see the previous post!) SO many things had to be cancelled.

SO many things!

We always have wonderfully full calendars – but the fact that it was during the holidays made our calendars even more wonderfully full.

It was hard to cancel almost everything for the whole month of December, but we knew we needed to keep that illness to ourselves.

We finally were able to celebrate all of the birthdays on December 23rd!

Yes, we were about to spend the whole weekend celebrating Christmas, but we had birthday presents still sitting in our closet and we needed to sing to all our birthday people and have cake!

Chad’s birthday meal (that we had planned and purchased the grocery for) had been cancelled the week before, so we decided to have that meal and make individual cakes so that everyone could have a candle!

It was FANTASTIC!!!!

We had everyone open their gifts in the order of their birthdays.

Clyde Strength was up first!

He turned seven on November 5th!

Next was Briar Promise!

She turned four on November 21st!!

Next was our Ellie Joy!!

She turned seven on December 6th!!

Then it was Chad’s turn!!!

His birthday is on December 18th!!

We had dinner before all of those gifts, and then it was time for the cakes!!

Tate and I had made Chocolate Molten Cakes and they got rave reviews!

We hung out the rest of the evening and just enjoyed BEING TOGETHER!!!

(We had Grant in quarantine downstairs as he was still very sick)

Just to have the WHOLE story of this memory written down, let me confess what happened at 11 p.m. that evening after everyone was gone, the dishes were done, the floors were swept, and Blake and I were sitting in bed.

I sat straight up, let out a HUGE gasp, and said, “Blake, we forgot to celebrate David!!!”

Yep.

We missed a birthday.

And it was David’s 30th birthday, good grief!!

I felt SO BAD.

Of course my humble son-in-law NEVER SAID ANYTHING like “Hey, lady, where is my cake and candle and gift???”

When we talked about it the next day we laughed, of course!!

I did redeem myself just a little bit, maybe, by watching all the grand babies this past Saturday so that Kayla could take David out for a day long date!!

Key word there was MAYBE, ha, ha.

We really enjoy our birthday traditions of a chosen meal, chosen dessert, and gifts!

It is WAY more fun to celebrate someone else’s birthday than to have your own!!

Happy birthday to Clyde, Briar, DAVID, Ellie and Chad!!!

WE LOVE YOU EACH SO SO MUCH!!!