One of the beauties of being home is that we can celebrate our family members' birthdays in person once again! My sister and I had so much fun putting together a teeny tiny birthday celebration for our not - so - teeny - tiny dad :) (for those of you who know him and know me... I did not inherit his height).
Erin and I put up a few decorations reminiscent of those he always put up for us as kids, and I made Dad's favorite dinner. Because one of our favorite evil pastimes is teasing dear old Dad, we made a ridiculous party hat and forced him to wear it the whole evening. If we caught him without it, we told him he had to either pay $1.00 to whomever caught him sans chapeau, or he had to say one of his favorite things about himself. He was a total trooper, and didn't take the hat off for several hours. We finally let him remove it when we could see the beads of sweat running down and decided he'd been tortured long enough.
Erin made one of her famous cakes - growing up she made many of the birthday cakes in the family because she has a talent for making all things sweet. She insisted that we actually put 59 candles on the cake, instead of getting the number shaped candles that said "59." It took a good five minutes to light the whole cake, and the smoke from the candles added a certain interesting aroma to the cake that we didn't expect. Here is a picture of us standing in the cloud of smoke after Judd blew out all the candles... well done, Pops!!
The best part of the evening was Claire's toast to grandpa:
"You're here,
you're strong,
you're tall.
Thanks for the sleepovers.
Happy Birthday."
Couldn't have said it better myself, Claire. Happy Birthday, Grandpa!
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