Happy Birthday, to YOU!

Bryan’s birthday celebration spanned from sun up to sun down this year! Our family desperately needed some recreational time together so that we could set aside the demands of Bryan’s very stressful work week/month/year, the never ending home/yard improvement projects, and the busyness of church/volunteer responsibilities. On this special day of birthday celebration and togetherness, we all dressed in Bryan’s favorite color (red) and were each allowed to select one activity.

Here’s what we came up with:

Vivi (with Bryan’s help): Dream Cafe for breakfast.

Ariana: Bowling. The first venue we went in charged a fortune, so true to our Tolbert frugality, we found a more reasonably-priced location.

Lori: $1 Movie–Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. Worth the price of admission, plus Vivian actually sat through the entire movie–a first!

Bryan: Elliot’s Hardware store, visiting a friend at the hospital, homemade white bean chicken chili and games enjoyed with friends while the girls went with Allie V to the pinewood derby. As a birthday gift, I also granted Bryan some leeway in dressing Vivi; when he put Guppy’s socks on her, I didn’t intervene.

Bryan was also the “victim” of a “heart attack.” The young women made him a cake and decorated our yard with TONS of darling paper hearts on which they had penned cute birthday messages.

Happy Birthday, BT!