Above, William blowing out the candles, with a little help from Bailey
Noah ,William, and Bailey put on their best smiles for the cameraOn September 18th, William turned thirty-nine. We celebrated at home by having cake and ice cream and presents. William had asked for no presents, so the ones we got were minimal - 2 tapes of gospel bluegrass from a yard sale for only 25 cents each. They were really good, having handmade instruments such as mandolin and dulcimer accompanying the guitars and fiddles.
Recently, I read about a family who had a birthday tradition of having one huge gift bag that they filled with presents for each member's birthday. This helped save on wrapping paper for each individual gift. Although we did not choose to adopt this tradition, that got me thinking about what type of tradition we could incorporate into our own family. A few months ago, we got a really cool bear hat at a yard sale. But we have not really had much occasion to wear it. It's one of those things that seemed really neat at the time, but once we got it home, we stuck it on a hat rack, and it just kind of stayed there. I thought it would be fun for the birthday person to wear the hat for the birthday celebration, so here is the inauguration of the "bear"thday hat, as we like to call it. Bailey will get to wear the hat in a couple of weeks for her birthday.
About a week after William's birthday, we all went out to Captain D's for a birthday dinner. William got to choose where he wanted to go, and the kids couldn't believe he wouldn't pick their favorite, McDonald's! I think he was trying to pick something we would ALL enjoy (plus we had coupons, which is always great!)
