Happy Birthday, GranGran!

Getting a visit from Huni & GranGran is always special ... we only get to see them in person once or twice a year, normally, since they live (as missionaries in the Ukraine) "far, far away" as Kendall says. This year, they were flying out of DFW Airport back to the Ukraine, so they came to our house for 1.5 days to pack before heading out. During their time with us, GranGran celebrated a birthday ... a big one ... his 65th one! And I cannot truly express how excited his sweet 2.5 year old granddaughter was to celebrate it!

Kendall is soooo into birthdays right now ... it's like she's started to figure it out, since mine in November.  She loves getting birthday party invitations in the mail & loves going to all her little friends' parties.  She loves the happy birthday song ... sings it all.the.time ... taking turns who's name she's singing to! She plays with her Leap Frog birthday candle cake daily. She is counting down to her birthday in May ... and although she doesn't quite understand the concept of months at this point, she knows that after Mommy's bday, it's Mason's, then GranGran's, the girls' (Hannah & Sadie), Daddy's (and Uncle B's ... twins & the sharing of bdays is another difficult concept), then her's ... with a few other friends & other family members in the midst of all those, too ... we were just trying to make it a bit simpler for our excited 2 year old! To say the least, this girl was VERY excited to be celebrating GranGran and singing Happy Birthday to him!

While Huni & GranGran were coming in from their last speaking engagement, we made GranGran a special chocolate cake ... and Kendall helped with all of it! She could hardly wait for them to arrive so she could show him his cake!  (Since we didn't have 65 candles, we just had six on one side and five on the other!)

 

 

 

 

After cake & ice cream, what's a little party without presents? Proudly wrapped in a Minnie Mouse gift bag (of course, Kendall had picked that out, as well), she could hardly wait for him to open it up ... so much so, I think she ended up opening it as she was handing him the bag ... you know, sweet little granddaughters get away with so much! He got a new movie on DVD that we had pre-ordered for him ... one we highly recommend, not for the acting, but for the awesome message ... Courageous. They had not seen it yet, so we watched it that night after Kendall was in bed.

 

Happy 65th Birthday, GranGran! We were thrilled to be together to celebrate your big day!