Brynn Turns the Big 1-2. Happy Birthday B.

My phone is being stinky and won't let me email myself my pics of yesterday, so I'm going to have to add those later, when my phone has an attitude adjustment.

Brynn turned the big 1-2.

This means she gets to go to Young Women's now.

We followed the birthday rules with Brynn, the same as we followed them with Sean the day before.  Rule #1: no chores.  Which meant the dishes didn't get done.
Rule #2: Lunch on Mom and Dad.  But because Brynn is in middle school this is a little harder to do then with the kids who are in elementary school.  I decided last year with Cas that lunch would just have to be left in their lockers as a surprise for them to find when their lunch time comes.

All Brynn wanted left in her locker for lunch was a Jamba Juice.

So I did.

And then I decorated the outside of her locker with spiral ribbons and a happy birthday sign.

Classes changed while I was there (Brynn showed up right as I opened her locker to put the Jamba inside) and as kids darted off to class I began taping ribbons to the outside of Brynn's locker.  The hall emptied and the tardy bell rang.  I was just about done when a boy walked down the hall, staring at me.

"We're not supposed to decorate the outside of our lockers," he informed me.

What I wanted to say was, "dude, you're late for class, get going."  But what I actually said was, "it's okay, she can take it down later."

Brynn had only one thing on her wish list for a birthday present.  An iPod touch.  She refused to give me any other options because she didn't want the chance of getting something other than the iPod.  That's all she wanted.

When we asked Sean what he wanted for his birthday, and told him not video games, he came up with a zipline from his bedroom window to the treehouse...

Given that we had nothing at all to work with from Sean, and only one option to work with from Brynn, we decided to get them both an iPod.

We wrapped them up  in different sized boxes and on Sean's birthday West presented the wrapped boxes to the two of them and said, "either present would work for both of you, they're something you would both like, so you guys pick which box should be whose."

When Sean opened his present on Wednesday and Brynn saw what it was she was beyond excited to open her own present.  It didn't matter that it was a different size, she was certain, she hoped, that it too would be an iPod.

We were "mean" and made her wait until after school and work oh her own birthday to open her present.  Even though she now knew what it was, the anticipation and excitement of opening it was as good as if she had not known and wondered what it was.

For Brynn and Sean's birthday dinner family met us at Olive Garden where the birthday kids got free mini desserts with candles in them.

Grandpa Dick, Canyon, Ayden, Garrett, Ella, Asher, McKell, Jayme's head

Brynn, who is the popcorn queen, will be having friends over tonight for a movie and some popcorn from her fancy popcorn machine.

Easy enough.

Pajama parties are fun.

And it motivates Brynn to clean up the toys in the basement :).