The Brady Blog: Happy 12th Birthday Caroline

We have been looking forward to Caroline’s birthday for weeks and it finally arrived!! Trey and I wanted to make it extra special since we are all quarantined inside our houses, so we had a company place signs in the yard that read ‘Happy 12th Birthday Caroline’! I woke up at 5:30 to begin everything! I started with her breakfast: chocolate pancakes and bacon. After breakfast, Caroline changes into her new Nike shorts and softball T-shirt. I told her to help me with the blinds about 7:50 before school started...that is when she noticed her 1st surprise! She had a Happy Birthday sign in the yard! She was shocked and ran to the door to go outside and see more!
Then, she started online learning at 8. Mr. Shirey and Mrs Clarkson had classmates sing to her! After school, I grilled out hamburgers and hotdogs for lunch. We had her cake and all sang! She called her grandparents and shared her morning with them. Then finally at 2:00, the surprise parade happened! Caroline was so shocked again....she said later that she doesn’t like to be the center of attention. I’d rather do it for someone else! After the parade, the Brenner’s came late and we got to visit! That was fun too. We took a quick bike ride and sat by the pool, then Trey had his meeting tonight. Before he went upstairs, Caroline had one more request: movie and ice cream! We started A Dog’s Journey!
It was a great movie. We all enjoyed our ice cream and Trey was done with his Pastor Search Comittee meeting by 8:30. We began bedtime and gave C her last gift- a giraffe that she found at the Noah’s Ark! Fun was had by all today and another great birthday celebrated!