Birthday Song from Barnyard for Daddy from Penney Douglas on Vimeo.
Gary loves this song. We heard it in an episode of “Barnyard” we got from the library. I guess they made a series based on the movie. We knew that Gary really liked that song, so the kids planned to surprise him with it as soon as he got home from work. He was surprised!

Happy Birthday, Dear Daddy from Penney Douglas on Vimeo.
Everybody pitched in to throw Daddy a nice birthday party.
I got to watch everybody else do the cutting of the cake and serving since I had the video camera.
Morgan(9) and Garrett(6) made the German Chocolate cake and Anna made the Funfetti cake with strawberry icing, so I got off pretty easy as far as preparations for this party. I’m way more relaxed about these kinds of occasions than I used to be. And I’m not afraid to ask for help.
During the party, you see Fiona come and ask me about candy bags and Garrett come and ask me about ice cream. The dentist loves them!
More birthday cards
Kelsey helped Emma make a card.














"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller







LOVED this! You even sing like Reba! 😀 Okay…think my ‘break’ is over. Sure enjoy your birthday celebrations! Do your children go out to meet dad like that every day??? I need to work on that….except I never know when he’s coming home! Lol…so I’d have to work on alertness and have someone sound the alarm….kinda like preparing for the return of Jesus…you never know the time or day of His coming! : D Love ya! ♫