Kent was looking forward to this birthday for months, he could finally have a senior discount! We will spend the day celebrating his amazing life, and go out to dinner tonite with a gift certificate he left for us. One of the fondest birthday memories was one of the years that we were living in Colorado--- I packed for us, parked the car in his office parking lot and "kidnapped" him for a get away weekend to Denver, just the two of us. It had to have been the year Barb and kids were living with us, because I don't know any other way possible to escape 7 children. He loved being surprised. On his 35th birthday---a friend and I whose husbands' birthday was the same day--planned an elaborate dinner party at another friends house, and managed to completely surprise our husbands. His 40th, we were in Maquoketa and with the house full of friends and family--we featured skits (Andrew behind him, using his arms to shave his dad was one!) While sorting through some boxes I found the pictures of him that I had friends caption during the party--what fun---they were hilarious. Maybe Drew can help me post some of them to this site. His 50th we were in Indianola, and I had a big cake delivered to the bank, decorated like a fifty dollar bill and we filled his office with black balloons and crepe paper--he was surprised.
Birthdays have always been a huge deal for the Britten family--I hope they are a chance for each of you to celebrate life. His favorite was German Sweet Chocolate cake and his mom or I or Aunt Dee made it EVERY year for him.
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Birthdays were definitely always a big deal in the Britten house. We always got the famous ‘You Are Special Today’ red plate accompanied by a birthday dinner of our choice. Dad loved that tradition, he used the red plate on any occasion he could to let us know we were special. The red plate was broken last year in a freak accident. I guess the ’freak’ was Rebecca... haha:)...she was posing for one of our classic family pictures and threw her leg in the air, neglecting to remember she was wearing slip-on shoes. It was a good laugh. Dad never yelled or got mad when things like that happened, growing up he always said "We don’t get in trouble for accidents" and usually followed that with laughing at the predicament. One of the gifts I gave my parents last year for Christmas was a replacement red plate. I’m sure the new red plate would have been on the table today and although I’ve missed my special dad so much this week, it brings me comfort to know he’s having his best birthday ever with his Heavenly Father.
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