(AKA 4 teenagers in the family again!)
We went into town because Colleen asked for pizza for her birthday lunch.
Shortly after lunch, at about 2:40 pm, she turned 13! After a hiatus of 13 months, the Brogan family is back to having 4 teenagers in the house! This will be the last time it happens, and it will only last 5 months and 5 days, until Mary turns 20.
In keeping with family tradition, Colleen wanted to get her ears pierced for her 13th birthday. For Mary and Maggie we just went to the mall, but there is no mall here! When we googled “where to get your ears pierced in Dingle”
the only place that came up was the Pharmacy. Luckily Grogan’s Pharmacy was just past the center of town and right next to the grocery store where I shop all the time.
The Pharmacist and the woman who works the counter each took a side and they pierced both ears at the same time…genius! Why doesn’t everyone do it that way?
One happy teenager, with really red ears!
She picked silver studs to match her other silver jewelry.
Birthday dinner request was roast chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy.
(I’ve got the hang of the Irish potatoes now…they came out just right this time!)
Followed by chocolate cake, of course…
…and a very high-pitched Happy Birthday (Nora was the leader of song).
Hard to believe how fast these 13 years have gone! Thanks for being so sweet and always making us laugh, Colleen! Love you to the moon and back!
Brogans Across the Pond 
Happy Birthday, Coll
Glad to see you had such a fun even though you were on the mend.
Your earrings look great…and just think, in another 13 years, you’ll be old enough to start dating.
God Bless,
Daddy 🙂
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Happy Birthday to a beautiful young lady! Love Nana and Poppop Brogan
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Thank you! Love you both 🙂
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What a lovely 13 year old on her special day! Memorable!
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Happy Birthday, Colleen from the whole Tombs household! May your newest chapter as a teenager be filled to the brim with God’s grace, spiritual and intellectual growth, and fabulous adventures! And lots of chocolate cake! 🙂 Jen, please tell me that spectacular cake was store-bought – it looked like something out of a gourmet magazine – could you possibly have enough “spare time” on your hands to bake like that, too???
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Thank you, Tombs family!
You know how much I love to bake, but no, that cake was definitely store bought. They don’t sell cake mixes that I have seen, and I was not up to the challenge of baking a cake with metric measurements 🙂 I did attempt banana bread for the first time today though, without measuring since I’ve made it a gazillion times. Smells good, I’ll keep you posted on the taste.
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Happiest of birthdays to Colleen! 🎂
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Thank you!
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Happy birthday beautiful girl!!😘🎈
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Thank you! She had a great day!
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