For the brothers - - -

Just in case you haven't figured it out, girls are different than boys! Michelle came home from school on her birthday with balloons and gift bags and hanging placards that she had carried around all day. And she loved it!
Then we took advantage of only having 3 people at home and used her Chili's gift card for dinner before Mutual. She wanted the wait staff to sing to her, and they did. We spent the next day decorating the living room with balloons and crepe paper and hung a paper palm tree in the entry. Then she had a blast with her friends. One game they played you might even adapt to a group date or activity. All you need is a hula hoop. One person loops it over their arm then everyone holds hands in a circle. The object is to send the hula hoop around the circle while keeping hands held. You have to step through it and then kind of flip it over to the next person. They had a lot of fun with that. (The original idea was to do it as a relay with two teams, but we only had one hula hoop and they were fine with just seeing how fast the whole group could do it.)
So, sorry you weren't here for the festivities, but you would have been banished to the video game room anyway.