Nine-year-old Simon from Landmark had his best birthday ever this week despite keeping with distancing mandates.

“You know how it is when they are that age,” says Simon’s stepmother Larissa Plett, “the birthday party is something they look forward to all year long.”

Luckily for Simon, they had a friend who planned for a parade of people to drive by their home with signs and balloons on their daughter’s birthday and was inspired.

“We had people we didn’t even know from Mitchell calling us to come by,” says Plett about the response to her request on Facebook. “It was incredible. We were completely overwhelmed.”