{"id":12519,"date":"2018-02-13T21:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:52:45","slug":"kristens-surprise-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12519","title":{"rendered":"Kristen&#8217;s Surprise Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12525\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12525\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/decorations-R-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/decorations-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/decorations-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hosted a surprise birthday party for Tim&#8217;s sister, Kristen, this Sunday.\u00a0 It was delightfully fun.\u00a0 And since I wasn&#8217;t assigned anything specific to do (except host) I occupied myself with my own project&#8211;come up with a Theme and decorate!\u00a0 And what better theme than something that would make Kristen giggle since she is one&#8230; an English Teacher theme!\u00a0 We had such a good time thinking up ways to create the theme&#8211;because, wouldn&#8217;t you know, when I went to search for ideas on Pinterest no one had any ideas!\u00a0 Say whaaa!?\u00a0 No one has ever thrown a English Teacher Themed Surprise Birthday Party before?\u00a0 There were many Teacher gift ideas and book club ideas, so it gave me a place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, every good party needs a banner&#8230; And in this case, a banner in need of a little correcting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12523\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we could stick with the classic &#8220;teacher apple&#8221; for some decorations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12527\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12527\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/more-decorations-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/more-decorations-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/more-decorations-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/more-decorations-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12522\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12522\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-of-bad-words-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-of-bad-words-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-of-bad-words-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/banner-of-bad-words-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mini books were fun to make.\u00a0 Although it was hard to come up with enough book titles!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12524\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12524\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/books-R-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/books-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/books-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This next was was totally tongue in cheek&#8230; haha!\u00a0 Assemble your own colon.\u00a0 This was more on a whim because I sent Tim to the store and told him the wrong type of cookies.\u00a0 So, we just went with it (all while having a good chuckle!)<a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12521\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12521\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/assemble-colon-R-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/assemble-colon-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/assemble-colon-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Of course, every teacher needs extra red lines!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12526\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12526\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12526\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12526\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12526\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fun-foods-and-decorations-R-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fun-foods-and-decorations-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fun-foods-and-decorations-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, we had Pin the Comma on the Sentence. (Although, you&#8217;ll notice this sentence actually requires 2 commas, the general humor is still there)\u00a0 The kids found this especially entertaining&#8230;\u00a0 And to be fair this idea was totally Jen&#8217;s.\u00a0 I just executed it.\u00a0 We love adding &#8220;Pin the _________ on the_________ &#8221; to all of our parties!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12528\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12528\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12528\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pin-the-comma-on-the-sentence-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pin-the-comma-on-the-sentence-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pin-the-comma-on-the-sentence-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/pin-the-comma-on-the-sentence-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was real food as well (tacos, fajitas, cake, oreo dessert and lemon bars) but apparently I didn&#8217;t get any pictures of that.\u00a0 It was sure delicious though!\u00a0 And the best part was just getting to hang out with family and chill for a little while.\u00a0 The cousins had a great time playing and the adults had a great time talking and eating.\u00a0 I feel like that&#8217;s what I say about almost all of our gatherings, but that&#8217;s how we like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hosted a surprise birthday party for Tim&#8217;s sister, Kristen, this Sunday.\u00a0 It was delightfully fun.\u00a0 And since I wasn&#8217;t assigned anything specific to do (except host) I occupied myself with my own project&#8211;come up with a Theme and decorate!\u00a0 And what better theme than something that would make Kristen giggle since she is one&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12531,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}