{"id":13711,"date":"2019-04-29T20:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=13711"},"modified":"2019-04-29T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:57:58","slug":"surprise-birthday-party-for-alisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=13711","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Birthday Party for Alisa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past Thursday was Alisa’s Birthday–and Kumi asked if we would be willing to host a surprise party for her.\u00a0 Of course, we were more than happy to oblige.\u00a0 We’ve been careful to not spill the beans to her over the past couple of weeks (and we didn’t tell the kids, just in case, until the morning of the party).\u00a0 Kumi dropped off decorations and food and I took care of cleaning and getting things set up.\u00a0 I was anxious that everything would turn out well and live up to everyone’s expectations but I’m happy to report everything went awesome!<\/p>\n

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She was surprised.\u00a0 Well, at least she acted surprised.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 A handful of her friends that are still in the area were able to come as well, so they all hung out in the basement and ate tacos and cake and then they hit a pinata (mostly for our kids benefit) and then played Bingo for prizes.\u00a0 Playing bingo is a birthday tradition in their family.\u00a0 They are actually the reason that we even own Bingo now.\u00a0 When we met them (11 years ago!) they were so excited to share how they played every Birthday and how much fun it was–so I thought to myself, “Yes! That is totally a tradition I could see our family doing and loving as well.”\u00a0 So I went out an bought a set.\u00a0 It will still be a couple years until all the kids can play it well, but so far we’ve been able to get some good use out of it.\u00a0 (On a side note, I really need to buy a better set of bingo balls since mine only had the letters printed on the side and most of the numbers have rubbed off, making it VERY tricky to call out numbers! I think they have nicer sets out there with the numbers actually engraved in the side… maybe I’m wrong… I’ll have to do some digging. Or maybe I’ll need to learn how to etch into ours… haha!)<\/p>\n

The only catch to the night was that it was also the evening of our school’s Art Fair that Chloe and Josiah had some art work displayed.\u00a0 Oh, and I should mention I was still teaching as normal.\u00a0 So… Tim couldn’t take the kids, and neither could I, so Jen was kind enough take them and even take pictures for us!\u00a0 Then they came back and the big kids were able to hang out with Alisa until bedtime.\u00a0 It all ended up working smashingly well.<\/p>\n

I’ll post more pictures of the Art Fair later this week.<\/p>\n

And just like that Alisa, is back at college. She left on Friday morning.\u00a0 \u00a0We sure enjoyed having her here for the past couple weeks.<\/p>\n

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This past Thursday was Alisa’s Birthday–and Kumi asked if we would be willing to host a surprise party for her.\u00a0 Of course, we were more than happy to oblige.\u00a0 We’ve been careful to not spill the beans to her over the past couple of weeks (and we didn’t tell the kids, just in case, until […]<\/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\/13711"}],"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=13711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13720,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions\/13720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}