{"id":461,"date":"2011-07-30T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2011-07-30T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T22:13:19","slug":"summer-birthday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2011\/07\/30\/summer-birthday-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Birthday Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to a birthday party for one of my daughters&#8217; best friends. \u00a0The party theme was fairy princesses. \u00a0All of the girls arrived in the most adorable costumes. \u00a0There was pixie dust every where, \u00a0not to mention all of the extra glitter that one of the moms brought. The\u00a0Picnic Tables were decorated with cute little pink table cloths that had little fairies all over them. \u00a0Presents were strewn about the tables along with yummy treats and arts and crafts for the girls to do.<\/p>\n<p>While the girls played on the playground equipment the moms set up a few activities to do. \u00a0We laid out materials to make little birthday crowns and fairy wings. \u00a0There were fuzzy pipe cleaners, pom pom balls, glue, markers, scissors, construction paper, and of course tons of glitter. \u00a0One of the moms made an example of each craft and set it on display for the girls to gather inspiration. \u00a0Each girl had her own little station to create her own fairy princess wings and crown. \u00a0The girls had a ball cutting and\u00a0gluing\u00a0and\u00a0adding\u00a0dashes of glitter.<\/p>\n<p>The dads of the bunch just sat back in their\u00a0Adirondack chairs and watched from a distance. \u00a0A few of them gathered around the grill. \u00a0It was their duty to cook the burgers and hot dogs while the girls had fun. \u00a0It seemed like they were more than happy to not be elbow deep in glitter.<\/p>\n<p>Once the girls finished their crafts we ate lunch and had cake and ice cream. \u00a0Then the birthday girl opened all of her presents. \u00a0She got quite a few neat items including a few movies, \u00a0computer games, and an mp3 player. \u00a0She was thrilled to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the afternoon all of the\u00a0Park Benches were covered in glitter and pom poms that had fallen off of the girls crowns and wings as they ran around. \u00a0Overall, it was a lovely afternoon and my daughter really enjoyed herself. \u00a0Her birthday is coming up soon. \u00a0We need to start planning her party. \u00a0I got quite a few neat ideas after going to the party today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to a birthday party for one of my daughters&#8217; best friends. \u00a0The party theme was fairy princesses. \u00a0All of the girls arrived in the most adorable costumes. \u00a0There was pixie dust every where, \u00a0not to mention all of the extra glitter that one of the moms brought. The\u00a0Picnic Tables were decorated with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2011\/07\/30\/summer-birthday-parties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Birthday Parties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-life","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}