A couple weekends ago, I was talking to Erika about what she would like to do for her birthday since we still couldn't go out because of Covid. She said she wanted breakfast or brunch for her birthday food. I already had a birthday theme in mind since I've been collecting it over the past few months when I went shopping.
Her theme was going to be unicorns! I had found some paper plates, napkins and decorations at Walmart, Party City, Hobby Lobby and the Dollar Store. Last year, she mentioned that she wanted to do a piñata for her birthday and we saved it for this year's party. I gave that job to Mom and she was in charge of obtaining a unicorn piñata.
As it got closer, I asked Erika what kind of breakfast foods she would like to have at her party and she said waffles, sausage, eggs and hash browns. We came up with a day and a time for everyone to come over. I called everyone and let them know of the plan. Everyone thought it was a good plan and told me they were all going to come.
The Friday before, I did my grocery shopping and bought some more eggs, a new bag of sausage patties, waffle/pancake mix and more syrup just in case ours was low. I stopped by the Dollar Store to pick up a few different kinds of candy to stuff in the piñata. We were going to host the party on Saturday but that's when Ben's grandma's funeral was and we would be in Puyallup for it. Erika was flexible and said that Sunday afternoon-ish would be fine. I asked Dad if I could borrow their waffle iron because I only had the Scooby-Doo one. He said I could and if I could clean up the one at Grammie and Grandpa's house I could have that one. He said that it should work. I also borrowed Mom and Dad's food warmer. It's got three trays with lids that you can plug in to keep food warm. Dad said to just take it and keep it at my house.
When we got back from the funeral and spending time at Ben's mom's house on Saturday, I spent some of the evening getting the decorations ready for Erika's birthday since I knew we wouldn't have time tomorrow morning. Ben helped me with the decorations and moving the tables and chairs into the dining room. We got everything pretty much done before heading to bed. I knew we were going to have to wake up at a somewhat decent time tomorrow to start the food before noon.
Ben and I got up the day of and finished getting all the table clothes onto the tables and getting all of the stuff out.
About an hour before everyone was suppose to be here, Ben and I started the waffle batter, the scrambled eggs and the sausage. Doug and Jenn showed up early so they could sneak Erika's giant unicorn stuffed animal into one of the back rooms. Those giant stuffed animals are ridiculous and I am glad I don't have one. Erika and Zach came a little early so we could also use their mini waffle iron. Mom and Dad arrived with Grandma while I was busy trying to get a bunch of waffles done and keeping them warm in the oven. The rest of the food was done and warming inside the warmers.
Once everything was done it was time to chow down! The waffles and the rest of the food turned out great! We ate and talked about random things like we usually do. We cleaned up and then decided as a group how we are going to hang up the piñata in the yard. I don't have any low hanging trees so this was going to be a challenge. The last place we lived had some good branches to hang things off of. We remembered we brought Ben's Bo staff home from his mom's place. We could find some rope to hang off of the Bo staff and tie to the piñata. We went out to the front yard and it worked! Ben held the Bo staff as we smashed the piñata with a baseball bat. Everyone who wanted a turn got one after Erika took a few swings.
The Seahawks played the Jets that afternoon and I had it on the TV on mute for a while. I knew we would destroy the Jets but I didn't want it to interfere with Erika's party.
The piñata eventually ripped open but in a "that unicorn piñata has a broken neck" kinda way. We picked up the candy off the lawn and brought it inside to distribute.
We gathered up all the presents and watched Erika open them up in the living room. Erika didn't want cake or cupcakes since we had waffles instead. I was okay with that. That meant I didn't have to make a bunch of stuff. She opened her gifts and Doug went to grab the ginormous unicorn stuffed animal.
Erika thought it was also ridiculous but she accepted the gift anyway. She said she has no idea what she is going to do with it. She thanked us for the birthday party, piñata, food and gifts.
Since it was Sunday I knew people had stuff to do before the beginning of the work week. Everyone went home around 3. Ben and I put everything away, started the dishwasher and watched the rest of the Seahawk game. We beat them 40-3.
We did a couple loads of laundry and watched football until it was time to go to bed. This weekend was busy but we were glad to spend it with family.
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