About a week ago, I asked Dad what he wanted to do for his birthday and when he wanted to have it. His birthday fell on a weekday this year so that makes it tough to have it on the day of when people work and stuff. I suggested that we have it during the weekend after this birthday when we have more time and no one works. I asked him what kind of food he wanted and he said chicken, salad, potato salad, chocolate chip cookies and ice cream. I also asked when he wanted to do it and he said on Sunday after the football game around 4 p.m. I told him I will make that happen.
I emailed everyone to let them know when, where and what kind of food we were going to have so they could plan for it. A few days later I heard back from Tracy, stating that she wasn't going to come, Kevin and Karla emailed me saying to have fun and Erika thought she was getting sick so she and Zach weren't going to come. It was going to be a small group of people.
On Friday afternoon, I washed the Escape and headed into town to purchase the food I needed. I had to get most of the stuff at Costco because Walmart always seemed to be out of chicken every time I went grocery shopping. It was frustrating.
When the day came, Sunday I got up and started cleaning the house and getting everything ready to go because I knew it would take a while with several breaks in between. I spent some time watching some of the football games and the Seahawks played like absolute garbage against the Vikings and lost. This was only week three and we have almost half as many losses as we had the entire season last year. Did we finally hit our bad year?
Ben and I had the house all cleaned up and started cooking the food about an hour before everyone was suppose to arrive. Everyone who was suppose to come all got hear just after 4, when the chicken got done. I put it all on the table and everyone dished up.
We ate, chatted about random things, we talked about the Puyallup Fair (Doug and Jenn went to the fair on Saturday), Dad opened his presents, he got a poo hat, a sign about chickens, a thermal shirt from Grandma and I got him a Harley shirt with a motorcycle on it. I figured Dad needed some new shirts since all of his were worn out and have holes in them.
I got the ice cream out and Ben helped me scoop some ice cream in a bowl and handed everyone a cookie or two. We didn't make the cookies because we didn't have enough time to so I got them at Safeway. Everyone who wanted dessert enjoyed it. I started cleaning up the kitchen and putting stuff away. I did get some containers out and loaded up two of them so Erika and Zach could have some food too. I even put some cookies in a container as well.
Everyone grabbed their stuff and went home for the evening. I knew people had stuff to do before the new work week. I cleaned as much as I could and then Ben and I left to take the food over to Erika and Zach's place. We dropped off the food, saw the dogs and chatted for a few minutes. Erika appreciated the food. I told her to bring the containers back over when they were done with them. We left and stopped by a few hardware stores to get the right screws for the Sceptre TV we had so we could mount it on the wall where the other one was. A few weeks back our Samsung took a poop. Luckily, we had this back up TV that we got from Willmarth in 2016 as a house warming gift. I wanted it off the little stand we had so the cats and dogs wouldn't bump into it and knock it on the floor. We also picked up some safety glasses for Ben since he lost his.
We finished cleaning the house when we got home, put everything away and then got ready for the next week with laundry, showers, etc. The screws would have to wait for another day since we ran out of time. We headed to bed shortly after.
Happy Birthday Dad!
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