For this little lady’s birthday, we did absolutely zero planning and had a blast. Here were the ingredients: friends and family, pizza, a playground, beer, and my mother-in-law’s carrot cake recipe.
Because a place where you can drink a beer while pushing your kids on the swing is alright with us, we met at Estabrook Beer Garden. The weather was agreeable (in Wisconsin terms anyway) and there was enough light for us to stuff our faces with pizza before the sun went down.
It was a weekday night with cold weather, and dark by the time we ate food, so we pretty much had the place to ourselves. We did rotations between the playground and beer garden, generally keeping track of everyone. Not that there was any reason for kids to wander…they had pizza and friends and cousins and adults and a playground all within feet. The kids played in the rocks and we had foot races. The pictures below are evidence (blurry spots are people whizzing by).
We sang happy birthday to Baby S (and Uncle Wow, who shares a birthday!) and passed out the cake. And also, I didn’t think through the fact that the baby hadn’t really had sugar before, and bedtime for her was NOT awesome.
We rounded out the evening with clinking glasses and rounding up kids who were nearing bedtime. Little T, clad in her new favorite princess dress, wiped up her own tears from falling on the concrete and helped her baby sister walk to the car. It was a perfect night.
A. Storm
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