Highlights from an eight year old’s birthday party
Sep 2nd, 2007 by jenzug
1. Margaritas
2. Corn fritters with cilantro lime dressing
3. So much homemade Mexican food I had to be rolled down the driveway
4. Margaritas
5. Thomas throwing a fit because he didn’t get to open any presents
6. Twenty kids and two pinata’s
7. Friends I haven’t seen in months
8. My friend sending his four year old son to the beer cooler with his toy pickup truck to haul Corona’s back to the circle of adults, then sending him back for the bottle opener. The four year old then makes repeated trips to the cooler and back until he declares, “That’s the last one!”
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