{"id":168,"date":"2007-10-01T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-10-01T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:00:03","slug":"over-the-top-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Over the Top Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/2007\/08\/over_the_top.html\">Over the Top<\/a> (Part I)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We celebrated Boy&#8217;s birthday last week.  Boy requested a video game arcade\/laser tag party at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineventusa.net\/\">place that does everything necessary for the party<\/a> (except the cake &#8211; something I could NEVER delegate).  Since we put so much effort into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/2007\/08\/high_school_musical_eclairs.html\">Girl&#8217;s party<\/a>, with trivia quizzes and cooking and such, I was looking for a way to personalize Boy&#8217;s party, something to make him feel like we put as much effort into his party as we did for his sister&#8217;s, something to give his party that little something &#8220;over the top&#8221; that we&#8217;ve already established I enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, suffice it to say, I found a solution&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3538.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3538.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After riding 13 miles in a Humvee limo (from school to the party) with 16 over-excited boys, I was very appreciative that the party destination had a bar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3559-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3559-1.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boy&#8217;s cake was lemon with raspberry-flavored buttercream frosting, decorated with multi-colored fondant stars.  Hubby tinted the different colors of fondant and cut out the little stars for me.  I think that his fingers have finally lost their orange hue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3572.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3572.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themeltingpot.com\/\">Boy&#8217;s favorite restaurant<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3577.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3577.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hubby&#8217;s birthday is next week and he&#8217;s making it very easy on me.  To celebrate, he wants to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drafthouse.com\/\">here<\/a> to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/residentevilextinction\/\">this<\/a>.  Hubby has a HUGE crush on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millaj.com\/pics\/tfe-ultimatedvd11.jpg\">Milla Jovovich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up on Over the Top (Part I)&#8230; We celebrated Boy&#8217;s birthday last week. Boy requested a video game arcade\/laser tag party at a place that does everything necessary for the party (except the cake &#8211; something I could NEVER delegate). Since we put so much effort into Girl&#8217;s party, with trivia quizzes and cooking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Over the Top Part II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}