My sister-in-law's birthday is comin' up! Saturday October 9th we will be celebrating her 30th birthday. I'm excited to have family party to go to this weekend. I will be making a giant pan of my famous baked mac 'n cheese!
This summer, I learned how awesome yet difficult parties can be to put together. My brother Mike and I decided to throw a pool party at our house. I also thought I would make a great hostess, but didn't realize the stress that came along with it. We sent out facebook invites and only received a few replies which terrified me that the party would be lame. The Hendricks family could never live down having a lame party. My parents threw some of the best birthday bashes and 4th of July parties, we could not let them down!
I decided to cook EVERYTHING, which means I bought all the food. That added on a lot of stress. I never made pulled pork, but decided it was a great idea to have at the party. Luckily, I just put it in the crock pot and cooked it for over 6 hours. It came out tender and delicious! For a late night snack, we grilled some hot dogs! People gave great praise to the cook.
We got the food right, but what about the fun?? The pool made the 'fun' aspect easy, along with alcohol and beer pong and flip cup. The music was also an issue. Mike and I have extremely different taste in music. I tend to go for the more poppy dance music while Mike likes the singers who scream lyrics about butterflies and falling stars. Eric helped with that by unplugging the ipods and putting on the radio. Everyone was so drunk they didn't even notice. My friend and I had a little 2 person dance party!
Overall the party went smoothly and everyone had a blast. I hope to be the host of more parties in the future; by future I mean next summer.
