{"id":6280,"date":"2011-08-29T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:03:17","slug":"party-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/29\/party-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Party School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The back to school party was a little different this year<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6281\" title=\"IMG_5890copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy-348x232.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5890copy.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food trucks instead of packed dinners, ice cream stands, fire trucks, and a new band.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5896copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6282\" title=\"IMG_5896copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5896copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5896copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5896copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have been going to this shindig for 9 years now and as the older kids phase out and the younger kids phase in we sit and watch it all from our blanket on the hill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5917copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6283\" title=\"IMG_5917copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5917copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5917copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5917copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time I turned around someone was giving Eva more ice cream, candy, capris suns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5924copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6284\" title=\"IMG_5924copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5924copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5924copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5924copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friends son that is a day older than Eva.\u00a0 She kept pushing him around in his stroller.<\/p>\n<p>When Austin went to this school one of his friends dads bands played.\u00a0 It was an 80&#8217;s band.\u00a0 Lots of parents would get up and dance.\u00a0 This band was fun but there wasn&#8217;t much dancing.\u00a0 In fact all the kids (and parents) seemed to be in the back on the playground.\u00a0 It used to be that it was hard to find a spot on the hill.\u00a0 This year it seemed like very few sat down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5929copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6286\" title=\"IMG_5929copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5929copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5929copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5929copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5929copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5929copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5946copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6287\" title=\"IMG_5946copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5946copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5946copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5946copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5946copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5946copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5948copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6288\" title=\"IMG_5948copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5948copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5948copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5948copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5950copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6289\" title=\"IMG_5950copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5950copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5950copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5950copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5950copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5950copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eva sat with anyone that had food<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5951copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6290\" title=\"IMG_5951copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5951copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5951copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5951copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5951copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5951copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Village Baby<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5953copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6291\" title=\"IMG_5953copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5953copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5953copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5953copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5953copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5953copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather could not have been more perfect.\u00a0 Nice and cool.\u00a0 I love this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back to school party was a little different this year Food trucks instead of packed dinners, ice cream stands, fire trucks, and a new band. We have been going to this shindig for 9 years now and as the older kids phase out and the younger kids phase in we sit and watch it all from our blanket on the hill Every time I turned around someone was giving Eva more ice cream, candy, capris suns. My friends son that is a day older than Eva.\u00a0 She kept pushing him around in his stroller. When Austin went to this school one of his friends dads bands played.\u00a0 It was an 80&#8217;s band.\u00a0 Lots of parents would get up and dance.\u00a0 This band was fun but there wasn&#8217;t much dancing.\u00a0 In fact all the kids (and parents) seemed to be in the back on the playground.\u00a0 It used to be that it was hard to find a spot on the hill.\u00a0 This year it seemed like very few sat down&#8230; Eva sat with anyone that had food The Village Baby The weather could not have been more perfect.\u00a0 Nice and cool.\u00a0 I love this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_5926copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18964,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/18964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}