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Every year around our birthdays {mine is the 2nd and Tab’s is the 10th} Marla hosts a super fun and festive birthday dinner. She goes all out with an awesome theme, has some delicious food, and now that the kids are older has gotten them involved with this special night.
To see birthday dinners from the past…
I wasn’t supposed to know the theme, but I dropped Ebby Lee off earlier in the day to help Marla with some party things and saw this on the door. First of all, isn’t that cute?! Secondly, that pencil was made with pool noodles! And thirdly, I instantly knew I had to wear something, “school” to this party!
Hahahahaha! She set this out for us too!
This little girl at the desk was greeting us when we walked in. Ebby Lee had worked on her all afternoon. There were school supplies at every turn!
Our schedule for the evening…Tab and I reported to the “teachers’ lounge” upstairs until we heard the bell ring.
Britt and I in our best “teacher” looks. 🙂
My glasses are actually those blue light blocking glasses. Some days I spend a ton of time in front of my computer so I’d randomly ordered them. They arrived just in time for the party and worked perfectly!
There was a little photo booth prop area set up in the “teacher’s lounge”.
And then I stumbled upon this picture again of Tab’s dad on the left. Nixon resembles him quite a bit if you ask me.
Just a few minutes of relaxing before this cafeteria worker began ringing the dinner bell.
Check out the cafeteria!
We were instructed to get a lunch box and then go through the line. Marla found little plastic containers that fit perfectly inside the lunch boxes so they dished the food out onto those.
Hair nets for everyone in the Slaughter Cafeteria!
Isn’t that cute?!
The table was absolutely adorable as well.
As we went through the line these cute cafeteria workers dished up our dinner. Do you remember me talking about that delicious ham and cheese sandwich from Patina Green? We had it recently on our food tour in McKinney? Marla recreated those sandwiches for us! She bought the exact bread and jam from Patina Green and then grilled them up with ham and cheese. They were DELICIOUS! She served those alongside cornbread salad. I’d never heard of this southern dish before meeting Marla but it is one of my favorite things. Cornbread, green onions, and tomatoes? YES, please! I’ve tried to make it numerous times but mine is never as good as Marla’s so needless to say I was pumped to see it being served. Add in some bread and butter pickles…
Britty was in charge of the forks. 🙂
And this super sanitary guy used his hands to dish up some Cheetos. hahaha!
Cake balls-school style were served with ice cream for dessert.
And in true Marla fashion, the four kiddos left with some great party favors.
The bags were full of pencils {with their NAMES}, pencil bags, little notepads, markers, and more.
Sweet sisters rocking those hair nets.
These two worked so hard to make this dinner so special!
Everyone in attendance had a blast!
We love Marla’s birthday dinners!
Thank you, Marla, for such a great night!
XO
