Celebrating Someone Else's Anniversary

You know I love my brother, Paco. He's awesome. We like to be like Paco.

I also love Paco's wife. She and I used to go for walks together and just chat about all sorts of things. I learned a lot from her.

This year we decided to celebrate their anniversary, not with them since they live in a different state, but I wished my brother a happy anniversary (I hope he passed the message on to his wife), and we celebrated ourselves.

Nichole and I went for a short walk. I wanted to go on a longer walk later (like my sister-in-law and I used to do) but ran out of time.

The kids were excited about the idea of having a "Confuso" again (our version of it) so that's what we ate. 

 

We drank Tang to go along with it because Tang was kind of my brother's drink years ago.

We didn't have any cans of lemonade to shake up like we did when we celebrated Paco's birthday last year, so we danced around with the Tang container.

Itsa Gooooood!

I love my brother, Paco. In a lot of ways growing up I wanted to be like him, to do things he was doing. I got into drama because he was doing drama. I learned some balloon animals because he was learning balloon animals. I got into juggling because he was juggling. I'm sure glad I did that because I got to know my husband through a juggling club in college. I've mentioned before that I've videoed myself juggling in different places because I copied my brother with that.

My brother and I definitely have differences and I don't follow him in everything (I don't build skateboards or walking sticks for example). My brother is fun, though, and my kids and my husband also think he is fun. Since we don't see him in person very often, living in different states, we enjoy watching "Paco videos." Every year he puts up a New Year's video on YouTube and we get a kick out of watching those as a family. He has a lot of other random videos and we get a kick out of those, too. Sometimes we even celebrate Paco's birthday... two states away. Sometimes we eat cake, sometimes we put together a little video for him. This year I contacted him while I was working on the menu plan and asked what he would suggest we eat for a Paco-themed birthday dinner. He suggested eating a "Confuso" while wearing fake mustaches. Of course! I told the kids the idea and Jr. Jr. told me we should also get cans of lemonade to "shake gently before opening."

So that's what we did. I spent the day before and the day of preparing ingredients and on Paco's birthday, we followed his instructions to assemble the "Confuso." Then we turned on the "Shake Gently" video and copied Paco's movements while shaking our lemonade.

It was a fun evening and all the kids actually ate the food. "Itsa gooooood!"

I love my brother. It's fun to celebrate his birthday since he is such a fun person.