{"id":25684,"date":"2022-02-22T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=25684"},"modified":"2022-02-22T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:13:50","slug":"pickleball-birthday-party-at-chicken-n-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=25684","title":{"rendered":"Pickleball Birthday Party at Chicken N Pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Witte, one of our pickleball friends, hosted a surprise 60th birthday for her husband Joe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickennpickle.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken N Pickle<\/a> on Saturday night. It was absolutely perfect! <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gruATEMIz4o\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the video above, I think he was truly surprised. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkeu0X1gApw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Cindy invited a bunch of friends (most of them pickleball players) to help surprise him. She rented all of the indoor courts and even had a DJ (another pickleball friend, Jeff) for the private event. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51892716670\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51892716670_830865cb33_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Kenworthy, DJ extraordinaire, played fun tunes for us all night long. He even got Joe to sing a Sinatra song! If you are looking for someone to DJ or host karaoke or just play background music at your event, Jeff is your guy. You can reach him at <a href=\"mailto:oneheavenlypeace@aol.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oneheavenlypeace@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51892402604\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51892402604_01b940e298_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Laham did a great job with the cupcakes and her husband helped with the balloons. They did such a fabulous job of making the place look festive for the birthday party.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51892152093\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51892152093_b9ece1c102_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wooden paddles were not just great signs but also made for great cupcake trays. Kudos to whoever made them. They were brilliant!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51892064371\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51892064371_698ba72630_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51892152133\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51892152133_cb05be95ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51893223243\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51893223243_85dba4f3b6_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the man of the party. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51891105387\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51891105387_caccf8eaf4_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think some people had left already by the time we took a group pic.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51892872908\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51892872908_06983490b9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was a huge turnout and I am glad I got celebrate his big day with him. Pickleball people are so much fun and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickennpickle.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken N Pickle<\/a> is the perfect place to celebrate. Can&#8217;t wait until the next birthday celebration! <\/p>\n<p>Until then, GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Witte, one of our pickleball friends, hosted a surprise 60th birthday for her husband Joe at Chicken N Pickle on Saturday night. It was absolutely perfect! As you can see from the video above, I think he was truly surprised. Cindy invited a bunch of friends (most of them pickleball players) to help surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,1340,3419],"tags":[3441,3442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25684"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25695,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25684\/revisions\/25695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}