My older brother’s birthday is in January as well. \u00a0Mine is the 10th, and his is the 25th. \u00a0As we’ve gotten older, it’s just been easier to get everyone together for a combined birthday celebration for both of us, rather than two separate birthdays in one month. \u00a0This year, January was\u00a0so\u00a0<\/em>busy for everyone and we ended up having to have our birthday party in early February. \u00a0We landed on a birthday brunch on Superbowl Sunday, after church. \u00a0It was perfect because we were all going to be together anyway for the Superbowl, which didn’t start until the afternoon.<\/p>\n This is a good time for me to mention that since we are all Washingtonians, we are naturally all\u00a0SEAHAWK FANS! \u00a0<\/strong>So our party was a Seahawk-Superbowl-Birthday-Brunch. \u00a0It was pretty awesome.<\/p>\n My one necessity for the party was a cake doughnut tower. \u00a0I did this same thing for my Breakfast at Tiffany’s Bridal Shower<\/a>\u00a0and I’ve seriously just been waiting for an opportunity to make another. \u00a0Superbowl birthday brunch? \u00a0Perfect! \u00a0My mom ordered a dozen plain cake doughnuts and picked up some food coloring and vanilla frosting. \u00a0I, then, mixed the colors, frosted, and stacked the doughnuts. \u00a0The final touch? \u00a0Birthday candles.<\/p>\n How are you going to celebrate your birthday this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love birthdays. \u00a0I don’t ever see myself getting to the age where I want to let my birthday sneak by without any celebration. \u00a0Hey, living another year is a blessing to be celebrated! \u00a0That being said, I am also a believer that we are entitled to a birthday week. \u00a0Cake before dinner? \u00a0Sure, it’s… [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[35,56,57,39],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrate","category-misc","tag-birthday","tag-february","tag-football","tag-party","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42QGB-ea","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7102.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_7102\"](\"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7102-745x1024.jpg\")
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<\/a>It was a fun birthday celebration. \u00a0You really can’t go wrong with brunch. \u00a0We had french toast, hash browns, fruit, bacon, sausage, and doughnuts. \u00a0Perfect! \u00a0Plus, the Seahawks won the Superbowl. \u00a0It was a good day all in all :)<\/span><\/p>\n![\"IMG_7118c\"](\"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_7118c-1024x682.jpg\")
<\/a>Birthday siblings!<\/p>\n