So I mentioned it briefly before but we held a joint birthday party for thing-one and thing-two a weekend or two ago. The theme was airplanes. I didn't really have an idea on what I wanted the theme to be so I asked Bug and he said he wanted an airplane party. Now, the Daddy-O and I are not ones to go broke trying to throw an event but I do like to decorate and play into the theme as much as possible without spending much.
The invitations I always design myself with some help for ideas from the Internet land.
I did all the design work on Microsoft PowerPoint. I prefer Publisher but I don't have access to that program anymore. I purchased the airplane image file from Etsy. A lot of my fonts come from Dafont.com which is free. Awesome! I had three invitations printed to a sheet of card stock. Each invitation was personalised in the upper right corner. Once they were printed I cut each one out, put a perforated line next to the words "boarding pass / ticket to party and then I rounded all of the corners so each invite would look like an airplane ticket.
I used my Silhouette Cameo to print out an airplane and cloud image so I could make my own garland.
I went lame on the cakes. I always want to do more then I ever do but with three young kids it's hard. Plus, we all had a bad case of allergies that week because of the back yard overhaul.
Here are the birthday boys:
Bug who is five now
And Squish will be three very soon
Here is picture of me and my fam minus a few peeps.
The pinata fun:
Some birthday singing:
And of course....gift opening:
Considering we were all sick and I ended up losing my voice that afternoon the day turned out great. The boys had so much fun.
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