Monday, July 19, 2010

Happy 1st Birthday Lil Monster!



Unfortunately the 'birthday weather Gods' didn't like me this year. See, we do birthday parties for our kids when they turn 1 and 8. Beyond that, we'll see. But it just so happened this year that Ezra was turning 1 and Chase was turning 8... four days apart from each other. So I decided to make Chase's party on Feb. 27th and Ezra's on March 27th. Well as luck would have it, it rained, no poured, the day of Chase's party which was to be at the BMX track so we had to move his party to March 20th which ended up being a gorgeous day. Then the morning of Ezra's party it was ridiculously WINDY! All the cute decorations I had didn't even make it out of their packages. AND, because our brand new backyard was still too wet we had to move the party to the front yard and rent a jumper to keep the kids busy and contained.


In the end we all survived and the party was fine. But, if you'd like to do a Monster theme for your kid's birthday hit me up. :/

The invite...




The jumper/slide combo







Some of the party-goers






Some of the kids with the Monster pinata. And yes, it was nearly as tall as me. :)




Monster cupcakes




Pretty much the only decorations that made it out.




The birthday boy with his sign and pinata. The only way we could get him to pose here was to sit him on this car.




He just wanted to ride his roller coaster the WHOLE time!




Takin' a whack at the pinata.





Doing some tricks with uncle Nate.






He couldn't even blow out his candle cause it wouldn't stay lit.




But he didn't care cause all he wanted to do was shove his cupcake in his mouth...





The goody bag...

3 comments:

Anne Marie said...

We loved it! It was such a fun party. I don't know why you don't do them every year ;).

Emma said...

that is so cute and creative! my baby shower was a monster them too (i put some pics up if ya wana check em out!) and i was just talking to chris abt how powerful the lauritzen genes are cuz they all look like you :)

Aileen Bluhm said...

What a cute party! Sorry we missed it! :( I love the cupcakes! Fun!