My 4 sons always get to pick their birthday cake and theme. They come up with some really cool ideas and I help them to become reality the best I can. This year my 8 (soon to be 9) yr old son wanted a Perry the Platypus cake from Phineas and Ferb for his 9th … Read more
On Nate’s 3rd Birthday, we celebrated with a Sesame Street themed party. This was the second year for our Sesame friends, so I had some ideas of things to do, though almost all were different from those of the year prior. I like to save money and do most everything myself. It is much more … Read more
My daughter turned 7 last year! Since she is a real girly girl, deciding to throw her a Spa Party was not a hard decision! We started off my making the invitations. I attached a JPG of what it looked it. She insisted on added the part about no moms or boys allowed! Haha. We … Read more
My son decided he wanted his third birthday party to by dinosaur themed. Honestly I wasn’t thrilled when I heard this because it didn’t sound fun to me, but after some thought it turned out great. For decorations I bought some from Party America. They were really nice neutral color scheme. My favorite thing I … Read more
For my son’s 3rd birthday I went with a construction theme because he loves dumptrucks and bulldozers. I purchased a set of construction themed scrapbook paper from Hobby Lobby when it was 50% off, for only $7 and made a lot of the decorations with that. I made invitations from the scrapbook paper and printed … Read more
My daughter requested a Hello Kitty Tea Party for her 4th birthday. We had a very limited budget so we planned it to be at our house. The invitations were made from colorful wooden flowers found at the local hobby shop. There were 4 different designs. I printed the invite on pink paper in the … Read more
I tend to go a little over the top with birthday parties. It drives my husband insane and every year he begs me to tone and it down and not spend a fortune on the kids birthday parties. This year I managed to make both of us happy. First, I invited almost everyone using facebook. … Read more
My son Ashton was turning 6 on the 6th of January…so I wanted to plan a fun party for his special “golden” birthday. For the invitation, I used the photo editing site www.picnik.com to add the graphics to my favorite recent picture of him, then printed them out in a 5 by 7 size. We … Read more
My son was turning six and was at the stage where all things gross, creepy, crawly and slimy were really cool! He is my little nature lover and likes all kinds of animals and critters including the ones that a lot of people find creepy. He’s very tenderhearted and even gets upset if we exterminate … Read more