Okay for the record this is what happens when I try to blog while the two crazies are up...
and the best part was him yelling "no no!" at me while I was vacuuming them up, all while trying to race the vacuum and shove as many as he could in his mouth before they were sucked up with the hose.
Now onto Ricky's birthday party....
I was so happy with the way the construction theme turned out. After looking on pinterest for so many nights and collecting lots of good ideas, everything came together! His invitations I found on Etsy and I fell in love with them. The simplicity was my favorite part.
I always get so lost in the party and then kick myself in the ass later for not taking pictures of everything or enough pictures of the party in general. I did make sure to get a picture of the cake...because it was made by yours truly :) Totally made a three layer chocolate cake with fudge icing and the dirt was just Oreo's ground up in the food processor.... We did get a few vanilla cupcakes with the food that we ordered just in case any of the crew weren't feeling the chocolate.
The table was set with a black table cloth and caution tape along with a crew hardhat at each place setting. I also served the construction themed snacks out of either dump trucks or hard hats. The little cones on the table were actually kids drinking cups with straws. They were the cutest and we placed a bunch at the 'Crew Punch' station.
A few of our construction themed snacks were 'LOGS' pretzel sticks, 'LUMBER' vanilla wafer cookies, 'CREW CRUNCHIES' doritos, 'PEBBLES' reeses pieces, 'WRECKING BALLS' baked cheese puff balls, 'WET PAINT' which were were rice krispie treats dipped in yellow chocolate.
Our Thank You's were yellow sand shovels with a scoop of pebbles reeses pieces. We labeled them with a sticker that said 'I Dig You'.
For our food table which I failed to take a picture of consisted of a couple large assorted hoagie platters that were labeled PREBUILT SANDWICHES. We served them with a nice garden salad, potato salad, macaroni salad and some good old fried chicken. Our black utensils were individually wrapped in a yellow napkin each accompanied with a small label that said DIG IN! I had all the wrapped utensils sitting in Ricky's orange Home Depot tool box since they were our tools for the day! Stella was such a big help! While Ricky napped one afternoon she sat with me and helped me wrap the utensils.
I also did a quick chalkboard all about Ricky and his milestones at one year old. So crazy but as I was cleaning the basement for Ricky's party I actually erased the chalkboard that I had made for Stella's first birthday.
And for the smash cake we decided to go the vanilla cupcake route. Ricky didn't mind and ate it like a pro!
All in all the party theme was so cute and so much fun! I still cannot believe my little man is one year old!
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