Hey Everyone!
I hope you all are having a great week! This week was Parker’s first FULL week of school & I am slowly adjusting to having just one child at home. Things have definitely been a lot more quiet at home throughout the day & I have also found that it has been a whole lot easier keeping the house straight now that I am only cleaning up after one child! Imagine that?!
Speaking of that one child, he had a birthday this past weekend! I can’t believe he is two!! We celebrated Sunday evening with family …..Thomas The Train style! I thought I would share some pictures of the party decor as well as some pictures of the birthday boy himself!
Griffin has turned into a Thomas The Train junkie over the past couple of months. He loves playing with his trains & watching Thomas videos on TV! So, coming up with a party theme was pretty easy!
I ordered all of the printables from this site. The order came with Thomas The Train invites & thank-you cards, but the cupcake toppers, wrappers, & water bottle labels were just color coordinated with the Thomas theme which I loved because for me, a little bit of Thomas goes a long way!
We don’t have a cupcake stand that we use for birthday parties, so I always just make shift one by wrapping boxes in brown shipping paper and then stack them one on top of the other! I bought a package of Thomas The Train centerpieces at Party City & cut them to decorate the cupcake stand/tower. I also added a stripe of turquoise ribbon that I had leftover from this project to give the stand a little more color!
Just like Parker’s party, I ordered the cupcakes for Griffin’s birthday at Walmart. They do an awesome job with the cupcakes (delicious) & they can customize the icing to match the party decor. And at just $6.00 a dozen….you can’t go wrong!!
I love customized water bottles for our kids’ birthday parties. I’ve used them for the last three parties we’ve had! They are such a cute & personalized touch & so many of the etsy vendors who sell party packages offer them!
They turned out so cute! Don’t you think?!I didn’t have quite enough room on our make shift cupcake tower & I need a little something extra to add to the table anyway, so I got out this serving tray that I bought at HomeGoods a couple years ago. It went well with the colors in the party decor & solved my cupcake dilemma. We added some chocolate chip cookies to the bottom to give our guest a couple of goodies to choose from!
I think Griffin actually preferred the cookies to the cupcakes! He managed to sneak four cookies before the party even started! He was just tall enough to reach the bottom level of the tray….little stinker!
One more look at the “cake” table as a whole….
As for the birthday boy….
Well, a Thomas party isn’t complete without proper Thomas attire, am I right?! Griffin had a coordinating shirt & hat for the occasion! The shirt was actually a Goodwill find! My mom snagged it at our local Goodwill for just $1.00 & the party hat was purchase at Party City for $1.99.
Love this cheesy smile taken with his birthday presents….
He actually did a pretty good job of opening & unwrapping his gifts this year….
Although his big brother was always there for back-up in case he needed it! We had to keep reminding Parker that it was Griffin’s Birthday, not his!
After he managed to open 4 or 5 gifts, he really just wanted to play with his new stuff rather than keeping opening more. Typical 2 year old, I suppose!
To go along with the “Thomas” theme, he got lots of Thomas gifts!
Movies…..
And even a Thomas The Train ballpit!
Which had to be inflated PRONTO! I love this picture of my hubby, my dad, AND my uncle blowing up the ballpit!! Too funny!
This gift was definitely a big hit at the party! Parker & Griffin had a great time playing inside & throwing the balls everywhere! I know I’m gonna be finding neon plastic balls in every room of the house!
I tried telling my mom that the ballpit would be a great thing to have at Grandma’s house since she has a larger home than I do, but somehow she wasn’t buying it!
Oh well, they are only young once right?!
Someday when they are older, I’m gonna wish I was still finding plastic balls while I’m cleaning house!
I’ll keep reminding myself of that over the course of the next several months in meantime! 🙂
Enjoy the rest of your week & as always, thanks so much for stopping by!!
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