Girl Outnumbered

Daddy celebrated his 33rd this birthday on March 6th! Daddy and I have been celebrating birthdays for the last 10 years so we don’t go too crazy for gifts like we used to back in the day. This year Diego planned our birthday celebration for Daddy. Diego decided he wanted to take Daddy to the Fort Worth Zoo to celebrate his big day. I think he kind of thought it was his big day, but Daddy still had a wonderful time.

 

My attempt of capturing a picture of Daddy and his boys…

 

I’ am kind of obsessed with skinny jeans for Diego. He can definitely pull if off.

   

 

The penguins were super cute! Diego and I spent a good amount of time there, but he did not like when the penguins came to close to the glass.

  

 

Dylan loved the aquarium

 

Later that evening, we finished off Daddy’s big day with cupcakes, just the four of us. Diego insisted we have candles to make Daddy’s big day extra special. He picked out Daddy’s cupcakes and the color of candles. We sang Happy Birthday to Daddy, and the boys helped blow out the candles.

     

It is nice to be able to have a low key, fun and relaxed celebration with just my boys and I. Sometimes the best gifts and memories are not the material things and extravagant parties, but the simply how we choose to spend it together.

Happy Birthday to my Husband and to the best Daddy! We Love You!

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We celebrated Dylan's 2nd birthday last weekend with a Little Monster themed birthday party. I decided to have a smaller party this year compared to his Rock Star party last year. Still, our small family party kind of was a bit bigger than planned. I even forgot about the little games/crafts I had planned because the kids were way into our last minute bounce house rental. We all had a wonderful time celebrating Dylan's big day surrounded by close friends and family.

I ordered the invitation, matching cupcake toppers and table settings from Brooke Chanel Designs.

I might be a little obsessed with candy buffets.  Thanks to Party City we were able to color coordinate the candy buffet. I also printed some of the cupcake toppers onto sticker sheets to put on the goodie boxes and made a banner that hung over the table. I bought the matching monster graphics from Peach Pops Clip Art. I printed and cut one out as the cake topper.

My birthday boy hung around the table for a very long time. He loved those cupcakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ordered the cupcakes and cake from Sam’s. They were delicious and budget friendly.

 

I love working with candy molds. My brother bought these number 2 candy molds from Ebay. The orange chocolate came from Michaels.

I found Rainbow licorice at Party City. I bought a couple of bags and removed all the orange, green, and blue licorice, placed in this vase with orange Sixlets. I love Sixlets! I also used blue and green Sixlets in other jars.

These napkins from The Paper Hat were a last minute find. I found these on Monday night and the party was Saturday, so I was only able to order the stock napkins that had an assortment of colors. I think they are the cutest napkins ever! Next time I will plan ahead and order custom napkins. 

My sister and I drove to Dallas to find the perfect pinata. Monster themed parties are not a popular idea, so the only thing we found that kind of matched was this Cookie Monster. It was huge! I even bought a Triceratops pinata for Diego’s birthday party in August. Let me tell you, it was no easy task to get these in the back of the truck with both Diego and Dylan. Triceratops had to sit in my lap the whole drive home.

 

My beautiful Two year old!

I hope you enjoyed our Little Monster Party!

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