A Yankee Baseball Birthday Party

Today my baby boy turns 6 years old.

I think I will have to always refer to him as my baby boy, even when he is 35.

This past weekend we celebrated the much anticipated Yankee Birthday Party. After watching the Yankee’s loose to the Rangers just the night before and a day filled with rain and drizzle, we still managed to have a good time.

Here are the invites that we found on ebay, not sure how they get away making these {legal}!

The cake and ice cream table was set up inside at the kitchen table.

With Peanuts

And cracker jacks.

Logo hats ready for ice cream to be dipped up.

And chocolate cupcakes to devour!

We planned for a fun filled day in the back yard playing a game of baseball and the dizzy bat spin race. And then it rained and rained and rained…

The party was moved to our garage.

Just the place everyone dreams to welcome guests into!

Yes, I was frustrated at first but then seeing Gabe getting all excited it really didn’t matter how the party went down. HE was having a blast.

Concessions were set up along one wall of the garage

and I put my volunteer staff to work.

They all wanted a turn at dishing out the hotdogs and working the nacho bar.

We didn''t have a baseball  game but we did have a hopper race

And let me tell you my son can sweat up a storm in his sleep, no lie!

 

My nephew enjoyed the mud the most.

It was time to blow out the candles

Crack open the piñata and watch them go mad!

 

Everyone took home a goodie bag, Yankee cup and their hopper!

And little man slept with a smile on his face all night long, mission accomplished!

Linking up at these great sites Show off Your Party - Transformation Thursday's - Somewhat Simple - Black Cat Design - House of Hempworths - Thrilling Thursday - Fingerprints on the Fridge - Sassy Sites - Finding Fabulous - Making it With Allie -  Sew Can Do

Aloha!

This past weekend we had a little Luau of some friend to attend.


And when I saw her cookie creations I knew that I would have to share them with you.

How stinkin’ cute are these flip flop cookies?

She used Vienna and Milano cookies, yum!

Using pre- iced cupcakes she simply added a few candies and a party umbrella.

Gabe enjoyed towering above everyone

And shooting silly string on us all.

Hannah wacked the piñata so hard

That she became headless.

We love a good party especially when they serve up Sno Cones!

Monday I am going to share with you some really cute gift ideas for birthday's and weddings that I have used this summer!

A PEACE Out Birthday Party

My girl was turning 10 and wanted a PEACE out party for her birthday.

It was a bit hard coming up with PEACE items that were not really “groovy” PEACE but more along with the popular clothing store, Justice.

She had a few ideas. She wanted me to bake a pink PEACE sign cake.

She wanted Mac-n-cheese.

And mostly she wanted to have fun.

I picked up the invites last year at my favorite discount store, Wall’s Bargain Center for $2.84 for 20 invites. I found a PEACE sign font for free at my favorite free font site. And printed them in multi colored ink.

We picked a Saturday evening trying to work with everyone schedules. Ha! And guess what? All 15 girls showed up! I had really only planned on about 10. I was a bit over whelmed, as Ryan was on the road that weekend. And we already had a crazy schedule of me driving them all over kingdom come.

I used two box white cake mixes and a few colors of gel food coloring to make the cake. Along with my homemade butter cream frosting.

Using a gift box I blew up the number 10 in PEACE sign font cut it out and Martha glittered it up! It worked great for a cake topper. I cut out a few more peace signs to go around the base of the cake. While at Wal-mart that afternoon I found the flowers half off so I picked up two bunches at $2.50each.

I had hoped to take a cute picture after we cut it, but something about passing around the knife did not sound like a great idea.So I kept on cutting the cake. Here is what was left...

I mixed up 5 boxes of craft Mac-n-cheese and added about ½ pd. of Velveeta to it. Talk about cheesy…de-lish!

We had all of Hannah’s favorites like fresh veggies and fruit.

REAL potato chips, cheese puffs and yummy Nathan's Hot Dogs.

It was her idea to have an ice cream cupcake bar. So ahead of time we scooped vanilla ice cream into waxed cupcake wrappers and put them back in the freezer. I placed them on a cupcake holder with toppings all around.

Hannah had a PEACE sign Christmas tree this year so I got in the attic and pulled all the goodies down to decorate with. We added a few tie die balloons.

Gabe’s favorite was the punch ball balloons.

Does it show?

This is a growing boy. I did my best to keep him from devouring all the grated cheese.

That he swore he did not touch… see the dropped evidence on the kitchen top!

I was trying to plan all kinds of crafts for them to do when Hannah just asked “mom can’t we just PLAY?” Wow, now there is a novel idea! So that’s what they did.

We did a few things "old school" I had a matte for everyone to sign and paint pins to draw on plastic cups.

Ending the night with a few games of Truth or Dare and M.A.S.H.!

I will be linking up at these great sites Mom's The Word- Show and Tell - Get Your Craft On- Toot your own horn Tuesday - Soft Place to Land - Frugalicious Friday. Come stop by when you get time.