I love birthday parties! More specifically, I love planning my kids' birthday parties. We've had a space party complete with a rocket ship, a pirate party with a "ship cake" complete with cannons, and a baseball party with baseball cupcakes and peanuts and crackerjacks.
But yesterday, to celebrate my sweet cowboy's 4th birthday, we threw a Wild West party! Minus, the rain at the beginning, it went off without a hitch. Jack invited a couple little friends plus his cousins and, of course, his brother and sister...and they had a blast...or should I say a rootin'-tootin' good time! Here's a round-up of the Ho-Down:
The Grub:
Burgers and Chicken Legs
Chips and Corn/Black Bean Salsa
Corn on the Cob
Coleslaw
Baked Beans
The Entertainin':
Potato Sack Races
Pin-the-Tail on the Donkey
Horseshoes
The Decoratin':
Decorating for the party was so much fun...Mom and Dad pulled through for me with a ton of old stuff to use, like wagon wheels, 100-year-old barbed wire, and wooden ammunition boxes (for chairs for the kiddies). They hauled all their stuff up in their pickup and helped me set up...thanks a ton you guys! You helped make it look very authentic! So authentic in fact, as I sit here typing, there's two empty eye-sockets on a cow skull staring right at me!!
We also used tons of bandannas, "Wanted" posters, cardboard cacti, bales and barrels. The mood was set by a soundtrack of the Wild West blaring over the backyard, courtesy of Uncle Art. We aren't quite sure why he owns this, but a bit of "Rawhide" and "Bonanza" theme song fit in quite nicely!
(totally unrelated side note: Mr. Sparrow is sitting on the "bandanna garland" outside my window right now! Very sweet!!)
The Sweets:
My dear friend Robin helped me figure out how to make this o-so-sweet cactus cake. We used toothpicks for the pokes...no one swallowed any, thank you Jesus! We also tried our hands at our very first fondant flower...very fun!
The boys helped me make homemade strawberry ice cream that was soooo good!
The sugar cookies were just something I whipped up in case they didn't get enough sugar!
It was such fun night! Did I mention I love birthday parties??!!
Happy Birthday, Little Cowpoke! I love you dearly!!
Yes...that is a pink holster and in her right hand (not pictured) is a pink pistol!
My three little cowpokes!
4 comments:
I do love being a part of your parties. Thanks for letting us be part of the fam for these days.
Your kids are so lucky!! I DON'T love planning parties...hence, the day trip to the waterpark and family over to bbq!!
LOVE IT!!! Joey still talks about this party like it was one of the high-lights of his summer! It was so adorable :) Thanks for including him!
I love this! So awesome to have all that old stuff, the wagon wheels were great, and the cactus cake! Perfect.
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