#1 Construction Party

Woo hoo! This week over at Kelly's Korner it's Show Us Your Life-Kid's Birthday Parties! Boy do I love to plan parties. I swear to you I was planning Corbin's 1st birthday before he was born. When he was born it was like the countdown was on. We put a lot of thought into his first party and I hope that it showed. We decided to go with a construction theme. I researched the Internet what seemed like forever! I found a great website www.birthdaypartyideas.com it gave me a ton of ideas. From those ideas and few of my own here is what we did for Corbin's 1st birthday party!

Together Chris and I went to numerous yard sales hunting down any kind of road signs. I was lucky enough to find a guy that knew someone that worked on the road department crew here in Newnan and I found real street signs. Got three of them for only 15.00 which I considered a steal! (Plus they did double duty, they were cute hanging on the trees on the way down my sis's driveway where the party was held, now they look awesome in my husbands game room)

Here is a picture of the tables...each table had a it's own dirt cake in a bucket. This worked out great and plus someone from each table ended up taking cake home!

We really used all of our resources...my cousin works for GA Power and he got us these real construction cones, perfect for roping off gifts.

Here is Corbin's Cake, at the time he wasn't a big sweets person so we did him a dirt cake too, no smash cake for our precious boy, but I think he loved the cake! By the way his banner says Being One Rocks..and the cake was covered in chocolate rocks.

Lots of people told us not to invite many people, keep it small, he will get whiny with all the people around...blah blah blah. Well we had 50+ guests with adults and kids and he loved every minute of it. He is such a people person that it was like a perfect day to him. Plenty of people to play with him, hold him, love on him, and watch him open tons of gifts. And he acted like he loved every one of them! (even the clothes!)




And boy did he rack up on the gifts or what!

Here's one idea I stole from another person. It says Corbin's Construction Est. Oct 1 2009 (his birthday) And it was covered with pictures from the time he was born until his birthday!

He had an awesome party! We served hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw, chips and drinks. Each kid got a hard hat, a tool apron (super cheap at Lowe's), a goodie bag complete with stickers, silly bands, bubbles, and a little bit of candy! The party last a few hours and it was perfect in our eyes and I kid you not before we could leave my sister's drive way I was talking about his second one. But you've gotta give me a little credit her driveway is almost a mile long! HA! (Just a little secret I'm planning a Cowboy party for this year and I've already got a million ideas) I can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with!