This will be the first in a series of posts of Jack's party. But I must preface these posts by saying, I was VERY stressed about playing the many roles a mother does at these parties. I tried very hard to be a good mommy to the birthday boy, a gracious and attentive hostess and the official party photographer. And of those three, I feel the photography suffered the most! I only had a short while to snap a few pics of the food and decorations before guests started arriving and later noticed that in most pics the cookies still had wrappers and my Thing 1 & 2 cups were sans their hair (aka blue cotton candy).
But I will say I think the party went off without a hitch. Our guests enjoyed themselves and Jack had a blast on his special day = mission accomplished! The majority of the time was spent outside since I rented a bounce house, a party canopy to cover the tables and chairs, and an area for washers and adult beverages for our older guests.
Inside I had the majority of food and decorations (for the purposes of heat and bugs) and I served the traditional summertime fare to include burgers and hot dogs on the grill, homemade salsa, spaghetti slaw, chips and dip. For the main table I had LOTS of desserts to include the beautiful Hat cake and cupcakes made by Larry's in Carbondale, the cake pops made by Lori Pinion of Herrin, and the fabulous, almost too perfect to eat cookies made by Jen in Utah (yes...I had cookies shipped from Utah!). I also had fish (aka goldfish) in a fish bowl and various red, white and turquoise candies.
The decorations consisted of mainly red and white with some turquoise and a touch of yellow. Also notice the bunting over the doorway, across the table and I also hung it over the windows. I made it from The Cat in the Hat books I purchased online. It was really hard at first to deface a book, but I have to say, the bunting did turn out pretty cute! I also had several signs with Cat in the Hat quotes, balloons and tissue balls.
