Birthday | I Tri and Craft

My little man finally turned 2! and what a big day it was.

He has always loved music, and we have always played it for him. When he was little he would quite down for Rock ‘N Roll, reggae, classical or anything with a beat. When he started to be able to move, he would move with the music. Then he began to dance, after that everything became a drum. He LOVED to drum, and this year he got some drums for Christmas.

When trying to figure out a birthday theme we decided on a Rock Star theme. In my previous post I uploaded what his invitations looked like. They were made to look like a concert poster and came with two concert tickets. I was very pleased with the results, and my work didn’t stop there.

I made the backstage passes for the people who came

Being as we are a family that lives off M&M candies, and it is one of Ian’s favorites. We ordered some personalized ones from My M&M. Which I am pretty sure we do for most every party.

I made the “Happy Birthday” and “Rock On” banners using the Sam Kit from Just So Scrappy, one of my favorite kit designers.

I was also able to make all the fun tags, using the same kit.

The gift bags and goodies I got from Oriental Trading Co and The Dollar Tree.

Some decorations, plates & napkins I found at Party City. I also bought the pinata at Toys ‘R Us.

The FANTASTIC cake was made by my absolutely wonderful and talented aunt! Ian was so excited for the cake, he loved it!

All in all it was a wonderful day and Ian had such a great time.

The time is fast is fast approaching for a birthday party celebrating My Monster’s 2nd year.

Finding somewhere fun to host a March birthday, in the rainy Northwest is not all that easy. I don’t like that most places only allow for 1.5-2 hour parties. We have a huge family and no one gets time to visit during that time. Our house is too small for that many people. It is also important to me that the kidos have something fun to do.

I really wanted him to have a pool party, I had some great ideas for it. Husband told me it was not a good idea, and then I realized that at this age I would have to spend the whole party in my swimsuit. Which is doubly worse now since baby number two is on the way. I am not at the very pregnant look, right now I just look fat, so that would be horrible for me. The pool party will have to wait for when Monster can swim by himself!

Since Monster is really into music, we decided to have a Rock Star themed party. It will be an open house held at my mom’s house. My mom has a fairly large house, but it is so full of stuff that there is not that much room for people 🙂 Love you mom! But the great thing is she has a basement full of toys for the kids! All kids of all ages have such a great time down in her basement. I am also planning on setting up the Wii Rock Band video game.

I purchased this guitar pinata from Toys ‘R Us.(it is a pulls string one)

And all sorts of fun rock star themed goodies from Oriental Trading Company. Like inflatable guitars and sunglasses and tattoos! They also had guitar-shaped goody bags to put everything in. I also ordered must have at all our parties, personalized M&M’s! I uploaded a picture of a drum set and a picture of a guitar. I also ordered some with the words “Ian Rocks” and “Happy 2nd Birthday”

Here are the invitations I put together: