Race Car Party

This year Lorelei and Makin had a joint birthday party. When I was asking the kids about a theme many months ago, Makin was adamant that he wanted a race car party.  Lorelei had nothing in particular she wanted. I told her we could do half boy/girl and gave her lots of girly options (inwardly dreading the idea of trying to mesh them together!) but she finally just said, "I'll just have a race car party." 

SO, race car party it was. ;)

Party Prep

The tire place let us pick any tires out of this truck for free...now we just have to figure out how to dispose of them. :) Makin thought this was the coolest errand EVER. :)

The kids helping with the cake...after that middle circle I was done with the help. :) Brad was an amazing help with many things for the party. In this pic he is putting together the apple cars. (Probably his least favorite thing to help with...) His other major jobs were making the poster in Photoshop and then printing it on normal printer paper, then taping those nine papers together to make a poster, along with building the entire ramp for the kids to race cars down. What a dad! I would also like to give a shout out to my mom, who sewed bean bags with race flag material (even though she is allergic to sewing!) as well as crushed up Oreos for the cakes for me and mailed them.  Oh and lets not forget bringing two tires this summer in case I didn't find any! What amazing helpers I had to pull this off!!!

The Set Up

I worked hard to minimize the food for this party, as I tend to go overboard usually. :) We had apple race cars and a popcorn pit stop. This is where you could add in a few fixins to your popcorn, which you put into the cone to hold your snack. :) Make sense?! It was a big hit. And yes, we just used printer paper to make the cones! We used checkered duct tape for the drinks. The kids chose their cakes when I showed them several options of ideas on Pinterest. I think they just liked the idea of M&Ms and Oreos on cake!? :) Oh and there were supposed to be balloons next to the poster...but it was windy so they were blowing down into the cakes, naturally, messing up my color scheme! :)

Activities and entrance. Car ramp, bean bag toss and painting wooden cars. The kids just did these "at will" and it worked out really well that way! They also enjoyed the sandbox and trampoline.

Party Time!!!

Our Cuties Celebrating Six and Four!!!

Fun And Games

Cake

As usual, we took a turn singing to Lorelei and Makin separately. Because of the wind, Brad had to light their candle with his hand blocking the wind for them to blow it out. :)

And that wraps it up! Had a blast celebrating these two fun kiddos!