Grayson's Second Birthday Party

I started planning Gray's second birthday party by telling myself that I was not going to do as much this year as I did in the previous year.  Well, aside from not serving 40 people dinner, I didn't keep my promise.  About a month and a half out, I started planning his airplane themed birthday party.  Grayson has called airplanes "bigbigs" for quite a while, and he points out every.single.one. that he sees.  (Did I mention that we live really close to an airport??)  I am pretty happy with how the party turned out, although I wish that the main table had looked a little more full.  I always forget how large my in-laws' table is!

We named the airline 'Jet Gray'

 

I cut out every single one of those airplanes - I'm glad I did it over a two week period because otherwise my wrist would have fallen off.  Note to self - don't cut out small objects for next year's party!

These are chocolate airplanes that I made two days before the party with some airplane molds that I bought online.  Although few were eaten, I thought they added a cute touch to the table.  For the clouds, I just hot glued some quilt bunting to floral Styrofoam blocks.

Marshmallow propellers that I made the night before the party.  It took me about 2 hours to make about 35 - not too bad.  These also added a really cute element to the table.

I made this popcorn for Grayson's first birthday as well.  It is a great way to integrate the birthday colors into food.  This year I made blue and orange popcorn.

Grayson had a great time at his party.  He played with all of the kids that came, enjoyed his cake this time around, and had a blast opening his gifts.  He seemed a little confused this year regarding his gifts.  When I told him to thank the gift-giver, he took the gift to them and handed it to them.  Haha, oh well.  He'll get it soon enough.

Whew.  Long post!  Thanks for sticking around!

Labor Day Weekend

When we got to Dallas for Labor Day weekend, we went to The Blue Goose for dinner and ordered Grayson's first kid's meal.  He had a cheese goose-a-dilla and ate 1/4 of it along with one or two additional flour tortillas.

On Saturday, I gathered around some helpers and we attempted an art project that I was hoping would act as decoration for Grayson's first birthday party.  I have seen really pretty yarn balls all over the internet, and bought all of the supplies. 

We blew up the balloons in different sizes and then dipped the yarn into the glue/water mixture. 

 Then, we just wrapped the yarn around the balloon in different directions until it looked like a yarn ball.

This particular piece of yarn got all tangled up and was just a mess, but we were able to cut it off and finish it off with a different string of yarn.

The balloons and yarn had to dry over night, and I'm sad to say that I forgot to take a picture of the finished product.  (I guess you'll just have to wait until his party!)  After popping the balloons, I had one or two that started to deflate along with the balloon, but luckily they popped back into shape.  I think they turned out really well, and I am excited to hang them at G's party. 

That night, we went to dinner with Brian, Stephanie, and Baby Brooklyn - but I am awful at remembering to take pictures.  It was G and B's third date.  I think they were making googly eyes at each other.  We went back to their house after making a pit stop to put Grayson to sleep for the night, and ended up staying there WAY too late.  Apparently we had a momentary lapse in judgement and forgot that our kids would wake us up early.  As it turns out, when we got back 'home', Gray was awake and his Grandpa was trying to get him to go back to sleep.  Figures.

Sunday we started the day off with an Indian breakfast (yum), and then took a family nap until it was time to meet some other friends for lunch.  We spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing, and in the pool.  Baylor played their first game that night and we watched it with all of our families.

Although our plans changed and weren't able to be in Austin for the weekend, we had a good time with friends and family in Dallas.  We always do!