look who's turning 2!

So this week I dived into planning for Evan's 2nd birthday which is on May 24th. Just like last year, I totally procrastinated and now I'm scrambling to figure out what I want to do. My problem always happens to be the theme so that makes sending out invites a little difficult. So with time running down, I knew I had to just pick something.

The other night I spent a couple hours searching online for little boy birthday party ideas and I found a theme I really liked. After seeing this, I just had to have an airplane themed party for Evan. Don't you just love the invitations? They are so cute! The goodie bags are way fun and the kids would go nuts over them I'm sure! So I went out on Wednesday to find some airplane themed items to get the invitations started.

Well now that I've got you all excited (well, maybe you're not! ha!) about an airplane themed party, once I was out, I changed my mind. I'm not sure why exactly but I did and decided upon a surfing themed party. I thought this would be pretty easy since you can use beach items to go along with it. So when I was at the scrapbooking store (which I love, the ladies inside there are always so nice!) I found some fun surf boarding paper and played out in my mind how I was going to put the invitations together. After the scrapbooking store, I walked across the parking lot to Michaels and bought myself a new toy, a sticker making machine! I thought that this would come in very handy with the party prep and I've come up with some fun stuff to make with it already!

Anywho, later that evening, I got to work on the invitations and had them all finished the next morning! I was so proud of myself for actually doing it rather than sitting on the idea for a few days! Yay me! Here's how they turned out:



I made the return address labels with my sticker making machine and on the back side of the envelopes, I made these cute little surf board stickers from a page of the scrapbooking paper I bought. I thought that was a nice finishing touch!

While at Michaels the other day, I also picked up some buckets with a shovel for the goodie bags for only $1/ea! Way cool! I'm planning to put some beach/surf related items inside for the kiddos! I'm really excited about this!

I'll post more as I finish putting things together, I just wanted to share how his invitation turned out!

Have a great weekend everyone!