Ted's Party: The Activities

I had pretty grand ideas. Again, most of them came from here or here. One of them was to build a bull for the kids to rope. Adam thought I was nuts, but he still was willing to do what I asked. Thankfully a friend had a jig saw for us to use. (Although we had to buy a replacement in the end because theirs died.) I think we are going to try and stain him.

Activities:
1. Paint long horn magnet
2. Bull Ropin
3. Instruction on how to act like a cowboy.

• How to dress like a cowboy (kids given hat and handkerchief)

• How to talk like a cowboy (Adam scared them with his Yee Haw)

• How to walk like a cowboy (this was HILARIOUS)

4. Shooting
5. Pin the tail on the donkey (couldn't find a horse)

This one is Lulu's.

Adam told the kids that once they roped the bull they had to take their had off, hit their leg and yell Yee Haw.


I love how Lulu is kicking up her leg. She was an awesome assistant.

The kids had to practice shooting, so they shot at Diet Coke cans with the Nerf gun.

Here would be the photo of "pin the tail on the donkey". Oops.

Finally everyone participated in blowing out the candles.

Family portrait

Ted's Birthday Decor

It was Ted's birthday this past week and we threw him a cowboy themed party. Thankfully there are great websites out there for creatively challenged folks like myself, so we too can thrown a fantastic party for our littles. All ideas and genius for this party belong to this gal. Brilliant! I also stole a few ideas from this lovely lady.

My only regret- not having someone on hand to take photos. It was too nuts for either me or Adam to take thoughtful pictures of the event. BOO. Also, we both thought the other had taken a couple of shots so.. the pictures of the table are rushed and terrible and strangely there are very few pictures of our own children. Awesome!




In addition to the two creative genius mentioned above, I have another in my back pocket. Everyone should have an Emily. I called her with the most random and ridiculous questions and every time she would immediately respond with precisely whom I needed to call and what I needed to get. Not only was she my go to girl, but she designed every bit of the invitation and came up with the cute delivery for each of them. Love that girl.

I loved these little stumps of wood with horses on them. If you could have only seen the crazy looks when I made a rather impromptu visit to a friend that was in the process of cutting down her beautiful 100 year old tree (it was diseased) and asked her if I could have a one of the logs. Adam also gave me a crazy look when he saw the log too. Although he willingly used a hand saw to cut bits and pieces off in our back yard.

The photo of Ted makes me laugh every time. And daisies, aren't they just the friendliest of flowers?

The Menu:

Pulled pork sandwiches
Chips
Carrots and dip
IBC Root Beer
Vanilla cupcakes with chocolate ganache

The little gift bags contained western themed wristbands, the long horn magnet the kids each painted upon arrival to the party, a silver badge, salt water taffy, and a little horse.

The birthday cake