This year for Dusty's Birthday Party he requested of course you guessed it...... A Minecraft Party. Which I thought great idea Dusty... I showed him many ideas from Pinterest. He suggested all the ideas to make or do.....however my summer has been extremely busy and completing all those wonderful ideas were way out of my realms. I know I know what?? Are you serious this so called super mom can't get it all done....no!! I can't and now that I am much older and have realized this the parties are much more exciting and fun!! I have done extreme parties and you know what....??? Whether I'm pulling out the balloons and streamers out of the bag five minutes before the party or go all out the kids have just as much fun and no one cares how much you put into the party it's the time you spend with friends and family that count. Most of all that mom is not stressed out!!! This years party was like pulling the balloons and the streamers out of the bag five minutes before the party. I tried to make it simple as a working mom time is very valuable so I couldn't put what I wanted to into the party, but it turned out super!!! The kids had fun, the adults had fun and we had good food too. The cute littlestuffedMinecraft toys came from Toys R US.
Happy Birthday Dusty!! Tara bought these awesome goggles for Dusty at Target one night when we're in Florida for Amanda's wedding, which on that note I never even shared the weddings on the blog. Mmmm should that be a post or just leave it as it was shared on all the other socials medias.????? You tell me your thoughts. Maybe some of the ideas could help others in their future plannings. Going back to the goggles.... Tara sent the pic to me and I showed Dusty and in his innocent voice... He says yes Tara buy those for me. Of course who can resist Dusty's innocent voice???? Certainly not Tara or anyone else!!! LOL!!!
I bought the Twizzlers ® from BJ's in a nice size bulk container. Megan came over on Friday to help cut out the paper items. The kids played while we cut. I bought the TNT papers fromWGPrintables on Etsy.
We had the party in our outdoor kitchen, I bought and printed the signs from PhorestDesign on etsy. AtPhorestDesign they also have the scrapbook Minecraft papers and TNT wraps. It makes it nice to have all these great printables available to help you with parties. They look great too!!
The tent cards and food labels I purchased from DigiPion Etsy.
Again the food labels/tents came from DigiPi on Etsy. I bought the Swedish Fish (which are so good) from BJ'sin a bulk bag. Of course the kids didn't mind. I really believe that the Swedish Fish are Colten's absolute favorite candy on the planet!! Lol!
Thank goodness that everyone who came was able to help me with the party, because remember this was pull it out of the bag five minutes before the party kinda party. I have big plans but my time runs shorter than my ideas. One of the moms helped cut the strawberries and the watermelon which was a huge help and I am so thankful for their help!!!! Thank you!
Again thank goodness most of the printables are instant downloads so you can have them within minutes after purchase.
Note the straws they came from DimeStoreBuddy on Etsy. I bought the Lemonheads at Walmart in the boxes where the "movie candy" is located.
The cheese came from BJ's in the bulk bags. Bruce had to go buy the colorful toothpicks like twenty minutes before the party was to begin. I bought the invites from PhorestDesign which also is where the banner came from. We also did water bottle label's which I bought fromKitprintables.
Note the banner. Again fromPhorestDesign. We found all the party stuff like cups, balloons, tablecloth, plastic wear, napkins, etc. from Party City. We bought black, dark green, and lime green accessories for the party. I Megan and I wrapped Hershey® candy bars with the labels I purchased fromInvitesOnDemand on etsy. Since it's so hot here they were in the refrigerator so I didn't get a picture. I bought the Hershey® bars fromBJ's too.
Of course I made the cake, which the lady who cuts the boys hair suggested getting one of the edible cake toppers which I did and boy did that make for a fast cake!!Thanks Virginia!! I used the Wilton 11x15 x2 pan to bake the cake and I had the topper to fit that cake. However allow yourself space since the design reaches to the extreme edge nowhere for the frosting to be. So once I added the pipping on the edge it covered up the y on Dutsy and then once we took the cake out in the heat the pipping was so close to the edge that in the heat it fell off. Oh well! Dusty didn't care he was having too much fun!! The cake still tasted good too! Dusty loved the design of Steve and the Minecraft gang. It really made for a super easy cake! Yay! The design came from CakingImpressions on Etsy.
One little boy had to leave early and I wanted to make sure he left with a piece of cake so that's why the cake is already cut before we sang Dusty Happy Birthday. I make the frosting from scratch too. It is yummy! Look at his sweet smile.... Can you believe he is seven already??? I can't!
Hurry up mom cut my cake!!
Now the fun begins "PRESENTS"
He always gets really cool stuff and he enjoys it too, he always wants to wear his birthday shirts he gets!
Reading cards. Pam came too!! Yay!
Everyone is looking on....
Use those muscles buddy!
Dusty certainly looks happy and surprised about this one, Coop looks like mmmm ok now I jealous! Lol!
Everyone had fun! We had water balloons. Just good ole fashion fun!!
Pool time!!
We made homemade pizzas in the wood fired pizza oven. Which is always always fun!
There goes Dusty with a water balloon.
There goes Cooper! "SPLASH"
It was so nice to have Skylar and Crystal here too!
Wonder what she is thinking???
Thanks to Tara for also sharing her pics with me as I miss so much getting things and helping others with pizzas, etc. Thank YOU Tara!!! Look at Skybear she is sooooo precious!!
Our precious newest grandbaby also came to the party Miss Dakota Rose.
It certainly was a good day!! I was so thankful my friends and family could come. Thank you everyone who came!
Matt was having a blast we did the Stanky leg, balloon tossing. This pic just makes me smile! EVERYONE loves the Stanky Leg! I think I will official call this summer of Stanky Leg! Wink!
Jump! Fun!!!!
When I see this pic it makes me think of the song with Cher if I could walk on water.... Love it!! That song was one the girls and I used to sing in the car together. Memories!
As you can see the Minecraft party was a great time had by all! Thank you for allowing me to share with you and I hope I may inspire someone who's little boy or girl is thinking of a Minecraft party too. Have a wonderful week. Happy 7th Birthday Dusty!! We love you!
The Under the Sea Party for Dusty's fifth birthday....was a lot of fun I handmade this cake using fondant from Wilton. I dyed most of it by buying the 5lb box of fondant. I also used a lot of molds that I had and ones I bought from Wilton. The jewelry fondant mold, the sea life mold. I also hand shaped a lot of the pieces. I used the pearl dust to color the pieces. The cake board is also Wilton. It was a lot of fun, if you are making a fondant cake prepare your pieces about a week in advance so they can harden....makes applying them to the cake easier and there is less breakage.
Hand made the large flowers.
The seahorse was a mold I had.
Love the blow fish with the toothpicks...lol!
I also got the eyes from Wilton
Love the turtle too....again a mold I had.
Happy Birthday Dusty.
I found on Etsy this custom made Printables which I love to use...it makes it so EASY!!!
This theme came from Its All About KIDZ Annie was absolutely amazing to work with...I would tell her what I needed and DONE!! She had it done within a very short time like minutes and I was back to printing for the party. This year was not as big as the Shark Party but time is always of the essence. The printouts were perfect and coordinated well with the party.
These are the buckets that I got from the Dollar Tree, the stuffed animals also came from the Dollar Tree, we also put fishing poles and crab toys that came from the Dollar Tree, there were also sea urchin balls, water guns, and the hard plastic sea creatures. Beverly brought out bubbles for everyone which also became a party favor. Of course Swedish Fish for a party favor too. I also put out a large bowl of them and of course they were all gone....talk about a yummy snack.
Samples of some of the party favors for the buckets....most came from Dollar Tree.
The suckers were bought from Birthday in a Box which they are so awesome and FAST!!! The personalize things and I have used them many times and of course you can find more ideas from our shark party.
All the animals we had that the boys collected from their toys to make up decorations....we used Ty Beanie Babies, Disney stuffed toys, pool toys, plastic sea creatures, etc. The nets are from the ones I used last year at the Shark party where I dyed the nets to match the theme. The nets came from Dollar Tree.
Again another sea creature from Dollar Tree the swim goggles came from both Dollar Tree and Dollar General which Dollar General has a coupon day which the coupons are on their website. The star (fish) glasses came from Dollar Tree which they also have a Wal-Mart if you can't find them at Dollar Tree. Dollar General has a great selection of plastic outdoor serving plates, platters, bowls, and baskets. The ones shown came from the Dollar General.
The hats came fromMichael's in the clearance section for .50 cents....which I was going to add a turtle cut0out to the hat using either my Cricut or Silhouette. Which would have been so cute....but time was of the essence. The plates, napkins, table runner, banner, cups and many other items all came fromBirthday in a Box.
This was how we did the plastic ware wrapped in the napkins I used jute and used the fun foam ocean shapes that I purchased in the craft store during the summer. Used plastic Tervis cups with a lobster on them to put the plastic ware in. Which my dear friend Beverly gave me....we LOVE you Beverly!!
Just a pic of the wrapped plastic ware so you could see not in the cup. These could be made days in advance of the party.
The labels from the Etsy store with Annie. Its All About Kidz . We used the Deer Park 8oz minis for the water bottles. We kept them in the refrigerator up until the party started.
Of course every party needs gummy worms.
And the sour octopus.....there are so many of these type of gummies that children really like and I do recall a few adults enjoying them. LOL!!!
You can really see the Tervis lobster cups here.
Of course thanks to Pinterest I was able to find some pretty creative food ideas. Annie at Its All About Kidz made the labels for the food....again thanks Annie YOU are totally awesome to work with!!!
This was in a Pillsbury Cookbook, they have mustard eyes and mouth. I just thought of a name to fit the party that Annie made at All About Kidz the sign for Squid Dogs
I made the noodles from a package of Ramen noodles
and then once cooked added several drops of green food coloring to create a seaweed look.
I found these at the grocery store and thought these were perfect for the theme, plus the kiddos love them.
We also found the Goldfish in rainbow colors to use.
I made Jell-O then put the Reddi-Wip (which my boys LOVE) on top before serving and added a gummy shark. We had the hardest time finding cups but we did find these at Food Lion. I just wanted the plain small clear cups....but I guess everyone else did at the time too....LOL!!! These turned out cute. The children enjoyed them.
The sign for the Oceans of Jell-O see above pic.
Bruce cooked turkey hot dogs, hamburgers and of course vegan bean burgers....which everything was gone!! I also made vegetarian baked beans. We had chips and French fries too.
I bought these fabulous streamers from Party City they really added a fun look to the party.
Beverly brought out this really fun bucket full of bubble wands and bubbles galore....talk about FUN!!! Thanks Beverly for the awesome idea and fun you brought!!! She got everything at Michael's.
Cooper here with the fun bubble wands.
Look at the starfish glasses on.
Look at all those wonderful fun bubble wands that Beverly brought.
Michelle's little boy Kaleb who also enjoyed the bubbles tremendously.
Cooper was running thru the bubbles....again a lot of bubble FUN!!
Dusty the birthday boy enjoy the bubbles too and so did the adults.......
I made the cups using a turtle cut from Silhouette of America on my Silhouette Cameo
The turtle I made with the boys and cardboard. It is all paper Mache' we were going to use that as the piñata but once we had made it the boys didn't want to crush it...lol!
I started off making the turtle piñata with cardboard and regular strips of newspaper that I cut with a old style paper cutter. A balloon for the head. Using tape to hold it all together. You will need a bucket of warm water for your hands. I made the mix inside the house and then began the piecing outside since the heat would help dry....yeah even with the humidity here. Then starting from the top down was able to cover majority of the top before I had to quit until dry. I took it in once I was done and began the next day until it was all covered. I would just make a new batch using what was in the bowl each day.
Almost covered, the boys were really interested in the gluing part...LOL! I quite enjoyed it!
The eyes are a ping pong ball cut in half. I painted the whole thing with acrylic paints.
Finally time for some cake.
Dusty blows out the candles......YAY!!!!! Dusty is 5
I am FIVE years old!!!
Skylar my granddaughter (Crystals baby) and Dusty.
I think Sky bear really enjoyed the chocolate cake.
Look how adorable she is!!!
Of course more pool fun...this was going on the entire party.
Abigail enjoys herself at the party.
Cody and Skylar, I love the Minnie Mouse bathing suit I had got her from K-Mart at the beach.
Bruce had got the ladybug floatie toy from Dollar General, Skylar really got to enjoy that off and on this summer.
The famous whale floatie again from Dollar General, Michelle, Kaleb, and Jamie having a good time in the pool.
Cooper and Cody soaking up the rays.
Dusty had a blast of course and the alligator came from Dollar General, I told you awesome pool toys every year!
Cooper loves to swim.
Dusty jumping off the pool, that he is not supposed to do....lol!
Sky bear was getting sleepy in all the festivities.
Oh yeah the time Dusty had been waiting for.......PRESENTS!!!
This is my first video upload other than YouTube....so we shall see.....
Cooper playing the drums......
Skylar was even playing the drums.
The Piñata of course was a huge hit.....always make sure you keep everyone in a certain area away from the swinging piñata bat. I got the piñata at Amazon
