Grady's 3

Grady’s Birthday fell on a Saturday. We had his birthday party the same day as his actual birthday. For every birthday so far we have had donuts in the morning and we normally go to our favorite donut place but it is currently about 25 minutes away. I had all intentions on getting up super early right as they opened (5am) to go get donuts but my alarm didn’t go off so we settled on just normal donuts from daylight donuts

I mentioned in the previous post that instead of toys we asked people to gift Grady with memories this year. To hold true to our request we purchased Grady some Paw Patrol Live tickets for the next day. He didn’t really understand the concept of it the day of but was sooo excited on Sunday when we went.

After his birthday party he took a LONG nap and then we were just going to chill and put the Christmas tree up but instead Grady wanted to go to the Christmas parade so we grabbed a pizza on the way out of town and headed to the Christmas parade. We stopped at my parents house on the way home to take bathes and get ready for bed because any parent knows that once you wake a baby up to take a bath or change into PJs they are up forever and won’t go back to sleep. Good thing we did this because Audrey’s was smooth out by time we got home. Grady needed a little comforting.

On Sunday we decided not to go to Church and have a chill morning. My mom came over to watch Audrey while we were at Paw Patrol. Grady absolutely loves my mom so I was really worried that he wouldn’t want to go and want to stay home with his Nina. However as soon as it was time to leave he told my mom “bye, I go see Paw patrol” and out the door he went. Grady had an amazing time and the smile on his face was everything definitely worth every penny. The show started at noon and it was about an hour and 15 minutes long. On the way home Grady passed out from all the excitement.

Sunday night we put the Christmas tree up and had some left-over party food for dinner. It was a good weekend!

Truck on over, Grady is 3!

The day of Grady’s birthday fell on Saturday which was also the day that we had his birthday party. I went with a vintage truck theme and wanted a vintage gas station feel to it. He is in love with trucks and cars right now so it was perfect. We are also going to decorate his room with trucks so the decorations that we used for his birthday party will be perfect for his new room.

Since we are living in a rental right now we knew we didn’t want the birthday party at our house so I called around different places but nothing really felt right. I was talking about it with my in-laws and my mother in-law mentioned doing the party at the fire station where my father in-law volunteers at. I quickly said yes even though it was site unseen (can’t turn down free!).

I searched pinterest high and low for ideas and ended up finding a license plate sign that I loved. I tried searching the internet and spent way too much time than I really would like to admit trying to find someone that could make me this sign. I ended up going to a print shop and having them custom make it, do not know why I make things harder than they need to be. I found a tutorial on You-tube on how to make a balloon garland. I bought way too many balloons at Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree, and Amazon but love the way it turned out.

I found little blue trucks in the Target dollar spot and got the last 2 that they had and picked up the “Route 66” sign from Hobby Lobby when it was 50% off. One day that I was off work I went into a vintage shop and picked up a gas can and tool box for under $10. And found printable motor fuel and oil can labels online that I just printed and cut and taped on left over cans from Audrey’s birthday. I was so worried that it wasn’t enough but it was perfect.

The temperature said it was 55 degree but it was a cool 55 so we borrowed a bounce house from my co-worker moved one of the fire trucks outside and put the bounce house inside.

This year for his birthday instead of presents we asked people if they insisted on getting Grady anything to get a gift card or something similar to an outing of some sort. We got a ton of great ideas from going to see a Movie, Christmas lights, Fishing, Baseball game, etc. I absolutely loved this idea and we might be doing it every year.

We had the party at 10:30 which I love having parties with in the morning or in the evenings. I tried to stick with the gas station theme and do gas station styled foods, so we served pretzels, corndogs, popcorn (kettle corn), and crispitos.

The birthday party was a success and Grady had a blast!

Sources:
Table Cloth - Amazon
License Plate Sign - Local Print shop
Route 66 Sign - Hobby Lobby
Blue Truck - Target Dollar Spot
Fuel and Oil can printable
Invitation - Etsy
Grady's Shirt - Etsy
Cookies  - My Blooming Bakery
Party Favors - Tattoo & Chocolate Truck
Balloons - Amazon
Vintage Gas Can & tool Box - Local Vintage shop
Pretzels - Walmart
Corndogs - Sams club
Popcorn - The Corn Popper
Crispitos - Gas Station
Cake - Local