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