An Airplane Party

When Dominick was really, really little as in like maybe a couple months old I started thinking about his first birthday party. I really wanted to do a mustache bash, but the closer it go to actually starting to plan his party the more I realized I wanted something a little different. Since we want to do an airplane theme for his big boy room I thought it would be super cute to do for his birthday party too...I scoured pinterest and the internet and found quite a few ideas. I decided that it would be a little airplane, a lot of maps and the colors would be aqua, orange and lime green (like every single thing that could be color themed in is life). Unfortunately, I only have pictures of some of the decorations. When the actually party started I laid my camera down to never pick it back up again. We had so much fun and I guess it will have to be a memory that's engraned in my head rather than in pictures.

I designed his invites in photoshop and thought they were pretty darn adorable. I also had them printed from mpix.com. 

My friend did the Happy Birthday Dominick banner, the Time Flies letters and the D is one banner from his high chair (I don't think I have a picture of this) with her circuit.

I printed the in flight meal banner and just cut it out. 

Everyone loved seeing how much he had changed in the past 12 months with his monthly pictures.

And I also made the map paper airplane banner which I thought was really cute.

My mom helped me hang the streamer wall and that was a huge hit for people. I found it on pinterest somewhere.

We used 4 small rolls (green and blue) and 1 large roll (orange) to cover the wall. We had WAY more than we needed .

I also made the water bottle labels in photoshop and we just used clear packing tape to wrap the bottles. They were a cute little extra to do and while they were a little time consuming it was a great way to add a little something to the party. It's an easy, cheap DIY. (I'll update later with the picture).

We had bbq brisket and chicken, potato salad, pasta salad, queso, a veggie and fruit tray, red velvet and white cake pops and ice cream.

For our favors we did DIY kool-aid play dough kits and bubbles. You can kind of see them on the table in the photo above. I got the idea from here.

We had a bounce house, a house full of toys and about 50 people not including my parents, Ry, Dom or myself. It was definitely a labor of love and as much as I loved celebrating my baby man I'm also so thankful that it's done and over with. I know that he had the BEST time and was so incredibly blown away that all of his FAVORITE people were in one spot. At one time he walked into the living room and all of his friends were in there and ALL (literally ALL) of his toys were thrown about the floor and he kept looking back and forth with his eyes all big and his mouth half opened half smiling.

The party started at 4:30 and went until around 9:30. It was a VERY busy day, but one that I hope to never forget.

Dominick had a great time and was SO excited when he finally got to see all of his gifts. It was like a kid in a toy store...literally!