Kyles turns 4!!

On March 30th, Kyle turned 4 years old!!! With Mater Tall Tales out, he has fallen in love with Cars all over again. So we decided to do a DRIVE IN MOVIE! Here is the invitation I made. I found something similar online for mucho mucho moola, so I just recreated it in powerpoint. I was going for a movie ticket effect. Here are the decorations for the party. Super simple. A banner, ballons and a red table cloth. We had some squeezers for drinks, and popped some popcorn and set up a candy bar. The cake was Tokyo Mater themed. I had this grandeous idea for the cake and the the moring of the party as I began to decorate I realized I had NO IDEA what I was doing! LOL! So a couple of hours before the party I scrapped everything I had, and did a simple round cake, and then cut a slightly taller cake in have and put it behind the round one to make it look like a ledge. A friend let me borrow the toy crane from the movie, and I had that swaying in the background. I used the backside of legos as distant buildings. Then I made a variety of Tokyo themed signs. Then I attempted a fire affect along the bottom. He loved it (all that matters!). We collected a lot of cardboard boxes, and painted them red, black, blue, and purple. We used white paper plates as headlights, and spray painted some black for wheels. The kiddos decorated their cars with foam stickers and then made a license plate for their car as well.

We borrowed a projector from a friend, and pulled down our sun shade that is attached to our back porch. It worked FANTASTICALLY! We, of course watched Mater Tall Tales.

We sure love the sweet, energetic energy our little guy brings to our family!!