Jaeger's birthday bash was a flying success! We had a full house and all the kids seemed to have a blast. I think the adults may have actually enjoyed themselves too. :)
Daddy, our party photographer, has barely had time to see his family let alone download the birthday pictures, so we'll post his photos when he has more time. It's that crazy time at Ward Air where he's out the door before we get up and arriving home after we've gone to bed. :( I did take a few photos of some of the decorations that I thought you might enjoy seeing.
Here are a few of the favors I made for our guests. On the left are candy airplanes made from Smarties, Lifesavers and gum. Here's the original idea from Family Fun magazine. On the right, my friend, Turkey showed me how to make chocolate lollypops. They were super fun and easy to make. Dane really loved helping make both favors. As soon as Jaeger would go down for his nap, we'd get crafting. :)
Here are a few of the favors I made for our guests. On the left are candy airplanes made from Smarties, Lifesavers and gum. Here's the original idea from Family Fun magazine. On the right, my friend, Turkey showed me how to make chocolate lollypops. They were super fun and easy to make. Dane really loved helping make both favors. As soon as Jaeger would go down for his nap, we'd get crafting. :)
We put the favors inside this Motion Sickness Bag we got from Alaska Seaplanes. I love how vintage it is!
Jaeger got this adorable backpack from Grandma Heidi and it was a great place to store all the goodies for our guests. :) Thanks Grandma!
Dane also enjoyed helping me make the cake!
Here's the final product. Thanks to Daddy who tackled the writing on the cake and the adorable smoke coming from the back of the plane. He's so crafty! (You may notice that we wrapped the table with some of Dan's old aeronautical charts.)
We had several signs around the house. The welcome sign was on our front door and I'm sure you can imagine where the other signs were hung. ;)
We played one "game." It was kind of a hide 'n seek. The kids had to find toy airplanes in a kiddie pool filled with shredded paper. This was a huge hit and an equally huge mess! Here's one photo I managed to snap of Dane and his friend Kellen going crazy with the shredded paper. (Yep, that's Dane wearing no pants at his brother's birthday party! I couldn't get him to wear pants - what a goof!)
And here's a video of everyone signing Happy Birthday to our sweet birthday boy.
