it's a party!

Maximus turns five!

My son Maximus turned five on Feb. 4th && since he is CrAzY about dinosaurs we had the most amazing dinosaur party!  I had so much fun planning this party & it was his first non-family party so I wanted to make sure it lasted more than 30 minutes like our usual family parties!!  I took Max to the desert behind our house and used a TPW Dinos app to take the picture above.  

 Pictures with the birthday boy!!!

THE FAMOUS CHALKBOARD!!

food....

Fun with the birthday boy!!

Max's five year pictures!  I decided to take these myself & since going to the photo studio is so stressful!  I like them a lot better than the studio photos & they are so fun!! 

Dinosaur BINGO was a hit!  I made the BINGO cards, as soon as I figure out how to add the pdf to the blog, I will share the fun!!

We decided to have the dinosaurs wear party hats so I made little hats for a few of his toy dinosaurs and used them for decorations & cake toppers.  The three pictures hanging above the party table were downloads I purchased from Etsy & I had them printed at Costco.  I used the t-rex for the invitaion & thank you cards!  I made the cookies using my favorite sugar cookie recipe.  Perfect cookies everytime!!  All of my children love chocolate suckers so I made dinosaur suckers for the party!  I ordered the cake and cupcakes and added my own decorations, keeping them very simple & fun!!   I made a small backdrop with wrapping paper and a simple banner that I made to take photos with the birthday boy! I served Max's favorite foods like veggies and dip, dino chicken on a stick and yummy mini BLT's.  The strawberry's were a recipe I found IN A MAGAZINE in 2000  when my oldest son was one. They  were just as good the second time around ;)  I also made the best spinach dip ever (mostly for the moms) but some of the children enjoyed as well!  I made cute labels for the water bottles (my first time doing this & I thought they looked so cute I will do it from now on).  I have a chalkboard hanging in my kitchen (we call it the famous chalkboard) I tried to make it look like the invitation, I think it turned out pretty good!  

 Let me know your thoughts & if you want any recipes or instrucitons for anything I made!  I'm just a mom having fun the second time around!!  -paula