Thursday, June 23, 2011

Tillman the Two Year Old

Tillman is two. Wow time flies! I am amazed with this little person who is my son. I watched him the other day problem solve some legos and I thought to myself wow he is a human being that I created! He is a little of me, and little of Matt and a lot of himself! I started to tear up thinking that he is becoming such a little boy these days!

Well his second birthday was so much fun! His aunt and uncle came to help with the weekend event which was a life saver! I had big ideas but lacked execution. Katie ran around to different stores to get things with me and then spent the rest of the morning making everything with me! Chris mowed our lawn and helped clean the downstairs! Thanks to Jill for making the awesome invites which made it all come together!

I wanted a Super Hero theme but not to commercial. Again I had big ideas and the internet made things look so easy but from the pictures you can see that my execution wasn't that great!

It started with cape making since all super heroes need a cape. Each kid had a cape and their initial that would stick to the cape. The decorated using foam shapes and then we tied them around their neck and off they went!

Grady working on his cape!

Amelia putting her cape on!

Then it was eating time! We had kid favorites which was fun but we ran out of ketchup; of course! It was ok though everyone had a full belly in the end.


Buffet style and the red bags were their super hero survival packs!


I made the cake with the help of uncle Chris! Chocolate layers with strawberries in between! The fondant was made by hand and we had a blast doing it!

Then it was time to zap the bad guys. I could this table cloth with bad guys from the batman comic. Each kid was blind folded spun three times and then had to use silly string to spray the bad guy! It was so much fun and super easy to clean up.


Tillman needed a little mommy help!


Lastly each kid received a super hero medal made out of choc. chip cookies and a super hero survival pack!


Tillman and his medal!

Our little family! I love these boys more than anything in this world!

I didn't come up with a single thing on my own I stole everything off the internet! I had so much fun and I love to host a good party! :) I wish that I had planned it a little better and really executed each thing to its fullest potential but I learned a lot from this party and hope to make the next one even better! Thanks to all my amazing friends who attended and spent such a special day with us!