2nd Birthday Decor & Food

We decided on a Cowboy Party for The Boy this year.

Once we settled on a theme, mommy went to town.

I ordered the majority of the party decor from Oriental Trading.

I ordered bandanas, cowboy silly bands and cupcake liners/toppers.

The rest of the decor came from Joann or Hobby Lobby.

I designed the invites and printed them on plain cardstock. 

I attached a scrapbooking sticker to spruce it up a bit. 

Each invite had either a hat, boot, laso, ranch sign or horse sticker.   

The invite read

HOWDY Y'all

Cowboy Easton is Turning 2

Mosey on over to the

Farrar Ranch

on Sunday, March 18 at 5pm

Chow & Fixin's will be served.

I included RSVP information and closed it by saying

We'll have a Rootin TWOtin good time!

For the decor, I kept it simple. 

A few bandana buntings and a wreath and I let the food be the rest of the decor.

For the bunting, I cut bandana's in fourths and folded over a piece of twine and attached with small clothes pins.

For the wreath I used my current spring time linen wreath and wrapped a bandana around the rolled flowers that normally adorn the front door.

I made a simple bunting from burlap and added some red ribbon for color.

As I said, I let the food be the decor.

A western theme was really endless as to what you could prepare.

On the Menu was:

Pioneer Pretzels- Pretzel Rods dipped in Chocolate

Trail Mix- Golden Grahams, Chocolate Chips & Mini Marshmallows

Smores on a Stick- Marshmallows dipped in chocolate and rolled in Graham Cracker Crumbs

Wagon Wheels- Turkey/Provolone & Ham/Cheddar roll up sandwiches sliced

Frontier Fruit- Grapes, Strawberries, Blueberries and Cantaloupe

Chuckwagon Sliders- BBQ on Hawiaan Rolls {not pictured}

Cowboy Caviar- Chips {served in an upside down cowboy hat} & Homeade Salsa

Howdy Partner Pasta- Pasta Salad

Wild West Veggies- Mix of peppers, celery, cucumber, carrots & ranch

Larapin Legs- Grilled Chicken Legs were also on the menu but unforutanely Wal-Mart sold me RANCID chicken so they didn't get cooked. 

We had PLENTY without the chicken legs but they would have been a nice addition.

As for the cupcakes, I bought 2 boxes of devils food cake mix and 2 cans of cream cheese icing.

I baked the cupcakes and piped on the icing.

I topped the cupcakes with oreo crumbles.

The toppers that came with the liners were tiny, so I made these instead.

I used my 2 inch punch for the red circle and my 1 1\2 punch for the white.

I just printed some simple cowboy hats, boots and the #2 in Western font for the toppers.

The Boy was MORE than happy with how his party turned out!

Come back tomorrow to see pictures of our Cowboy Photo Booth!