Buba's 3rd Birthday Party

Buba's 3rd Birthday Party

We had such a good time at Buba's party! It was a huge success! We had so many awesome details, the kids had such a good time, and we were surrounded by so many people that love Buba!  I couldn't wait to show you all the wonderful details that we put together for his party! 

Enjoy! 

(Poster Board of pictures or Buba on & with trains throughout the year)

 For the second year in a row we had a problem with the weather! The last two years the forecast has gone back and forth between sunshine and rain. We went back and forth, unsure if we were going to be able to have the party in our backyard or if we were going to need to cram everyone into our house! It rained off and on all morning the day of his party. We cleaned our house up really nice just in case we needed to have everyone inside, hoping that the weather would break and would let us go outside. It came time to set up for the party, and the weather had not broken so I began to set up inside. I swear, almost immediately the weather started getting better, and unfortunately the things I set up inside may not have been viewed as much as I would have liked, but that's okay! Everything was beautiful and perfect!

So when I started setting up inside the first thing I set up was my slideshow video filled with pictures of Buba throughout the year and a bunch of really cute songs to go with! I also had framed one of his birthday pictures that we did at Union Station, and hung some train garland I made with my Silhouette Cameo. I also made a railroad crossing sign that said "Birthday Crossing"

Next we had our "Luggage drop off" for people to drop presents off at & our "Baggage Claim" that had Train hats, Red Bandanna & Train Whistles for the kids as our party favor.









Because of starting setting up inside & then moving it outside last minute, we didn't have a ton of decorations outside, but what we did have was SO ADORABLE!

But to make up for the lack of actual decoration outside we had a couple fun activities outside that made it seem plenty festive!






















One of the activities we had was Cardboard trains for the kids to wear and act like they were the trains! This was a huge hit especially with the younger kids at the party!
















Another fun thing we had out in the yard was our photo booth train!



My husband and I spray painted a couple big cardboard boxes and put them together to form a train. The kids thought it was so much fun especially because we put our bubble machine in the smoke stack and had bubbles be the train smoke! There was even a place in back for the kids to "Shovel Coal" into the train!

I set up a cute little table for the kids and we pulled out the grill and my husband cooked up some hot dogs and hamburgers. We also had a little food train set up with walkers favorite fruits and some popcorn (another walker favorite!) For beverages we had water and root beer with signs that said "Water Tower" and "Diesel Fuel"

My Mom is an amazing cake maker and she whipped up some awesome cakes for his party! I like doing cupcakes at parties because its easier and you don't have to spend time cutting up and serving the cake. BUT I also love the cuteness of cakes, so my awesome mother made a #3 cake as well!

Then of course we had a pinata! Buba was so excited about this! He picked it out himself and spent DAYS talking about it leading up to his party! His eyes would light up at the very mention of it, and it seemed to live up to the hype! 

To close out the party we ended with this awesome activity that was all thanks to my mom! She made these trains for the kids to paint out of toilet paper rolls and the kids LOVED THEM! I cant believe they turned out so adorable!!!






The party was such a success! I know that Buba had the time of his life & I hope everyone who attended enjoyed it as much as we did! Happy Birthday Buba! Here's to another great year!

Here's a pics of Buba & Sissy in the cute train party hats I made!

-The Pajama Mamma