Owen's Trash Bash

Owen loves playing with trucks of any kind but the idea of a trash truck party came to mind when Owen was playing with his garbage truck and singing "trash, trash, I love trash!"  So on to Pinterest I went in search for a trash themed birthday party and let me just tell you - this is apparently a 3 year old boy's dream party because there were tons of ideas.

First came the cake...

I layered 3 9x13 cakes.

I trimmed the edges and the top layer on each cake to make them lay evenly.  Then I cut a slice out of the top two layers to make the cab separate from the truck rear.

After that I iced the cake with a crumb coat, put it in the fridge and iced the second coat.  Here is the final product...

We originally planned for the party to be at Jacobson Park which is walkable from our house and has a ton of space for the kiddos to run around.  The week before the party we just so happened to walk to the park to play and realized that Fright Nights (a haunted house and haunted trail) was set up and the opening night was the night we planned for the party.  Whoops!!  We didn't think it would be appropriate to expose 25 toddlers to zombies and chainsaws right before bedtime so we switched the party to our backyard.
I was a little stressed about moving the party to our house because I was worried it would feel cramped.  However it actually worked out better this way.  The kids had so much fun running around and playing in the enclosed area and the parents were able to relax knowing that the kids were safe and all within eye sight having a blast with one another.
Here are some pictures from the party....

 I set up two kids tables, one with garbage truck coloring pages and the other table had a basket full of cars, trucks and airplanes...

 Grayson had fun helping me set up for the day...

Here is Owen checking out the dessert table....

The party favors...

I made signs to label the food and drinks....

The drink table...

Pictures of all Owen's little buddies...

 Owen's favorite buddy from school came, AJ...

We had a piñata....

 Owen is making sure his lady friends got some candy from the piñata...

Grayson and Caroline having a baby fight over this purple ball - it was so funny...

 Owen loved having all of his friends sing happy birthday to him...

Owen's trash bash was so fun and something I am sure we will talk about for a while to come.  We have one more big birthday to celebrate this month - Grayson turns 1!!  Stay tuned....