Aidens birthday

Aiden had a super fun birthday! Not only did he get to celebrate with his Grandma and Grandpa and cousin Jadley while we were in Indiana, he also had a fun birthday party with family and friends when we got home. I probably over did it, but I love parties and having people over! We had a "Lion" themed party. Here's what we did...


The Invitations...
on the inside of the card it read.. No "lion" our little cub is turning 1! Come have a "roaring" good time as we celebrate his first birthday.















The Decorations...

I wanted it to look like the jungle. We used green streamers, homemade vines out of paper bags, green leafs out of cardstock, jungle animals from the Dollar store which the kids got to take home afterwards, and Lion King music playing in the background.

















The Food


We had lion pizzas, actually I only ended up making one of the pizzas look like a lion face, bugs on a log(celery sticks with peanut butter and raisins), crocodile teeth (apple slices) , snake eggs (grapes), Monkey pudding (yummy banana pudding), and jungle foilage (big green leafy salad).















The Games

We played pin the tail on the lion. I just made a lion out of a card board box and painted his mane yellow.











The Cake

Of course I had to make a lion cake. This proved to be more difficult than I expected. I used to round cakes for the face and then cut up a rectangular cake for the mane. It kept falling apart and crumbing as I was making it, but I think he turned out pretty cute. Aiden liked his cake a lot more this time!

The first time and the second time...

















The Kids










Friends and Family











The gifts
Aiden loves all of his presents! He plays with all of them! thank you everyone!




















Fun taking down the streamers

Thanks to everyone for coming and making this such a special day for us!