"Cars" Birthday Party

With the boys' birthdays being so close together, we decided to do a joint birthday party this year.  Owen wanted a "Cars" theme, and Porter didn't have an opinion, so "Cars" it was!

 

We had a fun, casual BBQ style dinner with Brad's family and enjoyed celebrating our boys!

Porter's smash cake.  We used crushed Oreos for the road.  Easy!

Lemon cupcakes for everyone else.  Owen refused to eat his until I scraped the frosting off.  That boy does not like frosting!

 

Some of our themed food:

Mater's Tow Cables (licorice)

 

Piston Cup Pasta Salad (with wheel pasta)

We had Mack's Race Dogs (hot dogs) with stoplight condiments

Antifreeze (pink lemonade)

Dipsticks (celery & carrots)

Luigi's Tires (donuts)

Flo's Fresh Fruit

Mater's 'Taters (potato & tortilla chips)

 

I kept it pretty simple on the food but it was fun & yummy!  I don't think Owen ate anything except licorice and chips, but what else is a 3 year old to do at his own party, right?

 

After we ate we took the party outside and opened some gifts.

 

Owen excited to wear his new BYU shirt!

Immediately putting his new baseball glove & bases to good use

We took him to see "Planes" for his birthday-- he loved these little figurines from the movie

 

Hanging out with the other birthday boy!

 

We moved inside for the rest of the gifts.

Owen loved his new "Cars" to go with his new movie, Cars 2!

 

Then it was Porter's turn.  He got a few cute things (thanks family!), but wouldn't you know that his favorite thing was the tag that came on his new Ernie doll!  Haha.

 

He was having so much fun with that tag and even started showing off a bit by standing on his own.  For a while I thought we might have a repeat of Owen, who took his first 6 steps at his 1st birthday party, but we didn't.  Just lots of standing and smiling because he knew he was being so cute!

 

And then it was cake time!  I love the progression of these pictures:

"Cheese"

"What is this?"

"Not bad..."

"This is pretty good!"

"Yay for cake!"

"Give me more cake!"

 

We were loving watching Porter dig into his cake, especially since Owen didn't touch his at all when he was 1 (doesn't like frosting, remember?!)

Can't forget this other guy!

 

Happy 1st & 3rd birthday Porter & Owen!!