Riding the Train to 2

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If you were here yesterday, you are going to read this and think I am completely insane. If you know me in real life, you already know that I resemble that assertion.

Why am I crazy this particular month? I scheduled two birthday parties within 12 hours of each other.

There was H’s mermaid pool party on a Saturday evening. On Sunday, there was E’s train birthday party at our house.

Yep, the house that is still undergoing some major work to finish the basement. I told you…crazy.

After H’s party, we tossed both kids in bed and quickly got to work on E’s party. With the help of my dad, we managed to just about everything done before dawn.

Earlier in the month, I had done a few things like…

Make the cupcake sticks

Build a food “train”

Put together favor bags

Make table runners out of train fabric

And make a pennant banner that said Happy Birthday

The rest…my dad and I threw together between 9pm on Saturday and 10am on Sunday.ย ย He laid train tracks around the house {which sadly I got no pictures of…maybe mom will be able to help me out on this}

I set up the food table and paper good tables

Here are some more fun details shown in pictures

Now…I’m putting in a request to change one kids birthday so they aren’t 2 days apart. Think I can do that?

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21 Comments

  1. Beautiful party! How lucky your little ones are to have such a great mama! After seeing this I think I’m going to have to go over and check out the mermaid party!

    Rachel @onceuponasewingmachine

  2. Wow!! you did such an amazing job. This party looks simply incredible and the attention to detail is amazing. What a lucky boy to have a party like this!

  3. What a lucky little birthday boy! This looks like the cutest party…I could go for one of those cupcakes right now..yummy!

    Hugs, Angie

  4. You are a brave, brave person with two parties in such a short time! But this is super cute! I’m definitely going to keep this in mind for next year’s 2nd birthday. 51 weeks to go and I’m already planning!

  5. Your are absolutely one AMAZING Momma! The details of your party are superb! Love the cake and the little gift tags for the bags! Thanks for sharing with us at tip toe thru Tuesday!
    xoxo
    Kim

  6. Thank you so much for sharing your fun train party on A Crafty Soiree! I can’t believe you threw two huge parties so close together! It’s wonderful that you gave each child their own party.

    This week kicks off our September Celebration, marking a year of weekly Crafty Soiree parties. I’m excited to let you know you’re project will be featured in this week’s party post along with a giveaway from Shabby Apple! Please come and check out your feature, it will be up tonight after midnight EST.

  7. You might be a little crazy…. but it shows that you are a WONDERFUL Mom!!!!

    Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!

  8. Wow! Two parties?! You are a super Mom! I love the train cake. My son loved trains when he was little and he would have loved it.