Cowboy Birthday Party | Charlie Turns F-I-V-E

This weekend we celebrated Charlie's 5th birthday (his real birthday isn't till October 16th) with a cowboy party/field trip to The Old West Festival!  Since the first weekend in October is the last weekend for the festival we had to celebrate with friends a bit early this year.  Thankfully, the rain stayed clear until after the party was over.  All 7 little boys got in the cowboy spirit and had a really fun time together.  They did a little archery, sifted for gold, rode a stagecoach and a horse and took in a gun show.  The festival is a bit out of the way, but they were great in the car and on excellent behavior there too.  We packed very simple picnic lunches for them but saved dessert until we returned home.  Charlie proclaimed it was the "best party of his entire life".  That's the only compliment I need!

I can't thank my dad enough for all the wonderful photos of my gorgeous little boy.

^^ when charlie delivered his invitations he also delivered a bag with a hat, bandanna, gun, badge and mustache for each child to wear/bring the day of the party^^

^^gold sifting ^^

^^ Daddy and big brother played the part too ^^

^^brown bag lunches were a rotisserie chicken sandwich, pretzel sticks and an apple^^

^^this one cracks me up.  on the stagecoach.^^

^^carter wore his mustache the ENTIRE time, even when eating lunch.  loved it!^^

^^my western looking parents^^

^^the decor at home was kept very simple since we were only there for a few minutes really.   I used the Meri-Meri cowboy themed garland (you can kind of see it hanging at the end of the room), their cupcake toppers and napkins too.  I used the paper napkins as a "place mat" and had dish towels tied with twine and a place card as napkins.  I used very thick kraft paper as the runner (made clean up a snap!!) and a pop of mums as the center piece.  There were a couple horse decorations too but that was it. ^^ 

^^cupcakes after we got back^^

^^starting to feel like there's a lot of candles on those cupcakes^^

^^it was a great day!!  ^^