Dragonball Z Birthday

For my son's 2nd birthday last year! - we did a DragonBall Z themed birthday.

Here's the invite I made:

During the day, I took some nicer pictures of him since we didn't have money to do professional ones. I think they turned out pretty well.

Then I worked on his cake(s). I made chocolate cupcakes into the shape of the dragon, Shenron from the show. This was my first time attempting cool cakes for a birthday. For his 1st birthday, we had money to pay someone to make his cake. I tried at least- some people thought it was a caterpillar! I was running out of green frosting too so that was difficult! With mini cupcakes, I made most of the dragon balls. Then with one round cake, I did the 2 Dragon Ball for him.

I made a door sign for people to come in. (this picture was taken a couple days after the party thus the shrunken balloons)

We ate homemade pizza and then played some games.

One was Pin the Tail on Goku. If you know the Dragon Ball series, you'll know understand why we played this =D

I had prizes for the kids and then Restaurant.com certificates (on sale for $2 each!!) as prizes for the adults.

We opened presents next because lots of people had to leave early for a meeting at church. Typically I do presents after cake. I brought our kids' picnic table out front so kids could eat there, and we ended up having the presents there too.

Then seeing that we still had time, we sung to the birthday boy. =D

Here's just a little bit of the decor - it was hard finding the colors I wanted. I did green and yellow with orange balloons, but I wanted to add more colored balloons too.

This year for my son's 3rd Birthday Party, we're doing a Ghostbusters theme! My little guy loves looking for Ghosts ever since my husband introduced the movies to him. I thought he'd be scared, but he's not.

Thanks to winning a giveaway from PickleDoodle Designs over at Crafting and Creativity, I have some awesome Ghostbusters printables. Here's a look at the invitation PickleDoodle Designs created for me! Both my son and I were super excited when she sent us the finished product. She also created Subway Art, Thank You's, and a Door Sign for me too. You'll have to wait to see pictures after his party on the 30th =D