Jace's Construction Party!

Yesterday, we had Jace's first birthday party at our house.  Jace's real birthday isn't until Thursday, but we decided to celebrate this weekend.  I decided to do a construction theme because Jace is already "Mr. Fix it" inspecting all of the screws on the bottom of all his toys.  After stalking Pinterest for a couple months I came up with some really fun ideas for all the decorations....I had so much fun planning everything for this party, and I'm actually kind of sad that its over!  

I had some amazing help from my mom and Chris' mom....I seriously could not have pulled it off without them.  They helped set up all the decorations, put out food and entertain the 40 people that were at our house!!  Yes, 40!  It was a full house....but I loved it!  It was so fun to celebrate our baby boy with all of our closest friends and family!  We truly are blessed with the amazing people in our lives!!  Here are some pictures from our fun day!  :)

Our moms....the best!!

Helping set up!

The mantle...with pictures from every month!  And caution tape...we used it everywhere to help decorate and stick with the "construction theme."

Get your tools!

The dessert table!

Dump truck cake with snickers and reese's "boulders" dumping out the back!

Truck tires!

Reese's pieces = boulders!

Muddy buddies = gravel (if you haven't ever had this...its amazing!  Rice Chex Mix, melted chocolate, peanut butter, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar!  Delicious!

Happy birthday water!

The favors....hard hats and goodie bags!

Pink for girls and yellow for boys!

 So bummed I didn't snap any pictures of the kids in the hard hats.  We had about 8 little kids there and at one point they all had their little hard hats on.  It was so cute...but very busy in our house!  Which is why I didn't have my camera with me!  Oh well...hopefully someone else got some pictures that I can share!

Goody bags with construction rubber ducks, street sign suckers, tool shaped erasers and M&Ms!

We even had a sand box in the garage so that the kids could practice their construction skills!

Chris and JJ showing off their hard hats!

Before we gave Jace his "smash cake!"  You can see his cute little dump truck onesie!  :)

Singing happy birthday!

Blow out your candle!

First taste of frosting!

Mmmmmm!!

Towards the end....he looks full!

Hey you birthday boy!