Trevan's Birthday Carnival

Trevan's fifth birthday was a little over two months ago. I knew that I wanted to throw him a birthday carnival back in April, and I planned it then, and then did nothing with it basically until the week of his party. Agghhh! Oh well. So, I wasn't able to do a lot of the things I had wanted to, but whatever.

I was going to have a whole carnival set up outside, but it rained, and had to move it indoors! So we rearranged our furniture, and had carnival games spread out everywhere. We had a game on the front porch, and we set up my tent to have two games in the back yard as well. So, people only had to get a little wet to get under the tent. It was fine, but I wished I could have done the whole thing outside.

Here are his cupcakes. I wished I had made them before, so I could have had a little more time to experiment with them, but they turned out all right for the first try. I made rainbow cupcakes, and they were really fun.

I served carnival food; lemonade, snow cones, funnel cakes, and we made some home made kettle corn.

Guests were given tickets to redeem to play games, and get food. They were also given treat boxes to take around with them to the carnival games to carry their prizes in.

My ghetto bean bag toss. I had plans for my dad to make me a nice wood one, but it never happened.

My dad made the funnel cakes.

Marianne, my sister, was a "Carnie" operating the duck pond.

Trevan trying to knock down the cans. (I just covered soup cans with fun paper)

My friend dishing up snow cones.

My last minute, ghetto ring toss. I had big plans for a great ring toss, but life got in the way... I didn't get a picture of the jar toss. But, I put together an assortment of glass jars and put a prize in the jar, and the kids tossed ping pong balls, and if their ball landed in a jar, they got the prize.

My sister, the clown.

Trevan wishing for Transformers, I'm sure...

Trevan did not like the red hot noses on the clown cupcakes!

This was Trevan's first real birthday party with friends, and it was CRAZY! Trevan tore through those presents in no time. He got sooo much stuff - seriously more than Christmas! I tried to make him slow down and look at cards, and thank people, but it was hard work getting him to do all that stuff! Oh my. But, he absolutely loved it!!

My little clowns.

This was the funniest thing! The party was over, and I was cleaning up, and I looked in the living room and found the grown up men playing with Trevan's toys. They were just "figuring them out" so they could help Trevan... Those Transformers sure are tricky...

Even, though we had to cram everything inside, and not have everything how I wanted, the kids had a great time, and that's all that matters! I think Trevan had a very happy birthday!