A Trash Truck Birthday

Jackson turns 4 tomorrow and our good friends and neighbors son Caleb turned 1 today so we decided to have a combined party with our weekly playgroup kids this morning. The theme was TRASH TRUCKS! It is hard to believe that it was almost two years ago that Jackson wanted to be a garbage truck for Halloween (we settled on the trash man instead) Needless to say his love of garbage trucks (really all things manual labor) has continued to flourish. So between, Laura, me, and Pinterest we gave our boys the best garbage party we could come up with. Laura covered the shelves with all non smelly trash we saved for a few days before the party and made these cute little chalk board circles as a banner to hang up. I made some bunting out of empty cereal and cracker boxes sewn on with trash bags cut into strips. My best attempt at a Trash Truck…my cake skills are not the best, but Jackson didn;t seem to mind, especially since it was milk and egg free so that Jackson and Isabel could enjoy a hearty serving! Laura made some “trash can” cup cakes with foil wrappers and overflowing with “trash” so fun! I spray painted some cups from the dollar store and turned a large trash bag into 12 mini ones and Laura found these cute little “trash grabbers” online. Laura found some “trash grabbers” in the sand toys section at Target and we crumpled up newspaper and let them fill the trash can to their hearts delight
Happy Birthday Caleb and Jackson! We love you both so much and are so excited for the men you are becoming. We can’t wait to watch you continue to grow…just don’t do it too fast Laura made their shirts with freezer paper stencils and paint!
Oh, and in the end you can recycle your decorations