Showing posts with label cowboys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cowboys. Show all posts

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Kimber's 2nd Cowgirl Party




Our granddaughter, Kimber, turned two years old. She chose a cowgirl party and we were honored to be able to have it at the farm. Gramps built a western set for the party out of old pallets and we had a great time.







We chose cute little cowgirl plates in pink of course and had pink bandanas for napkins. The food was a good old fashioned cowgirl cook out on the fire pit with hot dogs, hamburgers, chili and baked beans.



Kimber's cake was ordered from a friend and it turned out super. We were also celebrating a few other family birthdays so we made extra cakes and cupcakes for a variety of choices. One being this pig in mud cake made with Kit Kat bars. The cake was very good however it split after I got it together. most of the time that would have been a terrible thing to happen but on this cake it added to the feel of a mud bath for the pigs so we just went with it. It kind of looked like the pig was swimming and left a trail in the mud :-)



For party favors we made cowgirl cookies for the guest to take home.



And the sheriff badges from the cupcakes.


Horse Shoe shaped cookies........and chocolate and strawberry milk in glass bottles......


We also had old fashioned coke and root beer in glass bottles.


For games and activities we made some stick horses out of colorful socks and dowels and had races.





We also had a photo booth with wanted poster for the guest to get their pictures made in.







We played a ring toss game and panned for gold.






Gold painted rocks were the treasure to find.



Hay bales made for setting the atmosphere and a great shot for pictures.





And there you have the cutest little cowgirl in town!











Thursday, October 18, 2012

Cowboy and Indian Party


For our sons 4th birthday, he wanted cowboys and indians. He went back and forth the days leading up to it on whether he would be a cowboy or indian and finally settled on indian for himself. 


 The invitations were wanted posters with his picture on it. I dont have a picture of it to show but we found a resource online that would allow us to put his picture in and say what we wanted it to say and then print it out.

We set up a teepee in our back yard and and older brother made a totem pole out of boxes. 


The kids could choose to dress as indians or cowboys and we had the cowboy base set up at the fire pit.



We set up hay bales with a saddle on it for the 'horse' that everyone could ride and each person got a photo taken on the 'horse'




Games were relay races and target practice with bow and arrows. Mostly the kids played their own imaginations as they pretended to be cowboys and indians. The cows and horses in the background added to the fun.






The cake was so fun and turned out great. This was a super fun party for the boys and easy to put on for the mom :-)