Choo Choo, Blake is turning two!!

My big little man is turning two! Hard to believe our sweet Bubba boy is getting so big!

Here he is at just 6 days old.

For his party we picked a train theme. Most little boys around his age love trains, and he is no exception. I got to get creative for his party (thank you pintrest). I decided to make a big box train, which was a lot of fun.

Stage one: boxes, packing tape, and an oatmeal can.

Stage two: Some easel paper, tissue paper, and a little construction paper and its an engine! Yay!

The finished product, filled with balloons for extra fun!

They loved it!

So worth the effort!

Amazingly enough, the train survived the party! We still have it to play with!

Next came the decorations. Lots of bright colors!            

We decorated the birthday boy's chair with balloons. 

I made him a happy birthday banner.

The kitchen and living room all done up, complete with streamers on the fan.

Even the front door got in on the decorating fun.

Then the cakes! I made two cakes and a batch of cupcakes, including frosting, from scratch. 

The main cake was dairy free because Bubba has a dairy allergy. 

I also made some dairy free strawberry ice cream which turned out really good. It only had four ingredients: water, rice milk, sugar, and strawberries.

I made the cake marbled chocolate and vanilla, and had so much fun decorating it!

 And because multiple families we invited had food allergies, and I love a good baking challenge, I made the second cake (marble cake) and the (lemon) cupcakes dairy, gluten, corn, egg, nut, and coconut free. (I will share the recipes I used in a separate post.)

Allergy free lemon cupcakes.

The kids were happy to be my taste testers, and they devoured the cupcakes. Kid approval means they're good!

 Here are all three together.

They were a hit! 

The day of the party started out with snow! So exciting for the kids. 

Blake had fun trying on his engineer hat and bandana.

Here he is mid-party having a blast!

Teeper in his engineer duds. 

 The Thacker boys showing off some basketball moves while sporting their party wear.

Cake Time!

Candles... shiny 

He blew out both his candles by himself.

Playing with part of his train candle holder while waiting for a piece of cake. (Daelynn took this picture.)

Cake!

Daelynn got to play photographer for a bit. :)

Concentrating...

Presents! He was very spoiled.

Remote controlled truck pulling a trailer. Sweet!

Wooden train set from mommy and daddy.

Oh no! The train derailed! His new set of construction equipment is on the job!

He's just a little happy with his party and gifts... just a little. :)

He also got two awesome books that he can't get enough of, and neither can his sister. Two great coloring books, which she has helped him break in as well. And a cool John Deer tractor.

It was a very fun train party. We all enjoyed the company and fun! And the birthday boy had a blast! Thank you to all who helped make it so fun! I do wish I had gotten more pictures of all the kids playing together. But, we had so much fun spending time with our guests that the camera was often forgotten. 

I wish to say a special thank you to my amazing Husband, without his help I never could have pulled this off! He went above and beyond to help me in any way I needed. He really was:

:) Love you hun!