Austin's 4th Birthday Party

We celebrated Austin's 4th birthday with his friends this past Saturday.  He chose 8 boys that he wanted to invite to his party.  This was the first year where a few of his friends were not desiginated by their parents being our friends which makes me feel like my little boy is growing up.  He chose a construction theme which was fun and pretty easy to do since we had a lot of the supplies on hand with our trucks and toys.  I went to work by looking on the internet and finding inspiration from tons of different places.

The boys eating table.

Each boy received a construction hat with their initial on it. 
A Happy Birthday Banner I made by finding scrap book online for free and downloading it and then printing the letters on it. David hung the banner and I think it looked great.
I created a road down the center of the table by folding a black tablecloth in thirds and then creating the white marks out of white construction paper and adding some construction trucks to it. 
My precious boy with his beloved blanket.
I found a shirt on etsy that matched the theme but still looked a little more grown up.
The food table.

"Dirt cups" - chocolate pudding with crushed oreos on top with a gummy worm crawling out.

There were wrecking balls (cheetos), spare tires (chocolate donuts), rocky road (marshmallows with chocolate and heath bar), nuts and bolts (pretzels), construction cones (candy corn),and sandwiches.
I had to keep Miller out of the goodies all morning.
We decorated the hearth with a sign David made out of nails. I found this online and tweaked it a little by adding the blue bolts on the end. We added 2 cinder blocks with trucks on them along with caution tape.

I made the cake by following this tutorial.  I tweaked a few things like adding crushed oreos and cocoa pepples as the boulders.

The goody bags consisted of a chocolate sucker I made using a candy mold, a pull back truck toy, truck stickers, a muslin truck bag, and a truck chalk.

I made a wreath for our door out of caution tape.  I love Miller's face peeking out of the window.

Here are the boys ready to eat lunch.
Lighting the candles on the cake.

Austin being shy.

I am so thankful for precious friends in Austin's life.

Instead of gifts Austin asked for books that he could donate to the children at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. I was really impressed by his maturity in understanding that other kids needed things more than he did. My mom did give him a couple gifts because she won't be in town to celebrate on his actual birthday. He LOVED his new Cars Lego Duplo set.
It truly was a wonderful party and so much fun to celebrate my big boy turning 4.  It truly seems like yesterday when he was born.

To see the rest of the pictures from his party, click here.

Credits:
Pull back trucks, construction cone candles, chocolate truck mold, childs construction hats - Amazon
Truck chalk - Etsy
Striped straws - Etsy
Boys shirts - Etsy
Muslin truck bags - Etsy
Inviations - Etsy
Online Scrapbook store
Idea for Nail #4  and cinder blocks
Paper plates, napkins, orange cones, table cloths, truck stickers, silverware - dollar store or Big Lots