Angry Birds Birthday!

For Carter's birthday party this year he decided he wanted an Angry Birds party! This past weekend was the only time the entire month we could host his party due to other commitments and traveling. It was a terrible weekend because of a big Primary activity, his actual birthday and having to do sharing time. It was crazy but thank goodness for Pinterest for providing most of these ideas and for Allen who I could not have pulled this party off without!

Cupcakes:
These were surprisingly easy to put together on the day of the party and all the boys got a big kick out of them!

Party Decorations:
I made a bunch of these Angry Bird lanterns in different colors and hung them all over the house and outside.

We had a hard time finding things for the goodie bags for this party, which was very surprising considering how popular this game is. I found the mini notebooks at Wal-Mart and ordered these fun keychains off of Amazon.
There were 12 different bird and pig characters that came in the keychain package and the boys loved swapping them to get their favorites.
We had two activities. First, we made a bunch of these pig boxes to use as targets for the boys. Allen bought a water balloon launcher and we filled up an insane number of water balloons before the party. (picture us dragging the hose into the house and hooking it up to the washing machine water outlet and filling up balloons for hours in the middle of the night....the things we do for our kiddos!)
The boys went to the park down the street and had a blast launch balloons at the pigs.
Carter and his friends:
After the water ballooning we had a food break. We had a nacho bar that the boys LOVED (seriously, this will be my go-to boy party food from now on!) We had a bunch of toppings and let everyone go to town. After nachos we had cupcakes and ice-cream.

After the food we had the boys hit pig pinatas. We made one for each boy and they had the BEST time whacking the heck out of the things. We just had a bunch of candy for them to take home inside each piñata. The green bags are the pinatas and the red bags are the goodie bags.

Carter was spoiled rotten by his friends and they had a great time together. I have no idea what happens between ages 7 and 9 but his friends have really grown up nicely. His 7th birthday party was WILD but a couple years later all those boys have really mellowed and were really pleasant and fun to be around!

Of course, I'm insanely relieved to be done with another birthday party. I'm glad I get a slight reprieve before the craziness of the February birthdays begin!