Tuesday 17 November 2015

Elliot's 3rd Birthday Celebrations


It seems only 5 minutes ago that I was writing about Elliot's 2nd birthday and his amazing Gruffalo Party but in the blink of an eye 12 months have passed and he is now 3 years old. 3 years old?! How did that happen!!

We decided to hire our local village hall for Elliot's birthday celebrations and he told me he wanted a "spooky" party. Fortunately his birthday is a few weeks after Halloween so I was able to get lots and lots of decorations and party bits when the Halloween stock hit the shops in September. I even managed to pick up some party bits whilst we were on holiday in Florida - the shops were full of amazing Halloween displays so I was spoilt for choice really! 

My family were on hand to help "spookify" the hall and they did a great job helping me set things up. We had a bouncy castle to entertain the kids and we laid out tables and chairs for the parents. All the tables had a spooky centrepiece such as skeleton bones or pumpkins and combined with fairy lights and curtains drawn, it gave a really spooky effect. Totally rubbish lighting for decent photos though!


My mum helped me with the party food and as usual we went abit overboard - I always worry we won't have enough so I tend to go in the opposite direction and we end up with way too much! All the food was renamed for spooky purposes, e.g dead man's fingers (cocktail sausages!) and witches wands (chocolate fingers). We also had an amazing birthday cake made by a great local company (Creative Cakes by Nicki) and this of course was fitting for the spooky theme!


It was a very manic day with around 30 kids plus parents coming along the party but Elliot had such a great time and he was absolutely knackered at the end of it. He had a 2.5 hour nap afterwards which is unheard of these days! 

For Elliot's actual birthday we didn't have too much planned because he had pre-school in the morning but he was up bright and early to unwrap his presents. Two of his presents came all the way from Walt Disney World and I'd managed to sneakily buy them on our last day at the parks when he wasn't with me. He couldn't wait to get the figures out of the box and was very excited to see them!


After school we went to my parents house for lunch and Elliot was absolutely spoilt with more presents. Mum and Dad bought him an easel which he loved! Another birthday cake (the third of the week!) and another chance to blow out the candles :)


In the afternoon my husband finished work early and we went to our local Smyths Toy Store - a new one has recently opened near to us so we were interested to see how they differed from Toys R Us. I was really impressed, lots of good value items and I even started my Christmas Shopping! We bought Elliot a Scooby Doo Haunted House as part of his birthday present - he's had his eye on one for ages so he was really happy :)

We ended the birthday celebrations with a meal at Frankie & Benny's which is one of our favourite restaurants to take Elliot to as it's very family friendly.


I think it's safe to say that Elliot enjoyed his birthday celebrations and he got so many lovely presents. I still can't believe he's 3!! 




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9 comments:

  1. Happy belated birthday Elliot :) looks like he had a fab party, I love the spooky theme! The cake looks fab too. He looks very excited with his presents. #mmwbh
    Debbie

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  2. I love that cake! Happy birthday Elliot... he's so cute :) Looks like he enjoyed himself.

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  3. It was an amazing party guys, thanks for inviting us. The kids all looked like they were having a great time (:

    Hope Elliot enjoyed his party and all his pressies, can't believe he is 3 already! Someone tell these kids to slow down with all the growing already!! Xxx

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  4. love the cake. my son would love this kind of party. Elliot looks like he had lots of fun xx

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  5. Happy birthday Elliot looks like he had a fab time great photos and brilliant cake #bestandworst

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  6. What an awesome birthday party and that cake is awesome, hope you all had a fab day! Thanks for linking up to the #bestandworst hope to see you again X

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  7. the cake is fantastic. What a lovely spread of food and goodies too. Love party buffet food. Happy 3rd birthday #anythinggoes

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  8. Cake looks amazing. Happy Birthday little one!!! Thank you for stopping by LTM and linking up to SWM. I hope to see you again tomorrow for another great round of #sharewithme

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