The Rawlings Family: Clark's 2nd Toy Story Birthday!!

this month my baby turned TWO. we threw him the high-ridinest', rootinest, tootinest birthday bash and celebrated Buzz Lightyear style, to infinity and beyond! ;)

when I began brainstorming ideas for Clark's party, I was originally leaning towards a Moana theme since he's been obsessed with her ever since he first heard, "How Far I'll Go". but after we introduced him to Toy Story and that became his new thing, I thought it would be so fun to do a Toy Story party! he absolutely LOVED it!!! we still have all the decorations up and his favorite word these days is, "BUZZ!"

we turned our house into Toy Story headquarters, complete with Buzz's life size spaceship, the cardboard town buildings from Andy's bedroom, Pin-the-Tail on Bullseye, a race car mat, life-size posters, the actual toys from the movie (they were authentic Disney and exactly like the movie, down to Andy written on the foot!), and a Toy Story themed menu! it was SO much fun to plan!!! I think in another life (who knows, maybe in this one someday!) I would have been born to be a party planner because it's right up there with acting as one of my favorite things to do! I've already got Dylan's first birthday all planned out and he just turned 4 months old! hahaha

we made Clark's birthday a weeklong event and let him open toys every night of his "birthday week". we would sing him one of the Primary birthday songs each night before bed and he would sprint like crazy to dad's closet where we kept all the presents. each night he would open a toy from the Toy Story movie (these would later make up the decorations for the party, which is why he got to open them early!) talk about a lucky break when your mom plans a party with toys as the theme haha!

🌵 on the menu 🌵

🚀 Pizza Planet pizza

- Hamm's Hawaiian

- Wheezy's Cheezy

- Zurg's Supreme

🚀 Rex's Herbivore Salad

🚀 Buzz's Rocket Ships

🚀 Woody's Trail Mix

🚀 Jesse's Hay Bales

🚀 Potato Head Chips

🚀 There's a Snake in my Boot

🚀 Somebody's Poisoned the Waterhole

Clark loved when everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to him and loved seeing Buzz and Woody on his cake :) we ordered the cake and decorated it ourselves. vanilla with raspberry filling and french buttercream frosting. YUM.

Clark had seven girls at his party and two boys (one of which was a baby sibling of one of the girls and the other was a boy he had just met the day before hahaha). Clark will appreciate this when he gets older...

My good friend Mollie from CT and her son Leif

Clark was SO spoiled this year...besides all of his Toy Story toys he got lots of puzzles (educational ones too!), card games, balls, a squirt gun, a pizza innertube, the coolest HEB shopping cart with a basket full of food, a cape with his name on it, a lawn mower, a baby doll and stroller (his favorite gift by far!!!), astronaut and cowboy costumes from his Grams, a lawn chair, books about aliens and cowboys (lots of people played along with our theme!), a dinosaur inflatable swimming pool, and sooooo many clothes (his entire summer wardrobe!) next year we are saying NO PRESENTS!