Georgia's Home Alone Birthday

Georgia is a lot like her ole mom. One of her little quirks that she inherited from me is that she can watch the same movie over and over and over and over. We have been watching Home Alone year round since she was about 2. Her birthday is near the end of December, she's a Christmas baby. 

So a Home Alone themed party was so perfect for her!

I made her invitation myself with a little help from my friend photoshop. Every year we collect charitable donations instead of gifts at her party, and for her 4th bday we chose St. Jude.

For this year's party I tried to scale back a little on a bunch of elaborate decorations and mainly accentuated the food and cake table. I found most of the decor from searching the internet and ordering things from etsy and amazon. 

I hung some booby trap paint cans from the ceiling.

I scored this life size Michael Jordan standout from eBay. Just like the one Buzz had in his room!

I had a variety of goodies on the favor table. Chocolate money that I got from the Dollar Tree.

Pet tarantulas, also from Dollar Tree! 2 for a buck back in October when Halloween merchandise was on the shelves.

Lastly, Home Alone DVDs. I scrounged around the house and collected cases for them from other DVDs and slid a 5x7 photo from the invitation in to the case. So cute!

Just like last year, the cake was from a favorite restaurant of ours. Newk's. You really cannot beat their cake. I had the topper custom made from etsy and it wasn't exactly what I was envisioning. I ended up having to glue the dang thing together and hold it up with pieces of scrap wood but it got the job done. Memories, right? 

Once the party got started this momma ate, mingled, and relaxed. No high strung crazy with a camera all over the place.  So here is crappy cell phone picture I snapped after I pressed play on the movie. I guess you could say Georgia's birthday gift was the projector we bought for her movie night. It's been great and we have already used it several times. A fun little spin on watching movies at home. I'm already dying to use it outdoors this summer for movies on the back porch.  side note: Josh has recently finished a photography studio for me on the front of our property and its the best thing since satellite television. Around the time of G's party it was still pretty new and empty so we piled pillows and threw blankets down and just kinda camped out. I'm going to do a blog tour of my dream studio soon!

Aaaaand here is the part where I get just a tad sappy. This girl is my muse. She inspires me, feeds my creativity with her uniqueness, and just makes my life freaking awesome.