Being Pinteresting and not failing!

Oh Pinterest I have a love hate relationship with you! I feel like my house should look like something out of design magazine with seasonal decorations, banners, and so many other cute things. The pinnacle of my love hate relationship with Pinterest is kids birthday parties. I can't pull off a birthday party that looks like it was professionally decorated and planned. But what I can do are some really simple things to make it look like I did.


My oldest's 3rd birthday party was dinosaur themed. Here is what I did to make it pinteresting.

We had lots of toy dinosaurs at the house. So I took a clorox wipes and wiped them down to clean them off since I was putting them near food.

I took some plain green cards folded them in half and put some foam dinosaur stickers on them. I gave the food some dinosaur themed names.
-Veggie Tray was an Herbivore Buffet
-Pistachio Nuts were Dinosaur eggs
-Salad with pomegranates was Herbivore Delight.

I purchased a plastic dinosaur table cloth from a party store.

All in all it wasn't time intensive and it was really easy to put together. It was a creative way to set up the table with out spending hours making decorations or place cards.

 Here are some photos from my oldest's party last year when he turned 4. I was 38 weeks pregnant with TinyHuman #2....you want to talk about not having the energy for a birthday party. At any rate. My oldest's birthday is actually in December but I was due early November and having a bunch of kids at my house during cold and flu season with a newborn didn't sound like a good idea to me. So we had his party the week before Halloween. We had a Halloween Star Wars birthday party.