white trash bash

Now that I've posted about this year's Nerdy 30, I thought it would be a good idea to share where this themed birthday party thing started. Last year, for Caleb's birthday party, we threw a "White Trash Bash". The invitations were printed on crumpled velum and where thrown together with duct tape. They were awesome.

First of all, let me set the scene. We had mismatched sheets over all of our couches. Random decorations. Lawn flamingos at the front door and Christmas lights out back. To make it even better, it was a pot luck. We had toilet paper for napkkins and the things people brought fit the theme perfectly.

I was 9 months pregnant with Molly and my huge belly made my costume awesome. If she only knew.

We had horseshoes and root beer pong in the back yard to play.

Yes. That, my friends, is a Twinkie, Ding Dong and Zinger birthday cake. With a match for a candle.

A lot of friends came and had awesome costumes but we had one couple that came that stayed in character almost the whole time. When they rang the doorbell and I opened it, it literally took me a good 25 seconds to figure out who they were. Shout out to Keegan and Lindsey for the best costumes. (In the boys photos, Keegan is on the very left and in the girls photos, Lindsey is in the middle with the hat on.)

Everyone was such good sports about our mandatory dress up policy and it was so much fun!

We were so tired after the party but it was so worth it.