McCarty Designs Party/Event Blog: Ethan's Paper Airplane Party: 1st Birthday

It's here! It's here!

My sweet good lookin baby has turned ONE!

We had a flying good time with a Paper Airplane theme to match his nursery I half-decorated long ago before we moved to Texas.

Check out some of the highlights and be sure to remember the image of him in a bowtie forever in your brain because... it's the cutest thing ever. Ever.

Some great lookin men.

There are a ton of great airplane themed parties out there on the internet so I was able to gleam some great inspiration but there were a lot of options and routes I could have gone.

Since the party was over Memorial Day weekend we knew it wouldn't be too big so we scaled down some grand ideas to some basics. Scaling down doesn't mean it still doesn't look awesome!

It's always great to have a plan and work on it.

When I have a party to plan I start weeks out and draw everything out in my McCarty Designs book.

I do this for many reasons:

1. So I can remember my ideas

2. Make decisions

3. Make sure I can explain my ideas to others for their help.

Even though I have a Organizational Communication Degree I don't always communicate my ideas super well so drawing them out has helped my husband's engineer brain perfectly.

Especially since I can be super picky with what I want and have things look. My poor parents and in-laws can tell you that for a fact as they have lovingly helped me plan parties over the years.

Having help is what pulls off a party. Sure, I could do it all on my own... but it wouldn't look as great and I certainly would not be in a party mood to enjoy it!

After everyone had some grub they moved outside to have a bit of fun.

We had a paper airplane station where they could build their own planes than fly them in our test flight zone.