Birthday Party for two two year olds

When we started to think about boys birthday party, we realized we would be leaving for DC the day after their birthday and that our friend, Heidi, would also be having a party for her daughter who shares a birthday with the boys, but is a year older.  We decided we would party down at Heidi's party, have a little celebration with family on the boys' birthday and wait to have their party after we got back from DC.  It was great.  Heidi is super thoughtful and made special cupcakes for the boys to have at Elliot's party.  We then went home and had a special dinner with Josh's parents and CAKE!

We left the next day for our trip and had a great time (which I posted about right before this!) and after we had come home and things had settled down, we had a little party for them.  Last year we had a gigantic party with over 30 people and it took us 3 hours just to open the gifts from everyone!  It had a sock monkey theme and was a whole lot of fun, but we just weren't up for that again this year.  So we invited just a few close friends and our families and had a much smaller party.  This year's theme was construction.  The boys love anything involving trucks of any kind and so I knew that construction was the way to go... I didn't want to go overboard, so there were a few decorations and balloons, and the best part were the construction orange cupcakes for guests and the John Deere green giant cupcakes with tractor candles for the boys. 

I think they liked them!

The boys had a great time and we had so much fun celebrating with the people closest to the boys!