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Taco “Two’s-Day”-Braden’s 2nd Birthday Party

November 8, 2016 By houseofhargrove@gmail.com

Saturday my sweet baby boy turned 2!!  How is that possible?!  We had all the family over and celebrated with a taco “TWO’s-day” theme!  It was so much fun and so easy!  We catered food this year and that was a total #momwin!  Who doesn’t love a Taco Bar?  It was delicious and so much less work!  Here are all the details!

We are lucky to have family live close so they all came over to help us celebrate and I am pretty sure they were all excited about tacos. Here was the invitation I sent out.

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We catered Fuzzy Taco….DELICIOUS!!  I think I could definitely get used to catering!  Tastes better, less time, less clean up and we have amazing leftovers!

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I got the pom-pom banner at Hobby Lobby and hung some recent photos of Braden below.   I just love a photo banner!  It is still hanging in our kitchen :)…I don’t want to take it down!

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Huge chalkboards are the best.  They are cute and can be used over and over again!  I kept it really simple this year with some cardstock 2’s from Hobby Lobby, chippy wood blocks, scrapbook paper for added color, signs I made and taco picture frame holders.

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Since we had a taco theme I thought using hard shell tacos, filling them with green paper sizzle to look like lettuce and sticking  photos of Braden in there would be cute, cheap and fun!

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A little taco cookie cake!

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The birthday boy!!  We bought these little plastic sombreros and mustaches at Hobby Lobby and took fun pictures with them.  Braden was not so sure about the mustache!

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The family got in on the fun! I swear it was fun even though we all look so serious in this photo!  For some reason the mustaches gave everyone serious faces!  It was hard to smile!  Geoff’s is a bit wonky! haha.

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It was a fun little fiesta and we loved celebrating our sweet little man!

See Braden’s Vintage Barnyard 1st birthday here.

Pin for later so you can throw your own TACO “TWO’s-day” party

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Comments

  1. Kelly Shaffer says

    November 8, 2016 at 6:32 am

    Omgosh, love following your blog. I’m starting to get a little weirded out though for we have way too much in common lol! First of all out interest in decor and design. Our taste…very similar. Some of the things you purchase even the ones you don’t advertise I have in my home..example candles. The one that really hit home is your latest…”Braden’s bday” I too have a Bradyn and he’s 14! Crazy right! Happy posting I love it!

    Kelly Sparta NJ

    • houseofhargrove@gmail.com says

      November 8, 2016 at 7:10 am

      haha! Thank you and too funny! Yay for Bradyn/en’s!! A ton of my family lives in NJ. My Mom grew up there and her whole side is still there. They live in Hillsdale. Thanks for reading my blog!

  2. the cape on the corner says

    November 15, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    that is such a cute idea for a theme, and i love the mustaches/sombreros! what cute pictures.
    b

    • houseofhargrove@gmail.com says

      November 15, 2016 at 3:15 pm

      Thanks so much!

  3. Angela @ simplybeautifulbyangela.com says

    November 17, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Super cute! I love the photo banner 🙂

  4. Theresa @DearCreatives says

    November 17, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    This is such an adorable idea for a kids party. Thanks for joining the #InspirationSpotlight party. Pinned & Shared

  5. Angie ~ ambient wares says

    November 20, 2016 at 11:28 am

    I don’t have a 2 year old but, instead I have a 37 year old (husband) that would love a party like this 😉 Thanks for sharing with us at Funtastic Friday!

  6. Leslie says

    November 30, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    What a cute way to celebrate a second birthday! I love the way you used the tacos as picture stands. I would love it if you would share this at my Happy Now Link Up. We love to see anything like this to spread some joy!

  7. Megan says

    February 12, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    I love this!! Was looking for some type of fiesta party for my 2 year old and this is perfect!! Do you have the signs or invitation printable?

    • Kathryn Shaver says

      April 5, 2017 at 11:04 am

      Hi! We are wanting to do a Taco Twosday theme for our little one, too! Could you please email the images and invitation template? I love it so much! Thank you!!

  8. Mandy says

    March 21, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    How did you make the invitations? Love this idea! My LO is turning 2 in April.

    • houseofhargrove@gmail.com says

      March 21, 2017 at 6:36 pm

      Thanks!! I found clip art I liked online and made it in Powerpoint. Just printed on cardstock from my home computer!

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