Twin Tuesday - Baseball Themed Twin Birthday Party

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I realize my twins are 18 months old, but today’s Twin Tuesday is all about their first birthday party! I’ve been wanting to throw a baseball themed party for awhile and decided a double first birthday was the perfect occasion.

I designed their invitations in Photoshop and loved the cute ticket idea. (I obviously erased our address for posting here so the original invitation didn’t have as much white space. 😉 )

Our older boys both have birthdays in the winter so we usually have their parties at our house or rent a place to hold it. This is our first experience at a fall birthday party so we decided to chance the October weather and plan for a backyard party. We are so glad we did! The weather was beautiful and we all had the best day.

I made this birthday banner for them using plain blue cardstock from Hobby Lobby and used this free template from Cap Creations to cut the triangles. I created a quick file in photoshop (or could be done free in Picmonkey) to place all the letters on baseballs graphics I found and punched them out using my large circle punch. I glued them on, punched holes in them and strung them up. (I love using this punch to string banners. I think it looks cuter than the standard circle hole punch and the string almost completely covers the small holes.)

I loved our ‘Concessions’ table and wanted to really make it baseball game worthy. We served hot dogs with all the fixings in stadium hot dog trays found here. We had popcorn in carnival bags (found here) and small chip bags strung up with clothespins. The concessions banner sign was found here (via Aspen Jay) and hung in front of red and blue twisted party streamers.

I made smash cakes for the babies (can I still call them babies now? Whatever.. they are my babies 😉 ) using this 6 inch cake pan. I frosted it white and piped on some baseball laces with red frosting. Here’s the part where my twin brain set in because I never took a picture of the two cakes together! And as you will see… there was nothing left to take a picture of after.

I think it’s safe to say that they loved them? Or at least loved playing in them. Luke really got into it!

For everyone else, I made vanilla baseball cupcakes and chocolate grass cupcakes. I frosted the vanilla with white frosting and piped on the red lacing like I did for the smash cakes. I piped green icing on the chocolate cupcakes using this Wilton grass tip. They looked so cute on the tray and I took the time to arrange them to alternate patterns… but did I take the time for a picture? Twin brain says no… but at least I snapped one mid-party.

Since it was a baseball party, we of course had to dress as a baseball team. I bought shirts (and onesies for the babies!) for a few dollars each at Hobby Lobby. I designed a ‘Team Cook’ logo on coollogo.com and printed it on this iron on paper with our regular home printer. I also used font ‘All Star’ and printed our ages for the back of our shirts on the same paper.

Love that sweet Reid is the only one of the three actually looking in this picture. 😉

They had such a great day! Josh’s parents gave them a wagon which is there new favorite thing in the world and they spent half their party begging for rides around the yard from anyone willing.

Love these sweet boys. The first birthday is such a milestone- especially with multiples! Josh and I cleaned up from the party, put the kids to bed, poured a glass of champagne and gave each other a high five for officially surviving the first year! Excited to see what is to come!