Lil’ CB’s birthday always falls during or right after the first week of school. As a teacher, it’s a time that’s always a *wee* bit hectic and stressful…just a wee bit. But, since we love parties and and we love partying with our friends, and we especially love celebrating our little Cowboy, a party is always added to the mix!

This year, we combined two of Lil’ CB’s big loves: superheroes and golf! We found a great party package at a local county park that combined mini golf, carousel rides and a party tent. We kept things low-key with catered food from Chick-fil-A and brought some desserts and decor that fit in with the superhero/comic book theme. We told the little guests that they were all welcome and encouraged to come dressed as their favorite superhero, and delightfully, all of them came sporting some superhero costume or accessory! Even Mr. Cowboy and I got in on the fun and wore Superman and Supergirl shirts. The kids had a blast playing mini-golf, riding on the carousel, playing on the playground, making superhero masks, giving themselves superhero tattoos and just stuffing their faces with super sugary sweets!

Here are some of my favorite snaps and moments from Lil’ CB’s Super Party (photographs courtesy of my very talented friend at Three Continents Photography):

Lil’ CB and some of his best buddies!

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The one crafty DIY project I did for the party…  The felt banner is from the Spritz line at Target and I made Lil’ CB’s name out of construction paper, drawing freehand and using 3 different sizes of plates to trace out the circular pieces. It took just over an hour to make and was lots of fun to do!

An antique carousel chock full of small superheroes!

One of the never-ending games of mini-golf!

In lieu of a cake, I made cupcakes and used (a lot of) food coloring to dye the frosting red, yellow, and blue — the colors of Superman’s uniform. The cupcake toppers came from Oriental Trading. I also made M&M cookies with red, yellow, and blue M&Ms and displayed the rest of the M&Ms in mason jars around the cupcakes.

Lil’ CB did not mind blowing out his candle on a tower of cupcakes!

We had so much fun at Lil’ CB’s party that I barely got any pictures on my own camera! I did manage to get some snaps on my iPhone…you can see the balls of cookie dough before I popped them in the freezer overnight (that’s my trade secret for baking cookies!), as well as some other snaps of the little guests and my sister and me in our superhero masks!

We had a super time celebrating our Super CB!