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Take a Hike!

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My father’s birth­day takes place in the month of Jan­u­ary and in the past few years, we have been gift­ing him with activ­i­ties he has been try­ing to con­vince us to take part in through­out the year! For his last birth­day, we sur­prised him with a trip to Zion Nation­al Park in Utah with Are We There Yet? cup­cakes and the year pri­or, with a trip to the Grand Canyon! This year, we decid­ed to grant his request for a pic­nic at near­by Red Rock Canyon (can you tell the con­stant theme?!), but decid­ed to wait until the weath­er warmed up. So, here we are, four months lat­er, com­mem­o­rat­ing my dad’s birth­day, in con­junc­tion with an ear­ly Father’s Day celebration!
For the invi­ta­tion design, I uti­lized clip art from Jes­si­ca Weible’s Boy Camp Trip col­lec­tion, paired with dig­i­tal scrap­book paper from dxpi Design’s Fall Plaids set to invite the fam­i­ly to “Take a Hike”!
As we made the trek to Red Rock Canyon, we found the most amaz­ing look­out spot to set up our hik­ing pic­nic! I set the table with a rus­tic, out­doorsy feel to dis­play the “GRUB”, inclu­sive of both lunch and dessert items. The neu­tral col­ors with pops of green and red, along with the wood, pine cones and horn decor cap­tured a more mas­cu­line, nat­ur­al feel and worked per­fect­ly with the setting.
One side of the table dis­played choco­late cup­cakes, embell­ished with hik­ing-themed fon­dant top­pers. I print­ed out faux wood cup­cake wrap­pers so gen­er­ous­ly offered by my amaz­ing­ly tal­ent­ed friend Bird of Bird’s Par­ty that worked per­fect­ly! Cup­cake wrap­pers are such an easy way to dress up cup­cakes accord­ing to your theme. Oth­er items includ­ed jum­bo s’mores on a stick, rocky gra­nola bars, hik­ing trail rice treats and rock can­dy sticks.
In the cen­ter, I cre­at­ed a Trail Mix Bar and pro­vid­ed lit­tle wood­land cel­lo bags for guests to cre­ate their own blend of ingre­di­ents to take on their hike! There are so many pos­si­bil­i­ties for the ingre­di­ents for the mix and allows for an added activ­i­ty for guests.

The oth­er side of the table includ­ed a few more dessert items, with choco­late wafer hik­ing sticks and com­pass oat­meal cook­ies. We made roast beef sand­wich­es, com­ple­ment­ed with pota­to chip leaves and peb­ble salad.
We made sure to stay hydrat­ed with drinks poured into adorable small met­al drink can­is­ters from the 99c Only store and offered water, iced tea and root beer.

This theme would be per­fect for a Father’s Day cel­e­bra­tion for any dads who love the “Great Out­doors” or even for kids who love to hike, camp and explore! I per­son­al­ized it with wood­en let­ters enhanced with rope and a ban­ner with the word “DAD” across the front of the table.

The par­ty favors includ­ed large met­al drink can­is­ters filled with old-fash­ion root beer hard can­dies, along with oth­er sup­plies use­ful for hik­ing and a tag wish­ing guests “Hap­py Trails”!
The day and the view could not have been more beau­ti­ful!!! The sun was out, the tem­per­a­ture was in the 80’s and there was a slight breeze that made it per­fect pic­nic and hik­ing weath­er! We had a won­der­ful time cel­e­brat­ing dad and enjoy­ing the gor­geous sur­round­ings we are so for­tu­nate to have nearby!

 

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  6. this is seri­ous­ly so so adorable! ever­thing it so per­fect! i love the col­ors and my favorite is the trail mix bar! AND you are at once of my favorite nation­al parks 🙂

  7. Absolute­ly stun­ning! The train mix bar, the mini bunting, those out­ra­geous­ly awe­some cup­cake top­pers… I can’t decide what I like best! Magnificent.

  9. WOWSER!!!! What a back­drop!! Fab­ric or wall paper just can’t com­pete with that! ;D
    Thanks you for using my free­bies!! Each detail of your par­ty is inspir­ing and beau­ti­ful as always!! So cre­ative!! LOVE it!!

    • Muito obri­ga­da, ami­ga! The back­drop is indeed gor­geous and we’re just lucky to be liv­ing by it! Thank you so much for the adorable wrap­pers and as always, your incred­i­bly sweet words! ♥

  13. I’m utter­ly, and total­ly speech­less! *pick­ing up jaw off floor — If I could describe your amaz­ing hike/party in one word, I would have to say it’s fabulouslytcreativeamazinglyfantastical!

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