30th Birthday!

So I have totally slacked on the posts and pictures of care packages I've made. The ones I've sent in the past months have always been decorated with paper on all sides of the boxes, but no writing or cute drawings/cutouts. The Easter package I made in such a hurry to try and get it out on time. I drew eggs with a sharpie, how pathetic! That package actually made it to my husband in less than a week and in time for Easter! Yeah!

I have been brainstorming what I wanted to do for Shane's birthday care package since he turns THIRTY! The past deployments he was either coming home shortly after his birthday or left shortly before it. I wanted to make this one really special. Here is the picture of all the stuff I packed in the two boxes:

- pixie straw type deals, but Car themed and called Turbo Dust
- Avenger themed pop rock type candy
- Big League Chew (2 bags)
- Fun Dip (2 packets)
- Glow in the dark axe
- Glow in the dark trident
- Creamsicle flavored Oreos
- Nutella & Cookie sticks (4 packages - I wanted to eat one so badly!)
- 3 pack of silly string
- spicy almonds
- M&M sweet salty mix
- Transformer crayons (surprised my 4 year old did not want to keep these)
- 2 inflatable Star Wars light sabers
- plates with 30! on it
- napkins with 30! on it
- cupcake shaped marshmallow snacks
- package of lollipops that say 30 sucks!
- fold able travel tooth brush (oooh so exciting!)
- mind puzzles (2 types)
- 30 party necklace
- set of dominoes
- and a fire truck from my son's toy car collection he wanted to give daddy


Not pictured:
- magazine
- 6 cards (yes, I did get 3 birthday cards for him from just me - funny, sweet, and romantic)
- 2 cakes in a jar: Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip - birthday tradition for him to have his favorite cake (in a wide mouth quart glass mason jar)
- Betty Crocker Rainbow Chip icing (I could eat the whole tub!)
- 30th birthday confetti! (he is going to kill me if it flys everywhere when he opens it, LOL oh well!)

I wrapped every single thing in birthday wrapping paper. Good thing I bought two rolls because I ran out of the blue paper and had to use red for the remaining things.

Please excuse my messy floor! I decorated the "yellow" box so it could hold the cakes in a jar, and then the "red" one to be funny. I got him a card with a mustache on it, so I continued the theme for the funny box. The proper looking man in the black outline is a meme that I see when browsing 9gag. I love that site! It has hilarious pictures on there. I may be older than the usual demographic that posts there, but I still get a kick out of it. But the whole shabang with him is about being proper and "like a sir."

Yellow box has an added touch from my 4 year old. While I was upstairs printing mustaches and the sir for the red box, I came down to find that he made a volcano for Daddy's box. Red box says "Respect the mustache!" and "aka: cookie duster, 'stache, lip spinach, and soup strainer." I was really grasping for ideas, can ya tell? LOL.

In the yellow box above, the two things in the left corners are the cakes in a jar wrapped in my youngest son's receiving blankets. I didn't have the energy to drag the baby and my 4 year old to the store to get bubble wrap. Hopefully they stay nice and safe.

So now they are on their way to Afghanistan! I hope they arrive in time and all together! Thanks for reading the SUPER long post!