Hosting a Poop Emoji Birthday Party -

Yep. Poop.

Last month, Stu turned 40. At first I was thinking about celebrating his old age with a handful of close friends at one of his favorite restaurants. But Stu told me (several times) that he did not really want that. According to him, he wanted no celebration of any kind. Sure, bud. Like that’ll happen.

The kids and I came up with the idea to throw a poop emoji themed party. Who doesn’t love that ridiculous emoji? It worked perfectly: Holy {poop}! Stu is 40!

I sent an elite out to our friends. And at this point, I had not mentioned the party to Stu at all. He was blissfully unaware. I knew I wanted to make poop emoji cupcakes, but for the rest of the decor, I took to Amazon. I ordered a poop emoji birthday banner, poop emoji headbands, and photo booth props.

In our front entryway, I hung pictures of Stu from various stages in his life. I hung some and I swapped the frames out for ones that had photos of Stu. My entry table is in a constant state of change…

We hung our giant, poopy Happy Birthday banner up in the dinning room. Reagan spread the headbands and photo props out on the table.

Side note: This was my first time hosting with photo props. I was SO happy to have them though, their presence alone seemed to make people want to take pictures… something I do not always remember to do (see Halloween 2017 party).

Reagan helped me make the poop emoji cupcakes. They turned out SO STINKING ADORABLE! (<– see what I did there?) In all seriousness, our guests loved them and devoured the cupcakes. Next time I make them, I’ll beat the icing a bit longer to make it lighter and fluffier… these little guys were a bit top-heavy.

When Stu and Riley came home on Saturday (they were at a birthday party for one of Riley’s buddies while Reagan and I set up), we surprised Stu with his party! Then we made the boys shower… two guys outside for several hours smell real bad.