Theme Party!

The whole idea of theme party might seem silly and not at all "wedding-like" to some, but for Zac and I it is very us! We live for a fun theme party! A few years back when our friend Claire was living with us, she took a trip to Mexico. To celebrate her return we had "Mexican Day"!

Zac and I decorated the apartment, I made tacos, rice, and beans, and Claire brought the tequila straight from Mexico.

We had flags and blankets strewn all around the apartment.

To get in the spirit, we all dressed up a bit. (Yeah, it was a little stereotypical, but two of the three of us are Mexican, so what of it?! :P)

Funny though, that the only one of us who isn't Mexican got the most into it. We used some eyeliner to create his wispy looking mustache.

We made a whole day of it, drank margaritas, and watched movies like Cheech and Chong and Born in East LA. After dinner another friend, Danielle, joined the party and we ended the night playing Apples to Apples.

 When a round was particularly funny we took a shot of the AMAZING chocolate tequila that Claire brought back from Mexico.

It was super fun and we've been talking about having a Mexican Day Round 2!

For our very first theme day, Zac and I got in touch with our inner pirate! We decided to watch all three Pirates of the Carribean movies. We thought that it would only be appropriate to create a seafood menu, get a bottle of rum, and dress up in all the jewelry we could find.

We went to Joann's Fabrics and chose some fun pirate hats in the kid section as well as picked up a few bags of chocolate "gold" coins. When we got home, we closed all the shades and curtains, started a fire and got ready for the marathon.

Our outfits were wonderfully ridiculous!

Zac even channeled his inner Johhny Depp with a little eyeliner....though it resulted in a less masculine pirate look :P

We aren't the only ones who love a good theme party. Back in September, my monthly ladies game night get together had an 80's theme. The girls were asked to come in their best 80's get up and let me tell you there were some great outfits!

My girl Amanda reached true Six Chick status. Check out that off the shoulder shirt, the side ponytail, the big bangs! I can't even look at the socks without smiling from ear to ear!

I wish I had a full body picture of Miss Katie standing in all of her crimped hair, side ponytail, oversized shirt and black leggings, colorful windbreaker glory! It was awesome!

Leslie's Working Girl outfit was out of control! She found this one piece jumper with shoulder pads at a second hand store and let me just say that the picture doesn't do it justice! Isn't the whole matchy-matchy look with the red accessories so perfectly 80's?!

I love that the ladies really embraced the theme that night. :)

Everyone has fun when it comes to a theme party. It turns a regular party or get together into something special. We can't wait to share our theme day tradition with our own little ones someday. We're sure they'll love dressing up and playing a character for a day. (That is until they're big enough to think that it's too ridiculous.)