My son was turning two and, just like his father, everything is about baseball. So I decided to make a baseball theme for the party. I sent out news letters with baseballs on them Starting with "Seb Slides into Second", along with little things like "Game Time 1 PM", "Little Sluggers vs. Old Timers" for t-ball game, and corny things like "It'll be a Grand Slam"! I also sent baseball tickets for the kids for "admission to the game" and to receive their goody bags. We celebrated at a local park near the town Little League fields, where the kids could play t-ball. We printed up a "starting line-up" with all the kids attending the party, and for their goody bags: little whistles in the shape of a baseball, bubbles (not much for bsbl, but classic), baseball cards, and we made team jerseys with each kid's name and favorite number on the back with team name on the front (with ink jet t-shirt transfers we bought at the store), and the kid's goody bags were actually old fashioned popcorn containers. My hubby and I wore "Coach" and "Asst. Coach" shirts. We cooked hot dogs, burgers, had chips, pretzels, red vines, gatorade, soda (basic consession stand foods). We also had baseball cut-outs pinned up and a baseball for "the team" to sign. For the cake, we baked a basic milk chocolate with white butter cream icing. My husband decorated it with green outfield, graham cracker infield and pitchers mound, mini marshmallow bases, a fruit-by-the-foot fence in the outfield (held up by pretzel sticks), wafers for the dugouts, and a wafer held up by two pretzel sticks for the scoreboard (leave it to a man to use his drill bit to make holes for the scoreboard). For the kids, I also baked cupcakes (white cake with classic white frosting) and decorated them with red icing for stitches to make them look like little baseballs. I meant to take a "team photo" but forgot with all the excitement. Luckily, my father-in-law took pictures of all the kids and put together a little collage of them at the party for my Thank You cards. The party was a great success, all the kids enjoyed the cupcakes, the adults loved the cake, and the kids enjoyed playing at the park while the food was being made. It was really a hassle free party, and it was rather inexpensive for everything we did.