Jack's 'Toy Story' Birthday Party!!

So today was Jack's 3rd birthday party!! We chose a Toy Story them for his party. It's one of his favourite movies and I wanted to get him some sort of play characters for his birthday this year and I thought it would be a great theme.
For the invitations I made a copy of an invitation I'd seen on eBay that looked like a theme park entry ticket. I can't find the link for the eBay seller so I'll show my version but I just want to make it known that it's not my design idea, don't wanna get sued or anything.
We held the party at the kid's playground at the Botanical Gardens so of course Jack wanted to go and play on the swings and things but he was such a good boy staying at the table with me setting up while Daddy went back and forth to the car. Then when Grandma Jean came he ran over and escorted her to the table. It was so sweet. So to go with the theme I did cupcakes topped with stars in Buzz Lightyear colours and sherrif badges. The other toy story themed food I did was chocolate crackles topped with a couple of little green dinosaur toppers to represent Rex. The rest of the spread was just your regular party food, kabana & cheese, dip & crackers, tortilla rolls, fairy bread, you know...the usual stuff.We played pass the parcel...Then we played pin the badge on the sherrif. I blew up a toy story poster to child size. I wasn't sure whether this age group, 3 year olds, would be up for it but they all played so that was great.We had a pinata which I bought on special from Spotlight. I took a good 20 minutes to crack it though and in the end it was Tricia, Dave & Pete that got it open. I nearly ran a perforator over it.Here's the kids scrambling for the lollies. I made the cow print vests for the boys and little neck scarves for the girls and I also made little sheriff badges for all the kids which I xyron'd to make into stickers.For the cake I just made a basic vanilla cake recipe but flavoured it with coconut essence. I actually made copha icing for the first time ever which turned out great. It's just like butter icing but you use room temperature copha and a teaspoon of cream of tartar instead of butter to make a really white icing. It keeps a great consistancy. I was really surprised. I bought a printed cake decoration from Spotlight for $4 which I though was a bargain, and then just circled the outside with the coloured stars. I also coloured some coconut for around the outside of the cake.
And for the second year running I forgot to take a bloody knife to cut the cake...so we used a spoon. LOL. It was a bit messy but it got plated and that the important thing.
We had a really nice afternoon. The weather was just fantastic and there were hardly any bugs, the mosquitos just started to come in late afternoon. We missed out on our planned party space but it worked out pretty well. We've got such a fantastic family and a great group of friends. I love spending time with them.
Jack had a great time. We even went and fed the fairy bread crusts to the birds and turtles. The sunset over the lagoon was just gorgeous this afternoon.
So that's it! Birthday over for another year. Our little man is growing up!!