Bennet's Mustang Themed 5th Birthday Party

Better late than never. Yeah yeah, its been quite a while, but I've had many an iron in the fire.

All that aside, heres the party breakdown.

Bennet decided he wanted his 5th Birthday Party to be a Mustang Party! Dads first reaction...SWEET! Then it started to sink in. We are going to have to get creative for this one and literally make everything for this party. So thats just what we did. It was quite a bit of work, but I think my Little Monster loved it and it all came together very well.

Can't get into a race part without a ticket. And a VIP pass is always great too!

Bennets Stang is in the front yard to welcome the guests

Race Track table all setup and ready to Super Snacks

Bennet's name race flags. I made each one, laminated it, cut it and strung em up.

Nana and Bennet's sister just couldn't wait

We had some tasty Shelby SuperSnake Sandwiches. Hard to tell in the picture, but we did a checkered pattern with white and wheat bread sandwiches.

Gotta have Race Fuel to keep the kiddos goin! For the race fuel I dumped a bit of the water out of the water bottles and added strawberry lemonade mix. Then replaced the bottle label with the label I made

Some Mustang Nuts & Bolts to munch on. Nuts and bolts were cheddar chex mix.

Dipsticks. Pretzels sticks and a cheeseball.

Mustang Race Cake. Just had HyVee make a basic version of one of the designs from their book and then added our own Shebly Cobra and Mustang.

Mustang Cupcakes. Each kid got a mustang cupcake and then got to race their own mustang after they were done with the cupcake!

Some of the action from the 6-lane Mustang Race Track!

Meanwhile, in the basement...the kids were painting and decorating their own pull-back racecars. In the last picture you can see Reed with his Mother Dawn working on their car. This ended up being Reeds last party and last day in this life to get to play with his great friend Bennet. Reed passed away not even a week later from an extreme case of Encephalitis. We miss him everyday and know hes looking down upon us! I hope you had a great day with us Reed! Love you little buddy!

Picture time with the whole Race Team. Reed thought it'd be best if he just stayed on the horse.

The unveiling of Bennet's Ford Mustang Boss 302 Fathead on his wall.

7' long Boss 302 found its new home on Bennets wall.

So thats that. That is how you throw down a bad ass Mustang Party for you 5 year old. We all had a blast!

The Stang is ALIVE!

Its up and running. After the car instantly dying while driving a couple months ago, its up and running. The car seemed to have to spark at all. Would turn over just fine but wouldn't fire at all. Put 3 generations of Kruse's on the job and it turned out to be the alternator. Put in a new one and we're off and running.

Bennet thought we should check the ignition module first

Got that bolt out so we can move on...

Time to pull the distributor and see if that does the trick

Chloe is here to help!

Pops is breakin it down for me. Explaining how the distributor gear sits in the engine.

So, I went to the neighbors house to borrow and timing light. Dad thought this would be a good time to take a pull of the jar of moonshine. Fuckin love that guy!

Done deal. Up and running. My lip wig and i are signing off.

OTC Yeah You Know Me. Got some new tools in!

Ordered in some new tools for the Lil Monster today. Needed a new jack badly and some new stands. So got those as well as a new engine stand for the future engine build that will come later. Got some random clip pliers, prybars, work lights and other sort of specialty tools that were making from my current arsenal. I gotta say that dollar for dollar, OTC/Stinger makes some super great tools. I've used a ton of aluminum racing jack and this is one of the better ones you can get. And the aluminum stands are amazing!