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Southern State of Mind Blog by Heather

Shake, Rattle & Roll || A Drive-By 70th Birthday Celebration

in entertain, Family, LIFESTYLE on 09/15/20

One thing is for certain, this pandemic is really making everyone get creative when it comes to celebrating birthdays! My Dad turned 70 last week and since we couldn’t host a big celebration for him, we surprised him with a socially distant 1950’s themed drive-by-street-party.  And since every party needs a theme  (even a drive by party) we decided to play off the year he was born and ran with the 50’s theme. Yep, those are poodle skirts you see! 

My sister, Mom and I chatted a few weeks ago and concocted our plan. We would wear our 1950’s attire and serve glass Coca-Cola bottles and Moon Pies. Mom decided to keep it a secret from Dad so it was fun to give him a little surprise!

Some of the guests definitely joined the fun and dressed up.  I rummaged through our costume tub and came up with my Pink Ladies jacket (from a Halloween party circa 2009) for me and this Elvis costume for the hubs (from a Halloween circa 2003). The boys were a little harder and I intended for them to have blue jeans rolled up with white t-shirts…. but we do live in HOTlanta so they got white t-shirts and some sunglasses instead. 

Mom had a couple poodle skirts so my Sister and her wore those. 

Me and my sis!

For music, I pulled my car up to the top of the driveway and just played a 1950’s station through my phone. It was so easy and perfect! We used a tailgate tent as our home base and hung some balloons and streamers.

Gotta love Sweet P giving a flossing lesson to dance to some 50’s music! 🙂

Happy 70th birthday Dad! Keep Shaking, Rattling & Rolling!


Hey, who doesn’t love a reason to get dressed up!? I hope this inspires you if you are looking for ideas for a socially distant celebration. I would love to hear if you have had any out of the box pandemic celebrations!

xoxo-

Heather

Related posts:

A JAWsome Backyard Beach Birthday Bash A Swashbuckling Pirate Birthday Party A Nerf Battle Birthday Party Four Sweet Moments from my Socially Distant 40th Birthday

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  1. AvatarMarley says

    Sep. 15, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    Was a great party and thanks for all the help!

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