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S/O Joint birthday parties - decorating?
My LO's birthdays are not even 3 weeks apart and, especially since nearly all of our family is out of town, I know a joint party is in our future! (We would have this year but I wanted DD to have her own first birthday party.) Maybe even a joint friend party, too, if that makes sense and their friends overlap, since they're so close in age.
I think it sounds like fun! And a lot less work than this year 
. The only thing that makes me "sad" is thinking about themes/ decorating with a boy and a girl... How to manage?! Split the room in half? (Not fun!). Just do pink and blue every year (Not fun!).
Any thoughts and resources so I can start obsessing about this way too far in advance? 
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Re: S/O Joint birthday parties - decorating?
I'm doing a rainbow theme for our Joint party this summer.
Our family is OOT, so we are doing a combo 1st/4th party.
I do have two girls, so easier. However I think there are some great co-ed ideas. Even Pirates/Princesses in the future.
-----Lisa-----
My friend has boy/girl twins that will be turning 6 in July. She always does separate cakes for them.
The first year she made stand up teddy bears (no other theme). Year 2 was a car/a a doll pan cake. She has also done the castle cake (princess) /flat car. Last year was ariel and toy story (she did a fantastic toy story bed etc). She alternates years where one year one kid gets a really fancy cake and the other just gets the character pan cake they want and then the next year she switches since she cannot make 2 fancy cakes a year at the same time. This year she is doing Hello Kitty and Lego. Even though her daughter is supposed to get the fancy cake this year I think she is just going to use the Hello Kitty pan and do something fancier for lego since she cannot figure out something else. She mixes and matches for the decorations but does not do a ton of decorating-the cakes are the main decoration.
I totally think when they are young you can go with a joint theme and then mix and match in the years ahead.
We always do the girls' birthday parties at the same time because 1) their birthdays are Nov 25 and Dec21 and 2) one feels badly when they other gets all the gifts. lol!
I split the room/table etc down the middle and decorate completely differently for both. We have two separate cakes, etc.
We will be doing this in the future (our LOs bdays are only 5 days apart, but like you, I wanted the little one to have her own first birthday party so this year everyone's stuck birthday-ing it up with us 2 weekends in a row).
I am too into cohesive themes to do a split down the middle thing, but ideas I've had include zoo, farm, balloons, candy - pretty much what the others have said. I also like Toy Story (although sadly Boodle is almost over that) and Dr. Seuss...or Boynton could be cute too? Very Hungry Caterpillar? I think there are a lot of themes that are gender neutral, and as far as colors I'd just pick fun colors I like that work for both, like bright pink and orange, various shades of blues and purples (purples could be girly), etc., primary colors, brown and turquoise or brown and green. Or just bright spring colors generally that may include pink and purple but also turquoise, greens, yellows (I think I pinned a "spring color" one to that end).