Puppy Paws

jazlynn and jayvins 4th birthday party was a huge hit! it may seem like a little much but first, the kids don't get presents and two, i did this for all under $250. that's $125 per child so i think i did pretty good.

Nathan has proven himself to be quite handy! i had him build this dog house that literally covered the whole entrance of the house! it was HUGE. its made out of card board and cost us about $4 to make because of the supplies. as you can see it came out really cute.

In lieu of gifts we asked that everyone to bring something to donate to a no-kill animal shelter. the turn out was great! the shelter we ended up donating to was Halo Animal Rescue. they gave us a tour of the facility and told us about the organization. the place was really clean and the dog and cats were well taken care of.

when the kids first came in we had them get pampered and transformed at the "puppy Parlor". i had made these dog ears out of head bands and felt, painted the kids nose, gave them some freckles and gave them a cute bandanna to put around their neck.

all the kids had a chance to visit "Puppy Love Pet Shop" to adopt a puppy and received their goody bags which were just brown "doggy Bags"

Nathan also made this really adorable dog house out of card board. the kids had a BLAST playing in this and its still up at grandmas house getting lots of use!
here's jazzy and jayvins friends ryan and ayden. over all there were about 30 people who attended which i was pretty shocked since no one really let me know one way or the other. so i made these cute "puppy treats" to resemble dog bones in dirt. while transporting the from one fridge to the next i dropped one all over the floor, let out a few choice words and then grabbed the camera. its looks very life like even on the floor

i thought it was suiting to serve hot dogs and then some other treats as well. this year i really tried to keep it simple with the food unlike every other year

the kids enjoyed a really yummy chocolate fountain as well. i also decided to serve everything in dog bowls......un used of course.
the first game we played was "Give The Dog A Bone". pretty much the same concept as pin the tail on the donkey. as you can tell i made the sign myself lol its horrable but you get the point!

the other game we had was a relay race to see what "pup" could get as many dog bones in the dog bowl first. every one loved this game and it took up a good 15mins.

i usually make my own themed cupcakes but i thought i would do something different this year. so we did a "barkin Robbins" essentially it was just an ice cream bar. just vanilla ice cream and then i put all the fixins in dog bowls. coconut, broken candy bars, Reece's pieces, m&m's, peanuts and prob anything else you could imagine! that too was a big hit, between the parents and kids!


i think the party was a success. either way the twins had a ton of fun and that's all that matters! now we are planning ridge's party for October and should be just as fun. we have his theme and were already planning the big bash!