It's PAWTY time

Kids birthday parties are my jam! I literally think about them all year long. This year for Grady’s birthday we had a puppy party and boy did he LOVE it. I must admit though this was not my first pick. With Audrey only going to be a few months old I wanted something low key so I was set on a pancakes and PJ party. I discussed it with Chad and of course he wouldn’t have cared either way but he just wasn’t that into the idea. As we hit the 6 months to party time (I plan early) I started to lose interest in the theme as well and went back to the drawing board and boy am I glad I did so. Grady is obsessed with puppies and after remembering reading about a puppy party on a blog I began my quest. I knew I wanted it to be low key and not very many decorations. We settled on balloons doing the majority of the decorations for us and of course had food for our guests. As the day arrived we couldn’t have asked for a nicer day. We borrowed the bounce house from my coworker and we had guests inside/outside.

Chad and I discussed the menu a few weeks ahead of time and I mentioned that I would be getting chicken nuggets catered again through chick-fil-a. Well Chad wanted to do something a little cheaper so he purchased frozen nuggets at the store and boy were they GROSS. Sorry honey but I’ll be getting those catered instead from now on. I called a local donut shop the week of the party and told them I wanted puppy donuts and to my surprise they were actually able to make them on short notice. We also had pigs in the blanket, quiches, a fruit tray, pinwheels, and sausage tarlets. The sausage tarlets were such a hit that I didn’t even get one! Everything was so easy and came together great.

Of course we ordered a cake from our favorite bakery, Ann’s in Tulsa. And they sure did not disappoint. The cookies are also from my next door neighbor. I love it when I can send ideas to people and they create exactly what I envisioned.

Cookies

For party favors we did an “adopt a puppy” My parents kept all our beanie babies from when I was a kid just in case we were to make millions off of them. So, I went through my box and also ordered some online so everyone was able to take home a puppy.

We had an absolute blast celebrating his birthday. We had the balloons up in the house for over a week just to remember how special this day was.