The boys are really into a cute show called Paw Patrol (it's about puppies who rescue other animals or humans) and just dogs in general. So for the 2nd birthday bash we had a Paw Patrol/Puppy Pawty theme. It was a lot of fun. There are so many cute ideas out there for puppy parties.
Here are a few of the things I did:
This was the main activity I had planned for the kids. Everyone got to adopt a puppy, make a collar for them, and sign their puppy adoption papers.
I got letter beads and just regular plastic beads for the kids to decorate their dog collar with. The collar is a pipe cleaner that I cut to fit around the puppies necks. Everyone seemed to really enjoy this and they came up with all sorts of creative names for their puppies.
I found a free printable for the adoption papers HERE
The other main activity took place in the sandbox. We hid real dog bones in the sand and had all the kids dig for them. My brother in law was the expert dog bone hider and we still haven't found all of the bones :) I made a cute sign that said "Dig For Bones", but by the time I made it outside to take a picture of it, the wind had blown off most of the letters (that's what I get for using double sided tape instead of glue). I'm so glad we put this huge sandbox in because it was a hit at the party and the boys have really been enjoying it.
To greet all our guests I drew puppy paw prints leading up to the door with chalk.
My husband and I stayed up until 1am working on this cake. I thought a bone cake would be easy to make, and it probably would have been if we didn't keep having "caketastrophies". I kept realizing that either I didn't have ingredients I needed to bake the cake or the ingredients I was planning on using were expired. Thank God for husbands, because I think he ended up running to the store about 5 or 6 times. After I finally got the cake baked, I turned it over to get it out of the pan and half of it fell apart. Somehow we got it all back together looking like a bone. The entire time I kept asking myself why I didn't just buy a cake somewhere. Apparently that is what smart people do.
This was the only picture I got of the food setup, which is sad, because we had a lot of yummy and pretty food. I made 7-layer dip, veggies and dip, and fruit kabobs.
Sharing some cake and ice cream :)
Last year the boys didn't even want to try their cupcakes. What a big difference a year makes. Lane was completely into feasting on cake and ice cream this year. It was EVERYWHERE.
This is my all time favorite picture from the party. Eli pushed his cousin, Nora, all over the yard on his new tractor.
We made a lot of fun memories with family and friends. I'm excited for what year 2 will look like with the boys. I know there will still be lots of challenges, but I'm anticipating a lot of exciting times. I'm so glad I get to be their mom. It's been already been an amazing journey in just 2 years.
