How to throw a Scottie dog birthday party?? Well, looking on Pinterest and the web made that easy! :) First, I made up these cute little scottie invites.
After two months of planning and trying to make sure everything is made before my surgery and only minor details after. This is how it turned out!
On the front door we hung this little welcome sign.
I made a bunch of these little party hats which are cute, but wasn't anything like I wanted them to be, but they were still cute so I was happy. :)
I learned how to do "minor" stuff in adobe indesign and made this sign. Sorry for the bad picture it was from my phone.
My cake also didn't turn out what I "originally" had planned but it turned out cute anyways! It was suppose to be wrapped in fondant with a scottie themed bow around the base but with my recovery being harder than I thought, I had to change plans. I ended up doing cream cheese frosting, and ended up just making scottie dog chocolates to put around it. Turned out cuter than I think the original idea. :) OH...and the scottie dogs on top...are candles!!! Super cute! I found them online. :) The inners was red velvet cake.
Once people started to arrive we blew up red and black balloons for them to play with.
Once everybody arrived it was Scottie dog craft time. :) The kids got to put on a cute little colar and then a string on the back to hang on their door to their room.
The kids had a blast making them. Below is a picture of what they made.
After crafts we had the kids put on their hats for a picture.
Next came cake!
Joshua had to help Charlene blow from the back.
Even Shelby got some cake.
Miley helped give Charlene presents to open.
Here is what all the party favors were. Each child got a little stuffed scottie, a small box of hand made scottie chocolates, a scottie dog lollipops, a bouncie scottie dog, and girls got handmade scottie hair clips, and handmade scottie dog bracelet.
I handmade all the bracelets and also the box they came in!
I also handmade the little hair clips along with the box they came with AND the box of scottie dog chocolates!
There was one party favor missing which had to be made at the last second. But there is a story behind it. If you haven't noticed on facebook, I coupon. Well this week huggies wipes were on sale for $1.49 and I had a coupons worth $1 so it made them .49 each. I ordered 80 coupons for wipes off ebay on top of my 13 newspapers I get per week. It is a AMAZING deal for wipes. So I had to special order all the wipes since there was a lot of them and I knew I didn't want to clear the shelf. I also added in another 20 for my friend. Well our order came in that Friday but I had to go to a emergency dr. visit for myself due to surgery complications. Being at the hospital for 3.5 hours, my Friday ended early and I didn't get my wipes nor did I get a batch of scottie dog surgar cookies made for the party. Saturday morning I call up my friend to come and get me and we head over to our grocery store. Well what do you know...the person we ordered from isn't there and nobody there knows where the wipes are in the back. GRRR. I am thinking I really don't have time to run to another Fry's but if I have to, I will since my coupons expire that day also! So we called up the other Fry's which is 10 minutes from that Fry's and they had enough for us. So we drove up there and during the check out process the lady wouldn't let us double more than 3 of our coupons!!! So frustrating, we decided to pay FULL PRICE for the items at that location, then drive BACK DOWN to the other Fry's to return them and re-check out with all our coupons. With how much time this is taking (usually I am in and out within a store in less than 10 minutes) and starting to get stressed cause I still had the cake to decorate and cookies to make, cool then decorate also, I called up Joshua, had him drop the kids off at our friends house, told him the LIST of to-do's and when I mean list....I meant LIST and at the end of the conversation I added "if you get all that done, will you made me a double batch of sugar cookies and cut them out like scottie dogs and bake them for me" At that point my friend looked at me and started to laugh. After I hung up she laughed and told me I must have a great husband if he didn't complain to do all that. LOL Even today at church we were laughing at the comment "once your done with all that, make me a batch of cookies" LOL Anyways - all in all...between going to the 3 stores, and returning and re-checking out in middle of a Saturday when the stores are crowded it ended up taking 2 hours!!! Talk about stress! Luckily when I got home Scottie dog cookies were in the oven (GREAT HUSBAND) and I got the cake made, but then people were showing up and I didn't get the frosting made for the cookies. So as they showed up, I poped in a oxy. and took a second to relax for a minute and ate a cookie by myself. LOL Talk about a stressful morning. Luckily all the kids had fun and by the time they were gone, Theodore was pooped and down for a nap and I knocked out on the couch. LOL What a great day. :)
