I drew Ryder’s Pup Pad in Illustrator and set the front of the invite up so that the kids’ pictures were included in the circle with the Paw Patrol pups. Whew!ĭesigning invitations is still my favorite thing, so even though a printed invite isn’t super common these days, I really wanted to make one this time around.

But as the plans started to come together, I found a few areas where I could have some fun, and I kept the rest of it pretty low-key.Īnd before I get going here, I need to give a huge shout-out to my husband, my mother, and especially my father-in-law for making this post possible, since I made the rookie mistake of getting too busy with setting things up and COMPLETELY FORGOT TO TAKE PICTURES! Thank goodness everyone else was on the ball and able to help out! Rocket Daddy covered the cake in great detail, and my mom and FIL both got great shots of the kids in their outfits and of the piñata. I’ll be totally honest, I wasn’t super thrilled with this choice – as much as they love Paw Patrol, I didn’t feel like it gave me very many opportunities for all the crazy DIY that I love to do for our parties.

This was G’s fifth birthday and g and C’s third, and they all agreed on a Paw Patrol theme. But while it’s all still fresh in my mind, I wanted to go ahead and share our big birthday party recap for the year! I’ve got a huge backlog of fun stuff that needs to go up on the blog, but June was a heck of a busy month for this family – three birthdays, a big birthday party, Father’s Day, end-of-year MOMS Club events, ear tube surgery, preschool graduation, AND an exciting visit from the out-of-town grandparents – so bear with me, I’ll be playing catch-up for a while.

Rocky paw patrol diy costume