A Puppy Party!

 

Tessa's 5th Birthday was celebrated with a circle of girlfriends and playing with puppies?  Seriously.  Does it get any cuter or better than that?  Well, there was a special surprise at The Family Puppy that day and they were housing a handful of kittens. So, we got to snuggle with them too!  And, not only did Troy and I pretty much secure the Parents of the Year Award, it had to have been the easiest party ever!  Troy and I were waiting for our 25% off of your next puppy coupon to be handed over.  I will tell you that it was a close call and in a moment of weakness I could have easily brought home one of those furry little friends.  We all know that I need a hole in my head more than a puppy right now, but boy were they cute as ever! We had our very own personal photographer along with us to capture all the cute moments.  Many, many thanks to you, Lynn.  After playing with a variety of different puppies and the kittens each girl got to 'build a bear' and choose a stuffed animal to make and dress.  That was the take home treat. How sweet! Another, score for mom and dad.  After all that commotion, we headed back to our house for puppy-themed cupcakes, a pinata (b/c we can't have any type of party without a pinata!) and some play time.  Happy Birthday Tessa! What a great day!

 Here are the girls are caged up awaiting the puppies! That's me in the back smiling really big trying to compensate for my giant baby belly.

 

Nate and Tessa taking the instruction pretty seriously.  Nate was not missing this opportunity to play with puppies...even if it meant hanging out with his sister's friends!  He was thrilled to get the German Shepard puppy all to himself for awhile!

 A wiener puppy!

 Australian Shepard

 Some kinda rat-looking puppy

Kayleigh and Allie and an adorable little puppy!

 Ella and a little fluff ball puppy!

 How much does Alex love this little furball?

 

Ruby and Emma

 

T, Alex and rat-looking puppy

 Here are the kids all lined up blessing their animals' 'hearts' before they stuffed them inside at the "build a bear" -like activity.

 

Here's super dad Troy dressing one of the animals.

  

Super Dad again with the girls

 

It's not a party without a pinata!  Of course we had a puppy!  Nate was giving the girls instructions.  I was standing by, probably sweating and short of breath.

 Miss Emma swinging at the puppy. Funny thing was that the pinata "exploded" with candy by being decapitated. 

 Umm.  Please note the puppy paw print cupcakes that I actually made for this event!  They had white filling too...just sayin'. And Miss Tessa opening up way too many toys that she doesn't need.

 The girls headed out to play.  Ava, Allie, Ruby, Emma, Alex and Ella