Preparations are underway for Luke's 4th birthday party! This being the week before his party, I had daily assignments for myself, in order to get everything finished. But we had a surprise "It's too cold to go to school" day! So I got to get ahead of myself AND do some extras! After I made his party favor bone-shaped cookies & the brownies for his preschool class, I worked on making a treat bag topper for his party favors... a doggie bag, if you will. :) I am so please with how they turned out! Makes me even more excited. The simplest things make me happy. Anyway, now I just need to wrap his gifts & make the food, which won't happen until Saturday morning before the party. :)

So the party plans are as follows:

Friday is Luke's real birthday. We always like to celebrate on the real day. He will be celebrating with his preschool class. We made star-shaped brownies in construction bags for that. Then, after work, Joel is going to pick up AJ and we're going to go to Chuck E. Cheese's. I think the boys are going to have a blast!!

Saturday is Luke's birthday party. It is dog-themed, if you couldn't tell by the favors in the picture. He loves animals, especially dogs. He has four stuffed dogs he ALWAYS plays with- Doggie-Doggie, Daisy, Juneau, & Griffey. So I thought what better theme for his birthday than dogs. This is the first year he will have one big party with more kids than his cousins. So that means my party planning goes into overdrive. Hee hee. Each kid will get to adopt a dog (stuffed animal of course... I'm not sure my friends and family would ever forgive me if it was for real). They will even get an official adoption certificate for their dog. We are going to play "Pin the Nose on the Puppy," and the kids are going to eat out of a dog bowl. :)

I will be exhausted come Monday, but it'll so be worth it!