Nu and Nug's Adventures : Firetruck Party

Our youngest (Nug) turned 2 this april, and we decided on a "wheewww wheewww" party. Aka Firetruck fun! We rented a local building, (air conditioning in april in florida, yes please) had the local heroes at the fire department stop by, got some pizza, HOT dogs, yummy snacks, a "photo booth", piñata fun and partied down till nap time :) One of the major highlight for the kids was when the fire fighters allowed the kids to shoot the fire hoses.. Now for the HOT details..

We started with invites from our friends at Paper Built Shop

These invites were perfect to set the feel, We used a exato
knife to cut the windows which, when lifted shared the party details.

Birthday Boys shirt was provided from Bluewater Road Kids

I love the fact it included his age and can be used again, non party.

Paper Built Shop provided us with the signs, table tents for food, photo booth props and signs and invites and thank yous.

matchsticks= pretzels with chocolate dipped tips

Fireman Munchies (Including birthday boys favorites Jalapeño Cheeze its)

"Fire-hose" Twizzlers

Red Hots (cost $.25 each box)

Food table, banner also made from Paper Built Shop

Photo Booth props and signs also made from Paper Built Shop

Grannie in the photo booth

I thought the photo booth was a big hit and a great activity for everyone to participate. Good for parties of little ones who might still be too small to play party games, plus great memories of friends and families at the party.

Paper Built Shop sign

A stack of hats were provided from a local sub shop but we wanted to make them more personal. Paper Built Shop provided templates for new labels :)

Chocolate Lollipops made by Sandi Pop Lollies

party goodies

Our goody bags were stuffed full of fire themed goodies. We went to our local fire dept and set up them to come to our party, they also provided multiple brochures, coloring books, crayons and stickers. We bought fire hydrant squirt guns from Oriental trading company and our friends at giggle junction provided I-spy bags. The actual favor bags are from Ready Set Create, who also made our table toppers.

Ready Set Create provided favor bags, multiple colors and labels were included.

Check out these awesome personalized table center pieces from Ready Set Create

I loved these unique table toppers and thought the personalization
was perfect!

Goodie bag favors provided by Giggle Junction, they can do in any amount and will also include a large I-spy for the
Birthday kid if you choose.

Cakes and cupcakes provided by Sonia Raghunandan

My mom is a super party cookie maker and I
call on her skill for most b-day parties. She went
above and beyond this year!

The cookies paired with these cute firetruck envelopes from Lark Paper Design
were both yummy and cute :)

So im kinda a dork and want the entire family to be in the party theme, I was lucky enough to have a
co-worker donate her hubbys uniform, the only problem was it was a XL long sleeve, call into action the
beloved PINTEREST!!

http://pinterest.com/pin/1477812347498500/

This was the start of my tank :)

Dada also fit into the theme

and big bro

The Fire Dept was super nice to open up their trucks and explain all the parts to the guests

My boys hugging and checking out the firetruck goodies. <3

The highlight for the kids was when the firemen let all the kids spray the hose.

We also had a piñata for the kids

Go slugger Go!

Can't believe he is 2 now! I think the firetruck party went really well :)

We had a few of Lark Paper Design envelopes left over and wanted to do something nice for the firefighters that took time out of their day to come to the party. We gave them a thank you card and made some chocolate chip, peanut butter cookies and took to the station as a "thanks"