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The inspiration was quite easy: my daughter Ava became obsessed with fire trucks over the past few months. As in stalker obsession. We do fire station drive-bys looking for those beautiful shiny trucks sunning themselves outside. Not going to lie, my town does have some really adorable firefighters, so that is always a bonus for Mommy ;) I kid.. I kid.... Seriously, of course, as I did my research on these parties – there was a blaringly obvious ‘flaw’ in my execution here – Every. Single. Party. was really designed for and focused on little boys. The flames, the bright red everything, the coats, even the sweets were really geared towards boys.. so what that really meant for me was having to have everything truly custom created for all things fire truck related. My daughter is a little Diva – it hadto sparkle and frill.. and still be cute. So Pink had to be the color and cute puppies had to show up..

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Party Highlights

  • Party Favors

    : Bacon-flavored firetruck favor boxes made by Piggy Bank Parties were too cute for words..Of course,Ava had to put her spin on the sirens by using hot pink poms instead of the more realistic ones I was supposed to. Since it was her birthday party first (and my party to style second), she won out.. Goodies bags were available to fill up on the ever addicting Sixlets, lollipops and Thank You gumball tubes before they were to Stop, Drop & Roll on home..

  • Activities / Games

    : All the kiddos had fun with the face painting, classic pinata, over sized slider bouncy house and pin the tail on the dalmatian but it was the visit of a shiny and beautiful fire truck that hailed from Firehouse Station #3 pulling right up to the event site that was the highlight for every guest (and their parents!). Everyone except for the Birthday Girl – HA! She absolutely refused to go near it – was happy from a distance. Really? Yes, really. And that was ok.. She and Mommy will just continue to obsessively stalk via drive-bys and look for the sunning fire trucks and squeal with unbridled enthusiasm like its the first time we’ve ever seen one when we catch them outside.

  • What People Ate

    : Ok, I had 2 cakes. Yes.. because I had two cake toppers – so I needed 2 cakes. I always get the best cakes my town has to offer over at American Dream Cakes. Although I’m not going to lie, I had a favorite of the two toppers – Rachel with Fondant Flinger rocked it when it came to making a likeness of my baby dressed in her pink fire jacket! And the little trusty dalmatian side kick had me squealing with giddyness when I opened the box. I still get light headed when I look at it. Did I mention that I had to work the imagination center of mybrain into overtime? Well, I did but these crazy visions would not come to life it weren’t for the most fabulous creators of so many of the sweets on the table. The spread of goodies made it difficult to eat because they were just oo adorbs.. Kudos for ridiculously awesome Chocolate covered Oreos of fire hats, dalmatians and fire hoses by Love &Sugar Kisses, sugar cookies of insane deliciousness by the always fab Sweet Goosie Girl and The Cookie Jar and the ultimately crazy cake pops ever by The Sweet Tooth Bar.. chocolate covered marshmallows, chocolate suckers and lollipops were part of the sugar feast,too.

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