Real parties. Real backyards.

We were there thirty minutes before the first guest rang the doorbell. Mia picked the princess castle in February — her mom said she mentioned it every day until the party. By the time the cake came out, eight kids had been bouncing for three and a half hours straight.

The neighbors split the rental four ways. We rolled in at 9am, hooked the double-lane splash to the corner hydrant (with permit), and the adults started racing each other by 11. The real MVP of the summer.

For first birthdays we bring the low-bounce toddler zone with the ball-pit corner. Ezra couldn't walk yet but spent forty minutes belly-crawling through the foam shapes. Grandparents watched from our padded folding chairs on the deck.

Seven-year-old Theo asked for 'the biggest dinosaur one you have'. The dino combo has a climb wall, an indoor basketball hoop and a twelve-foot slide. His mom texted us a photo at 6pm of four boys asleep in the living room.

The unicorn castle is our most-requested castle this spring. We bring matching pink-and-gold chair covers on request, and the rainbow roof looks magic on phones at golden hour. Sofia's photos went on her grandma's fridge the same night.

Not every rental is a bounce house. The Kim family graduated three cousins in the same week and needed 30 resin chairs delivered, stacked, and picked up the next morning. We drove over twice — once to set up, once to haul away — and never charged a second delivery fee.

Nico turned five in a homemade Captain-America cape. We anchored the superhero jumper in the side yard (the backyard had a sprinkler trench) and his aunt swore the tall ceiling was the only thing that kept the capes from getting stuck in the entry.

A teacher hired us for her class's last-day-of-school party. The tropical splash hooks up to a garden hose; we brought an extra Y-splitter because her yard only had one tap. Fifteen first-graders, one soggy living room rug, zero tears.

The little plastic kid-table with eight matching chairs is the simplest rental we offer — and the one parents tell us saved them a trip to the store. We wipe each one down before delivery and tuck the chairs under the table so it fits through standard doorways.

The classic red & blue is our tiniest bounce house and the one we recommend if you don't know the yard's flat spots yet. It fits a 15-foot square, inflates in three minutes, and kids of any age can use it together.

Every bounce house gets a full wipe-down with kid-safe cleaner between parties. We photograph each one after cleaning so we have a log. This is our least glamorous photo and the one we're proudest of.

Aisha's older sister asked for the mermaid slide specifically because 'she saw it on your Instagram'. Two kids can land side-by-side in the splash pool, which turned out to be exactly what a twin party needed.