For Gwen's party, she requested a dinosaur theme. She's
really into dinosaurs right now!
To start off the party, we had coloring set up for the kids to do while the rest arrived...
Rick and Gwen were really excited for the guests to come!
When our first guests arrived, MG and
Lesielli, they helped color the "Pin the Tooth on the Dinosaur game."
It looked great and the kids loved playing it- especially Gwen. She has requested this game for the last 3 years.
Next they played "Cave Corner". We played dinosaur music and the kids danced around pretending to be dinosaurs. When the music stopped, they would run to a corner (each was marked with a different colored cave). We would then roll the dice, which had colors on it corresponding with each corner. If their cave color came up, that meant their volcano exploded and they were out of the game. We continued until there was only one person left. The last one still playing was the winner!
Next we got all scientific and made a volcano erupt.
We did all sorts of lava colors.
Next the cake! We did a volcano cake real steaming lava!
Present time...
We had Gwen take a picture with each guest and the gift they gave her.
Gwen and MG
Gwen and Charlie Gwen and Lesiellie
Gwen and Kade
Gwen and Lucy (and a sneaky Charlie)
Gwen and Lucy
Gwen and Ethan
All the kiddos
And a silly picture for good measure
Next was a dinosaur version of "Duck Duck Goose". I can't remember what dinosaur names we used...I think it kept changing!
The kids got to pretend to be paleontologists and looked for dinosaur parts (puzzle pieces) all over the house. Then they put the puzzle together to assemble the dinosaur.
The last game we played was a dinosaur version of "Hot Potato". I think it was "Hot Lava Rock" or something of that nature.
I forgot to take pictures of the party favor (darn it!) but they were pretty simple. We had dinosaur bags filled with dinosaur sticker books, dinosaur suckers, dinosaur fruit snacks, little rubber dinosaurs, and
dinosaur stencils.
Gwen had a fabulous time. It was wonderful for her to spend a little bit more time with her friends before we moved.
The girls were thrilled to have us home and everybody wanted to hold him.
They also had a little party for me. Gwen wrapped "presents" which were things she found around the house. 
Rick made my favorite dinner- grilled steaks, artichokes, and bread with oil and vinegar for dinner. And there was more treats! That sounds like my kind of birthday!
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