A "Roaring" Good Time!

Porter's Birthday party was on Saturday.

He decided on a Dinosaur theme

So I worked all week

(And paid a bit more for fast shipping)

to put together some fun activities.

I was a little nervous and stressed about the whole thing

wondering if the kids would be entertained

and if we had enough to do for the time.

This is the first party any of my kids have had.

But I have to say,

it was one of the most smoothly run,

fun party

there ever was.

While we waited for the kids to arrive,

they made dinosaur teeth and fossils

out of white clay

which we would then baked

and made into necklaces at the end of the party.

Our next activity was a treasure hunt.

I told the kids some paleontologists had found a nest of dinosaur eggs

and the kids needed to follow clues to find them

before the hungry dinosaurs did.

Rhett made up some awesome clues

that had the kids running all over the house

to each spot and eventually to the nest of eggs.

For the third activity,

I had taken some dinosaur skeleton toys

and packed them in a mixture of

dirt, sand, flour, salt, and water.

After drying them out in the oven,

they looked like rocks.

I told the kids that some paleontologists had found the rocks

and there was dinosaur bones inside

and they needed the kids' help to get them out.

I armed them with screws, hammers, brushes, and knives

as tools to use to dig the dinosaur bones out.

It was quite funny to watch

some would just scrape the dirt out quickly

while others would chip a little away here

and a little away there.

(Yes, that is Andrew with a hammer...)

Luckily, for time's sake,

the insides were still soft

or we would probably still be chipping away...

Porter opened his presents,

then we sang Happy Birthday

and had homemade ice cream cake -

with dinosaurs on top, of course.

We had a blast!

And Porter had a great time

which is really all that matters!