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Wow! Hard to believe our youngest is 6 years old already. James even has the first missing tooth to prove how old he is.

We had a house full of boys to celebrate the occasion. All I can say is that at least the weather was awesome so we could keep them all outside! 🙂 It was a fun birthday party with the theme centered around the cake that James wanted this year – “A Volcano cake! That works!”

To kick things off as everyone arrived, we let the boys make cave drawings in the entry way. They thought that was pretty cool getting to draw on the wall.

Time to burn off some energy! Theresa and Derek hid 84 little plastic dinosaurs around the entire back yard for a big dinosaur hunt. James’ friend, Ryan, found the special one for a prize!

Then I found a idea for “Hatch the Dinosaurs”. We blew up a ton of balloons and sneaked a little dinosaurs into two of them. The 2 boys to pop the balloons with the dinosaur got a prize. I can’t begin to imagine what the neighbors were thinking with all of that LOUD popping! As you can see, the boys thought this was awesome! 🙂

After eating a bunch of pizza, it was time for the big cake moment! I found a sound bite on the internet of a volcano erupting that we started playing on the surround sound to get their attention. Then we poured in the water over the dry ice in the thermos in the center of the cake and let the eruption begin!! It was pretty cool. (Theresa even helped me decorate it!!)

Everyone wanted a piece with lava on it!! (Marshmellow creme – yummy!) …and some of the chocolate rocks I used to write “Happy Birthday James” and of course all of the lava rock (Oreos!). It was a complete sugar fest!  Good time to send everyone home.  🙂