Happy 3rd Birthday

Maddison had a great birthday! Since she loves dinosaurs we decided to do a dinosaur theme, without her knowing. She showed up at the canyon and loved every bit of the dinosaur fun. This picture is of one her presents. It is a dinosaur puppet that I got from my website. All the kids wanted to play with it, of course! We had a dinosaur dig set up for the kids. They all had a blast digging for dinosaurs and of course being able to keep the dinosaurs that they found. Geoff monitored just to make sure it was pretty fair for every child.
Abigail had to join in on the fun as well. She thought the big, wrapped present was hers...I'm sure of it. You can't tell to much from the picture but if you look closely you can see the head of a horse and there is also a doll in one of the boxes Maddison is holding. Grandma and Grandpa Lorensen got those for her. She loves them. So far there hasn't been a day that she hasn't played with them.
This sure makes the mother happy. One of the things that Geoff and I got her was a book. Hahaa, surprise, surprise! It is a dinosaur book from Usborne. The thing that makes me happy is that Maddison and the kids looked at that book for a while before Maddison even wanted to open her other presents.
I brought Maddison's dinosaur toys and used them as decoration for her party. We then have leaves, shrubbery, rocks, etc, from around that we point up with the dinosaurs. (Makes for cheap decorations) As you can see, the children loved it.
The best part: The Cake! This creation was made by Geoff and I. I think the cake itself is a yellow cake. The volcano is made out of rice crispy treats. The frosting, I took milk chocolate frosting and mixed in the cream puff marshmellow stuff. Mmm Mmmm good! The lava is strawberry ice cream topping. AND YES, of course we had some sort of heating effect....we used dry ice in the volcano.

This "laptop" was given to Maddison by her Aunt and Uncle, Scott and Heidi. It was one of the first things that she opened and let me put it this way, we had to take it away just so she open her other presents.
There are quite a few more pictures but we got a new picture downloading thing and I am still trying to figure some things out with it. So I will get more posted at a later date. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDISON!!!!! HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD ONE!!!!!!