You know you’ve just had a killer birthday party when you’re too tired to do anything but lay on the couch and eat cake.  It’s just too much trouble to clean up the tissue paper and deflated balloons, so you leave the mess for tomorrow and hope your toddler/cat doesn’t swallow anything they shouldn’t.  You order in because all meal-planning has gone out the window and dishes and the laundry start piling up – but all you can do is crawl into bed for a 3 hour nap.  The dinosaur party for Charlie’s 4th was a huge success.  We rented a gargantuan bounce house/water slide and I have to recommend it to everyone – a crowd pleaser in this triple digit weather and worth every penny!!  Here’s Charlie trying it out before her friends arrived: I found these inflatable dinos at Oriental Trading Company and they were a hit as well!  Good thing we don’t have any furniture in the front part of our house because it’s looking a bit like the “Dinosaurs Alive!” exhibit at the Ft. Worth Zoo.  Vann and I actually woke up to a T-Rex standing in our bedroom doorway. Pink and green were the colors of choice – and you just can’t have a party without balloons, now can you?? Mimi drew hot pink dino tracks leading up to our front door… And a special friend was there to welcome the party guests… And outsourcing the cake turned out to be THE best decision EVAH.  Chocolate with raspberry filling??  Yes, please.  Goodbye, Weight Watchers points…for the year!!!! The kids came in from outside to sing “Happy Birthday” and eat the spectacular cake… …and then went back out for some more waterslide action.  More of those pics to come courtesy of Poppy (I stayed inside where it was COOL!!)… And last but not least… …some pink dino cookies to take home as a parting gift… And we have a happy little girl who turns 4 on Thursday.  She thinks her birthday started last week and will last every day until her next birthday.  Hmm…turns out the apple doesn’t fall tooooo far from the tree…