Happy birthday Dude!

This time I try to write my blog text in English. Please be gracious...

Our Dude turned nine this weekend. He's used to celebrating his birthday in cold weather so it's really awesome for him to enjoy his special day here in California. It's like having birthday in the summer time.

This year he wanted to have Minecraft-Lego birthday party and I felt that it would be pretty easy to plan and execute.   

He wanted to invite all the boys from his class, one neighbor and several Finnish friends. All together it was 20 children. We knew that we wouldn't all fit in to our apartment so we decided to rent our Party Room for the event. 

There we had plenty of room to set up five stations that children would rotate in groups. My awesome Finnish friends agreed to help me with the stations so I got that part covered. 

The stations were:

1. "Guess how many Lego bricks there are in the jar?"

2. Bean bag target throwing

3. Attach diamond sword to Steve

4. Nerf gun target shooting

5. Completing and coloring Lego paper figure

Kids spent about seven minutes in one station and it seemed that they were having fun!

After completing all stations every child got a bag of random Lego bricks and they were instructed to use their imagination to build their own Lego vehicle. In the end of the party they got to take their vehicles home with them.

The final culmination of his party were the Minecraft cakes that my good friend Sanni baked for the party. Sanni is really talented and creative baker. I just told her that the party theme would be Minecraft and she created those awesome cakes. Cakes didn't  just look great but they tasted awesome as well!

I had the feeling that party was successful and that feeling got stronger when the dude, right before going to bed, told me that he had an awesome birthday party. :)

Btw he got too many and too gorgeous presents but guess how happy he was because he is a boy who usually newer wants to have anything and I'm used to not buying him anything.