{"id":3692,"date":"2016-02-04T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:10:03","slug":"the-big-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchalifekids.org\/the-big-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/carecenter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Care Center<\/a> we celebrate everybody&#8217;s birthday all at once! Since some of the Touch A Life children are unsure of their exact birth date, one big birthday party makes sure that no one is left out of the birthday fun.<\/p>\n<p>A team from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fumccoppell.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First United Methodist Church of Coppell<\/a> in Texas traveled to Ghana in January and helped by bringing party supplies, baking a cake, and setting up games for our kids to play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy2.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy2\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy3.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy3\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kids helped bake the\u00a0giant cake and pitched in to decorate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/carecenter\/sethssocialcenter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seth&#8217;s Social Center<\/a> for the event!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy1.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy1\" width=\"750\" height=\"1333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy4.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy4\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy5.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy5\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy8.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy8\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchalifekids.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Stacy6.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy6\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A special thanks to our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashtat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flash Tattoos<\/a> for sending a big box of shiny temporary tattoos for all of our kids to wear at the party!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at our Care Center we celebrate everybody&#8217;s birthday all at once! 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