Star Wars Birthday!

For some reason my children consider birthday's akin to Halloween. "What am I going to dress up as for my birthday mom?" Hmm. Not sure how they got this idea, but the theme parties continue around here. This time my big R turned 7!

This was the invite backdrop.

The party details were written on top in a free star wars font.

We just printed the pictures from home!

The idea of a Star Wars party was decided on and the imaginative play and dressing up began almost immediately. Quite conveniently we did Star Wars for Halloween last year. This Vader costume was hanging around since then. He chose to be a Jedi for the actual party. Little princess Leia is in a pillowcase and my belt!

My friend also did Star Wars last Halloween and lent us a genuine Leia costume so my daughter didn't have to wear a pillowcase to the actual party! Blaster from the dollar store.

Birthday boy wanted to be Luke. I got him a blue pool noodle and made a costume from old drapes left over from our apartment when he was first born.

We invited all the boys from R's class and some from last years class. 12 including the birthday boy. Wow. 12 is a lot of boys!!!

After getting Jedi vests and decorating lightsabers we tried them out a bit in the back yard.

Gotta have a balloon popping game. They loved it. It took 2 hours to blow up the balloons and 2 minutes for these dudes to destroy them.

Then we had a scavenger hunt for Star Wars figurines attached to clues that Yoda left us...

And we did attack Vader. Let's just say the spoils of this particular battle were sweet.

Check back later for a post about the food and projects for this party:)

Bowling Birthday

My clever sis and mom decided to celebrate my birthday by going bowling as a family!

the teams

I wasn't sure how it was going to be- but I loved it! I would definitely take the family back again. The kids had so much fun bowling for real- as opposed to the Wii. K actually beat the other 2 kids (and his dad)!

I think I got the best score of everyone, that makes it fun too. They probably let me win because it was my birthday!

And in my opinion every party should include ice cream cake, YUM!

K picked what to have written on the cake. Isn't he the cutest ever!

Tough guys -2

A few more snap shots of the Tough Guys camping trip...

Ready to go home!

And we're out

Tough guys

Another big event in May was the annual guys only camping trip known as Tough Guys that is legendary in my house. What little boy wouldn't want to camp with Dad, Grandad and Uncle and hike and do an obstacle course and get very dirty? I know it is way up there on my boys' list of perfect scenarios. There are a ton of pictures so this post is part one!

stay tuned for more...

boys and shoes

I bought these runners for R for about 30$ because his old ones were too small. They lasted about 2.5 months then this happened!So I broke out a pair we bought on spring break. He wore them once and now they look like this. Yikes.Speaking of shoes, I guess I need to find sandals for these boys now that it is getting sunny ocasionally.Because this look just won't do....

Friday Party

I can't believe I haven't posted anything here in over a month. Yikes. It might have had something to do with all the days I was working. A and I had just 3 days off together all month. Not a ton of down time. But we did get things done.

Most husbands would not love being left with the kids all their days off. Nor would they willingly take on 2 extra kids on a Friday just for fun. But I guess he likes to live on the wild side. And it was sunny so they played outside. That helps.