Star War's Birthday Party

Today we had a birthday party for Tyler's 8Th b-day. We had NINE boys over from the neighborhood. They each made their own light saber from a pool noodle, then we played "keep the meteor up." They had to see how long they could keep a balloon up and the winner got a prize. We then played "pin the light saber on Yoda." Eric free handed a picture of Yoda and the kids took turns putting their drawn light saber on it. Next was "destroy the death star." We had appr 25 balloons and each had a piece of paper in it. The kids popped them and the one with a star on it won a light saber. We did presents, cake, and had Yoda soda. It was fun for the kids but a lot of work and exhausting. The kids each got a goodie bag with a glow stick, milky way, starbursts, pencil, and glow in the dark stars plus they got to take their light saber's home. Eric hung black plastic all along a wall in our basement, had one hanging in the doorway to the basement, put stars and moons, and had black lights for galaxies. It made a cool effect and the kids enjoyed it.


This is Tyler's "light saber" cake.




I feel relieved that it's over with but now we have the baptism next week. Tyler is very excited for it and is looking forward especially to having Grandma Pat come up from Colorado!