The Party

I don't know a little boy, or a big boy for that matter, that doesn't like Star Wars. Colby wanted the theme for his party to be Star Wars again this year. Only this year, he was very specific about how everything would be set up. Jengo Fett seemed to be his favorite character this year...so as hard as those were to find...we found him (thank you amazon) and made sure he was the central part of the invitation and cake.

Colby designed his cake. A few weeks before we ordered it at the store, b/c last year I learned my lesson about his birthday and a little thing called graduation. We purposely went into the store early so that we wouldn't be told they were too busy with graduation cakes, but when Matt went to pick it up - they had made it the weekend before despite what the order said - and were out of buttercream. What? Oh my goodness! What will we do? No cake-we would have had one severely disappointed birthday boy who had put quite a lot of effort into designing it. But our local store pulled through. Had buttercream sent from another location and made it in a few hours so it would be ready for the party.

Colby is comfortable with the familiar. So his plan was very similar to last year as well. His request was a big bouncy slide with water. After looking at rental prices, we decided to just buy one because it made more sense. Rain was in the forecast for the entire week and the day of, so we were very worried we were going to be rained out for the 4th time out of 6 years of parties. Colby got to experience his own little miracle after praying that it wouldn't rain at his birthday - the sun shone and it was hot, hot, hot - perfect for playing in the water.

Colby and his best buddy from school - Charlie - he seriously loves this kiddo.

Matt and I made these light sabers from pool noodles, duct tape, and electrical tape. I found the idea on several blogs and totally copied it, but made it my own. It was easy, just a little time consuming tearing tape, but not bad, and the kids loved them!

Another idea I found online was to play a "free Han Solo" game. We froze two Han Solo action figures and had the kiddos relay race dumping water on them to thaw Han Solo.

We made them a little too big because after lots and lots of running....

and running....and dumping...and dumping...we still had not successfully freed Han Solo.

So Daddy brought out the hot water and we melted him out of there as fast as we could. The kids loved it anyway, and were so excited to finally get him out of his icy trap.

We had a giant water balloon fight, that lasted less than 5 minutes. You know how that goes - you spend what feels like hours tying hundreds of waterballoons - and they are gone in two seconds. After drying off- we heading inside for cake!

Then we had some wild light saber fighting - Holy Moly- it was crazy fun!

The kiddos that came to the party were - Anna, Keely, Zack, Charlie, Champ, Calvin, Case, Cooper, 2 of our darling new neighbors Tommy and Sammy, and of course Brody.

We wrapped things up with presents....

and then Mom and Dad passed out! :)