Star Wars Lego Party

Jonah wanted a Star Wars Lego party this year.  I try to keep things simple, but sometimes if the theme is fun and easy, I do a little extra than planned.  It's hard when Pinterest is flooded with fun and creative ideas, and I'm not afraid to steal them.  No stressing though!  I'm not a fan of stressing out for a party.  I've learned that:).  So this time, I did what sounded fun and I did the prep work necessary to avoid the stress, and it worked!

 These little guys went in the goody bags  (those are glow sticks coming out of the paper if you couldn't tell), along with some homemade candied popcorn. Pinterest inspired, of course.

The most time consuming of the the prep work was this drawing of Yoda I made for "pin the light saber on Yoda." I did see this idea on Pinterest, but I wasn't interested in spending much money on the game, so I decided to draw Yoda.  I haven't sketched since high school, so I wasn't sure if it would even turn out, but I was content with the results.  The kids loved it, that's all that matters!

 And here's the birthday boy!  So excited!

 That little utensil holder made out of Lego, totally Pinterest!

 As people showed up, they had to guess how many Legos were in the jar.  Their guesses were too cute.  There were 237, and most of their guesses ranged from 7-100.  Most guessed in the 40's though:).  Our winner was actually this guy below (my nephew, Jordan) with a guess of 135.

Cooper, taking a moment to think, mid party.

 The next game we played was "pin the light saber on Yoda," like I mentioned.  It was a little loud and crazy containing all of those kids.

 This was the end result. :)

My attempt at getting a group shot.  Pretty much all of my pics didn't come out from that day.  I still haven't taken the time to master my camera, and I'm trying to shy away from auto, and just use the manual setting, but as you can see, I have a long way to go.  

 Boo for blurred pictures.

Jonah's request was white cake, white frosting, and vanilla ice cream.  Easy enough!

 After cake, we sent the kids out for an "asteroid hunt."  Rich hid foil balls all over the backyard and we gave them all bags to gather them.  We didn't tell them their was candy inside.

 That was a lot of fun for them.  They went nuts.  We had them count all of their "asteroids" when they got in, and then we told them there were little treasures inside, which they were pretty stoked about.

Again, sorry for the crumby pics!

Last, we did presents.

That ate up the rest of the time, and Rich and I took a big sigh of relief that we survived all of those energetic kids!!  Wahoo!