In a galaxy far, far away...

We survived Gabe's Star Wars party! It rained! Argh! It was not quite as good as we hoped since we had 20 kids packed in the house, but it worked. Gabe liked it so that's all that counts.

Even the chalkboard wall got a little decoration.

I made lightsabers out of pool noodles (to see how, click here), and the kids loved them, but they got a little out of control with them unfortunately. But they were all very excited that they got to take them home. 

We played several games. We had Jedi balance games where they had to balance on one foot on a rock to see who could stay up the longest and they had to try to stand up together, back to back with arms linked. And they tried to drop straws in a bottle and we just renamed it The Trench Run. We had them use lightsabers to get balloons in a pen and called it Nerfherding. And defend their hoop from Asteroids (bean bags). We did a relay race, but our Obstacle Course and our Deathstar game couldn't work inside, so that was a bit of a bummer.

I made Gabe a Millenium Falcon cake. Here he is getting ready to blow out the candles.

The food was fun, we did a few creative things with that (click here to read more on the food). We of course all had to get dressed up. Gabe was dressed as a Jedi (based on Obi-wan's outfit, but he decided to just be himself),

Chi had a Yoda robe, but he lost it before the party started and he didn't really care,

I was Princess Leia at the Battle of Hoth, 

and Matt (whom we forgot to photograph) was a Republic Officer. He dressed in dark gray pants and shirt and then made his rank insignia out of duct tape and sharpie marker.

So, today for the official birthday, we are keeping it low key. It's still bad weather so Gabe and Chi have just been playing with all Gabe's new toys. We are taking him out for a birthday dinner tonight, but not a second cake. One elaborate cake a birthday is enough. :) Gabe is excited to seven years old. He says he feels older.