A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

Ezekiel is officially 5 years old! And those of you that know him know that since this time last year he eats, sleeps and drinks anything Star Wars. We have almost the entire collection of Galatic Heroes Star Wars figures and whenever he finds one he doesn't have we have to get it and save it for birthdays, Christmas, etc... So it was a no brainer that this year he was going to have a Star Wars party.

The day began with everyone coming to the front door.

And then entering into the basement

(it was nice to have the unfinished basement that the kids couldn't hurt) The kids all got name tags when they came in because there was no way I was going to be able to remember everyone's names. We had a total of 14 kids (including mine) there. They were able to chose between being a Jedi Kinght and then be named Master (insert name) or they were Sith and name Darth (insert name). The kids thought that was great! We ate pizza and then played two games. The first was like pin the tail on the donkey but instead it was put the buttons on Darth Vader's suit.


The next I found on the internet and I highly recommend to anyone. I took the skinny water swim noodles and cut them into thirds. Then I took electrical tape and taped the bottoms in order to make handles--and instantly had soft lightsabers for all!!! So we began by playing a game where they used the lightsabers to keep a balloon off the ground. It then escalated to a war between the Sith and Jedi!And then they all turned against the Emperor!

They were thrilled to find out that the lightsabers were theirs to keep!!
(By this time 4 of the kids had already left--that is why there are only 10 in the photo) Dave picked up the cake and didn't noticed that they spelled Ezekiel's name wrong
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The Darth Vader on the cake is a voice changer!!
Guess Who opened this present?Zeke reveling in his gift from Grandma and PapaThe Battle of Hoth from Mom and Dad
Overall it was a great birthday and Ezekiel really had a lot of fun...Actually all the kids did. The party was only an hour and a half--next time I would make it an hour!! HAHAHA!