Jedi Training for Drew's 5th Birthday!

Our Drewby is 5!!! Gosh, that seems like such a big birthday! From the minute his 4th birthday party was over, he's been talking about the Star Wars party he would have for his 5th birthday. He stuck with that theme all year so that's what we went with! He only listed a few kids when we talked about the invite list so I decided to have the party at home this year. Thanks to the internet, I found lots of "Jedi training" games for Star Wars birthday parties. Drew celebrated with David, Whitley and seven good buddies. Although there were ten kids in the house, it didn't seem all that chaotic to me. I tried to organize lots of games to keep them busy and although they enjoyed those, they also just wanted to play. There were lots of costumes, light sabers and other Star Wars fun. Then on Monday the 12th, Drew's actual birthday, he celebrated at school with his classmates. He has really made some good friends there so I'm glad he was able to celebrate with them too. Thank you Sam's Club for the delicious cakes for both parties! Happy birthday to our smart, handsome, funny Drewby!!! We love you to pieces!

We went out to dinner at Red Robin on Drew's birthday. We had such a nice dinner out. It made George and I laugh that we all had such a good time. Drew turning five made me feel kind of old and then the fact that we had a fun dinner at Red Robin just confirmed that fact. Oh well, can't remember a time that I've been any happier than now :)

In costume (of course!) for his party.

Drew really wanted cool decorations. Here's what we did with the dining room table.

Whitley plays "Pin the ear on Yoda"

Stomping out the hot lava (red bubble wrap).

Grabbing the candy after attacking the Darth Vader pinata.

The whole group.

The "Yoda soda" was probably the biggest hit of all! See the empty punch bowl? Green sherbet and Sprite, an easy and fun treat! I glued Yoda ears on the green cups and George drew Yoda faces on them. They turned out really cute!