Jack's Lego Birthday Party: Part Two

What do you get when you combine a Lego Fanatic and a Birthday Party?  Well, keep reading to find out!  Jack turned six and there was not a question to ask when it came to picking a theme for his birthday party.  Legos, legos, legos.  Ah...dejavu?  Well, he did decide to change up the theme a bit...we went from Lego Minifigures to Lego City Police.  Come celebrate with us...

You know you are in the right place when you see this on the door!  Jack and I made it together.  It is so fun and easy!  How?  Take a $3.99 straw wreath.  About 500 balloons and stick pins and just start pinching and pushing, repeat until hand cramps, crippleing you or you run out of balloons.

Reduce, reuse, recycle!  We used last year's Happy Birthday Banner made out of red felt and letters in the LEGO font traced with yellow marker. 

The snack section.  We didn't do a full meal this year but heavy snacks for those that didn't get a chance to eat before coming.  New printables and the same lego cardstock from last year helped us dress up the snacks!

New touch this year...lego lanterns.  Inspired by watching Tangled one too many times with the kids.  Plan to hang these in Jack's room as decorations. 

A few repeats from last year with slight twists. 

1.  Changed the art to this Lego City Mural.  Gary made the frame by breaking up smaller, less expensive black frames and sealing them together.  Smart guy I married, huh? 

2.  Marshmellow pops...now all Police Men...

3.  Lego candy in Lego boxes. 

4.  Gift bags.  Filled with Lego crayons, lego minibags, and lego barretts for the girls!

5.  Lego frames and Lego pictures.  We used these as place settings as Jack had a bit of an opinion about where everyone should seat.  He was quite thoughtful too, ensuring children who got along the best sat next to each other.  Cute!

But a party isn't a party without a bit of fun (you thought I was going to say cake, didn't you.  We had that too!)  A wonderful man from Buildfun.com (Mike) lead the kids in three builds...a spaceship, race cars, and a free build!!!  Super fun!

Happy Birthday Jack!  You have filled our lives with joy!  We are so proud of the boy you are and the boy I know you are on the path to becoming! 

Love you forever,
Like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

Mom

Lego Party Take Two

We had so much fun with the Lego Party last year...can we say RERUN!  Of course, just to challenge me a bit...Jack decided to not just have another Lego Party...but to have a Lego CITY party.  So here we go...

Apparently in 2012 Balloon Wreaths are all the rage.  We carried the blue, gray and silver balloon theme with the typical balloons up the banister thing we do here each year :)

The kids had so much fun creating their lego scenes--the also made a lego robotic and race lego cars of their own creation.  COOL!!!

After games it was time to eat.  Jack and Dad built the Lego police centerpiece.  We did place settings with homemade lego frames and lego pitures (pixels) of each child--which they took home as one of their party favors!  It was a lot of fun seeing the kids walk around trying to figure out which pixelated photo was of themselves!  Check out the amazing lego plates...cool!

The lego marshmallows repeated but this time we made all lego police faces (Dad did great!!!)  

Bronwyn tested.  

Jack approved.

This was a fun decoration.  Filled this paint cans with legos. and hunt front the chandelier.

Let there be cake.  Happy Sixth Birthday.  Hope you wished for something more than 'every Lego in the world'  :)  :)  :)

 Looks like you had fun at your party.  I know your friends really enjoyed celebrating with you!

We had a bit of time left before everyone's parents came to get them...who knew this many Kindergarteners could fit into your clubhouse :)

Happy Birthday Jack!  You have filled our lives with joy!  We are so proud of the boy you are and the boy I know you are on the path to becoming!  May you have the most fantastic year!!!  (and can we find a new obsession...I'm done with Lego parties)  ;)

Love you forever, 
Like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be.

Mom

Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween!  From these scary creatures of All  Hallows Eve!

Day started with Centers in Jack's Class.  We charted spiders, explored fall senses and played Halloween Bingo.  This is Jack's teacher reading Frightfully Funny Stories.

But the fun began at 5:15 pm, when all the ghosts, goblins and ghouls gathered on the neighbors' lawns to play and eat pizza (and some just played with their pizza...) before the candy gathering tradition began.

Our Street's Kids!

Jack and his Best Bud Devin!

Bronwyn and her future babysitters!

Have you guessed what the kids are for Halloween yet?  Jack went as a Fighter Jet Pilot.  He explained to his class that,  "My weapon is a B-2.  You may not know but "b" stands for bomber.  I don't know what the 2 stands for.  But, I fly in stealth mode which is sort of like flying invisible as I evade radar."  That's our Jack! 

Bronwyn LOVED being Cindy Lou. This costume was decided a year ago when she was first spotted in pigtails. It clearly was her destiny! She was the hit of the pizza party!

Halloween was ushered in with a few scary sight at our home.  This giant spider is one of many...a new form of time out too!

The kids did great!   Here's Bronwyn's first house.  Clearly she has no issues with strangers as she was trying her best to bypass the candy and see what was in  the fridge!

And their loot!  Three piles.  Their personal stash, stash  for Halloween Witch, and the confiscated peanut butter stash.  We only got one popcorn bag and no raisins ;) It was a good night!