Trevor's Star Wars Lego Birthday Party

Continuing on in our busy week we have Trevor's 5th birthday party!! He requested a Lego Star Wars party and we're pretty sure he was very happy with everything!  He had a say in everything from the invites..

...to the goodie bags.  Yes, he needed one too :)  We made the bag to look like a Lego, then included a 'wookie cookie', Lego candies, various Star Wars pez dispensers and Lego mini figure crayons that had personalized Storm Troopers and other Star Wars figures.

Because he's turning five he got to pick 5 friends (which amounted to 5 families) and then one extra because it is his special day and it's hard when 3 of the families are neighbors!  When the kids came in they checked in and learned of their mission!

They were all anxious to start on their mission!  Here are Connor from his preschool class and his sister Kennedy:

We are thankful that we have a huge courtyard so that the pieces of the party could be held out there.  And also thankful that the weather is beautiful in mid-November so that it could be outside!

Kids designed their own light saber to then pin it on Yoda.  Everyone did really well!

Thumbs up Jack!

Connor:

Stella:

Kennedy:  (Mommy thought the blindfold may have been see through up until this!)

Claire:

Annastyn: (And check out the Princess Leia hair her Daddy did!!)

Maci:

Waiting in anticipation to see the winner of guess the number of Legos!

After everyone completed their mission they were given a Jedi certificate of completion for them to enter their house and get their Jedi gear!  Jedi robes, belt and light saber!

They all LOVED this!!!

They went outside to 'fight'...

...while Mommy got the food set-up.  Luke skwalking tacos, Darth Maul mac-n-cheese, Vader veggies, Jedi Jello, and pretzel light sabers!

After that it was cake time!  Trevor picked out the cake he wanted too!  A lego brick cake with mini-figures.  We surprised him with Star Wars Lego figures though :)

The kids were ready! 

Wow, what a cake!  Inside was vanilla cake with oreo filling!  Yum!

 He felt pretty special while his friends were singing!

Time to blow out the candles!

 Success! 

 

It isn't customary to open gifts at birthday parties in AZ we've found out but given the small number of attendees we let Trevor open his presents one by one in a separate room with the friend who gave it to him!  He was really excited to literally get a Star Wars Lego gift from Connor and Kennedy!

And you knew that we'd of course take a quick shot of our family to remember this day!

Four jedi robes and four light sabers left!  Will be great dress up for us all!

What a fun morning!  It was a crazy week but we wouldn't change anything.  To see the kids so happy and smiling is worth all of the hard work that goes into two house parties.  Although next year there may be a combined party or have Trevor's elsewhere :)  We will see!

Ashley's 2 year well check

Ashley had her 2 year well check today. You know, to cram more stuff in this week.  Oh and this appointment came an hour after the kids had their annual birthday pictures.  When it rains it pours :)  But a big shout out to Grandma Pauline and Papa John who met Mommy at the doctor and took Trevor to lunch so that Mommy could concentrate and actually talk to the doctor!  That was so extremely helpful!  Thank you so so much!  

Ashley's 2 year stats:

Height - 35" (81st percentile)

Weight - 28.6lbs (72nd percentile)

Who remembers that she was like 9th percentile just 6 months ago?  Yikes!  She's definitely growing but all is well!  The doctor is happy and so are we.  Her super small hernia is still there but our doctor isn't worried.  She believes it will close on its own this next year.  She has been right about everything else so we trust her.  Fingers crossed!  Dr. Engle does want more allergy testing done because Ashley continues to break out around her mouth a lot (we've lost track as to what foods cause it because it seems like it happens all the time) and she's super bloated and gassy.  How lucky for her that she most likely got Mommy's allergies :(  Will report back what we find out as soon as we can!

Ashley Birthday Party

At the last minute we decided to have a simple cake and ice cream gathering at our house to celebrate Ashley's 2nd birthday.  We invited a few of her little friends and their families over this evening which amounted to 27 people but it felt just right because that's what happens when you are good friends with your neighbors :)

Of course we wanted to celebrate the birth of our daughter but a small part of the reason we decided to have a little gathering was so that we had people to help consume the cupcake dress cake that we (Mommy) really wanted to have for her 2nd birthday.  Seriously, how cute is this?  Mommy found the tiara and wand at Target and then got some rhinestone ribbon and had the brooch in her jewelry box! 

We found Ashley a cute party dress for only $22 and of course she had a hand in picking out the matching bow.  The girl LOVES her bows and still requests one gets put on her head as soon as you open her bedroom door in the morning! 

We threw up some quick decorations (thankful for these poms that keep getting reused for various occasions) and lots of balloons that were put up after Mommy took a few quick pics.

Ashley seemed very pleased with the set-up! 

The sign that was up at her preschool announcing her birthday made its way to the back of her special chair.

Our pretty girl!

They just don't come much happier or cuter!  We're not biased or anything!

Ah balloons!!  And a special thanks to Remy for loaning her birthday sign to Ashley!

And another special thanks to our friend Katie for insisting that she get a picture of Mommy and daughter :)

Usually Mommy has a special book for all party guests to sign so that we remember who was at our kids birthday parties but nope, second child doesn't have one because of how last minute this party truly was.  Instead we printed off some princess coloring sheets and all of the kids colored Ashley a picture and wrote a special note to the birthday girl!  We'll put all the sheets in her baby book!

And before you knew it it was cake time!  All the older kids knew what to do :)

 Ashley is in the habit of crossing her arms often.  Totally reminds Mommy of her Grandma R which reminds Sara of such wonderful memories of her Grandma.

Ashley knew just what to do when the candles came on!  The kids were so funny...they started singing Happy Birthday so as to speed things up because the adults weren't moving fast enough.

Ashley was a little shy and turned away from the attention!

Get these candles off!  I have cake to dig into!

The lady that made the kids' cakes last year made them again this year.  One word - amazingly delicious.  Okay, that's two words. 

However our birthday girl quickly switched into ice cream mode.

She sat there for close to 30 minutes just eating.

Not sure where all that food goes!  But thankful that she isn't afraid to eat and is growing nicely!

Here are Grace and Caroline...two of her little friends that came to celebrate. 

And by 7:45 most everyone left for bedtime but we grabbed a quick family photo to always remember her 2nd birthday celebration. 

And Trevor requested a silly pic.  No problem!  Although we'll have to teach Ashley what to do.  She sees a camera and is pretty trained to say cheese and look cute :-)  

Glad that we did have a little something to celebrate Ashley's big 2nd birthday.  Just goes to show that things don't have to be fancy to create memories!  You just need a cake and friends :-)  Happy 2nd birthday Ashley!