Parties

You know I love a good party.
May and June are always packed full of them.

We just attended a darling Star Wars Birthday party for Fin and Tucks' cousin Kayson. When Fin woke up this morning she was still talking about it. It was such a clever party complete with a Certificate of Jedi Training. Her fave (besides the goody bag) was the lightsaber made out of 1/2 a pool noodle and duct tape. The food was great too! "Wookie"-wieners and "chewie"-bacca chocolate brownies.

Last Friday my friend and I threw a mother-daughter Super Hero Party for our Achievement Day girls. I dressed as Incredi-girl, which should have stood for incredibly bad speller. Can you see the mistake!?

We sent out these invitations and asked the mothers and daughters to make each other capes describing the others Super Hero powers. We served this delicious food (scroll down to cafe rio pork salad), and had a secret mission for them to complete at the end of the night. A dinner party for 40 is lot of work, but well worth the end result. One of my favorite pieces of decoration were the place mats. I didn't end up getting a great shot of them, or anything else for that matter. Too much work, too little time.

The Crowd of Super Heroes decorating their masks
We also had them write a letter to each other and we glued it to the back of the place mats.

The Food
It really was so super delicious try out the recipe. The link is above.

The Place mats

Keely colored in 40 Wonder Woman pages from a coloring book and I cut out everyone's face and glued it onto the body. I must say some were hilarious!

The Secret Mission
There were six tasks to complete based on the Wonder Woman comic. One required them to have NO FEAR as they reached into a bucket of goop to pull out their next clue.

Nothing Can Defeat You
When life gives you Lemons you must learn to make Lemonade

Some of the other Tasks were:
Wonder Woman helps those in need. Sanitize one Nursery toy each.
To be a Super Hero you must have a great costume. They earned bracelets of victory and used her tiara like a boomerang to knock over a pyramid of cans.
The Golden Lasso of Truth: You must decipher the Lie. (Keely had 3 truths and a lie of her own)
Mine were:
A. Used to own and train purebred horses.
B. Once rode a camel through the desert to the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
C. Has come face to face with a Grizzly Bear
D. Is married to her 5th grade boyfriend.



On a totally different topic
...here is a random picture of the garage of my dream house for ali.