Seth turns into a 6 year old Jedi

I am crazy, that's all I can say.  And thanks to the phenomenon Pinterest I have more crazy ideas popping up all the time.  This time's crazy adventure was Seth's 6th birthday.  I would literally lie awake at night (while I should be sleeping considering I have a 2 week old baby that keeps me up most the night) thinking about and planning his party.  I think I secretly enjoy it, you know, planning things like this (which is ironic due to the amount of stress caused by youth conference...see youth conference post).  There were just so many ideas on Star Wars birthday parties I couldn't ignore them. Here's how it went down.  We started the party making our own paper R2-D2's, followed by adorning all his friends in jedi robes and enrolling them in Jedi training.  Cordelle was the Jedi master that taught them how to use a light saber.  Then we hit the death star pinata (created by Seth and I over the course of 3 days which, note to self, was ridiculously tedious and tricky to make and probably survived only 4 whacks from my 5-6 year old crowd).  Then onto my main event.  I had set up this whole Jedi training course in my back yard and they all took turns running through it with their light sabers.  Obstacles included helium balloons with storm trooper faces on them tied down to pieces of wood that the kids would knock over with their light sabers, shooting little star wars action figures with a nerf gun, saving princess lea (Jaq up in the swing set), crawling through tunnels and over lakes (swimming pools) and ending fighting Darth Vader (Cordelle) in the garage.  It had its strengths and weaknesses but I think it turned out pretty fun.  I even caught Seth setting up another training course weeks later similar to the one he had so at least it made an impression.  We followed up with cake and ice cream and an air compressor powered, 2-liter bottle rocket in the back yard till parents came. 
  So here are the pictures. I cant believe I didnt get any pics of the training course (but we were literally still setting it up when kids came).  I did get video of them running through it.   I promised myself and Seth that we have to switch off and do a family party next year.  He was of course totally confused at why we would do that and I will probably cave and do another friend extravaganza next year so I dropped the topic.  Thankfully Collin slept through the whole thing and Cordelle was home to help because 8 kids thinking they were real Jedi's was a handful.

Cordelle looks more like a Nephite than a jedi master but oh well.  You tell a kid he's a jedi master and the costume is irrelevant

Jaq was supposed to be lea and one of the girls (McKinnley) didn't want to be a jedi, but I think everyone had a good time

cake and ice cream!