The Big Party

I need to give myself (and Chad) props here, for managing to throw what was, undoubtedly, one of the most frugal birthday parties in the history of birthday parties. Oh ya, and it was tons of fun.

The boys built Lego cars out of Trevor's Lego....
Then they raced the cars on a track Chad put together from old plastic boards...
They blew up "The Death Star"....(Chad even put baby powder inside the Death Stars, for a dramatic explosion...so cool!):
And they dissected the owl pellets that have been showing up on our lawn for weeks.....
R2 was a hit....
But, in Episode 7, he was destroyed by a pack of hungry Padawan.....Happy, happy birthday, Manny!

R2 D2

So, Trev is a Star Wars nut these days. This we know. And I had a feeling he would request a cake for his party that had something to do with Wookies or Death Stars or Jedi Knights. We consulted a lot on this, and checked out a million pictures of the internet (some very daunting, by the way....Who are these crazy cake people who make the spectacular 3-D fondant sculptures???), before we finally settled on the cutest little astromech droid on the block: R2D2.

Here's how the day went:

What do you do with 3 old bananas early in the morning?

Much to the shock of my children, who rarely see me preparing anything that involves measuring, I made some muffins. Clara thought such a rare occasion deserved to be immortalized. So here I am.