Star Wars Party: The Rest...

 The cake! 

 We had chili, black bean soup, and home made mac and cheese for supper, but many of the kids, like myself, skipped all that stuff in favor of cake.  (I found the most amazing frosting recipe, that EVEN I can make...)

The background frosting was a rather alarming shade of blue, that stained every tongue.  We got Miss L's mom to demonstrate.

Miss A approved of her cake.

 Not sure Master C did...

And of course we also opened presents!  (Heretofore, I have always requested no presents, since I believe we have way too many toys!  But, I was considering before this party, and thought that I don't want to take away any birthday magic from my girls, now that Miss A at least is old enough to understand and look forward to presents...  Still don't know if that is the right choice?)

Grandma gave her a beautiful Chinese girl dress...

 Miss M enjoyed her pinata spoils...

 Miss K gave her some Barbies...

Miss A fondled her new Star Wars play dough...

 Everybody oohed and ahhed over the Masters Cs' present- a huge Millennium Falcon with lots of stuff...

 She opened cards...

 Containing cash...  Miss A hauled on the presents. She got an awesome stepping stone kit, a huge marker art set, big star wars coloring book, star wars figures, star wars activity book with light saber pen, great star wars bag, books (yay!), legos, and a solar powered helicopter kit.  We gave her some My Little Pony stuff, including (imagine heavenly angels singing...) Princess Celestia!!!  Miss A, uh, really, really, really likes that Princess Celestia.  She has been taking it with her for her walk to and from school, and today when she got a good behavior sticker at school, she asked her teacher for an extra one for Princess Celestia.

 Miss R inspected the spoils...  (Way past her expiration date.  We need to plan the next party either earlier or later, so she can be awake, or in bed.)

But Miss J and Master M loved playing with her and showering her with attention.

 I remembered to take a few pictures in front of the backdrop, but not many...

It was a fun party!

Star Wars Party: The Pinata...

 I wrote here about the wonderful pinata that Grandma and Daddy made.  It was the hit of the party!  And although I didn't want to see it smashed, I'm glad the kids all had so much fun doing it...

Daddy hung the pinata up from a tree and had  the kids go at it.

Miss A got to go first, since it was her birthday.

 Not a lot of damage done to the Death Star by her...

 Master A went next.  He got some good hits in.  I was actually worried that the Death Star wouldn't make it through everybody.  But Grandma had made it extra tough, and Daddy did a good job of keeping it away from the hard hitters.

 Master M came next...

 Then Miss J, who did a remarkable job of dressing like Princess Leia.

Then Miss K,

Good form!  I'm thinking she is a baseball player in the making...

Miss M,

 All the kids were good about taking turns.

 Master C,

 

Then Miss M got a turn, she didn't really get the concept...

 Miss L

 Master C,

Then we gave the light saber to the big hitter, Master N, who inflicted severe damage, and made the string fall out.

 So Daddy pitched it to K to finish it off.  (When I asked Miss A who she wanted to invite to her party, she specifically asked for K and M, two of our (grown-up) friends.  They were good enough sports to come.)

 

 Nice hit.

 Even then, Daddy had to help rip it open. 

 

 Rest in peace Death Star...