Happy 6th Birthday Luke

Can you believe that Luke is now 6 years old?! We celebrated in true Iron Man style the Saturday before his birthday.

The festivities began with all the kids making armor arm bands while we waited for all the guests to arrive.

We then tested their super hero abilities with several games. First we tested the sense of direction with "Pin the Spark on Tony Stark."

Then the evil Modok threatened to destroy our party fun with bombs. Luckily, the super heroes were able to diffuse (pop) the bombs just in time.

All super heroes need to be quick, so a test of their speed was conducted with a race.

Then we were off to an obstacle course in the back yard that included climbing over the fence, jumping over obstacles, looking for gold in the sandbox, shooting a basketball into the hoop, blowing a bubble and going through string obstacles. Here are our friends Landon and Toa during the course.

We worked up quite an appetite with all those skills tests and headed into the kitchen to refuel on birthday cake. Make a wish Luke!

Our friend Kira playing on the play set during our refreshment break.

Here's Miriam enjoying the pretzels! After food, the super heroes needed to destroy the evil Modok once and for all. Luke, Miriam and I had made a Modok pinata for this very moment. Here's a before picture of the pinata:

Here's Caleb attempting to destroy the villain.

Modok was defeated and now we can celebrate with CANDY! I had to risk my life to get in the midst of these kids to help scatter the candy towards the back for the kids who couldn't get into the grabbing. Miriam was very grateful though for my sacrifice!

Present Time!

After presents, we sent the super heroes home! It was such a great party and I am so grateful for our friends Tamme and Sean who stayed to help with all the games. Luke loved all of his new toys and even shared several of them with Miriam...on a temporary basis, of course.

On Tuesday, his actual birthday, we celebrated with his classmates during snack time with frosted sugar cookies.

Once we were back at home, Luke got to open the presents from his family. He refused to open them on Saturday at the party because he wanted to have something to open on his actual birthday. That was a very big deal to him!

Luke got to eat his favorite Pepperoni Pizza for dinner and have leftover birthday cake.

Happy 6th Birthday Luke!

We love you so much. Thank you for the joy that you bring into our lives!