Rees' Lego Party

Rees turned 8! Wow I can't believe it. He wanted a Lego party so a Lego party we did. He was super excited and helped me plan and prepare for the party. He even designed and helped make his own invitations. They played Lego charades, where the kids picked a word and built it while everyone else guessed. We then played "knock it down" where we had two teams and the kids each got life sized Legos (diaper boxes and such that Jared spent an hour spray painting the night before - love you honey!) and they had ammo (bean bags) and they got five minutes to throw ammo and build there Lego walls at the same time. Needless to say it was a little crazy, but fun. The tallest tower declared the winning team each round. Then we stacked a Lego wall and they got three bean bags to try and knock it down. We then ate lunch of Rees' favortie kinds of pizza.

They then split into two teams again and went on a Lego scavenger hunt. I hid the clues in the neighborhood and they had to do different things to find the next one (math problem, map, decode, etc. ). In each clue were some legos that they had to keep and at the end the last clue told them what to build. They then got there goodie bags on completion. I think the boys had fun. It was a little difficult at times but they finished. We then had cake and ice cream and presents. Rees loved the fondant off of my cake from my birthday, so my same friend Denise made him a Lego cake with fondant. He was super excited!

On his real birthday he helped with the family to clean the church building (keeping it real) and played with his presents all day and rented a movie to watch. We can't believe that Rees is 8! He is such a joy to have and such a helper to our family, we love you Rees!

Lego Charades

Rees with some birthday loot.