Lego Insanity

This was not the ideal week to be planning a party. Along with all the usual busy we had two dentist visits for Chloe, the assistant preschool teacher was out of town so I got asked to come sub for her, old furniture had to be removed from my living room, new furniture had to be delivered and oh yeah, Seth went out of town. Ack! Last Sunday a friend invited him on a hunting trip. They have talked about doing this all year but never firmed up plans so we thought he would be here when I set the date for the party, but alas, he was not. I don't know how I pulled it off. Oh wait, I forgot, I am superwoman!

Kidding, kidding! I put Seth to work all week before he left town. The only good thing about having him leave was being able to say since you aren't going to be here to help me I need you to.... over and over again. I am not usually "that wife" who never lets her husband leave the house or makes him feel guilty for doing his own thing. I get that he has his own life but party planning does me in and I admit that I had a little bit of an oh no you didn't attitude this week. But along with crafting and building with me all week, Seth also recruited our friend, Natalie to come over and help me pull this thing together. Natalie was actually in my Primary class when I moved here and now she is a Senior in High School which means I have been here forever. But she is awesome and hanging out with her kept me from freaking out before and during the party and I would not have gotten everything done without her. I baked and made decorations all day and night on Thursday and Friday and into Saturday morning, then slept a couple hours and then Natalie joined me and we worked like mad for 3 hours before the party and were still throwing out tablecloths and decorations as guests were arriving.

Once I stood back and looked, this party looked pretty simple. I assure you, it was not. There were so many time consuming little details and I learned that time consuming little details are completely lost on 8 year old boys. Alyssa's friends always look and admire everything and these boys just grabbed and devoured. I am thinking this is the last age where Alex will have a theme party...next time I will just take them somewhere where they can run and yell.

But whether or not they "got it" I still enjoyed it in my sick, twisted, stressed and sore and tired way.

I meant to take pics of the creating process but only remembered to stop and take a few along the way. These are chocolate lego mold guys that I then painted chocolate clothes and faces on. Only one green ninja because that is Alex's favorite Ninjago character.
 
I saw these lego head pops online and they attached a smartie to the top of the marshmallow and then dipped them. I thought that was an extra step and I just jammed the stick all the way through the top of the marshamallow and let the tip of the stick serve as the lego top. The ones online used black food marker for faces but I didn't have one so I piped faces on with chocolate...so I guess in the end I took one shortcut and made up for it by taking the long way with the faces.

 
I have seen this a million times so I had to do it, but guess how many people used the bathroom and saw it? Yep, none.
 
Handmade sign and my goodie bar, which I thought would be simpler than a cake, but I was wrong. The foam is still showing in my cake pop jars but we did fix that before guests arrived. The jars were supposed to be filled with legos but we ran out of time and used confetti string.
 
 
We got a new TV and the empty boxes were too much for me to resist so I had to turn them in to giant legos.

 
Alex put some legos creations of his out on display.
 
These giant legos were supposed to hang from the ceiling but ended up just sitting atop my windows due to time constraints.There was another batch on the other side of the room
 

 
The baby food jar lego head guys in the middle of the table were my favorite idea that I found online. The instructions said they took two coats of spray paint. Mine took about 10! 
 
Lego ice cubes
 
The first thing the kids did was eat square pizza. That's the best I could do for lego food. Then they each got a lego car kit. It included instructions for 3 different cars but most of them did their own thing and came up with some creative stuff.

 
Then they raced. Boys are so rough and I thought our foam board track was going to get torn to shreds but it held together.

 
Then they had to get legos from their plate in to a cup with a straw.


 
And the next game I saw online, but it wasn't that great in real life. They had to pass legos through the tube to a partner.



 
Alex showing you that the legos on the cake were cake bites, and I shoved sticks in some of them to make cake pops as well.
 

 
This is what happens when you try to get a group shot of boys. 
 
I meant to take pictures of the loot for the goodie bags but forgot. It included these candy legos that you can actually build wih, their lego set that they used to build their car, a mini lego figure kit, and two of those baby food jars filled with Starburst.


Alex loved every loud minute of it and the best part about having a lego themed party is that all the guests bring you legos!!!

I was so relieved when it was over! I almost had time to exhale but I had to run out and shop for Seth's birthday (tomorrow) and we have family coming in this week and Alex's baptism next Saturday. I honestly have not even had a chance to sit down and see if my new couch is comfortable yet, or to go get some accent pillows to replace the ugly 70's ones that were included.

My kids are loving it though, but what's funny is that we finally have lots and lots of space and they are all sitting right on top of each other on the chaise. Go figure!

We have since centered the rug and removed the tags. And do you see Bernie sitting there. If you put his blanket on him he just sits under it. He falls asleep or plays with his toys but rarely gets up when his blanket is on. It is a magical little trick to know.
 
And since I was grabbing the last pic off my phone I figured I'd bring this one along as well. Chloe got so sick of shopping this week...so many trips to Target, Walmart, Party City, Dollar Tree...she was over it so when she refused to go in Hobby Lobby again unless she could wear a Batman mask and cape I said what the heck.
 

Alright, Seth will be home any minute so I better go wrap his presents.