Matthew's Birthday Continued

We did some other Matthew birthday activities throughout the weekend due to snow and just a very busy Saturday to begin with.  We did a pretend Jedi Training Academy where the kids had to complete different training tasks.  A lot of it had to do with lightsabers.

 Pin the lightsaber on Yoda

 We fought the storm troopers a lot

 Here's Anna trying to clear the room of storm troopers

 Grant would sometime volley them back in the room.

He may have turned to the dark side.

 After a long battle some of the storm troopers started sticking on the ceiling from the static

 They also had to battle Darth Vader

The Darth Vader mask was a kids size, so it was not quite the right proportion - my head looks really small.  But we still had fun with it.  They loved trying to kill me with their lightsabers.

 Here's Matthew's training checklist

 On Monday we finally made it to Steak and Shake for Matthew's special birthday dinner

Here's John drinking my milkshake

 Emma fussed a little bit at the restaurant
Grant is her new best buddy.  He seems to be able to make her laugh when she is sad.

And here are the kids trying to destroy the death star.

We made an old school paper mache pinata.

 Everyone took a swing at it

 Matthew finally put it out of its misery

And the candy scramble!  Destroying the death star was our last activity.  I asked Matthew if he was happy with his birthday and he said he was.  Later he said he was happy because he got (for his birthday) "scriptures, a nerf gun and a football - everything an eight year old boy needs."  And he is super excited to start cub scouts.