Life as a Leach

For a long time, the kids just loved to play with the Legos!  I think they would have been perfectly happy if they had just played with the the entire time. We played "Pin the Spot on the Lego." Not everybody played this, but the ones who did loved it!  They had to pick up as many Legos as they could using only chopsticks (any way they could) in a minute.  Happy birthday, Caleb! The kids seemed to enjoy their cupcakes and other treats. Caleb got a ton of Lego and Star Wars stuff, so he was one happy boy! Caleb deemed this the best birthday ever.  I'm glad he had a good time, but I think maybe I should quit while I'm ahead!  :) He's already planning his next birthday party...an art party where kids paint different wooden and ceramic things with a painter's palate as the cake.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this was all his idea.  He does have a few of my planner genes...

For the plates, I got yellow square ones off of Oriental Trading with a Black Friday free shipping deal.  Woo hoo!  :) I then made little Lego bumps (like on the Lego heads) for each one by cutting up a yellow plate and gluing the small square on the back of the plate. I finished up by drawing different faces on each plate, which entertained the kids to no end!  These are the finished goody bags hanging up in the party room (which cost me only $25 and it was worth EVERY penny not to have it at my house!!) I should have taken step-by-step pictures of the marshmallow pops, but I didn't.  I bought the extra large marshmallows and the pop sticks.  Then I dipped each marshmallow in yellow Wilton's chocolate drops.  I needed something for the little nub at the top that wouldn't bleed onto the rest of the head (like M&Ms do), so I cut off the top of a candy corn (the yellow part) and stuck it on top of the pop immediately af...