The Best Birthday Party Eber!

Cole turns 7 on monday and so we had his birthday party today. He wanted a transformer party so we got all the themed cups and plates and my mom figured that would be enough. We had decided the weekend before that we should make it a pool party since the pool was all cleaned out. We found a few days ago that there was supposed to be really strong winds this weekend so I set out to find a back up plan.

I started looking online for tranformer themed parties and I got a bunch of ideas from there. We had a lot of fun but it was a lot of work. I found the different autobot characters from the movie and printed out pictures of them in robot and in vehicle form. I cut the vehicle up into puzzle pieces and put them in an envelope on the back of the robot picture. The idea was for them to complete the puzzle and that would transform them into their vehicles so they could find the allspark.

They had to complete a couple missions before transforming which didnt go totally as planned because of the wind and dirt flying in everyones eyes. The kids had to run across the yard with a handful of ice and cover megatron with it so he would remain frozen. They also had to get energy spheres out of a bucket that I filled mostly with bubbles so it was hard to see the colors and they had to get only blue ones. They had fun but we rushed it and headed back inside. They transformed into their cars and had to go on a scavenger hunt to find the allspark. Which was a box I decorated and then filled with their goodie bags. I was a little irritated because there was an older girl there that would find the clues, read them to herself and then take off for the next one leaving the little kids clueless. Then she went on about how it was so easy. I did plan it for 6 and 7 year olds not 11. Oh well!

Then for some crazy reason the kids still wanted to swim so while we made lunch we let them. It didnt last long though before they ran inside shivering! They had lunch and cake and Cole opened his presents. The other idea I read or heard somewhere was writing out the thank you cards while they opened presents and then putting it in the kids treat bags to take home so that made things really easy. I feel a little bad that Cole didnt write them though. Maybe Ill make him write more.

We finished the party with the pinata which we realized had way too much candy!!! Every kid had probably more than they got trick or treating last year!