It's someone's birthday

I can't believe Logan is 6! Wow how time has seemed to fly by. This year Logan had a Mario themed party. I wanted to make my living room into a giant game board. My idea was to make the kids feel like they were in the video game.We moved all of our furniture into the garage. I taped cutouts to the floor that had different games the kids would play if they landed on them. When the kids arrived I split them up into Mario and Luigi teams. The kids would take turns rolling a giant dice and they moved spaces according to the roll. I started each team out with 5 coins. If they landed on a game piece they got to play that game to earn coins. If they landed on a goomba they lost a coin. The object of the game was for each team to earn 20 coins to earn the big star reward. The mini games included: Coin jump. I taped coins to the ceiling with string. The kids had to use their jumping power to grab the coins. Get goomba: The kids would pop brown balloons to get the coins. Some had coins in them and some didn't. My favorite was tug of war. The team who won that game was rewarded 5 coins. We had a game called boom box. I used a plastic jar to put in mario stars and bombs. The kids would stick their hands in and grab a card. If they got a bomb they lost a coin. If the got a Mario they earned a coin. Yoshi walk was done by using spoons and green speckled eggs. The kids had to walk across the lawn holding a spoon with a Yoshi egg on it. They then had to pass the egg to the next player on the team. The first team to get all of the players across the line, without breaking the egg got 5 coins. Hammer throw: I had the kids throw a sledge hammer at some Mario turtles. If they knocked them down they got a coin. By the end each team had plenty of coins to earn their star reward. A star pinata.

My living room
I used blue plastic table cloths for the background.

Each kid got either a Mario hat or a Luigi hat. A good friend of mine helped me make these cool hats. I used a large bowl and a lid from a sour cream tub for the template.
Each kid also got an honorary mustache drawn on their face.
Logan kept his mustache on for the rest of the day until I made him wash it off to go to the store with me.
Hammer Throw

Tug of war
Get goomba
Since the party was at lunch time we made mini pizzas using english muffins, pizza sauce, cheese and pepperonis.
The star reward. I had the kids hit the pinata with a plunger (a new one)Anyone who has played Mario Brothers knows that Luigi and Mario are plumbers :)
My favorite part of the party is when the surprise guest Bowzer came to visit. I bought small plastic balls that the kids got to throw at him. A.K.A fire power. Our good friends the Bray's let us use this costume for our party. Cara's husband Bobby was in the costume when he made his grand entrance for the first time and was attacked with fire power to his death. The following pictures were taken after the party when we took one on one pictures. Morgan got to play Bowser this time.

The cake
I drew a mushroom onto cardboard and cut it out to use it as a guide to cut the cake.

Mario and Luigi teams

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!!