In a galaxy far far away....

It was Bridger's 5th Birthday party on Saturday--his first one with friends--and he was soooo excited!  I don't know what started his fascination with Star Wars, but that's what he requested.  Look at this pose, he calls it his "Master Yoda" face...





Here he is with Queen Amadala.  I had no idea how to dress her up like that--so I gave her 7 ponytails with 7 ribbons and she was pretty happy about that. 





Master Jedi Nielson and his young padawan, Bridger.  Jeremy trained all the younglings to become jedi's.  He was the best one for the job too, the kids loved it!


Sweet Charlotte was so good during the party.  And luckily, Jeremy's parents were able to come and help out, because a little baby is a full time job :)


Here's all the kids minus two who came later--they were all so cute in their costumes!  I thought it was funny that none of the girls (except Kennedy) dressed up.  I'm sure if it were a princess party, things would be different!



Bridger requested rainbow cupcakes for his cake.  Well, really he didn't ask for them, I recommended them, but he was happy nonetheless.  I was just excited to try them out :)


And I'm on a water-bottle-label-making kick right now.  But the kids had fun picking out their water bottles!










I also made lightsabers, or chocolate covered pretzels with foil handles.  So cute, I thought!  Of course, I can't take credit for these ideas, I pride myself on my copying skills.


Master Jedi was reading a letter from Yoda and then teaching the kids how to be jedi's.  This involved lots of running, jumping, somersaulting, and going down the zip-line





Okay, doesn't Charlotte look a little like the Emperor in this picture???  But she is far from an evil genious.  She's perfect--just doesn't like the sun!









Okay!  Better now!  Isn't she cute in her little tutu??





I seriously loved these cupcakes!  We also had Yoda Soda's (lime sherbet and sprite).  Green is Bridger's favorite color, so he was pleased!

And aren't these favor bags the cutest?  My friend Lois cut these out on her Cricut for me--they turned out sooo awesome!

And last but not least, we let the kids loose on a darth vader pinata with their light sabers.  It was fun, Bridger has the cutest friends!  I still remember my Barbie birthday party when i turned 5, hopefully Bridger will do the same:)  Although i do have to say, these parties are so exhausting!  Jeremy and I needed a long nap after everyone went home!

The Help

I finally got the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett from the library yesterday, and I'm already finished reading the 350-something pages of it!  I am sad that I didn't get it in time for my Book Group, but I loved it so much that I just needed to express some thoughts here...

First of all, I have to say that I have been speaking in a southern accent for the past two days!  Mostly to the kids, it would be embarassing if I talked to an adult that way--they might not be aware of my southern roots :)

I have to say that Miss Skeeter was the perfect height (5'11")--I really didn't appreciate the fact that everyone thought she was such a freak.  I am 6' tall and it has never bothered me or anyone else (okay, except for the boys in 7th grade...)  I wear high heels and sometimes that makes me 6'3".  I may be an amazon woman, but that's no something I would want anyone to tell me...  And how big were her  feet?  A size 9?  Please!  Hardly something that needs mentioning.  Okay, I feel some relief over that now...

How I loved Minny!  She made me laugh the whole way through the book.  Abiliene was the sweetest lady ever and I cried at the end when she had to say good-bye to her baby girl!  So sad!!!   And one thing I will never understand.  If these Mississippians were to racist to share a bathroom, then why would they let their maids raise their own children!  So many ironies in prejudism.  And I just have to say, that if anyone wanted to pay for me to have a maid, then I would gladly accept it!  But when it comes to raising my children, that's something I want to do.  And for that matter, I can handle the cooking too.

And did she really do that to the pie or did she just say she did?!?!?!?!?!

I know this world isn't perfect, but I am at least grateful to be living in a time where there is equality among people.  At least I can say that for me and my friends and family, there is perfect acceptance and equality.

Oh, and one final thing.  Can you believe Stuart?  Hello!  "Let's just break off the engagement and never talk to each other again because I haven't tried to get to know you well enough and I'm an idiot"  Oh, brother!  I would like to imagine that he either gets it together (again) or she finds someone without a political agenda who can appreciate her for who she is.


Okay, that's it for now.  I've gotten all my thoughts off my chest.  If you haven't read this one, I highly recommend it!