Fletcher's 8th Birthday Party...Jedi Training Academy

Fletcher and his buddy, Joshua, remove the candles from F's favorite: ICE CREAM CAKE! He loves ice cream cake!!

Love this picture of Fletch and his two buddies hard at work at midnight putting a Lego police station together that Fletchie received as a gift.

When asked what his favorite part of the evening was, Fletcher replied, "Building the Lego police car and station with Ryan and John." Interesting.

Star Wars paraphenalia ready to be shot at with Nerf guns from the loft above.

Fletch attempting the challenge to keep all three balloons in play and off the floor with his light saber.

Tommy loved the light saber challenges. His highlight was dueling with all the big boys who would actually battle him with their light sabers. He was just so glad to finally be allowed to battle someone other than the couch and chairs. Big kids to parry with and Mom didn't care!

Creating Jedi battleships was super fun for the guests and our family...

A few of the Lego Jedi battleships...Special 3D glasses made the Star Wars plates, cups, and poster look especially cool!

John with his medal for using the force to destroy enemy ships and help restore order to the galaxy...

Caleb with his medal for a Jedi worthy battleship...

Fun, fun to have eight younglings come to the Command Center for our Jedi Training Academy. It was a night of action, to say the least! Much dueling, wrestling, Lego-ing, light-sabering took place until past 2 a.m. The boys were all finally asleep by 3 a.m. Poor Charlie got the worst stomach virus of his life (although the one in Venezuela was a close second) and had to quarantine himself around midnight to our bedroom for the next 24 hours. The Padwan learners completed a series of challenges in their Jedi training including using the force to knock out enemy battleships while blindfolded, build their own ideal battleship from Legos, battle with lightsabers to pop bubbles and another to keep balloons from touching the floor, obstacle courses while carrying Yoda safely through enemy territory, Nerf gun blasting target training...points for knocking Star Wars toys off the mantle from behind enemy lines in the loft playroom.