Big Kid wore his mustache for most of the party. little kid wore his for almost exactly 15 seconds.
The goody bags had Super Mario gummy snacks, peach rings candy, Mario trading cards, and a Mario keychain; the boys got Mario or Luigi hats with mustaches and the girls got crowns and a diamond ring.
I made those background decorations. My entire house was covered in construction paper for a week. No lie.
We made the pinata, too. It fell down before it broke so I guess we flunk pinata-making.
Check out that look of determination!
Big Kid was furious when Mr. Ashley lowered the pinata up and down as he swung at it. But then he yelled for Mr. Ashley to do exactly that to all of the other party guests.
There was an obstacle course where the kids had to do different tasks, including walking backward in front of the Boos.
Then they water-bombed Bowser at the end--unfortunately the water balloons wouldn't break. That actually made it all pretty funny. I didn't graffiti the racquetball court, by the way, it was already like that.
little kid captured the flag at the end of the obstacle course.
Big Kid and Em. Aren't they big?? I have close to 7 years of pictures of them like this!!
Mario match-up. little kid won! Without cheating!
This is how hot it was. Ridiculously, mind-meltingly hot. The cupcake frosting slid right off of the cupcakes and onto all of the kids' clean shirts. Oops.We also did a Yoshi's egg hunt with hidden plastic eggs that had a gold coin, Mario stickers and Mario and Mushroom charms inside, and a pass the Piranha Plant game. The winners got Mario money pouches.
I wish I could show you the invites because they were the cutest part, but our personal info is all over them in an un-editable way, so sorry. I also made scratch off tickets that the kids had to scratch off to determine who their character was. Super cute and fun!
The kids had a ton of fun and the boys are already trying to plan next year's party. It's not happening. I'll need until at least 2012 to even consider another party.
