Monday, November 17, 2008

Indy Party

Max has chosen his birthday party theme since he was 3 years old... we've done motorcycles, a camping trip, crocodile hunter, army and now Indiana Jones. This year his parentals had a momentary lapse of sanity and even agreed to do a sleepover. Yes... we know.

Since Indiana Jones is an explorer the boys spent their evening on an adventure to locate the Arc of the Presents that the Nazis were trying to steal.

First was a Mummy wrap to find a clue hidden in a roll of TP. (The clue was actually just taped to the inside of one of the rolls because I couldn't figure out how to get it under the actual toilet paper).

The clue led them to the spider cave where they had to crawl through, collect a big, disgusting spider while looking for the clue.

Indiana Birthday Boy on the hunt.


Next they were directed to the snake forest where they had to capture 5 snakes and find the hidden clue.
They had a hard time locating this clue. Anyone see it?
On to Crocodile Creek where jewels were to be had for those willing to stick their hands in the cold, murky water.
Pankot Palace was the place to dig through eyeballs, monkey brains and gopher guts in search of the clue. You'd think boys would have liked this more than they did. Most of them were disgusted.
Max didn't mind the monkey brains.

Aftermath of the mine field. I got distracted by all the balloons popping and forgot to take a picture.
The adventurers with their big find... the Arc of the Presents.

The golden treasure.


Finally in pajamas watching a movie.
I went to bed around 10:45 pm. I woke up at midnight to Nate saying, "No, we're not going to put in another movie." One un-named party goer woke up at 6:00 am and started waking others up. Nate quickly put an end to that....7 & 8 year old boys have endless energy and vocal skills.
Just two more months until our next party. I'm praying it's not at our house.

7 comments:

Emily said...

You are brave.VERY brave!!! And VERY creative!!! love it!

Erica said...

So creative! You were made to be a Mom of boys, my friend.

Allison Nelson said...

So very creative. And, like Emily said, so very brave!

Sarah said...

i think by "brave" you mean crazy. that would be accurate.

Little Oak Table said...

well.

now that i feel better about the little caesar's pizza parties my kids get for every birthday i am going to go have an oreo.


hee hee haaa! i love your party ideas. martha, you simply rock.

Kelli said...

You have a gift at birthday parties! Maybe you should start up your own business! :-)

Georgia said...

So when Carter starts making friends after he starts talking or just even eating birthday cake, will you come to Conway and plan and design his birthday parties, too? That was one cool party.