Spy Party for the 8 year old!

April 13, 2014

Luke never has a list of things he wants for his birthday. He's pretty easy going like that, and doesn't really care.  This year was the exception and we were lucky to get a few things on his list that he really would like. 
He wanted Legos, Art Supplies, and Skates.  Boom!

Julie got him the Art Kit. He LOVES it!  We got him some art lessons to go along with it that he got to take with one of his best friends.

Even though it was a rainy afternoon, right after church he was

 outside practicing with his new skates!

Jess bought him a pocket knife at "This is the Point" Monument with his name in the side.  They were whittling a stick and learning the right way to use it :)

He was soooooo excited to go to scouts! And who wouldn't be? It's awesome.

Here he is getting his Bobcat on his first pack meeting with his friend Jo :)

Spy Party 2014

When Luke wrote out his guest list and only had 4 boys on it, I knew we could possibly do something awesome.  And it was....it was.

The boys all met, received SSIA (Secret Service Intelligence Agency)  Vests which were made by the Amazing Julie Winn.  They were told that today they would be training to see if they could become an agent. There would be some stations set up to see if they could cut it.  They first had to decode some very tricky codes.  Then there was the laser station, seen below, that hey needed to complete in a timely manner.  Then a disguise mission where they'd have to change their clothes and complete a very fast paced mission--incognito.

And lastly: Target Practice (thrown onto targets, drawn with sidewalk chalk by Luke.)

Hooray! They all succeeded!  BUT---when they went inside to have graduation donuts--dun dun dun!  They had been stolen. But!  The perpetrator had left clues and supplies for them... (on each note there was also this picture---notice Kade's profile :)  I thought it was pretty rad.)

all the supplies they would need if they were to have a chance at catching him and their donuts.

He left this bowl on the table where the donuts had been....they tried to use their magnifying glasses first on this--with no success. So they next put on their gloves and dug in to find laminated clues (it was cornstarch and green water)
"Today is a wonderful day
For I am going away
Not to the circus, not to the pool
Can't you guess I'm going to _______"

It led them to the elementary school where they searched and found some bombs (black balloons filled with confetti and clues) that they needed to detonate in a safe area (using their pins). Their clues:

'Volcano', 'Xylophone', 'Beehive', 'T-Rex', 

 That led them to DISCOVERY PARK.  Such a great park.  Love. It.

They boys were strapped in. I promise. This is after we stopped :)  But they were so fun and listened to mission impossible music--then "What Does the Fox Say?" and shouted each word.  It was awesome.

Here they looked in all those places and found codes they each needed to decode separately.

YOU MUST BE GETTING FAINT FROM GOING ON ALL THESE MARCHES 

NEXT STOP FOR YOU IS LUNCH AT THE GOLDEN ARCHES

They ate, played, then found a clue hidden at McDonalds.

I loved this one.  I printed teeny tiny writing in the center of the page that they all missed at first.   All of the boys wanted to use their magnifying glasses and didn't  So they all stayed in the car and one by one they would come out and read the paper with me using their magnifying glasses.

Teeny tiny writing in the center of the page said,

 YOU ARE SO CLOSE.

YOU’VE DONE QUITE WELL.

ONE LAST STOP:

THE PLACE LUKE DWELLS

(Once there, Kade jumped out of the car as fast as he could and went and hid in the pit in the back yard. Then the kids, equipped with their silly string attacked and he revealed that he was a spy for the SSIA and had to insure that this group could use their skills in the field as well as during testing! Horray! Everyone passed and then we all had amazing Boston Cream Donuts!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKE!!!