Water Animal Rescue Center Birthday Party!

We celebrated our little dude on Saturday with a party at our house.  Luke is very into "rescuing" and wanted to have an "Water Animal Rescue Center Birthday Party".  I was pretty confused about what this meant, but he would not let up.  I thought for awhile and came up with a party that would fit his theme the best I could. So, we invited over a bunch of his buddies and had water fun in the backyard.  The weather was perfect!  I was super nervous about having an outdoor party on August 2nd, but the weather was just wonderful in the 70s!  Here are pictures of the "water" part of the party.  We just borrowed and used stuff we already had.

Looking back at the pictures, Ben was on the ground a lot.  Haha!

The car wash station was a hit, and the birthday boy may have taken it to another level!

After some water fun, we headed out to the driveway and had birthday donuts and fruit.  The donut shop made Luke a special donut just for him.  It was huge!

While the kids were eating, we had the "Zoo Crew" come give a presentation with 10 live animals. This is obviously the "animal" portion of his request.   Luke got to pick the animals they brought, and he has been excited for months!  He picked a ferret, chinchilla, snake, tortoise, hissing cockroaches, chameleon, parrot, bearded dragon, tarantula, and a hedgehog.  The lady was awesome, and let the kids touch all the animals. Luke had about 10 million questions!

Savannah was on clean up crew. :)

And for the "rescue" portion of his request, we collected items for the SPCA.  He had been saying he wanted to rescue animals at his party for a few weeks.  I told him that would be very hard to do, but if he wanted people to bring things for the animals in need we could take them to the SPCA.  Luke thought that was a great idea.  Here is what we collected.  Our party guests really came through!  We are going to take it all in next week, and Luke is excited to get to do some "rescuing".

We had a wonderful time celebrating our big 5 year old!  I wonder what crazy theme this guy will come up with next year....