11.24.2014

Ezra and Makai's Birthday

This summer I decided to do another combined party for Ezra and Makai. I was planning on having it before the baby came, but since I was induced early we opted for later which worked out better for them anyways since it ended up being right in between their birthdays. We did a pirate party. And since we did it the same weekend as Brynlee's baby blessing, we were lucky enough to have BOTH of their grandmas here for it too!

I had so much fun planning their pirate party. Aside from the pool party portion of it being rained out, everything went great.
I had to drink a lot of root beer to get these invites. lol.
I'll save you from the individual pictures of the food and just give a summary because I felt cool having my dishes labelled. lol. We had peg legs (corn dogs), cannon balls (cheese balls), Pirate ship (watermelon fruit bowl), 7 sea dip (7 layer nacho dip), Chips ahoy cookies, fish and chips (goldfish and potato chips), buccaneers jello surprise, just a standard veggie platter that I don't know if I named and then some pirate marshmallow pops and cupcakes. 
My mom worked hard painting this for a ball toss "feed the shark" We still have it :)
I spent a lot of time drawing and cutting out swords from cardboard for a couple of months before the party so we could start with a "decorate a sword" table. I also had telescopes for them to decorate. This was so cute to see kiddos getting creative! 
My prized pirate marshmallow pops
Treasure hunt. I found this plastic chest at walmart and just spray painted it. We made a special trip to the beach and I filled it with sand and then mixed in lots of treasure! 
yeah.. there were a lot of kids! 

pin the flag on the treasure map 
Dek-o had to get in on the action too.
MakaDuke went a little crazy with the jello.
Singing Happy Birthday to my big boys! 
Grandma Lene was there standing guard around Brynlee while she slept the whole time! She's seriously so easy! 
The line up for the treasure hunt. I was shocked they all waited so patiently for their turn.
Our walk the plank that Deklan claimed the second James set it up. 
We also had a "ring around the sword game" and a cannonball toss that we never got to. Kids got crazy and just ran around instead. lol. It was so fun. A lot of work, but well worth it.


Ezra turned 6 on July 17th and Makai turned 4 on August 14th. They both got new bikes for their birthday!

Walk the Plank

For Ezra and Makai's pirate party this summer I made a plank for a "walk the plank" game. It's so silly how walking across a board can be so much fun for kids. My kids loved it and even had to dress up in character while they played with it around the house.



I have some goofy children and I just love them to pieces! (notice sweet B Lee in the background? She's an angel baby!)