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.
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| I had to drink a lot of root beer to get these invites. lol. |
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| 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. |
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| My mom worked hard painting this for a ball toss "feed the shark" We still have it :) |
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| 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! |
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| My prized pirate marshmallow pops |
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| 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! |
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| yeah.. there were a lot of kids! |
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| pin the flag on the treasure map |
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| Dek-o had to get in on the action too. |
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| MakaDuke went a little crazy with the jello. |
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| Singing Happy Birthday to my big boys! |
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| Grandma Lene was there standing guard around Brynlee while she slept the whole time! She's seriously so easy! |
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| The line up for the treasure hunt. I was shocked they all waited so patiently for their turn. |
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| 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!
5 comments:
Wow! Talk about amazing parties!! That looks sooo great!! Next year I hope I'm invited ;) Really, I just loved everything about it!!
PS- We have a Christmas card for you guys, so if you email me your address maybe you'll get it :)
I love your face in the walk to plank game. :) So so cute Kayleen! I wish I was that mom. I just do easy stuff, usually with no theme, but I know Birthdays are a big deal at your house, and that's great! Can you believe Paden just turned 8?!? I posted some pics on our blog for you. It was kinda fun, (posting pictures to a blog no one checks) I'll have to do it periodically. I want to talk again. When can I call you? shoot me a text or something.
Also, you are only outnumbered 4-2 now. :)
Man. You're awesome. (Also, can you tell that I'm catching up on your blog tonight? Since it's private it doesn't pop up on my feed when you post for some reason) Anyway... Naomi wants a birthday party and I'm nervous because I've never thrown one. There were never kids her age in our wards. And it's creative people like you that make it so intimidating! ;)
Kayleen never does anything small. LOL Notice there are no pictures of Nana? That's because I took all the pictures! We/ mostly you, did a great job!
Love, Mom/Nana
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