Monday, April 27, 2009

Arrrggggghh! Captain Reece Turns 6 with a Pirate Party!

Our Reecer turned 6 on April 16th, and we celebrated as though we were on the high seas! Ships, treasure hunts for hidden treasures, eye patches and swords. If I do say so myself - our party was a lot of fun and I think the pirate crew left happy and content...and the captain birthday boy all the more!

getting' dressed up!



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the pirate brothers


After all the kids were dressed in their pirate garb, they played and played and played. Pierce suprised us because he wanted his patch and bandana on all day and had sword battles with the birthday boy!



And then...we began the search for the hidden treasure - the stick to hit the pinata! They searched for 6 pirate themed clues that lead them to their find...and then on to smash open the pirate ship pinata for their candy booty! The kids really loved this (to Benjy's suprise!)

listening to the clues...

the pinata

Arrrggghh! We want candy!
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the booty!

And you can't have a birthday party without birthday cake! Since Reece doesn't like chocolate and my creative preference wouldn't make a different colored pirate ship - we made an island especially for him. Reece claimed the hidden jelly-bean treasure and after eating the majority of the blue jell-o waves...ended up not eating much cake after all. Oh well! I loved making it for him.

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time for cake!





Happy 6th birthday Reece. We can't believe you are already so big and we sure had fun celebrating who you are and what you mean to us. We wish great things for you this year and are thankful to God that you are our pirate! What a gift you have been to us!

A very special thanks to Mimi for all of her hard work cutting pirate sashes and bandanas...for gifting all the pirate swords and patches - and just for being here to enjoy our day!

Also, a huge thanks to our friend Amanda Gray for painting up all the pirates with beards and scars and moustaches. They looked great and it was one less thing for me to to think of! Look at her classic piece of work on pirate Pierce!

5 comments:

Toni Burns said...

Super cool cake Care!! Looks like a fun party.
Have you heard that our school is suspended until at least the 6th! Crazy.

Devin said...

Ok....ummmmm....can I say awesome?

And, I think I may have to copy ALL OF THIS for Colin's party in October?

That was a GREAT party, complete with an awesome cake and cool accessories! Happy birthday Reece!!

Stacey at Giggles and Glue Sticks said...

I think that cake should be on a magazine somewhere.

Timbra said...

your cake ROCKS. . . .and I always love your parties. . . you go mama! next time mike says "soon we're going to have to scale back on the parties" (which she says every year about six weeks before alani's birthday when all the buying begins) I'm sending him to your page. . three boys, three rockin' parties every year. . . and LOTS of FUN and good memories!!!! no scaling back on fun and memories! happy birthday reece

Betsy@Living in the Moment said...

Thank you for posting those pics. Loved every single one of them! Hey I'm turning 35 in December if you're not too busy ;) could you please make my cake? Pretty please?