Pirate Birthday Party -Sept 7, 2013

Will asked for a pirate birthday party this year. How fun! When looking for ideas on my favorite site, Pinterest, I was flooded with soooo many great ideas. We elected to have his party at Torrence Chapel Park this year. This is the first year that Will had his birthday AFTER Labor Day weekend so that worked out nice since we had our party on Saturday September 7th, three days after his real birthday. And since it wasn't Labor Day weekend, we had a GREAT turnout!

The weather was a sunny 85 degrees but our party was 11am to 1pm so it wasn't super hot then. After the party, we hit Lake Norman and whooped it up at Nana Lucy & Papa Gary's beach. :) Good times all day.

For this birthday, we played in the beginning on the climber, swings, slides etc. I made a Walk The Plank out of one of our scrap pieces of wood and set on top of two crates. Then we ate hot dogs, beans and all the fixins to go with it. We had plenty of pirate food like Pirate Booty, Cannon Balls (malted milk balls), Salty Bones (pretzels), Fish-n-Chips (potato chips & goldfish mix), Chips Ahoy etc. I even made the pirate cupcakes :)

Then it was group picture time!

SILLY FACE!

Will had so much fun blowing out candles and eating pirate cupcakes.

Then we played a few games. The race was a big hit! We separated big kids into one heat and younger kids into another. In Will's group, he came in 3rd. John Balcerzak 1st, Kruz 2nd.

 

Lastly, it was Pirate Piñata time. The kids all had a blast.

 

Thanks to Papa & Grandma for all their help in setting up/clean up for the party.

 

 

Happy Birthday to our lil Pirate Will!! We love you. XO

 

Happy 4th "GOLDEN" Birthday to Willy Dilly!!

Where does the time go? Holy smokes! It goes as fast as everyone says it does. My little baby is four years old already! What is a "Golden" Birthday? It's the birthday when you turn the same age as the day. So because Will was born on September 4th, his golden birthday is when he turns 4 years old. You only have one golden birthday in your life. I am November 10th so my golden birthday was when I was 10 years old. Here is how we celebrated Will's golden birthday:

 

• It was Wednesday, September 4th, so its not a school day for Will. He got to sleep in and he slept until about 8:15am. Papa Dan and Grandma Con Bon are here to celebrate Will's birthday. Yay!We got ready and headed to Cracker Barrel for birthday breakfast.

 

• I decorated the outside of his room with balloons so when he woke up and opened his door, he saw balloons all in the hallway.

 

• Before breakfast, we took a few pictures outside in the driveway.

 
• I packed a #4 candle and gave to the waitress to put in Will's pancake. Four people came out from the back and sang Happy Birthday to Will. He was super shy and didn't know what to do, which is not what I expected at all! He's so totally into all his friend's birthdays and he wants to be the one sitting next to the birthday person so he can belt out the Happy Birthday song. This time, he turned around and stared at the floor. I was laughing! I captured it all on video. :)

 

• Off to errands for our big birthday celebration on Saturday the 7th.

 

• Then to the pool where we swam and swam and swam. Also we hit the water slide quite a bit! Will is now going down the waterslide by himself. Before that, it was Mommy or Daddy taking him down in our lap. It's a nice break now that he goes down by himself :)

 

• Back to the house to make homemade pizzas! MMMMM. Will made himself a personal pizza of cheese, pepperoni, mushroom and bacon.

 

• Then after pizza, we ate birthday cupcakes! Mmmm. The homemade cupcakes come this weekend at the Pirate birthday party. On this night, we bought some store cupcakes from BJs.

•  And I put in a trick candle that kept relighting! :) This is Will's reaction about the 4th time it relit.

• Funny story is that his school birthday party was today. When he woke up this morning, since there was another party, he asked if he was going to be five today. LOL!

• We love you Will! Happy 4th Birthday.

Micayla is 4!!

Couldn't of spent a better day today other than with Wills best friend who is exactly two weeks apart from Will. Today was her 4th birthday and we went to her first ever movie in the theater. We saw Despicable Me 2. This was Wills second movie. We saw Monsters University a couple weeks ago. He had a ball. We even had time to do a couple photo booths!

After the movie today, we went to Ben & Jerrys for chocolate ice cream in a cup with sprinkles. We sang Happy Birthday to Micayla and gave her our gift. 

Then after all of that, we went to the splash pad where the kids got drenched and played with plastic cups by putting them over the hole and watched the cup go flying! 

It was so much fun today playing hooky with Micayla.