::pirate party::

To celebrate the last day of September I'd like to show you a wonderful birthday party that our friends threw for their kid Max's age. It was about a month ago. Luckily I had already gotten these photos all ready before the unfortunate computer incident! And there are a LOT of photos. So for those of you that have claimed to miss me, this is the ultimate test.
I'm practicing shooting in different situations as much as possible, and this was a fun one.

It was a pirate party. The first thing we did was make little beards out of yarn for the kids to wear. It was such a cute idea.

Of course my Max didn't want to wear his. It reminds me a little of Cammon crying his eyes out because he was supposed to wear a big white night shirt to be an angel in the christmas pagent. Hah.

But at least he kept it on long enough for the photo.
Here's the birthday boy. Henry. He's now 5 and very proud of it.

Arrrrrr.
And his sister Lucy. I think she looks especially fetching when bearded.

Here's sweet Lucy unbearded. Isn't she absolutely adorable/gorgeous?


After the beards we moved on to a hunt--for pieces of a treasure map. It was exciting.
There were pieces hidden all over the house. When it all was found and put together it looked like this.

Here's Max contributing to putting the pieces together. Classic.

He definitely gets that from his dad. For sure.

The treasure map led the kids to the treasure. It was a pinata treasure chest. How cool is that?



And they went for it!

Go Lucy!

Go Max! (This is before he got whacked with the stick)

Go Henry! Henry is very intense. I wouldn't get between him and that pinata for anything.

Here are Max and Lucy looking on. How adorable is this?

Lucy is such a sweetheart.


Of course they couldn't break the pinata. When can little kids ever pull it off? So it moved to the ground.

Yeah, that didn't do any good either, so eventually it just got ripped open.

And out spilled the BOOTY!


Can somebody come teach Max how to use a spy glass?

After all the booty was gathered we assembled to eat the fabulous cake. Check out the cake.

Awesome, huh? I love love love the fish.

Lighting the candles.

Natalie says, "Who wants cake?"



Yeah, we always want cake.

And bendy straws. What's a birthday party without bendy straws?

And that's all I've got. Oh wait. Except that I couldn't resist Lucy's feet while she was enjoying her cake.


So sweet.
Happy birthday Henry (just a month late).