Our Pirate Bash

This post is long and there are pirates. You have been warned!We all dressed up for RJ's Pirate bash. I don't have a picture of the 4 of us, I wish I did. I should have had RJ take a picture of Jared and I . Oh, well. But don't they look cute? Savannah didn't keep her outfit on very long. Our Pirate flag welcoming the guests. Beware of Pirates!
Enter if you dare.

This is what I have been working on all week. RJ had to have a Treasure Chest Pinata. We found one online for $15, but because we needed it in less then a week, it was going to cost another $15 to ship, so I said no. We found a Pirate pinata at Target, but RJ had to have a Treasure Chest. A friend of mine had made a Piston Cup pinata for her son's B-day, so I thought "if she could make, a Piston Cup, I could make a Treasure Chest. " So I did. And it really wasn't that hard. And it cost me nothing since I already had tissue paper and boxes. (There are now a few bags of cereal without boxes, oh well) We bought little treasure boxes for the kids to decorate. I also made bandannas and sashes for the kids. After trying to make my own eye patches and failing several times, I found some really cute ones that came with an earring at Target. I got 8 of them for $4. They were perfect. I also made a drawing of (or rather, traced) a Pirate to play "Pin the eye patch on the pirate.

We made two pirate ships and Jared stayed up till 1 am making cannon balls out of rolled up pieces of paper wrapped in electrical tape. We used them to play a game called "Sink the Ship."Behind one of those ships was this Shark, that Jared made. It looks great, doesn't it. We played "Feed the Shark" and threw beanbag fish into it's mouth.

As we waited for all his shipmates to arrive, Captain RJ and some of his crew decorated their treasure chests with glitter glue and gems.

The crew is playing pin the eye patch on the pirate. This is the only picture where you can see my costume.

Here is brave Savannah walking (I mean jumping) off the plank.

And the Shark got her!!!

After saving Savannah, the Pirate lined up to take their turns at feeding the Shark in hopes that they wouldn't get eaten as well.

Looks like the Shark got the Capitan.

The Pirates split up into two teams. There were 6 kids totally, three of them didn't want to dress up. They decided to be American Sailors. So we played Pirates against the Americans. And they threw cannon balls at each other in hopes of sinking the other's ship. They had 40 seconds to throw cannon balls at each other. After the 40 sec. we counted how many cannon balls were behind each ship. If you had the least amount of balls in your ship, you won. The boys of course loved this and we played three or four rounds of it.

After each game, I handed out chocolate gold coins. The winner or winners got two and the others got one for playing. They put these coins in their treasure chests.

Lunch Time.

We had PB&J sandwiches, grapes, & chips. The drank Pirate's Root Beer and Shark Blood (Cherry 7up)

After Lunch the pirates discovered that their Treasure had been stolen. They were a little concerned. But luckily the thief left a map that led to the stolen treasure.

Jared led the boys through the house as he read the map to them. "10 steps to the north, 15 to the east"

And up the mountain.

"Your Treasure lies where someone else lies"

They not only found their stolen treasure chest, but they also found another Treasure Chest (the pinata)

Trying there luck at the pinata.

Savannah watched, but didn't want to join the fun. She seemed very unsure about the actions of these wild pirates.

Here is a pirate trying to decided the best way to hit the chest to break it open.

Here is the Capitan taking a swing at it.

I don't remember who finally busted it open, but it did take them three tries each.

After the Pinata we had cake and ice cream. Every year I have made RJ a special themed cake. When he turned two he had a train cake and last year we had a Car's race track cake. This was the hardest one I did. It kept falling apart. I learned that freezing it was the trick to make it stay together. But it turned out very cute.

Here we have a picture of the Capitan and his crew

Don't those cannons look cool lit up. There are two on the other side as well.

Present Time

Here RJ is thanking Grandpa for his gifts. He got him an ant farm. Aren't we going to have fun.

This Pirate ship was from Grandma Sammie. He loved it!

RJ told me this was his best day ever. He wanted to do his party all over again the next day. We all had a blast with this pirate theme. We are glad RJ is in our family and can't believe that he is four already.