Spencer's birthday

I can't believe my baby turned 7!! That means he will be baptized next year! I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about it.

Spencer wanted a pirate birthday party, so I told him he could only invite 3 friends because anymore than that would cause me to have a heart attack. It was SO much fun. I made bandanas and belts for the kids out of old sheets. I sewed little sacks to put their "loot" in. I also got little pirate sets for each of them at the dollar store that had an eye patch, knife, spyglass, and an earring in it. When everybody got here, they ate pizza and then put on all their pirate "garb." We went outside and played "pin the treasure on the x." Spencer drew a very cute map on poster board. They had a great time sword fighting too. Then we went on a treasure hunt.......

I spray painted a shoebox black and filled it with all kinds of fun stuff (chocolate treasures, snakes, lizards, eyeballs, and jewelry) and hid it in the bathtub. I made a map of where the treasure would be on a piece of brown paper bag. I ripped it all up, wrinkled it, burned the edges, rolled it up, and wrapped a ribbon around it. I have to say, it looked pretty cool. Anyway, I gave them clues and each clue led them to another one. I thought 7 year old boys would catch on to some pretty obvious clues, but the adults had to help them along quite a bit. It was very amusing. Then the clues led them to the map and the map led them to the treasure. It was SO much fun. Then we opened presents, had cake and ice cream, and I read them "Pirate Pet's Talk Like a Pirate" book while we waited for parents to come pick up their kids. Whew! I was pooped, but it was all worth it!

Waffles for breakfast on the "You are Special" plate.

Opening present from Nana and Popi before school. Thanks, Nana and Popi! He LOVES it!

Eating our yummy pizza at the party.

Everybody in their cute pirate attire.......even Lauryn :)

Looking for a clue.

Dividing the loot up.

Opening presents.

I really liked how the cake turned out!