Pirate Birthday Party

In honor of the USC win over the Eastern Carolina Pirates, I thought I would post pictures of a pirate birthday party we were invited to. Enjoy:)

This summer, my friend Angie had a Pirate party for her son Walter. I wanted to blog about it, but honestly totally forgot about it. So...3 months later, here I am blogging-while the husband and oldest son are watching the football game.

I have to say, Angie went ALL out. I think it took her about 3 months to make everything. I think this was probably one of the BEST parties I have ever been too. She went all out.

Since it was a costume party, I figured I needed to make Josiah a little pirate shirt. We had the pants (thanks to Angie and our weekly playdates at her house). I am happy with how it came out. (although not so much after I washed it...but hey, it worked for the party).

 Riley and Jesse didn't want to be left out. So, Jesse borrowed Joel's pirate shirt and Riley wore her bandana. I think she thought it was a "BOY" party so she didn't really want to go all out. But once we got there she really got into it, I think:)

Mike and Angie also got all dressed up. Mike went the extra mile and even wore earings:) He did a great job handing out "loot" to the kids. As you can tell from the pictures, the kids had so much fun. Even the older "kids".

Hanna, the pirate.

"Captain Blue-beard" and his prisoner.

"AAARRRGGG"!!!!

The cake and cupcakes were AWESOME!!! I have never seen a cake like this (in person) before. I loved it!! She used  her cricut for a lot of her decorations. The cricut is awesome:)

These little guys were made from candy melts. AWESOME!!!!

The bottle invitation.

Pirate ships made out of milk cartons.

Singing "Happy Birthday" to the birthday boy!!!

Present Time!!! Walter's grandfather made the "treasure chest" for his birthday. AWESOME!!!!

It is SO hard for kids to sit down and "watch" the birthday boy to open all the presents. They ALL wanted to open them:)

"Which way is north"???

Angie, you AMAZE me!!! You did an awesome job. And can't WAIT to see what you are going to be doing for Walter's 5th birthday!!! 

If you are impressed with Angie's work, and you live in this area and you are interested in "hiring" Angie to decorate your next birthday party. I think she might be interested:)

Celebrating the first day of school.

So after I picked Josiah up from his first day of school, we went over to daddy's work for lunch. We wanted to take Josiah out to eat so he would be able to tell us ALL about his first day of school. When we got to daddy's office, he was not there yet. So Josiah wanted to draw him a picture. He has learned how to write "JoJo" and loves doing it. So he drew some smiley faces and his name. I have to say, he looks pretty cute behind daddy's desk:)

Josiah telling dad all about school.

For lunch we decided to go to the lizard's thicket. They have some good southern food. I think Josiah enjoyed it. Although asking a 4 year old about what he did as school is like pulling teeth. They all have the standered answer, "I don't know"! We did get out of him that he had a snack,grapes, cheese stick and water. But he didn't drink his water because he wan't thirsty. He also went outside and rode bikes. And they were "funny looking" because they had two seats. He wished his friend Walter was at school with him so they could both ride it. And that is about all he told us.

 Josiah and his yummy food:)

Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese and apple sauce. Every childs DREAM lunch:)

 Mommy and Daddy with their youngest school boy.

Getting ready to take daddy back at work.

I am going to have to take every minute in that I get to spend with him this year. Because next year he will be going to school all day long. How can that be??? How can my baby boy already be going to school? He just seems too little. This morning he got up for his second day at school. And he was SO excited that Mrs. Tammy drove him to school. He just looked so little. I made sure I told Riley to walk him to his class. She was excited about that. He loves to be the little mommy.

What's This???

Toys waiting to be played with...

"Night-Night" to be held...

Being able to drink coffee while its HOT...

I wish I could take a picture of how quiet it is in the house right now. I walked into the house after dropping everybody off at school and just stood in the middle of the living room. There was no sound, just quiet. Its a good think Josiah goes half days. I don't know what I am going to do when he is going full time next year. YIKES...I can't think about that yet.

Nellie having to keep herself occupied.

It must be Josiah's first day of school!!!

 Can you tell he is excited???

 I wanted him to wear something fun for his first day of school. So I decided to make this tshirt for him. I think it came out great:)

I don't know who was more excited, Josiah or his brother's and sister.

He woke up with the biggest smile on his face today. You could just tell he was ready to go to school. He got dressed and went downstairs to eat his breakfast. You could tell he was tired but so excited. At 7:00am we all got into the car and drove to school. Daddy followed us in the truck because he wanted to go too. I am just so excited about him going to school. He is going to grow up a lot this year. And he is going to learn SO much. I can't wait to see what God has in store for our little JoJo.

Daddy walking with Josiah to his class.

We had to get his picture in front of the sign.

The Rogers kids with the principal, Mrs. Watson.

 

 Josiah with his teacher's...

Mrs. Ward, Mrs. McMurphy and the student teacher,Miss.Senn

Does he look excited, or what???

I can't wait to hear how his day went!!!

Hiking in Alabama

 The week before school started, we packed Oma, Max and our family up into the car and drove to Huntsville, Alabama to spend some time with the Thompsons. The kids were a little sad because the Thompson kids had to go back to school the Wednesday we were there. But me made the best of it. On Tuesday, Rich; Terry and I packed ALL the kids up (9 of them) and we went on a hike. We all had a lot of fun. I have to say, I was very proud of Josiah who walked the entire hike. But then, he was Christopher's hiking buddy so he had to keep up:)

The ENTIRE Gang.

 After about 30 minutes of going down the mountain, we found a little stream that the kids just LOVED playing in. Especially the girls-Taylor, Noelle, and Riley. They had so much fun getting dirty:)

 Josiah also had a blast getting wet.

 They were DIRTY by the time we got to the car!!

We all had so much fun this week. I think Riley especially likes being with the Thompson's because she has 2 other girls to play with. She gets to play with girly toys and gets to play girly games:) It is great to see they are so close even though we live so far away.