A Pirate Party!

Carter's birthday party was on Saturday. He was so excited to finally have his party and open his presents. We had his party almost 2 weeks after his birthday because Grammy and Grampy were out of town and he really wanted them to be there, plus we had to have Grammy make one of her beautiful cakes. Carter has been very excited about pirates lately and wanted to have a pirate birthday. He saw a picture of a cake shaped like a pirate hat and was sold! He was so excited to tell Grammy all about it. He kept telling her, "first you have to put the chocolate frosting and then you add the white and make little swirls in the corners...." He went on to tell her every detail about how to make the cake. He even got to go to the store with her to buy the cake mix. After seeing the little pictures on the box he told her, "First you have to mix the eggs and then the water..." Grammy got a kick out of it.

Here are some fun pictures of the party. I had fun decorating and Carter loved his big pirate balloon (which Maddie popped the very next morning- on purpose!)

All the family was there and Carter got to invite one friend, Caleb from Church and preschool. We played musical chairs and did a pinata.

The food of choice: Pizza!

All the kids wore pirate fabric around their heads. Maddie made me buy the pink one which was pretty cute.

Carter was a little mad that he didn't get to hit the pinata more so Daddy let him hit it around some more after the candy had all fallen out.

Carter doing his "ARRR Matey"

Here is Carter's pirate hat cake that Grammy made. (The left eye got smudged by Carter before I took the picture.) He was so excited and made sure that there were coins around it, like in the picture in the magazine.


Carter was very excited about this transformer that he got. Needless to say, only Mommy can transform it!


Mommy and Carter


Sawyer got in on the action too, especially eating the candy!
(Cousin Brady is in the background)