"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Friday, August 9, 2013

Pirate Party

Grant thought of lots of strange themes for his birthday this year, themes I couldn't really figure out how to do anything with when it came to cakes or favors or invitations.  Finally he said "pirates" one day, and I ran with it before he changed his mind and went back to "motorcycles." I'm sorry, I cannot make a motorcycle cake.  This was also the first year Grant had friends over, and he was so excited to have a real friend birthday party.  I planned everything and then Justin ran the show.  He is much more exciting (and convincing as an underwater squid) than I am.




Grant's cupcakes, which had pirate toppers, actually caught on fire, which everyone thought was very piratey.  We played "pin the tail on the parrot." Meg colored the parrot and parrot tails for me.  And then we had a treasure hunt.




1 comment:

JK said...

Fun! Cameron chose a pirate party this year as well. We will see how it goes. :)