A Pirate Party

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is my first post of 2010 so I'd like to wish everyone all the best in this new year! We finished off 2009 with all of us, yes ALL of us staying up to watch the ball drop! Since it was Ev's birthday he got to stay up, and Emmaline took a late nap so she stayed up too. I was guessing that she'd be tired and fall asleep before midnight, but nope... she and Ev were both wired and wide awake! They were having so much fun practicing, "Happy New Year" before the ball drop. Evan counted down with us as the ball dropped. Emmaline was sporting her shades for some reason while watching Dick Clark's New Year's Eve. Here's my silly girl right before midnight!

Emmaline wanted to give her brother a kiss when we welcomed in the New Year!

We had a fun evening finishing off Ev's birthday just the four of us and by 12:10am we were all in bed!

Saturday was the big birthday party. Evan chose a pirate theme as I mentioned before, and he was so excited when I got home with his pirate birthday cake. No homemade cake this time. With the holidays and everything going on I didn't have time. We ordered a cake from Sam's (love Sam's cakes... so tasty!) and it turned out o.k., but I was a little disappointed. We took in a picture to put on the cake and they didn't do it how we thought. Here's the cake.


Sam's said to bring in a picture and they would put his face in the empty spot for the pirate so Evan would be the pirate. Well, they didn't exactly make his face to fit the hole so I wasn't too happy about that. Plus there was air bubbles all over the cake. It was still cute and tasted good nonetheless, but just not what we had in mind.

The party turned out nice. We kept it simple and had pizzas, veggies & dip, and I made the buffalo chicken dip again. This time I tried it with a buffalo bbq sauce and it was really good! The kids had fun playing and Evan loved the "pin the treasure chest on the treasure map" game. Of course he had fun opening presents and eating cake and ice cream. Here's a few pictures from the party!

The kids eating some pizza!

Here's Connor playing the "pin the treasure chest on the treasure map" game!

Singing "Happy Birthday" to Evan!

Evan had blue lips from the frosting! (All the kids did and thought it was silly)

Here's Emmaline sporting her blue lips!

Evan missed his Aunt Jen, cousin Kaite, and Papa & Nana at the party. Unfortunately they couldn't make it because they got a bad snow storm and had over a foot of snow. Glad we didn't get any of it. Evan got a lot of nice things and enjoyed having friends and family at the party. A big thank you for everyone that came and for all the wonderful gifts!