Yo ho... Yo ho... a pirates life for me.....

Kayleigh's 5th birthday party... was A LOT of fun! A lot of planning, creativity and time but ALL worth it! Kayleigh wanted a pirate party, she had seen the scull and crossbones with a pink bow with all sorts of party stuff in one of those party magazines but she also wanted to have it on a tropical island. So... thats what became..... of the Tropical Pirate Parrrty ~

Lots of kiddos and family and friends attended and we had fun playing the games with the kids, especially the Walk the plank. Which at the last minute we had no plank.. so we thought of the retaining wall... there ya go.. A PLANK...and then we added the water grenades, they had to get past! They had so much fun!

The invitations were a lot of fun.. except for the blister that I got from clicking the lighter so many times to get the burning effect...gotta love child safety locks!

Everything came together and a BIG BIG THANK YOU goes out to Mew Maw... aka Devona, Nathan's mom for helping SO MUCH with food, putting up decorations and cleaning, making sure all was going well at the party! THANK YOU MEW MAW..WE LOVE YOU!

The photos will tell the tale of Captn' Kayleigh's 5th Yer... I had a basket of goodies for the kiddos when you walked in, Pirate hats, neon swords, eye patches and earring's! The kids loved them and they knew just what to do as they ventured outside to play out on the tropical island and ship ashore.

Food was simple but kid friendly, the cake was last minute..as I was running out of time. I had planned to make this two-tier tropical hut cake... yeah...no time. So off to order a cake, we got this cute little tropical island cupcake cake..that had Minnie mouse and Mickey mouse...it was too cute I thought it was suiting. Kayleigh loved it.

Uncle Benny & Auntie Tishy bought Kayleigh her Pirate costume for the party, a gift and perfect for Halloween. It was also Uncle Benny and Kyle's birthday.. Kyle turned 15 ...next year is a BIG PARTY for the Sweet 16~! Kyle was having fun with the little kids.. I think he got a lot of satisfaction being the OLDEST! Kyle is really sweet and patient with the kids. He had fun and most of all enjoyed my sugar cookies. I will make more for you buddy. Uncle Benny...well.. we won't mention how old HE IS. he he

Enjoy the photos ~ ITS LONG...very LONG. : )

This is how it all began ~ The invitations ~

Super fun and cute to put together.. the hand delivered invites received a

"message in a bottle"

Here are the front and back of the invitations.

I created them using my graphic program and skills .. he he

printed them on cream colored paper, cut to shape and burned the edes a little.

put them together with a piece of rope.

The final look before they were sent out ~

Entry sign.. most of the signs had K5..marking of course her 5th Yer ~

at a distance ~


Walking into the front entry, palm trees and leis ~




Inside the archways in grass skirts and here is my Kayleigh Banner.

I actually did this last.. and I had ran our of gusto to back the letters in black and red card stock...but I think it still turned out pretty cute ...just imagine the colored card stock... : )

I did do more burning of the paper for these. Good thing there is a fireman across the street!

The Captn's ship. Nathan cut is out and Devona painted it! They did a AWESOME JOB!


Kayleigh's Jolly Roger. Her first initial and 5 for her age.
I used these for her scavenger hunt tied with a bottle for the clues.
(see below and the scavenger pics below)



There was some monkey business going on.... can't have a party without a monkey ~

backyard decor

The Grog station ~ Fruit punch..the sign is

I am so happy how this came out ~ So cute ~

Candy Bar for guests.. each guest can pick from their flavor of Royal Ropes ~

Strawberry Ropes ~

Banner I made to go over the candy bar.. so fun.. k5

I made fun signs for the food, this one is

Swords of the tropical island ~

Daggers and mini cannons ~

Fire in the hole ~ It was really intended for mini cannons that were round cheese puffs.

Couldn't find them.

Ships Sails for potato chips

and A bit of Sass fer ye for chips and salsa ~

Sea Spirals ~ for pasta salad

Cupcake tower... fun to make but I lost track of doing the 3rd row.. oh well.

The Tropical island cupcake cake ~

My Lil Captn' Kayleigh ~ Pretty CUTE!

My little buccaneer Cael ~ He is so handsome!

This is so cute ! Here is Cael in the Captn's quarters... aka Princess tent....

He is checking on big sis.. she is in there.. you can see her boots peeking out by his feet.

...and he was off.

I had to keep this Lil buccaneer drinking ....but not drunk!

It was a warm fall day!

Game time... Toss the cannon ~

you can see it in the air.. just to the left of the bottom of the ship.

The buccaneer line up.. some of them that is.
Lining up for Walk the Plank ~

Captn' Kayleigh is up first ~

Dodge the canon... full of water of course ~

SPLAT!

Here comes another !

Got by...AGAIN!

That Captain... sure knows how to dodge those cannons!

Here are the other brave lil pirates!

This one.. VERY BRAVE..but needed some help to get through... all was well at the end

of the plank!

Birthday Boy...takes a chance!

ADORABLE!

My little squaker! He could have been a PARROT!

Here he is giving a snarky stare ~

He's SO SCARY!

Getting ready for the scavenger hunt....

I like how Kayleigh is here.. watching over brother ~

1st clue and map ~

...and the 5th and last... the treasure has been spotted!

The Capn' HAS THE TREASURE!

VERY HAPPY and LUCKY little girly ~

THE LOOT!

Candy ring pop, platic coins, earrings, pearl necklaces, and other stuff.. cute!

Good ol' dad painted the Treasure chest ~

Cake time!

Make a wish sweetie ~

Cael was overwhelmed with all the activity and noise.. he's looking at someone crazy here ~

Kiddos enjoying the cake ~

YUMMMMM ~

Gift time.. Kayleigh really wanted this mermaid barbie!

She really SCORED with barbies!

Time for the big gift from mom and dad......

She SO talked about this and wanted one.. she played with it at her cousins in PA.

She and brother will have A LOT of fun on this!

Daddy showing her all the gadgets ~

Birthday boy opening his BIG gift from his mom and dad ~

PS3 ... the new game controllers!

He SCORED TOO!

Happy GUY!