Back To School Pirate Party

Michael wants to keep building on to this clubhouse year after year, adding a slide, swings, a plank to walk off onto a trampoline, etc... Which means that it is never really finished. But for this year it is got al that we can give it. I wanted to have a party to break it in. and since all summer the girls and I have been referring to it as the Pirate Ship, I made the party a Pirate theme.

 

Mike and I filled 3 bags of water balloons which filled 2 ice chests and a bucket. It took 2 hours to do and my fingers were numb! It took the kids about 15 minutes to burn through them. lol.

Mike was awesome. He got right in there and was throwing balloons, dodging, taunting, and when the water balloons were all gone, he got out the hose. "If anyone isn't wet Im going to soak em! No body's leaving here dry." hahaha I love that he ca be a big kid sometimes. He is so perfect at balancing moments of responsibility and moments of fun and care free.

 These stinkers thought that they had the advantage, being higher, until Mike pulled out the other balloons from the deck and leveled the playing field. :)

 Look at how wasteful! Dropping 3 balloons at once! Poor unsuspecting Tsadakah!

 Oh, but then again they didn't break! she just looks like the Easter Bunny Laying eggs. lol

 So glad that my friend, Joanna, was able to come from Tooele with Abby and Magnus.

 Don't pick on the little guys!

 Be Aggressive! Be be aggressive!

 After the water balloon frenzy died down I had planned a snack. i asked each child to bring one fruit, which I cut up and put into what we called Fruity Bootee. Really yummy stuff in there.

 Some of the kids would rather sit in a Dead Man's chest. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

 Tsadakah making her pirate face. Arggg!

 When snack time was over we had some crafts. We made pirate patches, masks, and colored some flags. *I found this Large coloring activity book at Dollar Tree which was all Pirate! FUN.

 The patches were the favorite!