Dalyn's Pirate 4th Birthday

This was the first year Dalyn has asked for a Birthday Party. He started asking about 6 months ago when his friend Jacob had his Pirate Birthday. Up until this point he never realized he needed one (nice for mom). So this year we decided to give him a big pirate shin-dig complete with costumes, treasure hunt (set up by Garrett), a pirate ship cake, walking the plank and loads of pirate treasure (gifts from friends). What made it more fun was having Grandma and Grandpa there to share in the festivities. Grandpa was the official photographer and took some great shots. Scott did a great job running all the games and had the kids running about and completely entertained the whole time. My job was the cake, a seemingly small taks until I started frosting! Ugh! I was cursing in pirate tongue by the end of it. We were joking that my boat looked as if it were on it's last excursion and had taken one too many blows with warring cannon balls. But alas, it tasted good and Dalyn exclaimed, "Mommy, this is the best cake I ever saw!!" Who needs more payment than that? Two of my favorite memories were Garrett leading all the kids through the yard on the treasure hunt he made and protecting Dalyn's right to get to the next clue first, as is the birthday boys right and Aubrey helping all the "little" kids across the plank so that they didn't fall to the aligators! It was a great afternoon