So Vale turned 2 on the 11th but on the 9th we had a little party with family for he and Trevor, my brother, who's birthday was on the 1st.
My sweet birthday boy! He's getting so big!
We had a pirate birthday (I mean that's really what Trevor wanted...) and so we had a treasure hunt where we'd hidden some buried treasures around the neighborhood and they had to use a map and go find them.
The kids obviously couldn't READ the map but they had fun letting us read it and pretending like they knew...
And they are off! The neighbors must have thought we were having a parade...
Connor and Brennan were always the first ones there and way into it! It was cute.
They found some treasure!!!! (cheap dollar store bobbles!!) :)
Our whole line of treasure seeking pirates... arrrrggg! :)
Vale was enjoying the chaos... :)
So where do we go next?! Jimmy was having the boys find land marks on the map and go to them. It really was cute... 'find the two BIG trees side by side. Do you see them anywhere?' :)
Vale was just digging... I think he would have thought bugs were perfectly good treasure too!
'Mom, I think I need a metal shovel...'
'No? Alright I make this work...'
So the plan was minimal decorations...
but then Lauren (my cousin) got involved and it was all down hill from there :)
She did a great job with the couple of decorations I had bought and things that we already had at our house
We bought a 'beach' theme cake and put some pirate stuff on it (I mean cause like that's totally what TREVOR wanted... ;-])
I was gonna use a roll of paper to draw a very crude pirate map as a table runner but again Lauren wasn't having it and made it look GREAT!
The birthday boy indulging in some of his treasure before opening some gifts.
It's so fun when they get to the age that they can open wrapping paper and actually get excited about what's inside! (I was having to hold back the hounds AKA Connor, from helping his brother... :))
I think he had lots of fun at his birthday! :) YEAH! Success! :)
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