ARRGH! Me Hearties!

Sword fight......

How many kids can fit on an inflatable pirate ship? I believe about 6!

I think this was the beginning of the end of the pirate ship!
OOOPS! The inflatable swords and pirate hats were the favors. As you can see, the pirate hats were a big hit! HA HA! Isn't that always the way? The thing YOU like the best, the kids could care less about!?!?!?!?

We had Cooper's party at a neighbor's pool. This is Lucky the Pirate. He stood out by the driveway so everyone would know where to come.

Check out this AWESOME cake!!!! That pirate ship on top......it's CAKE too! The island part is raised up and the blue icing was done to look like waves. Click on the pic to get a closer view. This lady in Ruston makes our cakes. Isn't she great!?

This was the pinata. I had it sitting next to the cake on the table for decoration until time to bust it open!

Here's our pirate ship..let me tell you it was a HIT!!!!!

Happy Birthday! Our little tradition is to have a doughnut with a candle on one's b-day. the crown came from school. The teacher celebrated all the summer b-days on one of the last days and made crowns....
He woke up, put on his crown and waltzed into the living room, very proud that he was FINALLY six years old.
On Thursday I loaded up the kids and took them to Monroe. Another traditon is that when we take the kids to Monroe, we ALWAYS eat at IHOP. So in honor of the birthday boy, we went to IHOP and then to the JUNGLE GYM. A place that has indoor jumpy things and slides and ball pit, etc. By the time we left, I think every person that we came into contact knew this little boy was turning 6 the next day.

Mama and Daddy came on Friday to be here for his party the next day....
This pic is when we gave Cooper his bike from Jamie and me. He was excited!

We have graduated to a 16 incher now! We are still working on that training wheel thing. These will eventually come off as well...

Tune in tomorrow for the party pics!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOPER!!!!!!!!!!!! My baby is 6 today!!!!




Here's the cake from last year. We love some Lightening McQueen at our house!

Watching all those boys on this waterslide was so funny!

One big blow...

I loved the decorations for this party! Except those styrofoam panels kept falling down.....Shiver me timbers! (hint hint) Cooper's party is tomorrow. Be ready for a whole bunch of pics next week...

Go Deigo Go! Cooper loved Deigo at this point and it seemed a natural choice when party time rolled near. The only problem: Deigo had only been showing on tv for about 6 months and there was NO commercial merchandise (ie party supplies) with this theme.....so I had to get creative, VERY CREATIVE! Thanks to Oriental Trading (every teacher's best friend) it all came together farily well. Check out the palm leaf and vine in the backgound...green posterboard and grocery sacks! I had them all over the patio to give it a jungle feel.

Oh, and also thanks to e-bay we had this cool alligator pool to go along with our jungle motif!

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to Cooper"....

Birthday #3....this kid loved (and still does) JOHN DEERE!
There is a police officer in town who collects antique tractors...I called and asked if we could use his John Deere tractor for the party....

Nothing like a little organized chaos....look at Big D..looks like he's thinking.."Lemme at this..HA! Jackpot!" He was about 10 months old.

He huffed and he puffed......

This party turned out very cute!

Happy Birthday #2!
Can't you just hear him?" HOOOO HOOOO! CAKE!

Davis was a couple months from making his debut!

I think opening the gifts at age two is just about as good as what's inside!

Cooper got this cool four wheeler from Jamie and me. His actual birthday was the day after his party, so he got this when he first woke up....can you tell? Even at almost 6 years old he still has this same look when he first rolls out of bed!

Cooper's first birthday party! He didn't dive into the cake like most one year olds do.....

Here's the crew....

Yea! I love a party..

That was fun Mommy, but I'm tired!

This is Cooper at 9 or 10 months. Actually, it was probably colser to 11. What a sweet face! Hope yo enjoyed my trip down memory lane! There could be more next week.....

Silly boy!
About 8 months.

This cracks me up!

Cooper Man at 6 months!

What a happy boy!

Here duckie, duckie,duckie....

Notice how he has a big smile on his face in every pic? I have very few pics of him without this trademark grin and sparkly eyes! Those big blue eyes still sparkle when he gets tickled!