it's a pirate party

Today we celebrated Ben's birthday (which is coming up in a few days) with a pirate party! It was a lot of fun.

For the first time we had a lunchtime birthday party away from home; it was at a local pizza place, which was really great. No pre-party cleaning, minimal post-party cleaning, a lot more space...and they have a video arcade, which was a big hit.

Here is a photo of the cake, a treasure chest:

Me two scurvy dogs!

Grandpa enjoying some time with his two younger grandsons.

Ben blew out all six candles in one puff!

My boys do enjoy their cake! Here is Pirate Kyle:

And Ben walking the plank:

Inspecting the loot!

We had a great time, it worked out really well. And we had all afternoon at home to figure out how to open all of those toy packages...