A Pirate's Life for Me!!!

We celebrated Jonathon's 5th Birthday last week! I can't believe my baby is a 5 year old! For some reason this birthday really made me sad! He's growing way too fast! When he turned four he still felt little to me, a little boy, and even though five is still so young, he just seems like a big boy now! When I think of five I think of kindergarten and sports teams and the beginning of lots of other big boy things and even more responsibility on our part.  It's intimidating because I want to be the best mom and do everything right and the older he gets the more independent he get's, which is right, but hard to let go a little. Five years went by super fast for us, we watched his birth video the day of his birthday and it seemed like just yesterday he was born quickly and peacefully on the most beautiful day, making me a mother for the first time and thankfully my first birth experience so perfect. It's so amazing to me how Heavenly Father sends us these children when they are supposed to come and in what order. Although he can be a handful to say the least and the older he gets the more of a handful he becomes, he has been and will always be exactly what we need! 

For his birthday this year as you have probably figured out he wanted a pirate party! His friend had an awesome pirate party this past spring in WA and he never forgot it. His favorite show is on the disney channel called Jake and the Never Land Pirate's! So my mom and I went full force in planning a fun birthday for him. It turned out so cute and was such a blast! We had family and friends over and celebrated with a pirate bounce house, lots of pirate themed snacks, drinks, dinner and dessert. Jake was in charge of the treasure hunt and he went all out of course, leaving clues, making maps for the kids, and getting the loot together! The kids loved this and were so happy about all their treasures! Jake is such an enthusiastic person I think the kids thought he really was a pirate. I made Jonathon a pirate cake which he was excited about, it's not amazing, but it made him happy :)

The pirate ship cake

Arggggg!

A Pirate family!

Me hearties!

Cousins!

Daddy giving some clues!

I love this picture of him with his map!

I loved this clue, a sunken bottle with a clue inside he had to pull out of the pool :)

The loot!

Best picture ever, melts my heart! He's wishing so hard!

Fire the cannons!

There she blows!

He's been wanting a huge pirate ship for so long, so he was ecstatic and jumping around like crazy when he opened this big guy! And in true Jonathon form told everyone they could leave now after he opened it and to make sure everyone's brothers and sisters were kept away from his gift, can you tell he has a little curious brother that likes to follow him everywhere?  :)

Love birthdays, love my birthday boy, he's my treasure, excited to see what 5 is like! This summer has gone by so fast, school's starting! He starts pre-kindergarten this week! And..... we got a house! Move in Sept. 1st! Finally.... will post more about that soon.