Tyler's Pirate Birthday Party

Tyler had a party on his birthday and it was really fun. We don't know a lot of kids around here yet so we thought it would be a good way for him to get to know his primary class and a few other kids in our ward. Tyler loved the party and he loves being 5 years old! On his birthday when he woke up and I told him he is now 5 he was soooo suprised. Then he wanted to go try on his clothes to see if they still fit. He is such a cutie and we love him so much!

The invitation (I blurred out the address and phone # since this is a public blog)

Andy made two pirate ships out of our plethera of moving boxes. The kids made their own pirate flags to put on the back.

The cannonball fight- the cannonballs are just crumpled up newspaper wrapped in black tape

Looking through homemade telescopes for pirate treasure

"Walking the plank"

They had to search through this goo to find the captain's lost eyeball

Then they followed a series of clues to find the treasure (a pinata, candy braclets, ring pops and chocolate coins)

Tyler hitting his treasure pinata

The birthday cake (I got the idea from family fun magazine)

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Finally done!

I am so proud of Andy for all his hard work the past four years. He graduated with Honors in Research and now he is Dr. Hansen! It was so fun to have Andy's parents and my parents in town for the graduation. They have all helped us in so many ways to get through four years of med school. We love you guys!


Getting his diploma

The proud family. It is impossible to get my kids to look at the camara!

Best friends: Andy, Josh Hunter, Marc Crosby, and Jackson Lever.
It was fun for Andy to have these guys around the past four years, who else would stay up with him until 2:00 a.m. playing Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and nintendo Wii?


The Dads: Rawl Crosby, Gary Hansen, Gordon Lambert

The Mom's: Nancy Dockendorf, Tricia Crosby, Carol Crosby, Marilyn Hansen, Me, Jackie Lambert.

Sam and Kate Crosby playing with Ty in front of the Medical College.

Lizzy is getting so big, don't you just love her curly hair!

Our camara battery died so I didn't take very many pictures, so if any of you out there (Hunters, Crosbys, Levers, Hansens, Lamberts) want to send me coppies of your pictures I'll take 'em. Then I'll post more later.