A Pirate says.. ARRRR

I'm trying to get caught up and post a bunch of the stuff we did over the summer. It seems like we were gone as much as we were home this summer! Anyway...

In July we went to the Lester extended family reunion. Every year it trades off who is in charge and this year it was Jake's parents so they did it in Delta. They had done a different reunion a couple years ago with a pirate theme so they decided since they already had all the stuff they would use it for this one too. There were quite a few people there, the majority of whom I didn't know (and I don't think Jake did either). The kids had a blast doing a fishing pond, a pinata, and digging for buried treasure.
~Picture Time~

Jake's parents had a little pirate costume (I have no idea why) and Ethan decided he should wear it.

He was Grandpa's first mate for the day and actually ended up wearing parts of the costume for most of the day. The mustache didn't stay on long and the eye patch bugged him, then of course the pants got too hot, but he loved the jacket and the hat!

Olivia digging for the buried treasure. Notice she has a pirate tattoo on her shoulder. She loved showing that tattoo off to everyone and when I finally scrubbed it off her a week later she was so sad. She kept walking around the house, pulling up her sleeve to look at her shoulder and saying,"Tattoo gone? Oh, tattoo gone."

She ended up finding over $8 in the dirt pile, with a little help from her daddy of course.

They had a pirate pinata and let everyone take a few swings at it starting with the youngest. Ethan was 4th in line I think, and he knocked the head clean off. Luckily the candy was all in the body so the rest of the kids still got a chance to hit it, although it did make hanging the pinata a little more difficult. 

 Around 1:30 I could tell that Olivia was getting tired so I took her over to the car to get a big blanket out. She saw her Zoobie first and hurried and grabbed it so I told her to go lay on the grass while I got a blanket out. Obviously she was tired, because she didn't even make it to the grass. I can't imagine the parking lot was all that comfortable so it's probably a good thing she didn't fall asleep.

I took this picture the day after we got home. Ethan was out playing in the pool and was so excited to show off his tattoo because it was on his chest like a "real" pirate.