Talk Like a Pirate Day Observed 2012

Talk Like a Pirate Day is on September 19th, but we are going to be too busy that day to celebrate how we would like, so for Family Home Evening on Monday, we had Talk Like a Pirate Day Observed.  This holiday is a big deal for us.  We don't do the simple, quick celebrating for it like we do with some holidays.  We really get into it.

 And put a lot of work into it.

Three years ago was when we really started getting into this holiday.  I blogged about it in 2009.

Last year, we added some more fun.  I blogged about it on September 19th and a few days later.

Some of the activities have really become tradition as the kids have come to expect them.  Jeremy always builds a pirate ship out of our couch with a PVC mast and material hanging from it as a sail and an upside down unicycle for the helm.  We also always have a balloon cannon.  This year it didn't work as well.  I think it got bumped too many times.  Oh well.  We still had fun with our balloon sword fight.

For dinner this year, we had squid dogs and carrot hooks and ketchup and grape juice.  The kids wanted the squid legs to be pink so we squirted some red food coloring into the water and it worked really well. 

I was the galley cook who dished out the food.  Arrrr.

For Family Home Evening Treat, Jeremy made skull and crossbones cupcakes for us.

Jeremy put together a treasure hunt for the kids.  The clues were very clever and they did a really good job figuring them out.  As they figured out clues, they earned gold dubloons (like in Jake and the Neverland Pirates from Disney Junior, for those of you with little kids).

The first clue came as a message in a bottle.  At the end, the treasure was a bunch more dubloons and the game, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean for the Wii. 

And earlier in the day, as Jeremy, Jr. Jr., and I were getting ready, we put on some pirate music and worked and danced.

And after school Jr. used a piratey pencil while he worked on homework.

And of course through it all, we had fun talking like pirates.