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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Party like you never have be 4 !!!

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Good morning Birthday Boy! This is what Bradley woke up to and notice it is still dark.  We opened gifts at 6:30 in the morning like it was Christmas! 

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Go figure that his Batman Pajamas were dirty  and he chose these.  The snowman pajamas must have been what made him think it was Christmas. 

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Daddy helping him read his cards.

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Gifts from Mimi and Dunka. A lion blanket and so much more.

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Farting whistles!!

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Mommy and Daddy got him a glow in the dark batman shirt, his cool dude gym shorts, batman tattoos and of course his PARTY!

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The invitations said 1 o’clock so now it is time to PARTY!

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Table of gifts and favors for the party goers. 

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Holy Batman there were 19 kids!

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The BATMAN cupcake cake that turned out great!  Cream cheese icing and half vanilla, half chocolate cupcakes.  

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Mom (Mimi) helped me so much and Liz showed up in time to help with setting out the food.  There was 15 minutes to set up everything so of course guests arrived early and I was still decorating. 

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Birthday Mom and soon to be Birthday Mom in a week. 

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The kids had total run of the gym for exactly 1 hour!  That included trampolines, balance beams, the foam pit, tumbling blocks and just running FREE like kids love to do!

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The gymnastic coaches did little station/ drills with them.

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Girls chatting.  Look how early we start! haha!

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Johnny in the foam pit. 

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They wrote this on one of the trampolines for him!

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Two out of three of Bradley’s best girls.  Jordan is the other girl he likes and they all like him back.  He is a little ladies man I hear! He had to go pee but I’m sure he didn't want to stop playing. 

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I wonder why they like him so much? What a gentleman! 

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Daddy and Gavin enjoyed all the fun too!

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The babies practiced their butterfly and leg stretching!

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Dunka was so great and held Easton the whole time for me.  I wanted to hold him off from nursing so I could enjoy Bradley. 

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Gavin Wavin.  One day it will be his turn to party with all his friends. 

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Now the playing is done and we all go upstairs for Chic-fil-a nuggets and Cheese puffs and all the kids favorites!

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“Happy Birthday to You…..”

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“Happy Birthday Dear Bradley….”

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Making his wish and going for it!

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Since the party was limited time and he had 19 gifts to open from each friend we had to take the gifts home.  It took us about another hour to open all of them!

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He got so many great things.  So much Batman toys and other superhero stuff and Toy Story things.  He was so excited and thankful for everything!

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Mommy and Daddy pose for a picture with the Birthday Boy after things calm down for the day.  I love celebrating my children’s birthdays and it went by so fast. 

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Mimi and Dunka left this morning to drive back to DC.  We had a really great time hanging out with them and they watched the boys for us to go out last night to dinner!

8 comments:

Nicki said...

Looks like a great party! And I agree...our kids birthdays are way more fun than our own anymore! :)

Liz said...

Oh my goodness, I'll kill you later for that picture of JoBeth and I, haha! It was a blast and we all enjoyed ourselves. Can't wait to get back over there again!

Diana said...

Happy 4th Birthday, Bradley :) He looks like he had such a great day!!!

The Marsh's said...

What a fun party!!! I love all the pictures of the kids interacting they were so funny!! Bradley's lucky to have such a cool Mommy & Daddy to throw an awesome Batman party like that :)

The Steinhauser Family said...

Happy 4th birthday little guy! He looks like he had SO much fun at his Batman party =)

The Gimmel Family said...

Looks like he had a great birthday!!

two girls, a boy and a blog said...

I wish we were there with you Bradley! Next year we will be!! Love you so much;-)

gigi said...

What a fun birthday!!! Love all the pics! xoxo!