Birthday Cousins

On the Saturday before Bradley’s birthday we went to Charlotte for Jackson’s Birthday party.  My mom got to our house on Friday night and on Saturday after snow, a change of plans, a movie out with Bradley and my mom we were finally on the road to Charlotte.

We were going to all go including Brad on Sunday because he and I had a deployment send off party to go to Saturday night but it was cancelled because of the snow and rescheduled for Sunday.  The same time Jacksons party was.  Brad stayed back to be with his buddies one last time before they deployed and we trucked forward in the snow to get there Saturday evening.  The roads got a little dicey for a bit because in some towns it was sticking.  Joanie is always the best hostess and she had yummy chili waiting for us when we got there. I completely forgot to pack my camera so I have my phone ones and some from Jen. Andrew and Jen drove down from Maryland to celebrate the birthday boys too!

    

It snowed really good at Nathan and Joanie’s but we had no clue to plan for it so the kids had no snow gear.  We ended up just waiting around and hanging out Sunday morning before Jacksons big party at the sports complex.

 

Jackson played football and basketball with all his 10 year old friends.  Luckily they had bounce houses , tons of them, for our kids to do since these games were too much for them to keep up with. 

We had a cake for Bradley at the party and sang to him.  I can’t believe my nephew is 10 and my biggest boy is 6!

We had so much fun and all of these cousins are looking at the camera and smiling.  That right there is a picture of success!!

We had to drive home Sunday night around 7.  I went to go pick Brad up at 10 at night from our friends house that he was at.  I showed up in pajamas thinking he was just waiting for me but they were all still up and partying. I ended up being conned into almost 3 hours of dance party.  We even got the guys to do a dance (or two)! Shhhh, don’t tell them we have proof! By the time we got home being exhausted was an understatement.

 

Dancing our hearts out with Becky, Stacey, Luke, Brian, Mike and Tori.

It would have been nice if Monday was a recuperate day but I had to prep for Bradley’s big 6 year old day the very next day!!