Brayden's 4th birthday party

Today we celebrated Brayden's 4th birthday (his birthday is actually tomorrow) and he has looked forward to this for weeks!  He went to bed late last night so we actually had to wake him at 9 this morning!  He couldn't wait for his buddies to get there! 

Matt and Tiffany let him open his gift at the beginning of the party so that he and his friends could play with it at the party. 

        

It was a HUGE beach ball that you hook up to the water hose and it sprays all over the pool....so cool.  The kids loved it!  You will see it later in the post.

He opened a couple of little gifts from us so they could play with them...

Happy birthday boy!

This is the cool beach ball Matt and Tiff got him!  If you look closely you can see the water spraying out of it.

Uncle Matt and Aunt Tiffany

Uncle Matt and Lulu

Haha Look Brayden at this cute present!

I got Lucy this new boat and she likes it alot better than her other baby float!

Kendall

Brayden and his buddy Nathan

Brayden wanted to shoot water balloons with the "big kid" slingshot/launcher so that was part of the fun...

Karis and MM

Lucy loved the water hose!

We ate pizza for lunch..

Brayden and Drew

We have had alot of butterflies around lately and they really like Lucy's bow!  Here is one that was hangin' out at the party today!  

Lucy enjoyed her pizza...

Brayden and his friends...

Brayden opening the gift Karis got him (and she wrapped it herself too)...

Fishing bobbers of course!

Pop and Lulu hangin' out...

Opening gifts...

Happy 4th Birthday Brayden!

Sweet birthday boy!

Eli enjoyed his cupcake...

So did Lucy haha!

Brayden insisted he wanted a pinata at his party. So a pinata we had!

Drew knocked it off the string....

...so then Jay had to throw it at Nathan like a baseball haha!

Brayden wanted to play soccer with his new goal with his friends!

Brayden the party was so much fun and I am thrilled to celebrate with you!  

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After the party, my mom left with the big kids to head to the beach for the week.  I was sad to see my babies go (especially since tomorrow is really Brayden's birthday and I won't see him sniff sniff!).  But thrilled that they are getting to go and have fun.  I have had a long to do list this evening and I have washed and changed all sheets, dusted, mopped, vacuumed, cleaned bathrooms, cleaned upstairs (it took me a couple of hours to clean kids' area upstairs ugh!), and just caught up on alot of stuff I have needed to do.  It feels good and I am almost done.  I have a few things to do tomorrow but hopefully I can catch up, spend some QT with my Lucy, and then relax a few days while the kids are away!