A jumping 4 year old

To celebrate Brody's birthday, we rented a jumpy house and had an To Infinity and Beyond Party - Buzz Lightyear style.  We were quite busy once we got home from the Callahan Christmas parade - all the last minute preparations but thankfully Jason's brother and his wife were visiting so they were a huge help.


The big jumpy house was delivered on Friday so Brody and Caleb had a little early start and what a blast they had.  The kids were so excited and had so much fun bouncing and sliding.  The slide was VERY slipery so the kids would fly down the slide.  Some of the adults even got in on the fun.

I think there may have been a rule of 1 person at a time but oh well they had a blast.


Don't let the picture fool you - he wasn't sleeping.  Baylie and Brody were pretending to be in Andy's house sleeping.


The adults had their fun off to the side.


Trevor even joined in on the fun.

I think for the past 8 months Brody has been saying he wanted a Buzz Lightyear cake so of course I was trying to come up with something cool to make.  I think it turned out pretty good - Brody liked it which is all that counted.  He wanted to try and throw a loop in it by saying he wanted Zurg and Woody on it, but I wasn't about to stress over that so Buzz it was.

Toy Story stuff was the big gift this year of course.  I have never seen so much Toy Story stuff but of course Brody loves it and we are very thankful for family and friends who love Brody so much to come and help him celebrate his big day.

Walkie Talkies from PoPo - he loves them.

Love the facial expression - he gets so excited.

Nini just had to replace his light up Buzz shoes.  I'm not a big fan (yes, call me crazy but I just don't care for light up shoes).  I give in and let him wear them to school ONLY!!

We also had a Buzz Lightyear pinata so the kids swung away and on the 2nd round Kameron (Jason's cousin) had it on the ground and off the kids went for the treasure. 

Such determination to knock it down, which is what happened.


We thought the weather wasn't going to cooperate with us and was going to be REALLY cold, but it ended up being a beautiful day so we ended up having most of the party outside.  It did get a little chilly that night but we were a little prepared with a fire pit for warmth and of course roasting marshmallows.

I think Brody had a blast in his jumpy house so I would call his party a success.  Wow at how fast they grow up.  He's already planned his next 2 birthdays - we'll see if it stays the same.