Whew, what a busy Saturday

Saturday, Dec 3 we had Brody's birthday party AND the Callahan Christmas parade was that morning.   We met up with Stephanie, Adam and Ava to watch the parade.  The boys enjoyed it all except for the many firetrucks with the loud sirens.  All 3 of the kids would head out into the street to get the candy that was thrown.  We were at the beginning of the parade route so there was still lots of candy - not that we needed anymore in our house.

Trevor hitching a ride with his friend Ava and she was so sweet to accommodate.

Ava telling Trevor secrets or maybe just hiding from the camera.

I was trying not to stress too much about the party that afternoon so thankfully most everything was done - cake and food.  The party started at 3:30 and we were actually able to get Brody down for a nap and when he woke up he was ready to go and jump.  We couldn't have asked for any better weather - absolutely beautiful.

The birthday boy

The kids jumped and slid and had so much fun.  The adults sat around and watched football.  That's the great thing about Brody's birthday party - it will usually fall on the SEC championship game day so there will always be a tv on.

Dominic

The adults enjoying some football

The kids moved to the playground as well - Caleb and Brody

Sweet Ava was the only girl at the party - she didn't seem to mind too much though.

Sweet Tucker

 The Ards with the birthday boy

The guys had to exert some energy with basketball.

It was a transformer birthday this year - for those of you who don't know this is the autobot symbol and they are the good guys.

 All of his buddies

Brody did not like the candles - he was kind of freaking out when Jason was lighting them.

Present time

One of Brody's favorite gifts.

Nana and Poppy

Popo

Nini & Papa

I had totally forgotten about the pinata until one of Brody's friends had something - I guess Brody had mentioned it to him and really wanted to do it.  Some of Brody's friends had already left so there weren't many there.  This year's pinata wasn't that much fun because it was a pull string type where every kid gets to pull a string and one of the strings unlatches the trap door - well none of them worked so we just had to tear into it - oh well they still got lots of candy.

It was a very busy Saturday, but lots of fun.