Julia and Johnathan (aka J3 and J4)- Birthday Celebrations!!!

Steve and I haven't been able to make it to very many of my neices/nephew birthday parties because they all live away. Most of the times the parties have been on either a Friday night or a Sunday afternoon/evening and we just haven't been able to make those trips due to work. Well, we were so excited to see that we were gonna get to be at Julia and Johnathan's birthday party this year!! Julia turned 4 in January, and Johnathan turns 2 in February... so Jason and Jenn decided to have their party together!

Steve and I were already in Temple celebrating Ted's b-day- so we made the day trip up to Waxahachie to be w/ the J4's (that's what they call themselves since all of their first names start w/ a "J"- I think it's cute!). We got there in time to watch the Cowboys game... a very sad game I might add :o(. After the game we went to the b-day party which was held at a gymnastics place. It was sooooo fun! Here are lots of pics of the fun day!


The b-day boy after swinging on the rope into the "trap" of foam blocks! I say "trap" because I had to get in it and rescue Johnathan a few times and it is VERY HARD to get out of that thing!!!
here he is with his daddy helping him swing on the rope



Here's Julia walking on the balance beam with her Boppy (Jenn's mom). Julia was SO BUSY running everywhere and doing everything, that my camera couldn't get a good shot! She moves so much that they were ALL blury! (sorry Ju-Ju! I wish I had more of you doing your stuff! But I'd need a high dollar camera to be able to capture it all!)


The spectators of the rope swing event (Jenn, Steve, dad, and mom)


getting ready to eat the birthday (cup)cakes!
blowing out the candles


digging into the cupcakes

getting ready to open presents



here they are with their mommy and daddy

and with their favorite aunt and uncle there! (I can say that because Brad and Shannon couldn't come because Morgan was sick)

me, mom, and Jenn
me and my handsome hubby!
mom and dad
J4 (Jason, Jenn, Julia, Johnathan)- note- aren't the kids shirts cute!!! Jenn couldn't find one w/ just a "2" for Johnathan, so she marked off one of the "2's" from "22" with red tape! funny!
and the birthday kiddos in a thing that rolls around while they lay in it (and then they fall out as it rolls... it was quite cute!)