Jace turns 3

On Sunday, July 14, Jace turned 3 years old.  I can't believe how fast time has flown by.  We had my family over to celebrate that day.  We celebrated June/July birthdays, but also made sure to make it a special day for Jace since it was his actual birthday.  He was the only one who got to blow out candles.  And of course that cake was chocolate (his favorite).

 

 

 

Part of the group that was there.

 

My Aunt Cheryl and cousins Kyle and Brooke were visiting from Virginia so they were able to come and spend the evening with us.

 

We also had a friend birthday party for Jace on July 23.  We rented an inflatable water slide and set up our pool and had a "Fun in the Sun" party.

 

Jace had fun with all of his little friends. We had pizza for lunch, played in the water, had a pinata, and of course opened presents and had Strawberry Shortcake.

 

Birthday man taking a break from the cold water.

 

Since Jace's party took place in the morning, we invited kids from the neighborhood kids to come and play with us in the afternoon (there were about 25 kids at that time) and then after a couple of hours we sent them home and had family only time with the slide.  Nate took off early from work and Kade, Kylee, and Gage (Callie and Jace's cousins) came down and spent the afternoon with us playing.

 

The slide needed to be completely dried when they picked it up, so part of the time we were playing on it dry.  Daddy sent them down rolled up in a towel.  They love playing with their daddy!

 

And of course wrestled with them.

 

Callie and Jace both loved doing backwards somersaults down the slide.

 

It was a great day, but very very busy and tiring.  The kids (and their mommy) were worn out.