13th birthday

Today, or I guess I should say yesterday, Brandon turned 13. Yeah, April 1st! Today, Friday we had a party. It was a great night, lots of great snacks and good company. I was thinking, 4 years ago, I was invited for the first time to Brandon's 9th birthday, this is when I became apart of the Hillebrand family. From then on, well, it's history...or so it goes.

Here are a few pictures from tonight:
Mom and Kristi trying to get the box of pita chip open: Don't they look serious?

We also had some special guest tonight as well, Tom's cousin, Brandi, brought her dog, Murphy. He and Patches just had a blast playing with each other. Patches was just exhausted by the time they left. She didn't know what to think, someone in her territory. She kept trying to hump Murphy and the dog's fixed. We don't understand it.
It was a good night, we even got to skype with Leah tonight, so that made the night all that better. Linda was here and said she couldn't believe how big she's getting and can't wait to keep her all night at her house in May.

Here are a few more pictures. Note the new floor rug. We got this from Brenda with Jazzercise, she emailed me the other day and asked if we would be interested in an area rug, so I said maybe, so Tom and I went over to their house to check it out and the colors on it seemed to match the kitchen/dining room, so we decided to take it. Well, it was perfect! Tom and I rolled it out and just left it in the basement for a couple days and when Kristi got her tonight, I asked her to come look at it to see if it would "match" and I was like "we should just try it" so we did. Tom was gone and no one else was her yet, so we brought it upstairs, moved the table and chairs, rolled it out, vacuumed it and put the table back and I love it! It matches so perfect, it has the maroon color from the kitchen and the greens from the dining room, plus it has some beige and other blended colors. I think it looks really good and as I sit her and look at it, I'm really glad we went out to look at it. It would have cost us about $500 to purchase one this big. Well, here's a few pictures, just random ones from tonight. (notice the area rug under the table)
Here are 2 pictures of Murphy and Patches. Brandi brought them each a treat and they both picked a separate place on the new area rug to each their bones.

Well, that enough for tonight. We have 4 boys here tonight. 3 boys are spending the night with Brandon. I'm just excited to be able to sleep in tomorrow. I hope they don't wake me up. I'm sure they wont keep me up as I had a few beers tonight and I'm feeling really relaxed right now.

Lot's going on this weekend. Tomorrow, Grandmas turns 87 - Holy Crap - I can't believe it. She gets around so great. We love you Grandma. We are heading up to mom and dad's tomorrow for spaghetti and meatballs to celebrate her birthday.

Sounded like Tom just got locked in the bathroom LOL. He got out! Now, off to bed!

Oh, here's a pic of Bob aka "boner" and his daughter Brandi (Murphy's owner)

And the bob - he wanted a new pic for his facebook profile. I thought this turned out good.
This blogging thing is finally getting easier. It's not as bad posting pictures anymore.

It rained all day, that's why we were inside all night. Last night, Tom and I sat outside and had a fire. It was beautiful out, but tonight, it rained. It was raining since about 4;00. The boys were out playing basketball in the rain and came in drenched, but it wasn't super cold, just wet.

Ok, I'm going to bed!