Sunday, November 9, 2008

Brandon's Early Birthday Celebration
















Brandon wont officially be a teenager for one more month, but we decided to have his friend party earlier. We only do a friend party every other year and then we dont do one this big very often. :) He had 9 of his friends come over to spend the night. they did pizza , brownies and ice cream, a scavenger hunt around the neighborhood and a movie and gaming.
In the morning they had pancakes and we went to Brandon's long awaited Madagascar 2 movie. It was fun and the kids were very well behaved. I am so glad that he chooses such great friends!! He still gets very sentimental about friends who have moved away - Josh several years ago and Andrew just recently! We missed you! However, he was able to have Calvin come from up north. He and Calvin were very first friends as babies and we still keep in touch. Thanks for letting him come, Andi!
I'm not going to get to overwhelmed at the fact that he is 13 -yet - because I still have a month. I still cant believe it though. Wow. I do love the stage where my kids are now. I think we all enjoy eachother more than we ever have. Its a great life!

4 comments:

KeriLyn and Matthew said...

Happy Early b-day, brandon!! I still can't believe that you took the party to a movie....that doesn't seem like something you would try pulling off....but it sounds fun!!! how nice you are....i think i am too cheap to pull off something like that!

Todd and Lisa said...

Remember that it was a $5 movie and we did no treat bags to take home!! I am still cheap. we didnt do the evening show!!

the medeiros family said...

Yes...Josh still misses Brandon, too! (and the rest of your family for that matter!)
Looks like they had an awesome time...happy early birthday, Brandon!

Mark Lori and kiddos said...

Wish we were there! We saw Mad 2 last Saturday with a neighbor friend's birthday party. Kids are quoting like crazy...

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