SURPRISE!!!!

A house that was bustling with activity just hours ago is now totally silent (except for my iPod playing on the speaker system....) and Howard snoring (yes... he's only 4 months old and he's taken up snoring). Today was Brittany's birthday and we had a surprise party for her at our house tonight. It was tough just bold-faced lying to her about all of our friends and whether or not they'd be coming to her birthday dinner (which she thought would be at a pizza dive down by the Tacoma Dome with only Kim, Jill and myself in attendance). Brandon (her husband) left for a trip yesterday so he couldn't be here, but most everyone else that we contacted attended and after calling her to tell her that my car wouldn't start and I'd need her to come pick me up, she showed up at the door to a huge SURPRISE!!!! (and Brian covered in the alpaca fur on the floor, pretending to be a rug... and it actually looked sort of real).

We ate pizza and beer (the answer to her "If you could have any meal in the world, what would it be?" question Brandon had asked her last week to do a little P.I. work for us), ate yet another one of Kim's famous cakes (DELICIOUS) and concluded the night with hours of Rock Band. Yes.... hours.

All in all, a successful surprise party :) I love love love having people over to my house (most of yo know this....). Hosting guests is one of my absolute favorite things- not to mention that it definitely was fun to have so many bodies in a house that's otherwise been empty so much lately (apart from Howard and me).

Tomorrow night is the Taylor Swift concert. My sweet sweet husband surprised me with FLOOR SEATS to the concert and now has to miss it since he's still off on a mission, so Brittany is going in his place. It's at Key Arena in Seattle and should be a great time... per the usual, pictures to follow :)