Happy Birthday, Rudy!

Today is Rudy's birthday! I love my brother so much! We fight and argue constantly, but he is my favorite (and only) brother. Recently, I have been driving Rudy home from his basketball practice. This is our brother/sister bonding time. He talks to me about everything (including stuff that I would rather not know about). Maybe it's because he is worn out from practice, or maybe it's because he is forced to trust me because I am taking his life into my hands while driving, but whatever this insignificant sense of trust is, it really makes me happy. We also have our fair share of laughter on these long drives home. We both purposefully botch harmonies on songs just because we don't like whoever sings it, and we laugh at various things that happened at home or at school. Rudy denies it presently, but when we were younger, he would always ask me if we were twins. I would tell him no and he would argue with me. Then, I would ask mom if Rudy was adopted because his skin was so much more tan than mine that I thought he was Mexican or something. These were some of the more fond moments of our childhood together. Let's not forget about the time when I threw a bottle and baby Rudy while he was sleeping. (He claims that this situation started all of the fighting.) Or the time when Rudy and I tried to play hide and seek in the corn field, or the time when we thought it would be funny to put a cat in a cooler over night. (That ended terribly.) Or the time that I made him eat dirt, or the time when Rudy escaped while Momma was giving him a bath and ran outside naked to ride his tractor. The list goes on and on. My brother and I have been there for each other through everything. I love him so much!

My sister and I made these today. These are supposed to be reindeer. All of them have two chocolate chips for eyes except for this special one. This one is the non-conformist out of the group. I decided that they couldn't all be the same, so  I made this one. This one does not care what other people think of him; he is going against the status quo. He is special and unique in every way. So, naturally, we named him Rudolph. :)