surpised sam-amzing lisa!

okay, sorry for the million pics but my sister-in-law lisa, is amazing! she has spent the last 3 days, working her booty off, designing and painting this mural for sams room. i wish you could all see it in person b/c the pictures don't do it justice. (you can come and see it, if you're in my neck of the woods!) for some reason, my internet is slow and my camera is 'fuzzy' so i'll try and take some more pictures but, you get the jist of it! we didn't let sam into his room until early this evening. he was giddy!! he LOVES birds and maps so lis did a PERFECT job of joining the two. i just told her that his children are going to enjoy this someday b/c we are NEVER going to paint it.
the other pictures are of the boys, playing star wars on our laptops. too cute!! anyway, enjoy the pictures!!
THANKS LIS, YOU'RE THE BEST!!! I'M AMAZED AT YOUR GOD-GIVEN TALENT! :)

***A SWEET MOMENT BETWEEN BROTHERS!!****

family fun night, some of sams friends through him in 'jail'. nice friends!! his dear mother finally came to his rescue!! :)

max, the mountain man!

family fun night...the huge blow-up slide.....

sam and jack seem to be having a 'tad' of a problem getting along so, what's a parent to do??? what is the one thing that they really didn't want to do??? touch each other!! SO, HERE'S THE SOLUTION!! make them hold hands for 15 mins.!! that did it & by the time they got into family fun night, they were laughing! :) within in 3 hours, they were back to their old ways....lucky for them, it was bedtime!!!

brotherly love!

jack and coach lisa planning their next move!

jack blocking the next shot!

max and his friend coby playing leapsters while waiting for jacks game to end!

Latest Likkel outings......

our weekend was spend doing all sorts of fun things.....
friday night we were able to have our cousins overnight then on saturday morning...basketball games for max and jack. saturday night we headed to Lynden Christians Family Fun Night! what a blast!! a little overstimulating for us parents, but the kids had a great time!! :) 2 hours was enough for us!!!!