Spring Break day five {Lynden tourism}

Friday had my two younger nephews while my sister worked.

I had already planned out that we would go for donuts at the Lynden

Dutch Bakery. Afterwards I wanted to walk down to the windmill which is called

the dutch village mall to look at the fish. Our poor little "mall" has nothing in it right now except a

restaurant. This is also very nice because the kids can walk all around and not

worry about them getting into stuff. 

Along the way to the way we stopped into an used book store to look for

Bad kitty or Magic tree house books for Jordan. 

When we got back we played toys and I showed Cohen how to make 

a monkey tree. He loved hanging the monkeys on the tree. 

Michelle was even around to get some cousin love in too.

That afternoon Michelle went to a movie with my parents while the 

kiddos napped. Jordan was snuggled up by me on the couch barely staying awake.

At one point he feel asleep for about 5 minutes before he woke up with a jerk.

He told me he was dreaming about riding his bike. He ended going over a cliff 

and he jumped off his bike and that is what woke him up.

After Michelle got back from the movie Jordan went to spend the night.

Michelle had plans to go roller skating that night with some friends.

to the mountain

Winter is a hard season for me to find lots of joyous activities to do with the family.

Last year we took the kids sledding for the first time and it was a lot of fun.

It has become a new tradition for us to do or I would like it to be.

This past Saturday we finally made up to the mountain for an afternoon of sledding!

This year my brother and his family came along too.

We also brought up chili to eat afterwards.

There wasn't nearly as much snow as last year so there were a few sore bums

but other then that lots of fun!

Cousin movie sleepover

 Sticking with tradition we had our cousin movie night sleepover on Friday night.

Jordan had a basketball game so we didn't get home until 8 'o clock which was a 

little late for my nephew Cohen to join us. Next year for sure he will be included.

We did add a friend of ours son to the mix.

When we got home from Jordan's game it was into jammies, pick out snacks

and movie started. After the movies we turned off the lights except the tree

and left the boys telling each other stories until they fell asleep.

They were up bright and early as usual. I let them all play video games 

while I slept a bit longer and then made breakfast.

Love this tradition and hope to continue for a few more years to come.

Check out the past few years sleepovers

2012

2011

2010