Blake's 13th birthday

Blake turned 13 this week! We can hardly believe it! As parents who also happen to be youth workers we love the fact that he gets to participate in the work we do as a student. As well as the conversations we get to have with him and the way he contributes to our family and this work. At the same time we can hardly wrap our brains arount the idea that he's not a little boy anymore!
To celebrate his birthday he invited his friends over. They played Rock Band and of course ate! Chili dogs, birthday cake and other junk food. This is Blake, Klemen and Nik. But I think the hit of the night was taking them over to the new house to do some work. Luke's room used to be a kitchen so they got to knock off tile. Josh said he had to keep things quick though because the attention span was short and the desire to demolish overwhelming!This is Nik and Filip hard at work.
Also, some yucky old furniture is left in our room that had been smoked in pretty heavily. We needed to get rid of it so we let the guys throw it off the balcony in the girls' bedroom! You can imagine the cheer that went up!