Spiderman Birthday! (Again.....)

I procrastinated badly with Jaron's Bday party. We had it a month after his actual birthday! Fortunately it didn't matter to him at all. He just wanted to have his 3 best buddies over for a sleepover. Now you know why I was putting it off!!!!!!





Look carefully in the background of this picture......see that hand-drawn Spidy on the wall? Jaron made it so we could play "Pin the spider on Spiderman". Cutest thing ever!!!
And here they are, minus one friend Matthew who came down with a fever that day. (Jaron shed some tears over it, but eventually decided he could still have fun with his other friends....whew!) So Rocco and Alp came over for a night of pizza, cupcakes, ice cream, movies and LOTS of playing. Rocco used to live in our apartment complex, we met them at the playground, now they live in Princeton. Alp is Jaron's friend from 1st grade. I am telling you, these guys are two peas in a pod. Jaron came home on the first day of school telling stories about Alp and still hasn't stopped. They have the best time together. Alp is quite a funny guy too....he says some really silly things! He and his family are from Turkey.

On to "Pin the Spider....." Jordan wanted to be in charge of helping with the games. She was so sweet, really. She can be a tiny bit bossy from time to time, but she was very proud to help her brother have a good birthday party.


We all got a kick out of Alp putting the spider on the art easel instead of Spidy!!!

And they ended the night dressing up! I love this picture!!! This party was ALL boy. And we sure do love our little boy!!!!!!

Samarian's Purse

Since we have been living in New Jersey we have been filling a shoebox each Christmas to send to a needy child somewhere in this hurting world. The kids love it, they take great joy and pride in picking out special things for children they don't even know. We try and make sure to pray for these unknown faces and we are always excited when I receive the email telling us where our packages went. They have gone to places like Cambodia, Madagascar, Honduras.

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization.....people sold-out to the love of Christ, desiring to spread that love to a lost world. I get things pretty regularly in the mail from Samaritan's Purse, but the other day I got something that filled my heart with joy and I have thought about it alot since I received it. It was their Gift Catalog for Christmas 2011. Please look at the link. It is a catalog FULL of things like:

~ provide milk for a needy child for a week......$5
~feed a hungry baby for a week.....$9
~give an orphan a month of loving care.....$35
~blankets.......$6
~hot meals......$7
~Bibles.....$15
~clean water for a community......$20
~shoes and clothing.......$25
~fruit trees........$45
~baby chicks for a community........$14

Chris and I showed it to the kids tonight after supper. They loved it. I told them we were going to leave it out on the table and pray about what God wants us to purchase. I want to do it all. I want one of everything!!!! I am so thankful for this catalog that I didn't even know existed, that I didn't even know was coming. God is working to spread the love and FREEDOM of Christ across the globe, there are millions upon millions that have discovered Jesus and his goodness, and our little family is praying that it would continue to explode through the power of the Holy Spirit. God's Word will not return void!!!