Wavey's Party

Dear Grandma Bev,

We are so sad that you weren't able to be here with us this weekend.  We were really looking forward to seeing you.  I thought I'd give you a little update on our adventures so you could feel like you were with us just a little. We have been having a great time hanging out at Grandpa Val's house.

 We arrived late Thursday night and hit the sack so we would have enough energy for our trip to White Water the next day.  After a long day at the Water park we came home to meet Grace and George, Henry and Liz.  

On Saturday we drove over to Mikes house to celebrate Wavey's 3rd birthday.

We took lots of pictures so you could see what it was like.

No No is getting so big.  Mike is having a lot of fun styling his hair

The kids all wrestled Mike on the trampoline.  There was a lot of screaming involved.

Wavey's hair is getting so curly, just like Grace's.

She is such a talker, she walked around having little conversations with everyone.

She opened presents which all turned out to be pink and princess-ed. 

She promptly tried everything on.

It was a very fun party!

Today we went to church.  We stayed for Grandpa's Spanish branch sacrament meeting.  Our family performed a song for the intermediate hymn.  We sang "Love is Spoken Here."  Now everyone is off to take a look at the new house Mike is buying somewhere in town and the kids are watching a show.  

We hope you are feeling better. I will try to take a few more pictures of all the cousins tonight.  We love you and miss you.

Love,

the Markos clan.

Happy Birthday to Max!!

Max turned 10 today! We celebrated by packing the car, cleaning the house, and driving to GA.

 

Just kidding. Max's birthday was a little foiled last year and this year we ended up having to travel on his birthday again, so we officially celebrated it yesterday.

 

We pretended it was his birthday all day. At our house that means a presents, a fancy breakfast, and no chores all day for the birthday boy. He opened all his presents first thing in the morning before Doug went to work.

 

Here are some of the action shots, a pocket knife...

 

Clothes, lego, minecraft, a nerf shotgun to add to his ever increasing arsenal.

 

and for the grand finale a RC Helicopter

 

We spent a very low key day playing and relaxing and listening to endless Harry Potter on CD. It was the perfect day and just what he wanted.

Happy Birthday Max! We love you!

 

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Happy 4th of July!

We had an eventful morning here. Max and Doug woke up early and ran the Firecracker 5k

 then joined us in the neighborhood bike parade.

This year we had balloons for everyone to put on their bikes and Popsicles afterward.

I made some specials shirts last night just for the occasion.

  

Luke and I made an American Flag cake.

Luke currently will not look at the camera and smile.  He'll only look at the camera if he's making a funny face.

And pretty soon we'll be off to a friend's house to watch fireworks.  The kids remarked that it feels like a sunday.  Really?? because we rode in a bike parade and went to a movie??  Oh we went to a movie and saw Brave too. I think it feels like a Saturday.  I told Doug, I love a day that feels like a Saturday without the chores.

Mer's Dance Party

 So I am recording this almost a month after the party but it was such a success that I would hate to forget how it all went down.. First let me just say that Meredith has the nicest group of girlfriends. I am so thankful for that. 


We started off the evening with a little "moves" tutorial by Max.  He showed off all his moves and then the kids took turns imitating them... this one is the lawn mower.  Max also does the can- opener, the shopping cart, the sprinkler, and one special un-named move his dad invented.  Ask him to show them to you sometime.  It's a great show.


After that we did some group dancing where each person got to lead choose the moves and everyone had to follow them.  There was also a dance-off where 2 people took turns showing their best moves and the crowd had to cheer for a winner.

Then, collectively, the group decided they would split up and do a boys vs. girls dance routine.  They each took about 30 minutes to decide a song and choreograph their moves.  There were three kids that did not want to participate in the competition so they were the judges.

The boys won.  They were awesome!

Dinner followed.  Pizza, chips and fruit kabobs with chocolate covered strawberries.  One of Mer's friends came over early and they worked together to pull off this masterpiece.

Double chocolate cake with kisses and curly candles.

Another fun part of the party was the glow bracelets.  We got a ton of them from the dollar store and the kids had the best time messing around with them.

All in all it was a success.  There were at least 3 people who were planning on just watching the whole time, but in the end we had them all dancing. Good memories.