Motel Moyle - Hopefully there is a vacancy!

Other highlights of the week include Mark’s aunt Nancy and her two children, McKenzie and Bridger, who came to visit. We hit up the tourist spots, spent time on the beach and explored tide pools. I claimed the baby excuse when they were headed swimming in the ocean. They had a great time boogie boarding in the cold water. Bridger is a huge Lego Fan so we explored Lego Land on Mark’s birthday. I am not sure if Mark had more fun than the on looking adults who were entertained by his enthusiasm on the rides. He riled up all sorts of people and I knew where they were in the park by all the fun screaming that would erupt. The park has over 40 million Lego bricks. They have created a life sized Darth Vader, President Obama inauguration and Taj Mahal. It was amazing.

We had one more set of wonderful visitors. Adam and Nadine, Jenn’s best friend from HS and college, came to celebrate Easter. We dyed eggs, left them out overnight, dyed more eggs and hid the potentially toxic eggs in a really hard Easter egg hunt. Ellie didn’t really get much out of it. After the eggs-ala-goldenrod I started wondering what traditions we have that really commemorate Christ, his death and resurrection. I am open to ides so let me know. We are very grateful for a wonderful week and extremely grateful for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His forgiveness and hope are real!

I am old and have no teeth!

In honor of Mark’s 26th birthday a few friends gathered to give him advice. They brought rice, pudding, Jell-O, cake, donuts and whipping cream. This unique assortment of foods created a banquet for an older and wiser person to gum his or her way through. This would have taken to long so we used a kid’s method and flung, smashed, threw, smothered, smeared and launched these foods at each other. It was a planned surprise food fight for Mark. His favorite movie is Hook, and in the movie they have a major food fight. The parents loved having pudding smashed across their face, pie smeared across the back and cupcakes massaged into the hair. On the other hand the kids cried their way through. They couldn’t figure out why the precious cake was being mutilated. It was a fun party. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK!!!!! We love you!