Denmark housing

Imagine our delight when we found a video tour of our apartment in Copenhagen!!  Ha ha!  I am thrilled to see that there is laundry, although the small fridge will be a change!  Isn't it dreamy?  And those of you interested in visiting will note that there is indeed extra room.  Make your plans now!

Band camp 2013

Maggie attended a week long music camp at Luther College in Decorah, IA, and had the time of her life!!  Dorm living, d-hall food, pool/dance party, hours and hours of music.  It was her first time away like this, and it was a piece of cake.  I don't think she was even remotely home sick.  :-)  That's good.  Here are two songs from the end-of-camp concert, one with the concert band and one with the choir.  In Maggie's words, the choir was EPIC!  It will be a let-down to be back with her school band.  Actually, the rest of summer may be a let-down after the fun she had. 

Track Season

Here are some pics Mama/Grandma got at the 7th grade girls' state track meet.  Our girls came in second behind a much larger team from a much larger town!  Plus it was the most miserable of days: 35 - 45 degrees, sleet, rain, snow on the infield.

 

Cultural evening fashion show

Some pics of the kids from the fashion show at GC's international student cultural evening.  Max's grin cracks me up!  His outfit was a little big, but he's outgrown his other outfit!

 

Groovee!

Maggie was one of three selected from her school for a regional Honor Band program.  Here is one of their songs: Groovee.  Of course, I forgot the regular camera and had only my phone, but it worked pretty well.  You can't see Maggie at all...she is second row on the right, third saxophone back.  The only girl! 

Jazz Band

Maggie has a solo!  This is called Chili Pepper 101, and Maggie said they played it waaaaaaaaaaaay too slow.

Max's birthday!

 Max had a quiet birthday, with one good buddy over for dinner and cake.  Here he displays a Nanoblock penguin building set....he loves penguins in case you don't know!

 I predict there will be many more Lego sets of this type in his near future.

 Arrrrrrgh!!  Something tells me maybe cousin V wanted Max to have this pirate getup??

 Mark can make anything out of cake....even when it's not cake!  Ice cream Lego men.

Max and his good buddy H.  It was a nice, Max-paced birthday.  Tomorrow we'll go see The Hobbit as another part of the birthday celebration.  We also took a cake to the tae kwon do holiday party, and everyone sang to him there.