The Magurans

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Uncle Jim's Visit

Uncle Jim is moving from California to Boston and decided to make a pit stop in Grand Rapids for a few days. It was nice that he was finally able to meet William. Although it took Will a little bit to warm up to him, by the end of the visit they were buds and Uncle Jim even taught Will some new tricks.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Bulk Videos

Will has learned to do a lot of cute things in the past few weeks and we finally had time to capture them on video this weekend. Enjoy!

Will has learned most of his body parts and can say most of them as well.

Will likes helping out around the house.

Going down the slide all by himself

Having fun at the playground

Will learned how to get into the pool at swim class

Swimming with Dad

Uncle Art sent Will a really cool new truck. We captured his first glimpse of it on video.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Babies' Welfare Guild Style Show

Last night was the Camp Blodgett's Babies' Welfare Guild Style Show. It was a really fun event and we raised a lot of money for the camp!

Runway Seating and Swag Bags

Beautiful Centerpieces by Stems

Susan, Heather, Betsey, and Kristen

Kristen and Katie

Sarah and Kristen

Sarah, Emily, and Kristen

Monday, October 11, 2010

Great Fall Weekend

It was the perfect fall weekend in Michigan (except for a 3 hour window Saturday afternoon which we will not discuss). Friday we walked into Gaslight for dinner outside. Then we stayed up a little past Will's bedtime to wait for Grann to get into town. Saturday morning, Will had swimming lessons and then we went straight downtown to walk around ArtPrize. We were able to see several of the top ten entries but didn't wait in the line to get into the Art Museum to see the winner. We stayed in for dinner on Saturday night and met Kristen's parents for breakfast on Sunday. Then we walked up to the new boardwalk by Reed's lake with Grann and the dogs.

We've noticed that Will has grown-up a lot in the past 2 weeks. His vocabulary has dramatically increased. He's up to probably 40+ words he uses correctly. New additions are: dog, crayon, keys, hug, tree, and nick-nick (which is short for kinnikinnick which is the first song on his favorite CD - "oh, kinnikinnick is growing by the ponderosa pine..."). He has also gotten more adventurous at the playground. He used to love swinging and riding the teeter-totter but didn't really like the slides. Yesterday, Phil took him to the park for a while and he was climbing, going through tunnels, and sliding down the slide all by himself.

This is made entirely out of rubix cubes. The only color not used is green.

The GR skyline is made out of tiny marbles dropped down clear straws

Swimming with Dad

On the boardwalk

So brave!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Grand Rapids Artprize on the Today Show

The ‘art’ of reviving a city:

NBC’s Mike Leonard visits ArtPrize, a 19-day international art competition and social experiment that proves something truly grand is happening in the city of Grand Rapids, Mich.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/39556071#39556071