celebrating Marcus's birthday, belated post

While we were in Decatur, Marcus had his 8th birthday! It was a perfect place to celebrate because both sides of the family could get together. Chris and Kim were gracious enough to let us party at their place and Kim even made Marcus's birthday cake for us.

We used all the non-girl color streamers that Kim had to decorate the dining room.

Cale posted a sign telling Marcus not to come in. In kid writing it reads, "danger Marcus stay out. Don't come in." Cale made another sign later that had Marcus unroll a streamer. I'm not too sure if that was supposed to be a surprise for Marcus or Cale just wanted to write another note. Very cute.

Here is Marcus with his cake. I thought he would like a volcano cake since he likes science experiements. I had some recipes for it, but Kim has made this cake a couple times and was willing to do it for me. Thank you! The smoke was made with dry ice. The kids thought it was very cool. I bet the adults thought it was cool, too. But, the candles were hard to light with all the smoke from the ice.

Opening presents. Marcus got a nintendo ds for his birthday. It was something that he wanted for a while. He was pretty excited and so were his brothers. They've all been playing on it.

Showing off his new Illinois shirt. "Train a child up in the way he should go...", you know.



Marcus's entrance into the dining room. He was pretty pumped to get to bust through some streamers. I don't know if you can see him warming up in this video. I think he had a great birthday!