Tuesday, June 24, 2008

GR Festival of Arts

The first weekend of June Kyle and some friends were able to play downtown at the Grand Rapids Festival of Arts again. We went down Saturday night to see our friend Nathan sing and also to get our usual suvlaki :) It's not Festival without suvlaki! Then, Sunday afternoon Elevation (the name of the group Kyle sang with) was supposed to play on a smaller tented stage at 2:30pm. At about 2:00 60-70mph winds came gusting through downtown. It was a bit scary with the kids! We huddled with the band and our friends, the Diekemas (remember the fabulous pictures my friend Melissa took of Maguire when he was born? Yeah, that's Melissa Diekema--check out her site on my list to the right), under a large overhang of one of the buildings. Once we got past the initial fear of it all, it was actually pretty fun! We found buckets of sidewalk chalk and Sarah Grace took over with all the girls. She's fabulous! If anyone in the area has a young girl who wants to take dance lessons or do a dance camp, let me know. Sarah Grace is an incredible teacher!!
Typically at Festival, if it rains, your act just loses its spot, but this time we lucked out! Not only did Elevation get to play a bit later, they got to play on Caulder stage--the BIG stage :) It was a short 4-song set, but it was fun just the same!

Maguire REALLY enjoyed his baklava!

The two best babysitters and beautiful girls, Elizabeth and Sarah Grace


Melissa, Myah, Matea and Ashlyn...she was still a little scared and tired!

Goofy kid trying to eat the chalk. Then Melissa egged him on so he kept doing it...and thought he was so funny!

The girls--and Mac--playing hopscotch with Sarah Grace

Cute girl!


Daddy's boy all the way!

Ash was playing on the sidewalk with Matea's umbrella and this guy came over and asked if she was my daughter. Then he asked if she could go play on the grass. I thought he was reprimanding me for her getting in the way so I apologized. He told me that they just wanted to film her for the local community station! She was so sweet when I brought her over to the grass--she stood there with the umbrella and played in her own little world by herself for another 10 minutes or more!

Kyle and some of the guys and the Caulder!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i was downtown to catch the effort, and then the rain came.

all of us were told they were canceling the remainder of the festival. that obviously was not the case if you had the opportunity to play later.

interesting thing is that darin's cousin jake and his band played the calder immediately before the rain hit. in fact, jake stevens and the strangers' set was cut short in light of the incoming storm and lightning. it sounds as if you had some time to wait around but then you were able to grace that same stage with elevation.

glad it worked out for you guys. sorry i missed the show. i'm sure there will be more.


calvin

Ben and Erin said...

I was wondering where you guys were! :) Glad you are back in the blog world. These pictures are great. Your children are just beautiful! Ashlyn's hair is just gorgeous by the way. I love the picture of her with the umbrella too. :) What a great family!

The Moser Fam... said...

Love the picture of Ashlyn squatting down and the one of her under the umbrella! She is SO beautiful. Your whole family is. Thanks for posting! :)

Lorissa J. Longfellow said...

Sounds like a great day.