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November 2021 - Wrestle-mania and Thanksgiving in CA

We had fun at Airborne with Todd & Melissa.  It was nice to jump around and get some wiggles out as the weather is turning colder. 


Video of Alexa and Todd battling: https://youtu.be/O4jXY04lgak

We were excited to birdsit for some neighbors while they were in Hawaii.  The kids LOVED playing with Scooter the bird for a week.  



Baby climbed onto and then passed out on the kitchen table one afternoon.  Kyle was able to capture the moment. 


Tyler and I went on a rock climbing date and he made it all the way to the top of the wall!



Alexa and I went to a play at the Middle School for our date.  It was called Once Upon a High School and it was written by the students.  It was about fairy tale characters going to a normal high school.  



Other nonsense from November--







I got to go to a Jazz game with our sales team and it was a lot of fun.  We had great seats and the arena was packed so there was great energy from the fans.  


We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving in California with Marmie and Grandpa.  
Day 1: Swimming in the pool





Day 2: Joshua Tree National Park and an old Western Town













Day 3: Beach at Oceanside.  Liam loved chasing the seagulls, Tad loved beach paddle ball, and Alexa and Tyler loved the boogie board.  









The kids thought it was so cool that Marmie and Grandpa took them to a place where they could make their own pizza (Pieology) and also to Dairy Queen for ice cream.  

Day 4: Thanksgiving, including tag football with Grandpa which was a lot of fun.  And Tad lost another tooth!  He drew a cute picture for the tooth fairy :).




We stopped in St. George on the way home and met up with the Slagles.  We swam in the hotel pool and hit up the St. George Childen's Museum.   







Tad and Tyler did wrestling and had 2 tournaments.  It is definitely a hard sport!  It was hard to watch them get beat up, but they did really well and pulled through, learned how to be stronger, and get back up again and again and keep going. 






Lastly, Tyler is turning into an awesome chef.  He often makes his own breakfast (usually fried eggs) and sometimes makes breakfast for me or Kyle, too.  He can also make crepes on his own - batter, flipping them in the pan, all of it.  We all benefit from his culinary skills :).  

His friend at school, also named Tyler, created a code language using symbols for each letter.  Tyler brought the code sheet home and loves writing secret messages.  




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