September 2023 - Indoor Camping

We were thinking of going camping over Labor Day weekend but the weather was nasty so instead we set up a tent, blanket fort, and an air mattress in the office and did some indoor camping.

For her date this month Alexa chose to go shooting. We tried out a rifle and a shotgun and she is REALLY good!

For Tyler's date he picked a pottery class. We both had so much fun!

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Alexa has been playing in a new fall softball league in Eagle Mountain. It's a 12-15yo league so she's the baby on her team / in the league. It's great for her to learn from the older girls and from a new coach. We don't love the drive to Eagle Mountain, but it's worth it. And they got 2nd place in the city tournament!

I surprised Kyle with tickets to see Nate Bargatze (a comedian). Both he and his warm up acts were really good. He might be our new favorite.

Other fun in September:

The weeds in the pasture across the street from our house are taller than the kids! We have gotten a lot of rain this summer and the plants are loving it.

Cute kids at the Carl's Jr playground

Tad's drawing at the top of his HW--"I have grown a mustache" :)

Alexa got some chalk dust in her eye and it dyed her contact green so one eye was blue and the other was bright green!

Audrey watching everyone play in the backyard. She stands up on anything and everything. Also, a sneak peak at the new sliding door Kyle put in. It lets in so much more light!

Tyler and Audrey

Liam and Lily's chalk self portraits on the driveway

Alexa and baby Ian

We have had TONS of snails around our pool this summer and we were cleaning them up as we worked to put the pool away.

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stairs and a silly little girl....

I forgot to mention a few August updates in my last post, and have some more Alexa stories (as always)...First, Kyle (with the help of Uncle Paul and Todd--thank you!!) finished the stairs and they look awesome!! He completely rebuilt them (ripped them down all the way to the drywall). Second, both Kyle and I were supposed to be in this work athletic competition in August, but I had to back out for obvious reasons. Kyle still did the tennis and basketball tournaments and made me oh so proud. He even got this funny little basketball trophy for taking third place. The other tournaments that week included horseshoes, ping pong, foosball, golf, Wii dance, volleyball, and a triathlon. We went to Ikea for breakfast last Saturday (so delicious and cheap!) and bought Alexa a stuffed puppy while we were there. She now takes it everywhere continuously saying "puppy, puppy, puppy!" Speaking of the puppy, she even dragged it through toilet water last week. Yes, you

December 2015 - Christmas in Indiana

Merry Christmas! We hit the road a couple of days after Granny's funeral to make the trek to Indiana for Christmas. The kids did great the whole way. I think it was harder on the adults! We left at 4am and the first 8 hours were really bad due to wind and snow. I-70 was closed unless you had chains and we were only a couple of hours in when we passed a sign saying I-80 was closed due to an avalanche warning. Kyle screamed "Noooo!" and woke up the kids :). We were so relieved to have Wyoming behind us!! And we were very glad to have been driving an SUV with all-wheel-drive instead of our Toyota Matrix. We got a new Mazda CX-9 only a week before the trip so that we can fit baby #3. We pounded out 14 hours the first day and then stopped for the night in Nebraska before continuing for another 10ish hours the next day. The kids thought that sleeping in a hotel was amazing. The weather on the drive home was clear and wonderful. although Tyler did poop h

July 2023 - Baby Ian

We had a blast at the Stadium of Fire Journey concert with Sara and Jason. We also hosted a Swingle 4th of July party at our house. Grandpa Swingle said that's the first time he's actually been able to light real fireworks in over a decade. We decided we should make it a tradition to have them come up every year (or move here ;). Baby Ian was born and he is HUGE! 11 lb 1 oz. Melissa's water broke at 7:30am, contractions started after that, and he was born at home with a team of paramedics with them in the outbuilding at 9am. Fun fact: he was born on Ian Beagley's birthday and they share the same name. We spent an entire Saturday pulling down and cutting up dead trees. We rented a wood splitter and went to town. The kids were a big help. We did our annual reading challenge to earn tickets to Lagoon. Our rule is 1000 pages for every grade level finished, has to be during summer, and Alexa and Tyler both had to write a book report as well. The kids did great! M

La felicidad que se encuentra: Kyle, Jenny, Alexa, Tyler, Tad, Liam, Nathan, and Audrey

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