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....

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Good news!

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April - May 2012

We started out April very busy at work with the Shelf Reliance annual convention up at the Salt Palace. I stayed up there Thursday morning through Saturday night and ran around making sure things went smoothly with registration, workshops, the AV Team, slide layouts, that the owners actually stopped to eat, etc. etc. We normally had meetings with the AV Team until 2 in the morning to prep for the next day, and were up early in the morning with the consultants. It was lots of fun! The executive team even dressed up as an 80’s band for the final group session and performed some Bon Jovi and Air Supply. They were in a band together in college, so I think this was like a dream come true. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to use my amazing musical talent to help make up some lyrics to their songs that had to do with the company. We also had a FANTASTIC guest speaker, Kris Belcher. She travels a lot doing motivational speaking, and was phenomena...

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

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