February 2024 - Birthday Magic & Outbuilding Vacancy

We surprised Tyler with tickets to dinner and a legit magic show with a friend for his birthday. He also got a new suit (his request), Lego Star Wars switch game, and a Top Gun hoodie. He thought it was amazing that the hoodie had drawstrings so he could cinch it closed. Both he and Brax got to go on stage and help the magician during the show, which they thought was so cool.

Tyler birthday song:

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Tyler & Brax doing magic:

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For his party he chose Nickel City with friends.

We celebrated Chinese New Year with the Slagles.

For Valentine's Day Tyler made a cool Game Boy box.

Alexa the baby whisperer and Audrey the cutie. We watched Ian and he loooovvved Alexa so much.

Liam was chosen as student of the week in his class. He got to make a poster and draw a picture of something he did to be a helper that week. For his drawing he showed he and Kyle doing flower deliveries together. His poster had pictures of the things he likes: basketball, Minecraft, books, Gravity Falls, Amphibia, Story Bots, pizza, vanilla ice cream, school, science, snickers, and starbursts.

Liam quote of the month: the "F word" can stand for a lot of things...like family. Or fish.

Tyler is on a basketball team with Dean Hulme and it's fun to watch them play together. They have a good rhythm and both really enjoy the game. At one point when Tyler was on the bench Nathan climbed down to sit by him. Tyler put his arm around Nathan and was talking to him. It was really sweet. He is a terrific big brother. Everyone loves him.

Todd and Melissa closed on a house in Orem so they moved out of the outbuilding! Now we're working to finish everything so that we can turn it around and rent it.

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