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

We are in denial that summer is already over.  It went sooo fast! All of the kids earned tickets to Lagoon by doing their summer reading.  Alexa and Tyler read 5,000 pages; Tad read 2,000; and Liam read 1,000.  The three oldest also typed up a book report.  Alexa read Way of Kings; Tyler read How to Train Your Dragon and Percy Jackson; and Tad enjoyed Road Dahl, Hardy Boys, and Investigators. We headed back to school in 8th, 6th, 3rd, 1st, and preschool.  Audrey will be home by herself 3 days a week for a few hours while Nathan is in preschool, which will be a big adjustment for her.   Nathan wanted a Mario Kart birthday so we made a Mario cake and took him go karting.  He was better at driving than I expected haha.  He got the handle of the gas and brake pedals and steering wheel pretty fast.  He got more train tracks, magnet trains, Duplos, some Mario toys, and a Mario coloring book for his birthday. Go Kart video:  https://youtu....

We had fun with lots of glow-in-the-dark jewelry while we did fireworks.  Our neighborhood also did a bike parade this year which the kids loved.  Alexa and I went to a play with our neighbor called Mister Act, a goofy spinoff of Sister Act.   Our neighbor Emily turned 40 and we threw her a surprise murder mystery party.  She's an avid reader and loves mystery novels so we thought it would be a fun surprise.  Her son, Ian, and Alexa made the cake and it turned out awesome.  We bought a murder mystery kit on Amazon and it turned out that Kyle's character, Papa Vito, was the killer! Audrey continues to be adorable and although she got sick this month that meant Kyle got lots of extra cuddles.  And we finally got her hair into pigtails! She gets crazy hair after naps and we love it Misc happenings Tad passed off all of the Articles of Faith and got a fancy certificate. He worked really hard to memorize them this year. Alexa went to YW Camp in Heber a...