November 2024 - Princess Audrey

November was a blur of work travel for Mom. I had 15 flights in 12 days. I laughed that Nathan wanted to FaceTime with me as Spiderman while I was gone.

Alexa and I went on a date to see the new Wicked movie. Now she is listening to the album on repeat. I remember doing the same thing with the Broadway music in high school.

Here are some little moments of Kyle reading to the kids. Audrey brings him books all day and I love it.

We had our beloved Aunt June over for dinner with Aaron Andrews. It was so wonderful to see them both!

Princess Audrey turned 2 and we celebrated with lemon blueberry cake, dress ups, and a new baby doll. We ate mac and cheese for dinner and played flashlight hide and seek for her party.

Audrey pushing her baby around: https://youtube.com/shorts/MrHGvmeDisU?feature=share

The boys are official super heroes.

Richard and Megan came to visit the weekend before Thanksgiving. It was fun to see them and have time for the cousins to play together.

We hosted for Thanksgiving. Marmie and Grandpa Swingle came up and Peggy and Paul, Emily and Jered, and Craig and Chelsea all came over to eat delicious food together.

Funny Quotes:

Scott Swingle, when he saw that it was raining (something he never sees in Nevada): Mom! It’s leaking outside! What do we do?!
Tad, on Thanksgiving: This Turkey tastes like really good chicken.

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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 l...

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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