We were so happy to have Marmie and Grandpa fly out for the Swingle Christmas party. Emily is the best party planner of all time and had really fun games, prizes, and yummy treats despite her whole family being sick. Craig and Chelsea gave us a fun Christmas lantern aquarium pass for Christmas and it was amazing! They had entire habitats full of lantern animals from all over the world. Tyler and Alexa had their violin Christmas recital at a local care facility, which was such a great idea on their teacher's part. Sadly, I had to join via FaceTime because I was out of town. But they did great! We were excited to hear Ian Beagley play viola on Temple Square. He and Alexa also put together another amazing family recital. It gets better every year! Ian played viola; Alexa played violin and sang; Tyler played violin; and Tad, Liam, Lincoln, and Sawyer played the piano. One of my best friends from high school, Katie Cutr...
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 tim...