We had a great time at Bear Lake over the 4th for our Swingle Family Reunion. We went up Thursday night, spent Friday at the lake, Saturday playing games at our Airbnb, and then headed home on Sunday. One of the highlights was that we did skits about American history and our family acted out the Boston Tea Party. Alexa was the narrator and then half of our family--Tad, Dad, and Liam--had Boston accents and the other half--Tyler, Mom, Audrey, and Nathan--had British accents. We watched YouTube shorts to help us learn the accents and it was absolutely hilarious. I wish we got it on video. Months later the kids still randomly quote lines from the script that we made up with their silly accents, like "Cheerio, top of the morning!"; "Who goes there? Why you carryin' axes and walkin' toward the ships?"; and "Get out of here, we've had enough of your high taxes!" Tad spent a lot of time making our giant cardboard ship, which we brought all the w...
We celebrated Father's Day with a custom family D&D adventure. Happy Farter Day from Nathan We had a really fun kubb tournament with the Beattys to celebrate Midsummer. The tournament was followed by popsicles and ice cream. Tyler & Alexa playing kubb: https://youtube.com/shorts/hiJSXhTUVFo?feature=share Alexa and I went with some friends and neighbors to get tea at Grand America. We each got a different tea pot with a unique flavor inside--their specialty is dandelion and we also got hibiscus, mint, lavender, and a hot chocolate just for kicks. They had a big stand of mini sandwiches, cookies, scones, etc. that were all delicious. It was a really fun experience. They also had live harp music while we ate and visited. Tyler joined the Saratoga Springs community orchestra and got to play at the City Days. For our date, Nathan wanted to paint Mario characters so he painted an awesome Mario and I painted his buddy Yo...