June - Playing in St. George

We were happy to have Grandma and Grandpa Sweeny here to visit in June! We played lots and enjoyed time together at Snowbird, in St George at Peggy and Paul’s new place, at the Ludlow family reunion, and the Thunder Junction park. We saw lots of deer at Snowbird and loved the outdoor pool and game time.

Thunder Junction is a free city park in St. George and it’s incredible! It’s free to get in and has a dinosaur splash pad, “active volcano” (that rumbles and shoots out smoke every 30 minutes), tons of playground equipment, and a working train ($1/ticket). The kids loved it so much that we went 2 days in a row.

We recently discovered the skate park near our house and have enjoyed throwing bikes, scooters, and popsicles in the car to go play there together. I laughed that despite all the toys I brought Tad thought it was more fun to just push Liam all over the place in his stroller :).

Tyler's big news is that he learned how to ride his bike without training wheels. It was the craziest thing, we literally unscrewed them and he just took off! No looking back or Mom and Dad holding on. What an amazing kid! I have never seen someone do it without practice like that. I was so impressed.

We celebrated Father’s Day with the best dad ever!

I put Liam down for a nap in his car seat and looked down a few minutes later to see that I was highly successful--

Sure do love these boys.

Kyle and I were asked to speak in church and the Bishop also asked Alexa to speak as the "youth" speaker (normally 12 years+). I have never seen them call on a 7-year old to speak in sacrament meeting. She did GREAT. She was a little nervous and wanted me to go first, but she rocked it.

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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 last week. Yes, you

Good news!

I'm excited to announce that we went to the doctor yesterday for another ultrasound and I now have all my privileges reinstated!! Tear is healed and baby looks good, so we are very grateful. As promised, I took Alexa to the park to celebrate. We went swinging and ran around looking for flowers (dandelions). She has to stop and touch every flower she finds :). She insisted that her puppy come along. Maybe because she's a lazy bum and wanted to use him as a pillow!! We didn't get any really good ultrasound pictures from the tech (I should have made special requests!), but we saw lots of baby! This was the ultrasound (20 weeks) where they check every little thing developing - every section of the brain, spine, chambers of the heart, kidneys, diaphragm, fingers, toes, blood flow, placenta, cord, measurements of head and waist (baby is 4 days bigger than the due date), etc. etc. It's so fascinating to see all of that already developed and so teeny tiny!! Baby

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 phenomenal. I laughed so hard that I was crying

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

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