November 2019 - hosting turkeys and playing violin

Alexa and Tyler had their first violin recital and they did a great job! They each played a piece by themselves and then had a duet. Mark was here from England and it was fun to have him join us.

We got our first good snow and had fun sledding with the Tates. Aden has a small snowboard that he let the kids try and they were surprised that I knew how to use it, haha. I earned cool points with Tyler by snowboarding down the hill without falling :).

Tad got hit by a sled as seen in this video and he goes flying, but he thought it was absolutely hilarious to see it on video again and again.

We hosted a big group of Swingles for Thanksgiving. The best part was having Great Grandma Swingle fly in from Arizona. And Richie and Megan's family stayed with us. We had fun playing and going to see Frozen 2.

Great Grandma Swingle had a sleepover with us after Thanksgiving and helped us put up Christmas decorations. She even taught the kids how to make tea rings.

Here are photos of our other shenanigans. I guess mostly of Liam...

Super strong baby

It makes me smile when he's really hungry but so tired and he has to rest his head while he keeps eating

We got ice cream cones and the kids made faces in all of theirs :)

Comments

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

Search This Blog