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August 2022 - Lagoon

We had fun at the Utah County Fair, although it's much smaller than pre-Covid.  The kids enjoyed face painting, games, and animals.




Liam and Nathan bowling at the county fair:

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Chubby Nathan turned 2.  He loves to sing and dance.  His favorite song is A Sky Full of Stars from Sing 2 but he also knows tons of nursery rhymes from Cocomelon and insists on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and ABCs before every nap and bedtime.  He loves to wrestle and be tickled and get into everything.  




Alexa and Tyler BARELY finished their 5,000 pages of summer reading in time to make it to Lagoon on the last day of summer.  Tristen and Griffin came along as well.  














Alexa went back to school in 6th grade, Tyler in 4th, Tad in 1st, and Liam in his last year of preschool.  Alexa and Griffin are in the same class and so are Tyler and Tristen, what are the odds!  Tyler also has Dean Hulme in his class which is fun.  




The kids look forward to the Renaissance Fair every year and this year was no exception.  They were excited to dress up and had a blast.  Kyle and I got to go to the Queen's Feast, which was a scaled down Medieval Times-type meal with a magician.  Lily loved the mermaids, who swam around in a huge inflatable pool and handed out treasure to the kids.  



We have been getting together with the Slagles about once and month and the kids all have a lot of fun together.  


 

Liam shared his testimony in sacrament meeting this month which is a big deal because he's really, really shy.  He went up all by himself without encouragement or help, it blew us away.  


Funny story:

Liam: Where does milk come from?

Tad: From a cow. You know how they have the thing that looks like a pig under their belly? You squeeze the pig's legs and then milk comes out into a bucket.  


Random videos from August:

Tyler using the force to move fish:

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Nathan jumping in the rain:

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Tad & Nathan playing:

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