October 2022 - Carls Jr Birthday Party

We spent my birthday at basketball games, Dean's baptism, and Rowley's Red Barn Fall Festival. We had delicious farm-fresh sourdough bread and cheese, apple cider donuts, and apple cider slushies.

Liam celebrated his 5th birthday at Carls Jr, which he has been planning for about 9 months. He wanted a Monster Truck cake and invited Lily, Wesley, and all his friends from preschool. He asked for "Liam" pancakes for breakfast on his birthday. He got a Duplo fire truck, glow in the dark outer space puzzle, rocket ship coloring book, rocket ship sheets, Duplo playhouse, and some new Little Blue Truck and rocket ship books. He loves to go to preschool, read books (he is an AMAZING reader), do puzzles, and wrestle. I come home from work almost every day to a new picture of him, me, and "baby sissy" going in a rocket ship to the moon. Kyle asked if he could come and Liam said no 😂.

We had fun pumpkin carving / painting and watching Hocus Pocus 2 with the Beagleys.

We still decorate the front door as "Frank" every year and make homemade witches brew. For Halloween we dressed up as Chuck and Wilson from Cast Away, a scarecrow, Deadpool, a skeleton, a cowboy, and a dragon. Nathan was excited about all of the skeletons and pumpkins and would shout for joy when he saw either of them out and about during the month of October.

Random photo dump:

Alexa's Mama cat, Apollo, died on 10/28 after battling illness for several days. Alexa was gone at school when it happened and she was really sad.

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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 l...

Good news!

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December 2024 - Christmas Fun

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...

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

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