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November 2023 - Audrey turned 1!

We rented a wood chipper one more time to try and finish off the pile in our backyard and barely made a dent, but Kyle listed the rest of the wood on Free classifieds and it was gone within 24 hours.  Hallelujah!  We did a big bonfire and s'mores party with the rest of the twigs after taking 3 loads to the dump.  It was a lot of work to cut down all of the dead trees, but it was needed before we could bring in more fill, relevel everything, dig new sprinklers, and eventually have a new yard.






We celebrated Audrey's birthday at the aquarium.  She's a cute little walking machine!

Audrey's birthday

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Audrey walking

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The kids were thrilled to have Mark and Julia here from England.  They joined us for dinner and brought wonderful books for the kids, which they happily sat and read together after playing some Minecraft Uno and Go Fish.  



Marmie and Grandpa flew out for Thanksgiving and stayed with us.  Preston also joined for Thanksgiving day because the rest of the Lunas went to Vegas but he had to work all weekend.  Richard and Megan drove up and bought an RV to stay in at our house.  And we got snow the night of Thanksgiving!



Audrey looooved baby Remi




The zoo did a $5 weekday deal for all of November and December so we went with cousins right before Thanksgiving.  It was really busy but fun!






Alexa and I hit up the outlets for some Black Friday shopping and saw the biggest Christmas tree in Utah.  



Alexa and Tyler had a violin recital and both played beautifully.

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Kyle and I saw Christmas Carol at Hale Theater.  They read excerpts of the book during the play which was a neat touch.  

Tad and Liam are both playing basketball and Liam made a shot in his game!

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Kyle has started watching Ian two mornings a week.  Lots of babies everywhere:

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Misc Photos








Funny Stories & Quotes:

Liam: Dad's toots smell like rotten french fries!


At the Zoo:

Liam: Mom! Mom!!! Look at this!! (thinking it was a cool animal)

Mom: What is it?

Liam: They have a recycle bin at the zoo!!!! Look! It's over there!




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