Skip to main content

February 2024 - Birthday Magic & Outbuilding Vacancy

We surprised Tyler with tickets to dinner and a legit magic show with a friend for his birthday.  He also got a new suit (his request), Lego Star Wars switch game, and a Top Gun hoodie.  He thought it was amazing that the hoodie had drawstrings so he could cinch it closed.  Both he and Brax got to go on stage and help the magician during the show, which they thought was so cool.

Tyler birthday song:

https://youtube.com/shorts/7HX-lJr0pYo?feature=share

Tyler & Brax doing magic:

https://youtube.com/shorts/do40CKaoUOo?feature=share










For his party he chose Nickel City with friends.




We celebrated Chinese New Year with the Slagles.

For Valentine's Day Tyler made a cool Game Boy box. 


Alexa the baby whisperer and Audrey the cutie.  We watched Ian and he loooovvved Alexa so much.




Liam was chosen as student of the week in his class. He got to make a poster and draw a picture of something he did to be a helper that week.  For his drawing he showed he and Kyle doing flower deliveries together.  His poster had pictures of the things he likes: basketball, Minecraft, books, Gravity Falls, Amphibia, Story Bots, pizza, vanilla ice cream, school, science, snickers, and starbursts.  

Liam quote of the month: the "F word" can stand for a lot of things...like family. Or fish.

Tyler is on a basketball team with Dean Hulme and it's fun to watch them play together.  They have a good rhythm and both really enjoy the game.  At one point when Tyler was on the bench Nathan climbed down to sit by him.  Tyler put his arm around Nathan and was talking to him.  It was really sweet.  He is a terrific big brother. Everyone loves him.





Kyle found an amazing candlelight quartet to see on Valentine's Day.  They played a mix of classics and modern music.  It was really fun and beautiful. 

Todd and Melissa closed on a house in Orem so they moved out of the outbuilding!  Now we're working to finish everything so that we can turn it around and rent it.  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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...
4 comments
Read more

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...
2 comments
Read more

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...
Post a Comment
Read more