Skip to main content

March 2024 - Tad's baptism

 I have been traveling a lot for work lately and had to laugh at this note that Liam left on the driveway one day when he knew I was on my way home.  




Sweet Tad chose to be baptized and asked Kyle to baptize and confirm him, his Grandpas to be witnesses, Marmie to give a talk on Baptism, and Tad Callister on the Holy Ghost.  Alexa and Tyler played the violin.  It was wonderful to have so much support from family and friends.








It was so nice to have extra time with our grandparents!


Tad asked to go to Chuck-a-rama for his actual birthday meal.  He wanted to do a movie night with friends and watch Migration for his party.  He was sooo happy that Jimmy could come.  









We spent Easter and Spring Break with Marmie & Grandpa in California and it was wonderful!  The highlights were:

--Playing games and spending time with Marmie & Grandpa.  Marmie, Alexa, and I even went thrift shopping together, to lunch, and to get pedicures. And Marmie and Audrey had lots of good cuddles. 

--Waiting in long lines at Knottsberry and very much regretting going there during Spring Break. We only rode one ride in 7 hours and stood in lines the rest of the time. At one point, we had waited for 2 hours for one ride and we weren't even halfway to the loading area so the kids begged us to leave. It was painful.

--Medieval Times

--Playing and flying kites at the beach







































Random happenings:








Alexa had a double-basketball season with Willow Creek (Kyle as Coach) and Lehi Rec



Alexa tried out for the track & field team and was one of three 7th graders who qualified to go to Regionals! She did great at shot put!


March videos:
Audrey walking in Kyle's slippers
Audrey swinging
Tad's class put on a Rock play and he was cast as the geologist!
Kids jumping waves
Tad's birthday cake
We got an elliptical and it's mostly used like this :) 

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