April 2024 - New Driveway

We extended the driveway and poured a sidewalk to the outbuilding. It's so nice to be able to park 2 cars in the driveway now! Here are some before / during / after photos:

Audrey has the most amazing hair. With her double cowlick it goes straight up and we love it. She did get a mysterious haircut and no one will fess up. Everyone lost screens until someone owned up to it and it totally backfired. No one came forward so after 2 weeks we lifted the punishment. At one point, Tyler came to us and said he knew who did it...he said he asked Nathan if it was him and Nathan said, "Yes!" We reminded Tyler that Nathan is 3, doesn't know how to use scissors, and would say yes to literally anything so don't throw him under the bus haha.

Tad got glasses!

Liam learned how to ride a pedal bike!

Audrey fell off a chair and split her chin open but Auntie Meggan (Hulme) came to the rescue and glued her back together again.

Tyler was just diagnosed with Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which is a genetic disorder that affects tooth development and jaw growth. His teeth are small, brittle, misshapen, and discolored. We met with a specialist who confirmed that he will need crowns on ALL his teeth when he's older. Yikes. After his appointment where we learned all of this he chose a fake mustache as his prize from the dentist :)

In other dental news, Kyle and I both got invisalign to straighten up our teeth.

Misc Fun:

Nathan's preschool class photo turned out so cute!

Nathan goes everywhere all day with his "puppy and dino"

Funny Quotes:

Playing a word game.

The word is “Geppetto”

Hint: The name of the guy who makes Pinocchio.

Tyler: Jeffrey?

Liam: I don’t think Tad should be in our family. He’s too mean.

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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 last week. Yes, you

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!! Baby

April - May 2012

We started out April very busy at work with the Shelf Reliance annual convention up at the Salt Palace. I stayed up there Thursday morning through Saturday night and ran around making sure things went smoothly with registration, workshops, the AV Team, slide layouts, that the owners actually stopped to eat, etc. etc. We normally had meetings with the AV Team until 2 in the morning to prep for the next day, and were up early in the morning with the consultants. It was lots of fun! The executive team even dressed up as an 80’s band for the final group session and performed some Bon Jovi and Air Supply. They were in a band together in college, so I think this was like a dream come true. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to use my amazing musical talent to help make up some lyrics to their songs that had to do with the company. We also had a FANTASTIC guest speaker, Kris Belcher. She travels a lot doing motivational speaking, and was phenomenal. I laughed so hard that I was crying

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

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