July 2024 - Murder Mystery

We had fun with lots of glow-in-the-dark jewelry while we did fireworks. Our neighborhood also did a bike parade this year which the kids loved.

Alexa and I went to a play with our neighbor called Mister Act, a goofy spinoff of Sister Act.

Our neighbor Emily turned 40 and we threw her a surprise murder mystery party. She's an avid reader and loves mystery novels so we thought it would be a fun surprise. Her son, Ian, and Alexa made the cake and it turned out awesome. We bought a murder mystery kit on Amazon and it turned out that Kyle's character, Papa Vito, was the killer!

Audrey continues to be adorable and although she got sick this month that meant Kyle got lots of extra cuddles. And we finally got her hair into pigtails!

She gets crazy hair after naps and we love it

Misc happenings

Tad passed off all of the Articles of Faith and got a fancy certificate.
He worked really hard to memorize them this year.

Alexa went to YW Camp in Heber and did lots of fun crafts and activities.

Alexa's softball team made it to State! They won their first game 16-1 but then they lost the next 2 games by only one point (6-7, 7-8).

I caught Nathan on the toilet reading a book and had to laugh

Tyler with his mustachio

Alexa got hit in the face during family baseball :(

Tyler is the best cuddle buddy

Funny Story:

I overheard the boys playing:

Liam: Nathan, you are NOT Mario in this game, you are my pillow!!!

Nathan: Oww! You hurt me!!

Tad's baseball hit:

https://youtube.com/shorts/8KlIglgEH-4?feature=share

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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!

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...

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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