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

We had a GREAT weekend getaway to St. George over Memorial Day.  It was so much fun to play with Marmie, Grandpa, Todd, Melissa, Casey, Jess, Kirstan, and even Peggy and Paul for a little while.  I didn't get very many pictures, but we had lots of fun playing tennis, swimming, eating delicious food and playing games.  Alexa slept on the top bunk there and I worried every single night that she would fall and break something.  It was a bunk bed where the bottom was a full-sized bed for Kyle and I, and the top was a twin bed with railing.  Luckily, the rails did their job and she survived!  What a big girl we have on our hands.  There was one night that I laid Tyler down for bed in the room before putting her down, and she cried when I left and woke him up.  I came back in kind of angry that she woke him up and ready to scold her, and she was on the edge of her top bunk leaning over to tell Tyler "It's ok, Tyler.  Don't cry."  My heart melt...

I've been able to capture some fun videos of Alexa this week.  I won't be offended if you don't want to watch them.  This may be one of those things that only Kyle and I find entertaining...especially since there are 5 :) Here she is just finishing up singing Wheels on the Bus to her bunny, which I didn't catch in time.  You get the tail end of the change on the bus going clankity clank, but then she starts talking to her bunny so it's still cute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NilfrZvkm58&feature=youtu.be THEN she sings "I Am A Child of God" to her bunny and it is ADORABLE!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue2e7drTtZ4&feature=youtu.be While I was taking a shower yesterday, she decided to give her two bunnies a bath in Tyler's bath tub and sing to them while they took a bath... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmTiA_c0lNM&feature=youtu.be She now says her name "I'm Alexa Swingle!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K-aY...

I woke up early to make Kyle breakfast, but while I jumped in the shower he cheated and got out of bed to make breakfast.  He was severely scolded.  I was excited to have Alexa bring him breakfast in bed.  Next year I suppose. I LOVE this picture!! We made Dad a Father's Day card :)  Some other funny poses.... We had a great time up at Rich & Wendy's vising with Matt & Molly while they're in the country from Singapore.  It's been years since I've seen them. Unfortunately, Kyle spent all night after Father's Day in the bathroom throwing up his delicious Father's Day food :(.  Not a great way to end the day.

Tyler is now a rockin' 4 1/2-month old.  This happy, skinny dude is only in the 5th percentile for weight, so his pediatrician is having us do bottles after each time I nurse to try and fatten him up.  We're doing weekly weigh ins to check his progress for now. He has started to roll over from his back to belly like a champ.  He doesn't so much love the Bumbo or his jumper, but he loves being on his back with his mirrors/rings/bells above him.  He can entertain himself for a long time like that.  He HATES real food and cries every time we try to give him rice cereal or mashed bananas.  So we've given up for now and will try again later.  Milk it is.  Alexa was the opposite--really, really liked being able to have solid food. He loves to grab his toes! The many faces of Tyler.... The rare pouty face.  But what a fat lip! We love those big blue eyes! the "duck face" when he's stretching The "I hate being swaddle...

It got up to the 90s here in mid May, so we decided to turn on the swamp cooler.  That was a mistake.  Kyle hooked everything back up again and turned on the water to it and we assumed that life was good.  I put the kids to bed and started doing dishes.  All the sudden water started spraying me and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from.  Eventually, I discovered that the source was water coming down through the ceiling fan across the room (which was on) and being thrown across the room by the fan.  I figured that water coming down through the fan was probably a bad thing, so I ran outside to tell Kyle to turn the water off.  He did, and then climbed up in the attic to see the damage.  A pipe had burst in our attic leading to the swamp cooler.  Bummer.  We figured he would just replace it in the next few days and we'd wait to use the swamp cooler until then.  Second mistake.  Apparently, in that brief time (half hour ma...

Man, how time flies.  If you can't tell by all of my other posts, we LOVE our little girl!  She makes us laugh every day, and we can't get enough of her hilarious personality and babble.  She is quite the talker.  When I went in to get her the morning of her birthday I said, "Happy Birthday, Alexa!"  Her response: "A birthday cake?!" Favorite food: golden grahams, freeze dried blueberries and broccoli, chicken nuggets and french fries, smoothies Favorite books: Hercules, Peter Pan Favorite movies: Dora the Explorer, How to Train Your Dragon Favorite play time: having us pretend to be horseys and going for a ride, reading books, looking at photo albums, coloring (particularly drawing spiders), going to the park and playing on the slide/see saw/swings/bench, and now playing outside with Roxy Favorite Songs: Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus, ABCs, I Am a Child of God -- she knows the words to all of them! Vocab: She'll count up to 15, sing ...

May is a big month for us with our anniversary (2nd), Kyle's birthday and Mother's Day (both on the 12th), and Alexa's birthday (16th).  Kyle got a sitter for our anniversary and we went out to a yummy Italian restaurant called Gloria's Little Italy, where they make homemade noodles and sauce that are to die for. Kyle told me how rough it was to have to share his birthday with Mother's Day as a kid, and I could tell that he wasn't all that excited for it as an adult either, so we kind of split it up.  He took me to the Golden Corral breakfast buffet on Saturday as an early Mother's Day celebration.  All the breakfast food you can eat -- good plan.  He also made me breakfast on Mother's Day, but he got to pick dinner.  My big surprise for his birthday was a dog!  He's been wanting one for years, and I thought this summer might actually work.  I looked at a bunch of shelters in the area, and finally found a good dog at a shelter up in Park City.  ...